Description
Design and analyze logistics systems to optimize transportation, networks, processes, costs, capacity, routing, shipments, and information flows across the supply chain.
- • Design supply chains that minimize environmental impacts and costs.
- • Propose logistics solutions for customers.
- • Interview key staff and tour facilities to identify efficiency, cost, and service opportunities.
- • Direct the work of logistics analysts.
- • Design plant distribution centers and layouts.
- • Develop specifications for equipment, tools, facility layouts, and material-handling systems.
- • Review contracts, customer specifications, and related data to determine logistics and support requirements.
- • Prepare or validate documentation for automated logistics, maintenance-data reporting, and management information systems.
- • Define business rules and standard operating procedures to streamline processes.
- • Build and maintain cost estimates, forecasts, and cost models.
- • Assess feasibility of new or modified facilities based on cost, space, schedule, technical needs, and ergonomics.
- • Determine logistics support needs, including facility details, staffing, safety, and maintenance plans.
- • Conduct logistics studies, including time, zero-base, rate, network, flow-path, and supply chain analyses.
- • Analyze logistics data across customer service, forecasting, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, transportation, and warehousing.
- • Provide logistics technology guidance to support manufacturing or service operations.
- • Evaluate the effectiveness of current or future logistical processes.
- • Apply logistics modeling to improve operations and facility design or layout.
- • Evaluate inventory tracking, web-based warehousing, and intelligent conveyor technologies to maximize efficiency.
- • Develop logistics metrics, internal analysis tools, and key performance indicators.
- • Identify logistics cost-reduction and process-improvement opportunities.
- • Evaluate GPS, RFID, route navigation, and satellite technologies to improve transportation efficiency.
- • Prepare logistics strategies and conceptual designs for production facilities.
- • Develop and document reverse logistics processes for recycling, reuse, and disposal.
- • Conduct environmental audits for storage, distribution, and transportation activities.
- • Model scenarios to predict impacts of fuel costs, road pricing, energy taxes, and carbon regulations.
- • Review transportation and logistics reports to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
- • Determine requirements to comply with environmental certification standards.
- • Provide facility and capacity planning analyses for distribution or transportation functions.
- • Develop and document procedures to minimize or mitigate carbon output from material and product movement.
- • Assess environmental impacts and energy efficiency of logistics activities using carbon mitigation software.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
