Job Description:
Working as a member of a fast-paced inventory control team, you will be responsible for maintaining the inventory control process and ensuring consistent stock levels.
The inventory controller will work closely with the sales, commercial and warehouse team to ensure full stock availability without loss of customer service
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
Stock Control:
- Monitor and review minimum stock holdings against average sales analysis
- Produce regular slow-moving stock reports, liaising with sales and commercial departments, ensuring that stock is moved through the system
- Daily placement of purchase orders by supplier and / or manufacturer
- Monitoring and analysing KPI’s to include:
o Stock availability
o Supplier lead times
o Stock holding
o Stock turnover
o Supplier fill rate
- Participate in supplier meetings
- Provide information to the warehouse team regarding delivery schedule and supplier / haulage company details
Demand Planning:
- Reviewing product sales trends to assist the ordering process
- Match supply and demand, investigating any variances
- Create best before date reports and liaise with the sales team to push slow moving products through the warehouse
- Analysis of supplier performance to include:
o On time supplier deliveries
o Supplier delivery accuracy
o Supplier rating system
o Seasonal and promotional activities
- Follow up on all supplier non-conformances
- Provide information to QA regarding supplier issues
- Minimise stock outs and product write offs, whilst working very closely with warehouse personnel to ensure supplier performance is at the optimal level
Inbound Logistics:
- Review inbound supply chain costs and use consolidation to take costs out
- Negotiate rates with haulage companies and freight forwarders
- Co-ordinate the inbound logistics operations with responsibility to improving supply chain efficiencies and reduce supply chain costs
- Monitor sales, seasonal and promotional activities and customer buying trends
Qualifications / Experience / Attitude:
- 2+ years experience working in a busy inventory control role
- Ability to complete tasks quickly and accurately, including the capability to multi-task
- Must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate respectively and effectively with internal teams and suppliers
- Previous experience using inventory control systems
- Must be hardworking, highly motivated, and be able to use own initiative
- Must be able to analyse problems and strategize for better solutions
- Must have a flexible approach to work, be adaptable to customer’s needs, and be open to change, continuous improvement, and learning
- Must be customer focused at all times
- Be a reliable team player, conduct work with a positive attitude and be respectful of others
- Experience working within a fast paced environment
- Experience of using MS Excel
