Business & Finance
Logistics Analysts
Also called: Global Logistics Analyst, Logistics Analyst, Logistics Management Analyst, Material Supply Planner
US median pay
$82,320
per year, 2025
Job growth 2025–35
+17.6%
faster than average
Openings a year (US)
26,600
255,100 employed
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree
Preparation 4/5 · Considerable preparation
What this job is
Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.
What they do day to day
- Maintain databases of logistics information.
- Remotely monitor the flow of vehicles or inventory, using Web-based logistics information systems to track vehicles or containers.
- Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
- Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- Recommend improvements to existing or planned logistics processes.
- Apply analytic methods or tools to understand, predict, or control logistics operations or processes.
- Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
- Enter logistics-related data into databases.
- Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as transportation costs, parts procurement, back orders, or delivery processes.
Skills and knowledge that matter most
Skills
- Complex Problem Solving3.9/5
- Systems Evaluation3.8/5
- Systems Analysis3.8/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.6/5
- Time Management3.2/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.0/5
- Service Orientation3.0/5
- Management of Personnel Resources3.0/5
Knowledge
- English Language4.2/5
- Computers and Electronics3.9/5
- Transportation3.8/5
- Mathematics3.6/5
- Administration and Management3.5/5
- Customer and Personal Service3.5/5
Importance rated by people working in the job (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important).
Education and preparation
Preparation level 4 of 5 — Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree and several years of related experience.
Typical entry education (BLS): Bachelor's degree.
Highest education of people in this job:
- Bachelor's degree64%
- Associate's degree23%
Who this job suits
Mostly Conventional
Organising data, details and procedures
Enterprising
Leading, persuading and starting things
Investigative
Ideas, research and solving problems
Based on the Holland (RIASEC) interest profile for this occupation.