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

  • Car Inspection and Repair Manager
  • Railroad Car Inspection and Repair Regional Superintendent

  • Advise sales and billing departments of transportation charges for customers' accounts.
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
  • Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, or purchasing.
  • Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
  • Implement specific customer requirements, such as internal reporting or customized transportation metrics.
  • Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
  • Maintain metrics, reports, process documentation, customer service logs, or training or safety records.
  • Monitor inventory levels of products or materials in warehouses.
  • Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates.
  • Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak performance periods and to issue work assignments.
  • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.

  • Advise others on business or operational matters.
  • Monitor inventories of products or materials.
  • Purchase materials, equipment, or other resources.