Negotiate contracts for transportation, distribution, or logistics services.

Negotiate contracts for transportation, distribution, or logistics services. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 6 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Negotiate contracts or agreements. in Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others .

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 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (100%) 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 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% 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.

• Negotiate or approve contracts or agreements with suppliers, distributors, federal or state agencies, or other organizational entities. · Chief Executives · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Negotiate prices and terms with suppliers, vendors, or freight forwarders. · Supply Chain Managers · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools
• Negotiate contracts with waste management or other firms. · Recycling Coordinators · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Negotiate with buyers for the sale, storage, or shipment of crops or livestock. · Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates. · Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Negotiate contracts with vendors or distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution networks or developing distribution strategies. · Marketing Managers · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools
• Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration. · Transportation Engineers · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Chief Executives
• Supply Chain Managers
• Recycling Coordinators
• Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
• Marketing Managers
• Transportation Engineers

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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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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