The right supplies, delivered at the right time, can ensure the safety of Army troops in the field. Maintaining and distributing the Army's large inventory of food, medicines, ammunition, spare parts and other supplies is an incredibly important job. The Automated Logistical Specialist is an integral member of the Army's supply and warehousing specialist team.

The Automated Logistical Specialist is primarily responsible for supervising and performing management or warehouse functions in order to maintain equipment records and parts. Some of your duties as an Automated Logistical Specialist may include:

• Establish and maintain stock records and other documents such as inventory, materiel control, accounting and supply reports
• Establish and maintain automated and manual accounting records, posts receipts and turn-ins and performs dues-ins and dues-outs accounting
• Correct error and exception documents
• Review and verify quantities received against bills of lading, contracts, purchase requests and shipping documents
• Unload, unpack, visually inspect, count, segregate, palletize and store incoming supplies and equipment
• Maintain stock locator system and administer document control procedures
• Repair and construct fiberboard or wooden containers
• Pack, crate, stencil, weigh and band equipment and supplies
• Construct bins, shelving and other storage aids
• Process request, and turn-in documents at direct support level through warehousing section
• Process inventories, surveys and warehousing documents
• Perform prescribed load list (PLL) and shop stock list (SSL) duties in manual and automated supply applications
• Prepare, annotate and distribute shipping documents
• Break down and distribute field rations
• Operate materiel handling equipment (MHE)
• Perform accounting and sales functions in self-service supply
• Perform Standard Army Maintenance System Enhanced (SAMS-E) duties in automated applications
• Simplify and standardize the collection and use of maintenance data
• Improve readiness management and visibility by providing equipment status and asset data
• Raise the quality and accuracy of performance, cost, backlog, man-hour, and parts data through improved maintenance management

Job training for an Automated Logistical Specialist requires nine weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and 12 weeks of Advanced Individual Training and on-the-job-instruction, including practice in handling and storing stock. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Some of the skills you'll learn are:

• Stock control and accounting procedures
• Procedures for shipping, receiving, storing and issuing stock
• Procedures for handling medical and food supplies
• Movement, storage and maintenance of ammunition

Helpful attributes include:

• An interest in mathematics, bookkeeping, accounting, business administration and/or typing
• An ability to keep accurate records
• A preference for physical work
• An interest in operating forklifts and other warehouse equipment

Advanced level Automated Logistical Specialist provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers within the same discipline. As an advanced level Automated Logistical Specialist, you may also be involved in:

• Ensure that inventory and location surveys are performed in accordance with established procedures
• Instruct warehouse personnel in loading, unloading, segregation, palletizing and selection of stock and storage areas
• Perform property disposal storage functions
• Ensure application of special procedures for handling, storing, packaging and shipping retrograde material
• Retrieve and analyze history and activity files pertinent to system rejected documents
• Recommend additions and deletions to authorized stockage list
• Maintain accounting records of property disposal activity
• Review requests for major and controlled items
• Reconcile activity records for monthly and quarterly reporting and status reviews
• Process data inquiry and manager referred listings and cards
• Manage controlled, critical and reserve stocks and operational readiness floats
• Perform financial management functions
• Process output from catalog inquiry program, document modifiers and special cancellation requests
• Perform commissary store functions to include stock replenishment, price changes, inventories, security, stock receipt and oversees the constructions of displays

The skills you learn as a Automated Logistical Specialist will help prepare you for a future as a stock control clerk, parts clerk or storekeeper with civilian factories, repair shops, department stores and government warehouses and stockrooms.

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