Logistics Analysts

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Job Outlook:
None
Education: Bachelor's degree
Salary
High: $124,050.00
Average: $81,220.00
Hourly
Average: $39.05

What they do:

Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.

On the job, you would:

  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
  • Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

86% Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
85% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
84% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
83% Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
80% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
78% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
78% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
75% Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
75% Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
74% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
71% Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

83% Conventional  -  Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Values of the Work Environment

67% Achievement  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
67% Independence  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
61% Recognition  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

75% Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
75% Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
72% Written Comprehension  -  The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
72% Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
69% Speech Recognition  -  The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
69% Deductive Reasoning  -  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
69% Inductive Reasoning  -  The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
69% Information Ordering  -  The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
66% Mathematical Reasoning  -  The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
66% Problem Sensitivity  -  The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
Analyze industry trends.
Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Develop business or financial information systems.
Calculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production.
Develop business or financial information systems.
Obtain information about goods or services.
Obtain information about goods or services.
Monitor organizational processes.
Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Establish organizational guidelines or policies.
Prepare financial documents.
Monitor organizational processes.
Advise others on logistics topics.
Analyze logistics processes.
Prepare operational reports.
Coordinate logistics or other business operations.
Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.
Develop financial analysis methods.
Discuss business strategies, practices, or policies with managers.
Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
Analyze logistics processes.
Analyze logistics processes.
Analyze logistics processes.
Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
Coordinate logistics or other business operations.
Execute sales or other financial transactions.
Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
Maintain data in information systems or databases.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

100% Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job?
96% Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
92% Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
90% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
88% Spend Time Sitting  -  How much does this job require sitting?
83% Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?
82% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
80% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
80% Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
78% Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
77% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
75% Importance of Repeating Same Tasks  -  How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job?
66% Coordinate or Lead Others  -  How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job?
82% Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Tasks & Values

89% Working with Computers  -  Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
86% Analyzing Data or Information  -  Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
86% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
84% Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
82% Processing Information  -  Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
82% Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
81% Communicating with People Outside the Organization  -  Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
77% Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
75% Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
75% Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others  -  Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
70% Documenting/Recording Information  -  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
70% Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings  -  Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
70% Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge  -  Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
68% Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards  -  Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
66% Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
66% Developing Objectives and Strategies  -  Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Getting Started

Education:
64%
Bachelor's Degree
23%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)

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