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Will AI Replace Stockers and Order Fillers?
Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.
85out of 100
Critical Risk
AI Risk Score
85/100
Risk Level
Critical
Job Zone
2/5
Entry
Total Tasks Analyzed
25
🤖 What AI Can Do
- â–¸Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
- â–¸Keep records of out-going orders.
- â–¸Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
- â–¸Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
- â–¸Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.
- â–¸Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.
👤 What Requires Humans
- â–¸Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- â–¸Operate equipment such as forklifts.
- â–¸Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
- â–¸Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.
Task Breakdown
🤖AI Can Automate (6)
- Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
- Keep records of out-going orders.
- Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
- Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
- Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.
- Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.
👤Requires Humans (4)
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Operate equipment such as forklifts.
- Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.
- Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.
âš¡AI-Assisted (15)
- Complete order receipts.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.
- Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
- Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
- Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.
- Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
- Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.
Key Skills Analysis
Active Listening
Importance: 3.25/5.00
Reading ComprehensionAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 3.00/5.00
Speaking
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Monitoring
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Social PerceptivenessAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Service OrientationAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.88/5.00
Critical ThinkingAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.75/5.00
CoordinationAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.75/5.00
Judgment and Decision MakingAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.62/5.00
Time ManagementAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.62/5.00
WritingAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 2.50/5.00
Active LearningAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.38/5.00
Systems AnalysisAI-Vulnerable
Importance: 2.38/5.00
Management of Personnel ResourcesAI-Resistant
Importance: 2.38/5.00
Learning Strategies
Importance: 2.25/5.00
Related Occupations
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
85/100 — Critical Risk
Counter and Rental Clerks
86/100 — Critical Risk
Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
74/100 — High Risk
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
83/100 — Critical Risk
Retail Salespersons
85/100 — Critical Risk
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Frequently Asked Questions
Based on our analysis, Stockers and Order Fillers have a critical risk of AI replacement with a score of 85/100. Many routine tasks in this role can be automated, but human oversight remains important.
Last updated: 2026-03-28· Data from O*NET 30.2 & Frey/Osborne automation research