Supervisor, Inventory Control

What You'll Do

• Advise associates on care and preservation, handling, storing, maintenance and shipping of product.

• Assign and direct work and monitor performance of inventory employees.

Schedule tasks to maximize efficiency.

• Utilize the Warehouse Management System to monitor inventory accuracy, inventory discrepancies, and errors.

• Review and monitor inventory errors, including lost inventory, damaged inventory, etc.

Ensure SOPs for handling discrepant inventory are followed.

• Conduct regular inventory counts, including quarterly cycle counts, full physical inventories, and customer required counts.

Record count results and any discrepancies.

Communicate count results to Management and/or the Customer as needed.

• Analyze data and make recommendations on inventory layout and management practices to maximize inventory and maintain inventory at optimal accuracies.

• Communicate with Management on a regular basis of warehouse inventory accuracy and discrepancies

• Communicate with the Customer on an as needed or defined bases of customer inventory accuracy, status, and discrepancies.

• Research and resolve inventory discrepancies including, but not limited to: researching customer claims, cycle count for missing product, adjust inventory quantities, handle damaged inventory, disposing of inventory.

• Maintain and update inventory and inventory discrepancies within the Warehouse Management System.

What Experience and Education You Need :

• College Degree plus 3 to 5 years warehousing experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience in Quality Assurance Management or Inventory Control

• Three years supervisory/management skills

• Strong analytical and mathematical skills

• PC skills, including Microsoft Office, AS400, WMS and RF

Physical Requirements :

• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions

• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending

• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work

• Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks

• May require travel by automobile and airplane up for business

• May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing

• May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds

• Requires the use of various electronic tools

• Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes

• Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management

Work Environment :

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