Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed.98
• Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, or purchase, maintenance, or repair orders.98
• Calculate figures, such as required amounts of labor or materials, manufacturing costs, or wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers.96

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.59
• Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.58
• Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.57

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 80 puts Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 14 of 17 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 3 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.

Labor-market context

• $59,650median wage
• 390,160employed
• 34,100annual openings
• -1.8%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 78
• First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers 52
• First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 76
• Procurement Clerks 86
• Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians 51
• Freight Forwarders 81

FAQ — Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

What does a score of 80 mean for a Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks?

It means that, weighted across the 17 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 80 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed; Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, or purchase, maintenance, or repair orders; Calculate figures, such as required amounts of labor or materials, manufacturing costs, or wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.