Inventory Control Specialist

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Maintain inventory controls to ensure inventory is accurate and up-to-date.
• Perform monthly cycle counts on inventory and help coordinate the year end physical inventory count.
• Address inventory overages or shortages by investigating for root cause, communicating suspected issues, and suggesting solutions to management.
• Analyze inventory stock levels, historical usage, demand requirements, and production schedules to ensure adequate material availability.
• Review inventory requirements and issue Manufacturing Orders (MOs) for internally produced parts based on production demand, forecasted usage, and minimum stock levels.
• Monitor inventory trends and recommend production quantities to maintain appropriate stock levels while minimizing excess inventory.
• Cooky with production departments to identify material needs and proactively prevent inventory shortages and manufacturing delays.
• Release POs in the absence of the Purchasing Manager.
• Review Weekly/Monthly reports on material usage and make recommendations on reorder levels/production quantities.
• Review inventory cost variances and identify the root cause.
• Adequately receive inventory and expense items into the business. Identify and work with management on minimizing slow moving and obsolete inventory.
• Aid Production Team Members on Quantum and provide helpful insight and solutions.
• Support in ordering and organization of shop-aid non-inventory expense items as a back-up to the Purchasing Manager.
• Assist in receiving incoming customer orders.
• Create and revise MO/WO templates as requested.
• Perform edits to MO/WO to correct material.
• Perform labor edits in Quantum to correct production time.
• All other duties requested by management.