How do they match: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
Analyze expenditures and other financial information to develop plans, policies, or budgets for increasing profits or improving services.
Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
Maintain metrics, reports, process documentation, customer service logs, or training or safety records.
Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates.
Plan or implement energy saving changes to transportation services, such as reducing routes, optimizing capacities, employing alternate modes of transportation, or minimizing idling.
Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
Recommend or authorize capital expenditures for acquisition of new equipment or property to increase efficiency and services.
Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak performance periods and to issue work assignments.

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