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Career Paths in Business Management 

Procurement, Logistics, Bookkeeping, Cashflow, Project Management

  • Possible Tasks

    Business Management and Leadership
    - Tasks are diverse and often require industry-specific knowledge. In any case, you take on a leadership role.
    - You delegate tasks and distribute resources, evaluate results, and communicate between departments.
    - In all areas, your main responsibilities include planning, organizing, evaluating, and optimizing production and work processes.
    - You develop business and financial plans and define risks. You make decisions regarding funding procurement and use.
    - You analyze, plan, and monitor financial and accounting processes.
    - You evaluate and appraise (international) economic and business activities and make appropriate investment, sales, and marketing decisions.
    - You contribute to your company’s strategic positioning.
    Bookkeeping
    - As a part of accounting, bookkeeping serves to document business transactions and track the financial development of a company.
    - You plan and coordinate a company’s financial and accounting processes. You evaluate whether business goals can be met with the available resources and monitor the public activities of competitors.
    - As opposed to accounting, in bookkeeping you work not only with real finances, but also planned finances.
    - As a bookkeeper, you work to secure a company’s profitability and efficiency, as well as to prevent errors of judgement.
    - You generate invoices and prepare accounting and bookkeeping information for the company’s leadership (e.g. sales, cost, earnings, and bottleneck analyses).
    - You provide current numbers and analyses and advise leadership regarding target and business planning.
    - You develop and maintain bookkeeping systems for planning, managing, and monitoring operational performance and internal information systems.
    Logistics
    - You are primarily responsible for the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of the flow of goods and other logistical processes.
    - You plan and manage flows of internal and external goods and information (e.g. raw materials and supplies, information, services, or energy).
    - You organize and manage the storage of goods (e.g. incoming, outgoing, type of storage required).
    - You assemble the materials that are required for production.
    - You monitor logistics processes from procurement to distribution.
    - You plan and optimize transportation and routes and select logistics service providers.
    - You analyze and optimize procedures and workflows in the areas of materials and inventory management. You develop logistics plans and strategies.
    - You familiarize yourself with software solutions for logistics, such as track and trace applications, and/or implement new solutions for your company.

  • Industries and Occupations

    Businesses in all industries, for example:
    - Consumer goods and commodities
    - Telecommunications
    - Wholesale and retail
    - Food and beverages
    - IT and internet
    - Banking
    - Medical and non-profit
    Public sector

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