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Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Arrange for delivery, assembly, or distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.Mostly human for now
- 08Plan production commitments or timetables for business units, specific programs, or jobs, using sales forecasts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Examine documents, materials, or products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss9%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
60%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 83% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.