Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

• Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products
• Maintain inventory of medical supplies or equipment
• Maintain supply or equipment inventories
• Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories
• Manage inventories of products or organizational resources
• Maintain the inventory of equipment

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

• Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products. · 61 occupations · 69 tasks · 61% AI-exposed
• Maintain inventory of medical supplies or equipment. · 15 occupations · 21 tasks · 43% AI-exposed
• Maintain supply or equipment inventories. · 11 occupations · 12 tasks · 33% AI-exposed
• Manage inventories of products or organizational resources. · 6 occupations · 6 tasks · 67% AI-exposed
• Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories. · 5 occupations · 6 tasks · 17% AI-exposed
• Maintain the inventory of equipment. · 4 occupations · 5 tasks · 80% AI-exposed

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Showing 40 of 101 occupations.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai Microsoft Research

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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