AI exposure: 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.
Reading this score
computedLogistics Analysts sits in the top 2% of every occupation measured. 63.7% of what this job consists of, weighted by how important each task is to the role, is work current AI systems can produce with little standing in the way. Very few occupations score this high. The ones that do tend to share a trait: the output is a document, a calculation or a message, and nobody has to be in a particular room for it to count.
What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 31 tasks it averages 1.76 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.
The most exposed thing this job does is Contact carriers for rates or schedules, at 93.3%. The least is Review procedures, at 30.0%. A gap of 63.3% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within business and financial operations occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 48 roles in the group is 47.1%, and only 2 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.
What would move this score. Of 31 tasks, 31 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 0 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Task by task
31 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact carriers for rates or schedules. | 93.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% | 3.89 | exposed |
| Contact potential vendors to determine material availability. | 93.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% | 4.07 | exposed |
| Compute reporting metrics, such as on-time delivery rates, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns. | 86.7% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 3.80 | exposed |
| Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution. | 86.7% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 3.38 | exposed |
| Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.19 | exposed |
| Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 4.10 | exposed |
| Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.95 | exposed |
| Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis. | 80.0% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3.95 | exposed |
| Maintain databases of logistics information. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.48 | exposed |
| Prepare reports on logistics performance measures. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.05 | exposed |
| Enter logistics-related data into databases. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 4.00 | exposed |
| Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 3.91 | exposed |
| Enter carbon-output or environmental-impact data into spreadsheets or environmental management or auditing software programs. | 73.3% | 26.7% | 0.0% | 2.86 | exposed |
| Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting. | 70.0% | 30.0% | 0.0% | 3.42 | exposed |
| Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.39 | exposed |
| Track product flow from origin to final delivery. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.35 | exposed |
| Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 4.14 | exposed |
| Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 3.93 | exposed |
| Determine packaging requirements. | 55.0% | 20.0% | 25.0% | 2.92 | exposed |
| Reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads, maximize vehicle usage, or limit the movement of empty vehicles or containers. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 4.36 | exposed |
| Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.83 | exposed |
| Develop or maintain freight rate databases for use by supply chain departments to determine the most economical modes of transportation. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 3.69 | exposed |
| Compare locations or environmental policies of carriers or suppliers to make transportation decisions with lower environmental impact. | 50.0% | 25.0% | 25.0% | 2.73 | exposed |
| Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes. | 49.6% | 37.9% | 12.5% | 3.29 | exposed |
| Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.88 | exposed |
| Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.86 | exposed |
| Identify opportunities for inventory reductions. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.69 | exposed |
| Route or reroute drivers in real time with remote route navigation software, satellite linkup systems, or global positioning systems (GPS) to improve operational efficiencies. | 45.0% | 30.0% | 25.0% | 3.27 | exposed |
| Arrange for sale or lease of excess storage or transport capacity to minimize losses or inefficiencies associated with empty space. | 40.0% | 35.0% | 25.0% | 2.40 | exposed |
| Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 4.38 | exposed |
| Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 3.52 | exposed |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 3.40 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 0.26 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 0.24 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.81 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.76 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.19 | 0-3 |
What this means in practice
Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.