Manufacturing & Supply Chain Skills in Demand

These roles plan, make and move physical goods. Postings focus on process improvement, quality and the planning systems a plant or supply network runs on, and few of them can be done remotely.

We analyzed 67 U.S. job descriptions from 19 employers for Manufacturing & Supply Chain roles. The most requested skills were Supply chain (42%), Excel (22%) and ERP systems (16%).

1,847open U.S. roles tracked
3 yearstypical experience asked for
$139,200median advertised pay, from 31 roles that state it

Operations

  • Supply chain42%
  • ERP systems16%
  • Root cause analysis15%
  • Six Sigma9%
  • Lean7%

Business tools

  • Excel22%
  • SAP9%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 25, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.

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