UK AI Exposure · Administrative and secretarial occupations
Stock control clerks and assistants
Stock control clerks and assistants receive orders from customers, prepare requisitions or despatch documents for ordered goods, maintain and update records, files and other correspondence in relation to the storage and despatch of goods.
- Employees (UK)
- 69k
- Median annual pay
- £28,851
- Exposure score ?
- 1.9/10 Minimal 5.3/10 Moderate strict reading · with tools is 5.3/10 with-tools reading · strict is 1.9/10
- Wage exposure
- £378m £1.06bn
Higher exposure than 80% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means
Most of this role's work is still genuinely hard for AI to do. Physical presence, bodily skill, high-context judgment, direct human care - the things that don't translate to text.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
You're not in the firing line today. But the frontier moves. Build enough AI fluency now that you can direct it for the parts of your work that could benefit. People in unexposed roles who understand AI become unusually valuable inside their organisations.
A meaningful slice of the task inventory is AI-reachable - the drafting, summarising, research and analysis parts especially. This role is at the point where the people who learn to direct AI well pull ahead of the people who don't.
If you're in this role, here's what to do now
Treat AI as a colleague you manage, not a tool you use. Identify the tasks where you'd describe the work to a capable junior - those are the tasks AI can do for you now. Spend your time on the judgment calls and the relationships instead.
Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgment, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where we start — flip the toggle to 'With tools' to see what AI plus the right context can compress.
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Compare product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchase orders, and bills of lading to verify accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights.
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Document quantity, quality, type, weight, test result data, and value of materials or products to maintain shipping, receiving, and production records and files.
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Weigh or measure materials, equipment, or products to maintain relevant records, using volume meters, scales, rules, or calipers.
These are the highest-importance tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these — usually the difference between an LLM that can technically do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Compare product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchase orders, and bills of lading to verify accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights.
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Document quantity, quality, type, weight, test result data, and value of materials or products to maintain shipping, receiving, and production records and files.
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Inspect products and examination records to determine the number of defects per worker and the reasons for examiners' rejections.
Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →
The full task breakdown
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can already do unaided versus what still needs a human. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.
Tasks via O*NET "Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping" (43-5111.00).
What AI can already do
2 of 18 tasks · unaided
Document quantity, quality, type, weight, test result data, and value of materials or products to maintain shipping, receiving, and production records and files.
Operate scalehouse computers to obtain weight information about incoming shipments such as those from waste haulers.
Where humans still hold the line
16 of 18 tasks
Compare product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchase orders, and bills of lading to verify accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights.
Weigh or measure materials, equipment, or products to maintain relevant records, using volume meters, scales, rules, or calipers.
Collect or prepare measurement, weight, or identification labels and attach them to products.
Remove from stock products or loads not meeting quality standards, and notify supervisors or appropriate departments of discrepancies or shortages.
Inspect products and examination records to determine the number of defects per worker and the reasons for examiners' rejections.
Examine products or materials, parts, subassemblies, and packaging for damage, defects, or shortages, using specification sheets, gauges, and standards charts.
Store samples of finished products in labeled cartons and record their location.
Signal or instruct other workers to weigh, move, or check products.
Count or estimate quantities of materials, parts, or products received or shipped.
Communicate with customers and vendors to exchange information regarding products, materials, and services.
Fill orders for products and samples, following order tickets, and forward or mail items.
Collect product samples and prepare them for laboratory analysis or testing.
Sort products or materials into predetermined sequences or groupings for display, packing, shipping, or storage.
Transport materials, products, or samples to processing, shipping, or storage areas, manually or using conveyors, pumps, or hand trucks.
Maintain, monitor, and clean work areas, such as recycling collection sites, drop boxes, counters and windows, and areas around scale houses.
Unload or unpack incoming shipments.
Tasks via O*NET "Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping" (43-5111.00).
What AI can already do
6 of 18 tasks · with tools
Compare product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchase orders, and bills of lading to verify accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights.
Document quantity, quality, type, weight, test result data, and value of materials or products to maintain shipping, receiving, and production records and files.
Inspect products and examination records to determine the number of defects per worker and the reasons for examiners' rejections.
Count or estimate quantities of materials, parts, or products received or shipped.
Communicate with customers and vendors to exchange information regarding products, materials, and services.
Operate scalehouse computers to obtain weight information about incoming shipments such as those from waste haulers.
Where humans still hold the line
12 of 18 tasks
Weigh or measure materials, equipment, or products to maintain relevant records, using volume meters, scales, rules, or calipers.
Collect or prepare measurement, weight, or identification labels and attach them to products.
Remove from stock products or loads not meeting quality standards, and notify supervisors or appropriate departments of discrepancies or shortages.
Examine products or materials, parts, subassemblies, and packaging for damage, defects, or shortages, using specification sheets, gauges, and standards charts.
Store samples of finished products in labeled cartons and record their location.
Signal or instruct other workers to weigh, move, or check products.
Fill orders for products and samples, following order tickets, and forward or mail items.
Collect product samples and prepare them for laboratory analysis or testing.
Sort products or materials into predetermined sequences or groupings for display, packing, shipping, or storage.
Transport materials, products, or samples to processing, shipping, or storage areas, manually or using conveyors, pumps, or hand trucks.
Maintain, monitor, and clean work areas, such as recycling collection sites, drop boxes, counters and windows, and areas around scale houses.
Unload or unpack incoming shipments.
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Methodology
This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.
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