Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Scheduling, planning and resource control |
| Jobs that do it | 61 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders, Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Monitoring and Controlling Resources (4.A.4.c.3) |
What could do this work.
These are the categories of tool that address scheduling, planning and resource control, with a few live examples from our landscape. We name the category rather than promise that a specific product does your specific task, because that promise would not be true.
Tools and auth
Builders
Enterprise platforms
Categories are matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Before committing to any of them, check that the tool can reach the system your record actually lives in. That connection, not the model, is where most of these projects stall.
Who does this work.
61 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Adapted Physical Education Specialists
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
- Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Audio and Video Technicians
- Bailiffs
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Cargo and Freight Agents
- Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
- Coaches and Scouts
- Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
- Correctional Officers and Jailers
- Curators
- Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
- Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
- Fashion Designers
- First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
- Floral Designers
- Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists
- Fuel Cell Engineers
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Home Appliance Repairers
- Interior Designers
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
- Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
- Library Assistants, Clerical
- Library Technicians
- Maintenance Workers, Machinery
- Media Programming Directors
- Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Photographers
- Photonics Technicians
- Potters, Manufacturing
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
- Printing Press Operators
- Robotics Technicians
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Set and Exhibit Designers
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
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Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.