Jobs / Management and business operations / 13-1081.02
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.
- US jobs
- 251,040 (SOC 13-1081 group, "Logisticians")
- Median wage
- $82,320 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of logistics analysts?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
- Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
Other job titles for this occupation (30)
Global Logistics Analyst · Logistics Analyst · Logistics Management Analyst · Material Supply Planner · Supply Chain Analyst · Transportation Analyst · Acquisition Analyst · Acquisitions Logistics Analyst · Demand Planner · Demand Planning Analyst · Inventory Analyst · Inventory Control Analyst · Logistics Specialist · Materials Analyst · Operations Logistics Analyst · Procurement Analyst · Procurement Specialist · Product Control Analyst · Provisioning Analyst · Reverse Logistics Analyst · Supply Chain Data Analyst · Supply Chain Financial Analyst · Supply Chain Planner · Supply Chain Planning Analyst · Supply Chain Specialist · Supply Chain Systems Analyst · Supply Management Specialist · Supply Specialist · Supply Technician · Sustainment Logistics Analyst