| 1. | Prepare and manage departmental budgets. |
| 2. | Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials. |
| 3. | Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel. |
| 4. | Plan, develop, and implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities. |
| 5. | Prepare or direct preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals. |
| 6. | Issue shipping instructions and provide routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated. |
| 7. | Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, and purchasing. |
| 8. | Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, and demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments. |
| 9. | Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets and equipment, and order testing, maintenance, repair, or replacement as necessary. |
| 10. | Schedule and monitor air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of products or materials. |
| 11. | Respond to customers' or shippers' questions and complaints regarding storage and distribution services. |
| 12. | Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials. |
| 13. | Develop and implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design. |
| 14. | Track and trace goods while they are en route to their destinations, expediting orders when necessary. |
| 15. | Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators and insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates. |
| 16. | Arrange for necessary shipping documentation, and contact customs officials to effect release of shipments. |
| 17. | Evaluate freight costs and the inventory costs associated with transit times to ensure that costs are appropriate. |
| 18. | Advise sales and billing departments of transportation charges for customers' accounts. |
| 19. | Examine invoices and shipping manifests for conformity to tariff and customs regulations. |
| 20. | Evaluate locations for new warehouses and distribution networks to determine their potential usefulness. |
| 21. | Participate in setting transportation and service rates. |
| 22. | Examine products or materials to estimate quantities or weight and type of container required for storage or transport. |
| 23. | Arrange for storage facilities when required. |