What is the most common career path in logistics?C A R E E R S -I N -L O G I S T I C S 7:What is the most common career path in logistics?No single career path dominates logistics management. In fact there arehundreds of potential career paths (seventeen of them are outlined in the JobProfiles section of this booklet). Your career path will be largely influenced byyour skills, interests, and personal decisions. It will also be impacted by thesize, type, geographic scope, and organizational structure of the firm that youchoose to work for.A broad base of business skills, knowledge of the logistics process, andrelevant internship/work experience will give you ample opportunity to beginyour career with a manufacturer, retailer, carrier, third party logistics firm, orother organization. You will likely begin as a management trainee, analyst, orfirst line supervisor. As you demonstrate your managerial capabilities, youcan progress to logistics positions of greater responsibility. You may alsodecide to gain experience in other parts of the key to your success in this field is flexibility. You will work with peoplethroughout your companylogistics, manufacturing, and nding on the size of your company, your initial responsibilities maydeal with one or more logistics functions. Some positions will require you tospecialize in a specific area of logistics. There are numerous opportunitiesand career paths in this fieldit is up to you to seek them out and developthe appropriate skills to be logistics career path can focus on a wide variety of functional of these include:? Logistics planning and analysis? Transportation management? Warehouse operations management? Inventory planning and control? Purchasing and materials management? International logistics management? Production planning and operations? Supply chain management? Customer service management? Information systems and control? Logistics services marketing and sales? Logistics engineeringAny number of these areas can be combined under the responsibility of asingle logistics executive. The organizational chart provided below highlightsmany of the logistics career paths that exist in manufacturing firms. With theexception of production planning, similar opportunities are available withmerchandising firms. There is also an opportunity to build your career pathby moving between logistics functions, moving into other areas of the organization,or by moving from one type of organization to is important to realize that not all organizations have a logistics organizations spread logistics functions across multiple a result, your career path may weave through marketing, manufacturing, operations,and/or specific product divisions. In these unique situations, you will stillperform logistics functions and you may end up as the Vice President ofManufacturing or Marketing!下面作一點翻譯：最一般的物流職業生涯物流職場沒有固定的道路。這些要取決於你的技能、興趣和個人決定，也取決於你所在的地域和組織。（這個是顯然的，影響你的'職業生涯的無非是自身和外部，外部那就有大環境和小環境之分。）物流職場的開始往往是基於你的基礎知識，可能是助理、分析員、或者一線的執行者，你可能在製造業也可能在貨運或者其他的第三方物流企業。隨着你的知識和經驗以及管理技能的獲得，你逐漸有能力獲得更多的機會和責任。（這是你的整體職業的發展路線，開始----〉升職）在這個領域一個重要的成功要素是靈活性，因為你面對的人很多，有物流人員、生產人員和市場人員在不同的企業你還可能獲得不同的物流職能經驗，這裏有很多路徑讓你成功，但是你必須具備靈活性。（面對的人員多樣，從事的工作多樣，你的能力也要多樣，當然也要有專門技能。靈活--謹記！）下面列舉了很多的物流職能，你可能在這些職能之間跳來跳去，並獲得晉升。（物流範圍廣闊，自己注意自己的發展路線，盡力規劃）並非所有的組織都有物流部門，有的就把物流部門的職能分劃到不同的部門了。所以你的職業生涯就會在物流、製造、市場或者分散的部門逐步發展。你的未來就是企業的物流副總、製造副總或者市場副總！（作物流的最大可能就是副總了，暈！） |
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