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

  • Analyze all aspects of corporate logistics to determine the most cost-effective or efficient means of transporting products or supplies.
  • Analyze the financial impact of proposed logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or mixes, or carriers.
  • 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.
  • Monitor product import or export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory or legal requirements.
  • Monitor inventory levels of products or materials in warehouses.
  • Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
  • 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.

  • Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
  • Monitor inventories of products or materials.