Shipping Receiving Manager

A typical week often involves dock-door coordination across inbound and outbound, supervisor leadership, carrier and supplier work, and the steady cadence of inventory-accuracy reviews — sitting with shipping and receiving supervisors, reviewing dock-door scheduling, working through supplier or customer issues that surface at the dock, prepping reports on dock performance. You're often the senior dock-operations voice across both sides of the building.

The friction tends to be the dock-door scheduling problem — inbound and outbound compete for door capacity, and the manager balances both against carrier appointment commitments. Variance across employers is wide: at large DCs the function runs with WMS infrastructure and structured appointment systems; at smaller warehouses it shares space with broader operations.

This work tends to suit people who are comfortable with WMS systems, supervisory in approach, and steady under dock-scheduling pressure. APICS CLTD, CSCP, and WERC credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the early-start dock-environment work and the front-line dimension of operations where service and inventory issues surface immediately.