Logistics Analysts

<ul><li>Maintain databases of logistics information.</li><li>Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.</li><li>Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.</li><li>Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.</li><li>Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.</li><li>Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.</li><li>Track product flow from origin to final delivery.</li><li>Enter logistics-related data into databases.</li><li>Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.</li><li>Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.</li><li>Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.</li><li>Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.</li><li>Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.</li><li>Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.</li><li>Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.</li><li>Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.</li><li>Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.</li><li>Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.</li><li>Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.</li></ul>