Entry Level Qualification 

Class 10

Career Fields 

Business & Management

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

No Entrance Exam

About Career 

As a logistics and supply chain worker, you will ensure that goods reach the intended customers or other organizations from the manufacturing plants, warehouse or stores to the destinations where the customers or organizations want them to be delivered.

You will be involved in packing goods, moving goods from one point to another inside a factory or warehouse, loading goods transport vehicles, etc. You will be involved in unloading goods transport vehicles, arranging goods in the right places, etc. You will be checking and managing inventory and ensure that the minimum level of inventories is managed appropriately. You will maintain records for movement of goods, that is, how many are received in the factory, warehouse or store and how many are dispatched out of the factory, warehouse or store.

Key roles and responsibilities

1. Completing the paperwork and receiving incoming consignments, checking them against invoices, identifying missing or defective items and processing returns with the distribution and checking compliance with business and legal standards

2. Entering information regarding goods received and their storage location in the computer system and forwarding bills & invoices to accounts payable.

3. Collecting the stored items list, perform physical counting of goods, cross-checking the physical count with the system numbers.

4. Packing items that require additional pre-packing or outbound packaging.

5. Loading and unloading cargo, labeling, repackaging items and documenting cargo that has been moved.

6. Electronically process all orders and provide database management support for warehouse operations.

7. Binning items according to an inventory list.

8. Transporting material from staging area to the storage racks and picking area

9. Collecting components required to make one complete product, verifying with the bill of materials and packing them

10. Collecting packages from the local office and delivering them to the customers at their doorstep after proper verification

11. Sorting mail items according to the destination hub/service center in preparation for delivery

12. Bagging and de-bagging shipments and tagging them with bar-code stickers.

13. Tracking each consignment at regular intervals as it moves from origin to its destination. Coordinating with the truck driver, transport companies and transport authorities to update real-time information on the system.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies- Skill Training under Logistics Sector Skill Council at Kaushal Vikas Kendra under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (NVQF Level -3-4)/Basic Training Centre under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (Retail and Logistics)/ITI Industrial Equipment (Logistics Executive/Warehouse Management/Courier Services).

Once you’ve completed your secondary level studies, you can pursue your Skill Training under Logistics Sector Skill Council at Kaushal Vikas Kendra under PMKVY (NVQF Level -3-4)/Basic Training Centre under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (Retail and Logistics)/ITI Industrial Equipment (Logistics Executive/Warehouse Management/Courier Services). Some CBSE schools allow vocational electives and streams. If present, you can pick retail in Class 10 and then go for vocational training for logistics under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana at any of the Kaushal Vikas Kendras or training centers.

Once you’ve completed your secondary level studies, you can pursue your higher secondary studies. Then, you can go for graduation with a Bachelor’s in any discipline. Then, you can go for an iACT course in Logistics and Supply Chain.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

After Secondary level examination

To be a proper logistics and supply chain worker, you need training. You can pursue your training after secondary exams through Skill Training under Logistics Sector Skill Council at Kaushal Vikas Kendra under PMKVY (NVQF Level -3-4)/Basic Training Centre under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (Retail and Logistics)/ITI Industrial Equipment (Logistics Executive/Warehouse Management/Courier Services). This will make you eligible for entry-level jobs as a logistics and supply chain worker.

Undergraduate Courses

After your higher secondary exams, you can go for advanced training in logistics.  You can then go for graduation in any field and after that, you can go for iACT (Logistics and Supply Chain). This will give you better opportunities in this field.

Competencies Required

Occupational Interest

1. Enterprising— enterprising occupations involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

2. Conventional-Conventional occupations involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas.

Skills

1. Monitoring

2. Active Listening

3. Time Management

4. Coordination

5. Speaking

Personality

1. Dependability

2. Integrity

3. Cooperation

Abilities

1. The ability to see details at close range.

2. The ability to communicate information and ideas.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

When you have completed training as a logistics and supply chain worker, you will be eligible for entry-level jobs like:

1. Shipment Bagging Agent

2. Mail Handler

3. Consignment Tracking Executive

4. Courier Delivery Executive

5. Courier Pick Up Executive

6. Inventory Clerk

7. Documentation Assistant

8. Warehouse Packer

9. Warehouse Binner

10. Consignment Booking Assistant

11. Data Feeder

Some Organisations where you can find work: Amazon, Flipkart, CEVA Logistics, ACG Infotech, Dream Orbit, BlueDart, FedEx, etc.

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Work Environment

The work week is typically 40 hours long. There is not much freedom in decision making. Workers typically work in large warehouses, offices or ports. A lot of the time is spent using hands and feet for physical work. Strict adherence to standardization and safety procedures is usually enforced. Work with basic numbers and data entry involved. Usually involves high contact with others.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

1. Courier & Express Services

Concerned with delivery of packages, shipping containers, parcels, or high value mail as single shipments through courier companies or individuals, and consignment tracking

2. Land Transportation

Land transportation involves all the non-vessel cargo operations, where a company or an individual organizes shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods from the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of distribution. It also involve transport of raw materials to manufacturing units.

3. Warehouse - Storage & Packaging

Involves all the warehouse intrinsic operations such as inventory management, storage and sorting, assembling components, packaging products according to standards, binning products according to inventory list, and forklift operations

4. International Trade Procedures

Set of recommendations and standards that contribute to effective and efficient trade, covering aspects of trade facilitation and electronic business.

5. Logistics

Logistics is the summation processes that involve managing how resources are acquired, stored and transported to their final destination. It is concerned with management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations Logistics management involves identifying prospective distributors and suppliers, and determining their effectiveness and accessibility.

6. E-Commerce

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet.

Career Growth

The career growth prospects are moderate. With the incorporation of NSQF (National Skill Qualification Framework), it has become much easier for workers to recognize the optimum skill and for workers to improve their prospects. NSQF provides level certification during vocational training courses and the workers can progress from level 1 professional to level 10 professional, increasing their salary & employability prospects. Assessment is based on Professional knowledge, skill, training response and aptitude.

Salary Offered  

Entry-level workers typically start out with a salary of Rs 8,500 to 10,000 per month and their salaries can reach up to Rs 18,000 and even Rs 20,000 per month as their skill and professional experience improves. Supervisory roles can fetch you Rs 25,000- Rs 30,000 per month.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

As a logistics and supply chain worker, you have to work with a lot of products. You will have to be physically active and make sure that the customers get their products on time. You should also be available when the company needs you during emergency situations. Some of the core activities of a logistics and supply chain worker are:

1. Handling and moving objects and materials: Using hands or otherwise use physical strength to handle and move objects and materials; maneuver, install, lift, place, manipulate, etc.

2. Information processing: Searching, compiling, tabulating, calculating, auditing, verifying or otherwise dealing with information processing including data entry, transcription, recording, storing and maintaining databases.

3. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and process information; for writing.

4. Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials: Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials to ascertain quality, performance, defects, causes of errors, etc.

5. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large.