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Supply Chain Managers
Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services or activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, or safety. Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Determine appropriate equipment and staffing levels to load, unload, move, or store materials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Select transportation routes to maximize economy by combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Implement new or improved supply chain processes to improve efficiency or performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Confer with supply chain planners to forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Analyze inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Negotiate prices and terms with suppliers, vendors, or freight forwarders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Analyze information about supplier performance or procurement program success.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss10%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
49%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 69% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.