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ATS resume keywords for Logistics and Warehousing

These are the 27 terms our scorer checks a Logistics and Warehousing resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • logistics
  • warehouse
  • inventory management
  • stock accuracy
  • cycle count
  • dispatch
  • inbound
  • outbound
  • freight
  • transportation
  • fleet
  • route planning
  • 3pl
  • wms
  • sap
  • picking
  • packing
  • put away
  • fifo
  • gate entry
  • e way bill
  • lorry receipt
  • on time delivery
  • damage rate
  • cold chain
  • last mile
  • reverse logistics

The eight questions for Logistics and Warehousing

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many shipments, consignments or orders do you handle in a month?
  2. 2.What is the size of the warehouse you run, in area or pallet positions?
  3. 3.What is your on time delivery or dispatch accuracy?
  4. 4.How much freight cost do you control, and have you reduced it?
  5. 5.How many vehicles, routes or transporters do you coordinate?
  6. 6.What is your inventory accuracy at cycle count?
  7. 7.How many people work on your floor across shifts?
  8. 8.Which systems do you run the operation in?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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