Occupations/13-1081.02
Logistics Analysts
Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.
Usually a four-year bachelor’s degree.
AI automation risk
75%
Higher automation risk
Human characteristics
48%
Balanced human and task mix
Task orientation
74%
Higher automation risk
A day in this job
- Mostly routine
Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- Mostly routine
Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- Task
Maintain databases of logistics information.
The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.
Core tasks
- 01Maintain databases of logistics information.
- 02Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- 03Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- 04Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- 05Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- 06Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)
- Repeating same tasks4.00
- Degree of automation2.95
- Time sitting4.50
- Originality (ability)3.12
- Conflict situations3.23
- Hands-on objects/tools2.86
- Outdoors / weather1.77
- Disease exposure1.14
- Decision freedom4.18
Top abilities
- Oral Expression4.00
- Oral Comprehension4.00
- Written Comprehension3.88
- Near Vision3.88
- Speech Recognition3.75
- Information Ordering3.75
- Inductive Reasoning3.75
- Deductive Reasoning3.75
Essential skills
- Reading Comprehension4.00
- Active Listening3.88
- Writing3.38
- Speaking3.75
- Mathematics3.00
- Science1.75
- Critical Thinking4.00
- Active Learning3.12
- Learning Strategies2.75
- Monitoring3.75
CIP matches
Schools offering related programs
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Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.
| Institution | Program | Tuition | Admit | Grad 6-yr | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stanford University Stanford, CA · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $62,400 | 4% | 96% | 1 yr $166,516 2 yr $163,337 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $68,200 | 4% | 96% | 1 yr $166,356 2 yr $170,426 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College Chicago, IL · Public | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $4,600 | 100% | 27% | 1 yr $160,423 2 yr $189,565 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA · Public | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $15,200 | 24% | 87% | 1 yr $150,453 2 yr $143,744 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
New York University New York, NY · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $60,400 | 12% | 88% | 1 yr $150,006 2 yr $145,543 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
Howard University Washington, DC · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $33,200 | 53% | 65% | 1 yr $112,701 2 yr $114,046 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $60,100 | 4% | 96% | 1 yr $88,639 2 yr $96,183 Master's · CIP 52.02 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI · Public | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $17,700 | 18% | 93% | 1 yr $87,942 2 yr $83,177 Bachelor's · CIP 52.02 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC · Public | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $9,000 | 17% | 91% | 1 yr $76,041 2 yr $73,823 Bachelor's · CIP 52.02 |
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · Public | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $13,800 | 9% | 92% | 1 yr $73,549 2 yr $81,456 Bachelor's · CIP 52.02 |
Emory University Atlanta, GA · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $60,800 | 11% | 91% | 1 yr $73,112 2 yr $77,283 Bachelor's · CIP 52.02 |
Georgetown University Washington, DC · Private nonprofit | Business Administration and Management, General 52.0201 | $65,400 | 12% | 95% | 1 yr $67,660 2 yr $69,338 Bachelor's · CIP 52.02 |