Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Identifying opportunities for inventory reductions.
• Monitoring industry standards, trends, or practices for identifying developments in logistics planning or execution.
• Entering logistics related data into databases.
• Developing or maintaining payment systems for ensuring accuracy of vendor payments.
• Developing or maintaining freight rate databases for using by the supplies chains departments for determining the most economical modes of transportation.
• Contacting potential vendors for determining material availability.
• Contacting carriers for rates or schedules.
• Communicating with or monitoring service providers, such as ocean carriers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or trucking companies.
• Trackinging product flow from origin to final delivery.
• Writing or revising standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
• Reviewing procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, for ensuring maximum efficiency or minimum cost.