Occupation Atlassupply chain manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/aacc3918-b5d3-484b-9480-5d29aa550d74
supply chain manager
Supply chain managers plan, manage and coordinate all activities related to the sourcing and procurement of supplies needed to run manufacturing operations from the acquisition of raw materials to the distribution of finished products. The supplies can be raw materials or finished products, and it can be for internal or external use. Moreover, they plan and commission all the activities needed to be performed in manufacturing plants and adjust operations to changing levels of demand for a company's products.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
ECREnterprising · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising6.24
- C Conventional5.25
- R Realistic3.39
- I Investigative2.46
- S Social2.04
- A Artistic1.00
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Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Supply Chain Managers (11-3071.04): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse business plans
- analyse logistic changes
- analyse supply chain strategies
- analyse supply chain trends
- assess supplier risks
- corporate social responsibility
- estimate costs of required supplies
- follow company standards
- identify key processes of traceability systems
- identify software for warehouse management
- implement a management system
- liaise with managers
- maintain relationship with customers
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- manage inventory
- manage supplies
- order supplies
- product data management
- product life-cycle
- strive for company growth
- supplier management
- supply chain management
- supply chain principles
Optional (76)
- accurately estimate work hours
- advise on risk management
- advise on sustainable management policies
- analyse consumer buying trends
- analyse economic trends
- analyse logistic needs
- analyse market financial trends
- apply change management
- apply for government funding
- assess financial viability
- assist in planning production scheduling
- attend trade fairs
- business strategy concepts
- calculate purchasing levels of raw materials
- carry out statistical forecasts
- carry out tendering
- conflict management
- control financial resources
- control trade commercial documentation
- coordinate purchasing activities
- develop professional network
- direct logistical functions
- economics
- ensure cross-department cooperation
- ensure equipment availability
- estimate duration of work
- estimate profitability
- financial forecasting
- forecast dividend trends
- forecast economic trends
- forecast future levels of business
- forecast production quantities
- forecast products' demand
- forecast sales over periods of time
- forecast workload
- geographical routes
- human resource management
- identify suppliers
- international business
- issue sales invoices
- labour legislation
- maintain contract administration
- manage budgets
- manage contracts
- manage human resources
- manage logistics
- manage rented goods returns
- manage staff
- manage standard enterprise resource planning system
- manage sub-contract labour
- manage warehouse operations
- market pricing
- monitor ingredient storage
- monitor stock level
- multimodal transport logistics
- negotiate buying conditions
- negotiate sales contracts
- negotiate supplier arrangements
- operations management
- perform project management
- perform resource planning
- plan future capacity requirements
- pricing strategies
- programme work according to incoming orders
- project management
- quality standards
- recruit employees
- risk management
- statistics
- study sales levels of products
- track price trends
- train employees
- transportation software related to an ERP system
- use sales forecasting softwares
- visit suppliers
- warehouse operations
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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