Employment Type
Full-time
About
About the job
The responsibility of the Logistic Analyst will perform daily functions of the Logistics Department.
This position will focus on activities related to international shipping of products including, but not limited to, customs compliance, shipment audit, and reporting. Activities will include the following; collection and maintenance of compliance data, review and audit of documentation, reporting on freight spend as related to product and shipments company wide.
Job Tasks
Maintain databases of logistics information.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- Analyze logistics processes.
Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
- Analyze logistics processes.
Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments.
- Develop business or financial information systems.
Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
- Prepare operational reports.
Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
- Discuss business strategies, practices, or policies with managers.
Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
- Advise others on logistics topics.
Enter logistics-related data into databases.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
- Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.
- Develop financial analysis methods.
Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
- Monitor organizational processes.
Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
- Analyze logistics processes.
Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
- Monitor inventories of products or materials.
Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
- Analyze logistics processes.
Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
- Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
- Coordinate logistics or other business operations.
Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
- Establish organizational guidelines or policies.
- Prepare financial documents.
Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as carriers, freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- Monitor organizational processes.
Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
- Analyze industry trends.
Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
Compare locations or environmental policies of carriers or suppliers to make transportation decisions with lower environmental impact.
- Evaluate logistics methods to reduce environmental impact.
Enter carbon-output or environmental-impact data into spreadsheets or environmental management or auditing software programs.
- Maintain data in information systems or databases.
