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3047 Supply Chain Manager

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Overview

A Supply Chain Manager executes, tracks, and manages the flow of goods and services from requestors to receivers in tactical and non-tactical operations. The manager handles warehousing, inventory, property, storage, finances, customer support, and life cycle management while advising the supply officer on supply matters.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Supply funding tracking from obligation to liquidation
  • Repairable component supply program management
  • Supply personnel allocation for surge requirements
  • Supply support for distributed expeditionary operations

Civilian Career Paths

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Supply Chain Managers

Managing request-to-receipt supply flows, inventory, warehousing, funding, and personnel allocation directly supports civilian supply chain operations.

How to prepare: Build a case study showing how you coordinated inventory, warehouse staffing, and funding to meet a supply requirement, translating military terminology into civilian operating measures.

What the civilian work involves
  • Determine appropriate equipment and staffing levels to load, unload, move, or store materials.
  • Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.
  • Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Logistics Analysts

Tracking goods from requestor to receiver and managing inventory and life cycle funds provides a foundation for analyzing civilian logistics flows.

How to prepare: Use a sample shipment dataset to build an Excel or Power BI report that tracks origin-to-delivery flow and identifies delivery delays.

What the civilian work involves
  • Maintain databases of logistics information.
  • Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
  • Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Structured query language SQL

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

Ground supply experience in warehousing, storage, inventory management, and goods tracking transfers to hands-on shipment and inventory control.

How to prepare: Practice reconciling a sample shipment against its invoice and shipping order, then record discrepancies in an inventory spreadsheet.

What the civilian work involves
  • Examine shipment contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy.
  • Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials.
  • Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, damages, or discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SAP software

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Getting Started

  • Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) · Funded

    Develop formal planning, monitoring, and coordination methods for supply chain projects.

    Eligibility and preparation: At least 18 years old, a secondary degree such as a high school diploma or GED or global equivalent, and at least 23 hours of project management education completed before the exam; no experience required.

    For: Supply Chain Managers

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (5 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3047

    [1] MOS 3047 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 43038; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Supply funding tracking from obligation to liquidation, Repairable component supply program management, Supply personnel allocation for surge requirements, Supply support for distributed expeditionary operations, Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04), Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02), Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00)

  2. O*NET: Supply Chain Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Supply Chain Managers (O*NET 11-3071.04)

  3. O*NET: Logistics Analysts

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Logistics Analysts (O*NET 13-1081.02)

  4. O*NET: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks (O*NET 43-5071.00)

  5. COOL credential mapping: Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    [5] 3047 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    [6]PMI: Certified Associate in Project Management eligibility · Check eligibility and prepare, Eligibility Requirements; retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 3047. Each history page explains the change.

3043Supply Chain and Material Management Specialist3051Inventory Management Specialist

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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