JOB KEY FOR
PRODUCTION, PLANNING, & EXPEDITING CLERKS
The duties of Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks are primarily
clerical in nature and involve coordinating and expediting the flow of
work and materials within or between departments of an establishment
according to production schedules. This includes reviewing and
distributing production schedules and work orders, conferring with
department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion
dates, and compiling reports on progress of work and production
problems. Their duties may also include scheduling workers and
estimating costs, routing and delivering parts to insure production
quotas are met, and scheduling shipment of parts. They may keep
inventory of material in departments and insure that merchandise is
shipped by vendor on the promised date, and write special orders for
services and merchandise.
Local estimates of jobs in this occupation are not available.
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