Logisticians

Analyze and coordinate the logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.

Job Task

• Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as liaisons between subcontractors and organizations.
• Protect and control proprietary materials.
• Review logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks and service agreements.
• Support the development of training materials and technical manuals.
• Explain proposed solutions to customers, management, or other interested parties through written proposals and oral presentations.
• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's key personnel involved in or directly relevant to a logistics activity.
• Develop and implement technical project management tools such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
• Develop proposals that include documentation for estimates.
• Direct and support the compilation and analysis of technical source data necessary for product development.
• Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
• Manage the logistical aspects of product life cycles, including coordination or provisioning of samples, and the minimization of obsolescence.
• Participate in the assessment and review of design alternatives and design change proposal impacts.
• Perform system life-cycle cost analysis, and develop component studies.
• Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.
• Provide project management services, including the provision and analysis of technical data.
• Redesign the movement of goods in order to maximize value and minimize costs.
• Report project plans, progress, and results.
• Stay informed of logistics technology advances, and apply appropriate technology in order to improve logistics processes.
• Collaborate with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, to take advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, to minimize negative impacts on a business.
• Develop an understanding of customers' needs, and take actions to ensure that such needs are met.

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