How do they match: Logisticians

  • Production Planner

  • Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.

  • Develop an understanding of customers' needs and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.
  • Develop and implement technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
  • Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
  • Direct and support the compilation and analysis of technical source data necessary for product development.
  • Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
  • Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
  • Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
  • Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
  • Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
  • Support the development of training materials and technical manuals.

  • Develop business or financial information systems.
  • Develop business relationships.
  • Develop financial or business plans.
  • Develop training materials.
  • Gather customer or product information to determine customer needs.