Can AI Replace Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in 2026?

High exposure. AI could handle about 78% of today's production, planning, and expediting clerks tasks by 2036, and there is a 69% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

43%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

23% 2030 · 69% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

3.5 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills

Industrial Engineers57% risk by 2036 First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers39% risk by 2036 First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers31% risk by 2036

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands".Get visibly better at your human core: "Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.Read about a lower-risk move: Industrial Engineers.

Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks

Industrial Engineers — 57% chance of contraction by 2036
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers — 39% chance of contraction by 2036
First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers — 31% chance of contraction by 2036

Similar occupations

First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators · First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers · Industrial Production Managers · Order Clerks

Based on 17 O*NET tasks for "Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks" (SOC 43-5061.00). LLM alone: 27% of tasks; with AI tools: 92%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10