Verify and keep records on incoming and outgoing shipments. Prepare items for shipment. Duties include assembling, addressing, stamping, and shipping merchandise or material; receiving, unpacking, verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material; and arranging for the transportation of products.

Other names for Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks: Booking Clerk, Break Out Man, Break Out Worker, Car Checker, Cloth Booker, Container Coordinator, Disposition Clerk, Distributing Clerk, Express Clerk, Fish Receiver, Forwarder, Freight Breaker, Freight Clerk, Freight Forwarder, Freight Separator, Fruit Express Agent, Fruit Receiver, Fuel Oil Clerk, Garment Sorter, Grain Elevator Clerk, Gun Repair Clerk, Incoming Freight Clerk, Industrial Order Clerk, Logistics Coordinator, Material Control Associate, Material Handler, Material Processor, Milk Receiver, Package Sorter, Paper Control Clerk, Piggyback Clerk, Print Traffic Manager, Receiver, Receiving Associate, Receiving Clerk, Receiving Manager, Reconsignment Clerk, Return to Factory Clerk, Route Delivery Clerk, Routing Clerk, Sheet Writer, Ship Runner, Shipper, Shipper Receiver, Shipping Checker, Shipping Clerk, Shipping Coordinator, Shipping Manager, Shipping Order Clerk, Shipping Packer, Shipping-Order Clerk, Shipping/Receiving Clerk, Sorter, Sorter Pricer, Station Baggage Agent, Stock Receiver, Store Receiver, Switching Clerk, Traffic Assistant, Traffic Coordinator, Traffic Manager, Traffic Recorder, Traffic Worker, Transformer Stock Clerk, Truckload Checker, Vault Person, Vault Worker, Warehouse Manager, Warehouseman,

• Examine contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy of incoming or outgoing shipment.
• Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, and shipping orders to route materials.
• Determine shipping method for materials, using knowledge of shipping procedures, routes, and rates.
• Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, and damages and discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, and recordkeeping purposes.
• Contact carrier representative to make arrangements and to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials.
• Confer and correspond with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, and nonconformance to specifications.
• Requisition and store shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
• Deliver or route materials to departments, using work devices, such as handtruck, conveyor, or sorting bins.
• Compute amounts, such as space available, and shipping, storage, and demurrage charges, using calculator or price list.
• Pack, seal, label, and affix postage to prepare materials for shipping, using work devices such as hand tools, power tools, and postage meter.

• Bag tag printer
• Desktop computers
• Radio frequency identification devices
• Forklifts
• Bar code reader equipment
• Radio frequency identification devices
• Bar code reader equipment
• Notebook computers
• Electronic toploading balances
• Franking or postage machines
• Radio frequency identification devices
• Packaging vacuum

Procurement software

Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software

Label making software

Optical character reader OCR or scanning software

Document management software

Data base user interface and query software

Enterprise application integration software

Compliance software

Internet browser software