物流職業(yè)生涯規劃

What is the most common career path in logistics?C A R E E R S -I N -L O G I S T I C S 7:What is the most common career path in logistics?No single career path dominates logistics management. In fact there arehundreds of potential career paths (seventeen of them are outlined in the JobProfiles section of this booklet). Your career path will be largely influenced byyour skills, interests, and personal decisions. It will also be impacted by thesize, type, geographic scope, and organizational structure of the firm that youchoose to work for.A broad base of business skills, knowledge of the logistics process, andrelevant internship/work experience will give you ample opportunity to beginyour career with a manufacturer, retailer, carrier, third party logistics firm, orother organization. You will likely begin as a management trainee, analyst, orfirst line supervisor. As you demonstrate your managerial capabilities, youcan progress to logistics positions of greater responsibility. You may alsodecide to gain experience in other parts of the organization.One key to your success in this field is flexibility. You will work with peoplethroughout your companylogistics, manufacturing, and marketing.Depending on the size of your company, your initial responsibilities maydeal with one or more logistics functions. Some positions will require you tospecialize in a specific area of logistics. There are numerous opportunitiesand career paths in this fieldit is up to you to seek them out and developthe appropriate skills to be successful.Your logistics career path can focus on a wide variety of functional areas.Some of these include:? Logistics planning and analysis? Transportation management? Warehouse operations management? Inventory planning and control? Purchasing and materials management? International logistics management? Production planning and operations? Supply chain management? Customer service management? Information systems and control? Logistics services marketing and sales? Logistics engineeringAny number of these areas can be combined under the responsibility of asingle logistics executive. The organizational chart provided below highlightsmany of the logistics career paths that exist in manufacturing firms. With theexception of production planning, similar opportunities are available withmerchandising firms. There is also an opportunity to build your career pathby moving between logistics functions, moving into other areas of the organization,or by moving from one type of organization to another.It is important to realize that not all organizations have a logistics department.Some organizations spread logistics functions across multiple departments.As a result, your career path may weave through marketing, manufacturing, operations,and/or specific product divisions. In these unique situations, you will stillperform logistics functions and you may end up as the Vice President ofManufacturing or Marketing!下面作一點(diǎn)翻譯：最一般的物流職業(yè)生涯物流職場(chǎng)沒(méi)有固定的道路。這些要取決于你的技能、興趣和個(gè)人決定，也取決于你所在的地域和組織。（這個(gè)是顯然的，影響你的職業(yè)生涯的無(wú)非是自身和外部，外部那就有大環(huán)境和小環(huán)境之分。）物流職場(chǎng)的開(kāi)始往往是基于你的基礎知識，可能是助理、分析員、或者一線(xiàn)的執行者，你可能在制造業(yè)也可能在貨運或者其他的第三方物流企業(yè)。隨著(zhù)你的知識和經(jīng)驗以及管理技能的獲得，你逐漸有能力獲得更多的機會(huì )和責任。（這是你的整體職業(yè)的發(fā)展路線(xiàn)，開(kāi)始----〉升職）在這個(gè)領(lǐng)域一個(gè)重要的成功要素是靈活性，因為你面對的人很多，有物流人員、生產(chǎn)人員和市場(chǎng)人員在不同的企業(yè)你還可能獲得不同的物流職能經(jīng)驗，這里有很多路徑讓你成功，但是你必須具備靈活性。（面對的人員多樣，從事的工作多樣，你的能力也要多樣，當然也要有專(zhuān)門(mén)技能。靈活--謹記�。┫旅媪信e了很多的物流職能，你可能在這些職能之間跳來(lái)跳去，并獲得晉升。（物流范圍廣闊，自己注意自己的發(fā)展路線(xiàn)，盡力規劃）并非所有的組織都有物流部門(mén)，有的就把物流部門(mén)的職能分劃到不同的部門(mén)了。所以你的職業(yè)生涯就會(huì )在物流、制造、市場(chǎng)或者分散的部門(mén)逐步發(fā)展。你的未來(lái)就是企業(yè)的物流副總、制造副總或者市場(chǎng)副總�。ㄗ魑锪鞯淖畲罂赡芫褪歉笨偭�，暈�。�