Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate transportation, storage, or distribution activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable government laws or regulations. Includes logistics managers.
What is this job like?
- Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
- Plan, organize, or manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
- Monitor inventory levels of products or materials in warehouses.
- Implement specific customer requirements, such as internal reporting or customized transportation metrics.
- Collaborate with other departments to integrate logistics with business systems or processes, such as customer sales, order management, accounting, or shipping.
- Prepare management recommendations, such as proposed fee and tariff increases or schedule changes.
- Maintain metrics, reports, process documentation, customer service logs, or training or safety records.
- Examine invoices and shipping manifests for conformity to tariff and customs regulations.
- Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
- Plan or implement energy saving changes to transportation services, such as reducing routes, optimizing capacities, employing alternate modes of transportation, or minimizing idling.
- Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
- Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, or purchasing.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Plan or implement energy saving changes to transportation services, such as reducing routes, optimizing capacities, employing alternate modes of transportation, or minimizing idling.
- Analyze expenditures and other financial information to develop plans, policies, or budgets for increasing profits or improving services.
- Analyze the financial impact of proposed logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or mixes, or carriers.
- Analyze expenditures and other financial information to develop plans, policies, or budgets for increasing profits or improving services.
- Evaluate contractors or business partners for operational efficiency or safety or environmental performance records.
- Plan or implement energy saving changes to transportation services, such as reducing routes, optimizing capacities, employing alternate modes of transportation, or minimizing idling.
- Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports, or customer issues.
- Monitor operations to ensure that staff members comply with administrative policies and procedures, safety rules, union contracts, environmental policies, or government regulations.
- Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
- Monitor product import or export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory or legal requirements.
- Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates.
- Advise sales and billing departments of transportation charges for customers' accounts.
- Establish or monitor specific supply chain-based performance measurement systems.
- Develop or implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
- Develop or implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
- Analyze all aspects of corporate logistics to determine the most cost-effective or efficient means of transporting products or supplies.
- Analyze all aspects of corporate logistics to determine the most cost-effective or efficient means of transporting products or supplies.
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