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Career Details :: Storage and Distribution Managers

Description

Plan, direct, and coordinate the storage and distribution operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that are engaged in storing and distributing materials and products.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Establishes standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
• Examines products or materials to estimate quantities or weight and type of container required for storage or transport.
• Interacts with customers or shippers to solicit new business, answer questions about services offered or required, and investigate complaints.
• Prepares or directs preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals.
• Schedules air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of products or materials.
• Interviews, selects, and trains warehouse and supervisory personnel.
• Examines invoices and shipping manifests for conformity to tariff and customs regulations and contacts customs officials to effect release of shipments.
• Reviews invoices, work orders, consumption reports, and demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and issue work assignments.
• Supervises the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
• Inspects physical condition of warehouse and equipment and prepares work orders for testing, maintenance, or repair.
• Develops and implements plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
• Negotiates contracts, settlements, and freight-handling agreements to resolve problems between foreign and domestic shippers.
• Plans, develops, and implements warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
• Confers with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, and purchasing.

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• Management Analysts
  
• Public Transportation Inspectors
  
• Purchasing Managers
  
• Transportation Managers
  

Important Abilities

• Written Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Problem Sensitivity

General Work Activities

• Communicating With Other Workers
• Scheduling Work and Activities
• Guiding, Directing & Motivating Subordinates
• Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
• Estimating Needed Characteristics

Important Skills

• Problem Identification
  
• Implementation Planning
  
• Negotiation
  
• Management of Personnel Resources
  
• Speaking
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Consequence of Error
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others

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