Logistics analysts streamline product manufacturing, transportation, storage and distribution. They assess production and supply chain problems to determine economically efficient solutions. They assists company managers in decision-making processes and direct programs designed to provide subcontractors, managers and customers with logistic technology.
The management philosophy that addresses the constraints faced by profit and non-profit organisations when achieving their goals, and its implications in terms of maximum efficiency of equipment, output of the supply chain and company profit.
No competences in this bucket.
The approaches and activities aimed at minimising the ecological impact of logistics activities.
The flow of goods in the supply chain, movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
Develop and maintain freight rate databases for use by supply chain departments in order to determine and adopt the most cost-efficient modes of transportation.
Communicate with logistics management in order to optimise service levels; optimise the supply chain while keeping expenditures at a minimum.
Manage logistics pricing systems. Ensure that prices adequately reflect costs.
Execute system analyses and calculate to what extent changes could affect outcomes.
Use specific software for data analysis, including statistics, spreadsheets, and databases. Explore possibilities in order to make reports to managers, superiors, or clients.
Interpret how the supply chain improvements will impact company profits. Intensify the improvement in those processes that will streamline the supply chain most effectively while generating most profit.
Analyse and make predictions about trends and evolutions in supply chain operations in relation to technology, efficiency systems, types of products shipped, and logistical requirements for shipments, in order to remain at the forefront of supply chain methodologies.
Elaborate and implement plans in order to increase efficiency and reduce waste during logistics operations.
Coordinate logistic operations related to product life cycles, such as distribution, delivery and final disposal of products or resources.
Identify possible improvements to operational and financial performance, in order to increase productivity, efficiency, quality, and streamline procedures.
Develop and review distribution procedures in order to minimise expenditures and maximise customer satisfaction.
Support the development of the annual budget by producing base data as defined by the operations budget process.
Examine an organisation's planning details of production, their expected output units, quality, quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements. Provide suggestions in order to improve products, service quality and reduce costs.
Analyse various transport business networks in order to organise the most efficient setting of modes of transport. Analyse those networks that aim to achieve lowest costs and maximum efficiency.
Manage development within an organisation by anticipating changes and making managerial decisions to ensure that the members involved are as less disturbed as possible.
Develop proposals and take appropriate decisions taking into account economic criteria.
Identify bottlenecks in the supply chain.
Enhance the product workflow by analysing and developing logistics plans that impact production as well as distribution.
Maintain databases accessible to users in the logistics and storage sub-sector.
Evaluate and identify opportunities to use resources more efficiently with continuously striving to reduce waste of utilities.
Read and interpret supply chain and transportation data. Analyse the reliability and availability of findings by using methods such as data mining, data modelling and cost-benefit analysis.
Use software tools to create and edit tabular data to carry out mathematical calculations, organise data and information, create diagrams based on data and to retrieve them.
No competences in this bucket.
The online tools which analyse, aggregate and present multi-dimensional data enabling users to interactively and selectively extract and view data from specific points of view.
The ecological and economical changes in society and the way these factors evolved during the past, present and future economic forecasts.
The processes related to production or distribution of goods and services across borders.
Lean manufacturing is a methodology that focuses on minimizing waste within manufacturing systems while simultaneously maximizing productivity.
The application of scientific methods to provide solutions to administrative and management issues of organised systems as industrial, commercial, or governmental processes.
No competences in this bucket.
Obtain analytical insights and share them with relevant teams, in order to enable them to optimise supply chain (SC) operations and planning.
Determine the influence of economical, political and cultural risk factors and additional issues.
Apply mathematical methods and make use of calculation technologies in order to perform analyses and devise solutions to specific problems.
Utilise computers, IT equipment and modern day technology in an efficient way.
Collect data and statistics to test and evaluate in order to generate assertions and pattern predictions, with the aim of discovering useful information in a decision-making process.
Identify problems with servers, desktops, printers, networks, and remote access, and perform actions which solve the problems.
Develop the schedule including procedures, appointments and working hours.
Make use of various types of communication channels such as verbal, handwritten, digital and telephonic communication with the purpose of constructing and sharing ideas or information.