Logistics Supervisor

Career Area: Business Management and Operations

Occupation Group: Logistics and Supply Chain Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Logistics Supervisor earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $56,130

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $56,051

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Supervises logistics operations. Coordinates distribution for products or materials, tracks shipments and manages warehouse operations. Supervises and coordinates schedules for logistics or warehouse staff.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Logistics Supervisor is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Organizational Skills: Experience with a systematic process of structuring, integrating, co-ordinating task goals, and activities to resources in order to attain objectives.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Logistics: Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Logistics Management: Logistics management is the part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer's requirements.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Experience of analyzing a project or company and communicating it's success in terms of the measured performance of activities
• Supervisory Skills: Supervision is an act or instance of directing, managing, or oversight.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Logistics Supervisor that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Material Flow Management: Material flow management (MFM) is a method of efficiently managing materials.
• 3PL (Third Party Logistics): Working experience of 3PL (Third Party Logistics). Third-party logistics (abbreviated 3PL, or sometimes TPL) in logistics and supply chain management is a company's use of third-party businesses to outsource elements of the company's distribution and fulfillment services

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Logistics Supervisor
• Customer Logistics Supervisor
• Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist
• Supervisor Logistics
• Supervisor, Logistics

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Logistics Manager
• Inventory Control Manager
• Logistics Director
• Supply Chain Manager