Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.

Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 61 occupations and seen in 69 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 69 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 42 (61%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.004% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Perform general office duties, such as scheduling appointments, keeping books, and ordering supplies. · Photographers · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Order and purchase flowers and supplies from wholesalers and growers. · Floral Designers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Replace depleted supply packages with full packages. · Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Maintain parts inventories and order any additional parts needed for repairs. · Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Keep up-to-date records of circulation and materials, maintain inventory, and correct cataloging errors. · Librarians and Media Collections Specialists · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Maintain tool and spare parts inventories required for repair, installation, or replacement services. · Wind Turbine Service Technicians · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Select and assemble books, materials, supplies, and equipment for training, courses, or projects. · Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Order food for animals, and arrange for its delivery. · Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Select, store, order, issue, inventory, and maintain classroom equipment, materials, and supplies. · Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies, such as notepads, for use by judge, jurors, and attorneys. · Bailiffs · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Stock and sort product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glue, ink, or labels. · Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Maintain stocks of parts used in on-site installation, maintenance, and repair of appliances. · Home Appliance Repairers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Acquire, maintain, and repair laboratory equipment and tools. · Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Maintain supplies of tools, equipment, and materials, and order additional supplies as needed. · Potters, Manufacturing · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Examine and inventory firefighting equipment, such as axes, fire hoses, shovels, pumps, buckets, and fire extinguishers, to determine amount and condition. · Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Monitor inventory levels on a regular basis, ordering or requesting additional supplies, as necessary. · Printing Press Operators · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Research, order, and maintain parts inventory for services and repairs. · Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories. · Interior Designers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Maintain props, products, or mannequins, inspecting them for imperfections, doing touch-ups, cleaning up after customers, or applying preservative coatings as necessary. · Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Maintain stocks of parts. · Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Direct maintenance and repair of firefighting equipment, or requisition new equipment. · Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Maintain inventory of spare parts. · Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Provide assistance to librarians in the maintenance of collections of books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, and audio-visual and other materials. · Library Assistants, Clerical · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Store, pack, and maintain inventory records of props, products, or display items. · Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Inventory and requisition machine parts, equipment, and other supplies so that stock can be maintained and replenished. · Maintenance Workers, Machinery · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Maintain stocks of machine parts and machining tools. · Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies. · Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions. · First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Maintain an inventory of materials. · Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Select, order, and maintain materials and supplies for teaching and research, such as textbooks, chemicals, and laboratory equipment. · Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Inventory and requisition or order supplies, parts, materials, and equipment. · Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Inventory and record quantities of materials and finished products, requisitioning additional supplies as necessary. · Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Maintain inventories of materials. · Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.7 · exposure with tools
• Inventory supplies received and consumed. · Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Issue clothing, tools, and other authorized items to inmates. · Correctional Officers and Jailers · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Purchase new or used clothing and accessory items as needed to complete designs. · Fashion Designers · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Type, file, and duplicate materials. · Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education · importance 3.6 · direct LLM exposure
• Select, acquire, and maintain programs, music, films, and other needed materials and obtain legal clearances for their use as necessary. · Media Programming Directors · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Restock teaching materials or supplies. · Substitute Teachers, Short-Term · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies. · Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Photographers
• Floral Designers
• Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
• Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
• Wind Turbine Service Technicians
• Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
• Bailiffs
• Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
• Home Appliance Repairers
• Potters, Manufacturing
• Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists
• Interior Designers
• Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
• Printing Press Operators
• Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
• Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
• Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
• Library Assistants, Clerical
• Maintenance Workers, Machinery
• Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
• First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
• Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
• Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
• Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
• Fashion Designers
• Correctional Officers and Jailers
• Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
• Media Programming Directors
• Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
• Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
• First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
• Special Education Teachers, Preschool
• Set and Exhibit Designers
• Patternmakers, Wood

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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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