Inventory Control Supervisor

About the Role

Provides support to materials department staff to ensure that product is stored, shipped and tracked in accordance with customer specifications and QS9000/MMOG standards, while maintaining production flow and following company procedures. Maintains company and customer materials records, documentation and other related technical data.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements inventory control systems and procedures.
• Compiles, sorts, and verifies accuracy of inventory.
• Coordinate and manage daily physical inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory process.
• Analyze and research discrepancies between customer inventory system, ATC inventory system and on hand inventory.
• Act as a liaison between departments and buyers and determine obsolete stock while optimizing inventory turnover.
• Analyze inventory levels and trends and recommend stocking levels for optimum operation.
• Develops analysis and implementation of continuous improvement in materials and product systems, storage, handling, and tracking.
• Aids in the development of departmental procedures and instructions.
• Conducts, or assists in evaluation to resolve materials problems relating to facilities, materials storage, handling, tracking, systems, equipment, and process.
• Participates in the review of customer or contractual documentation to identify and ensure fulfillment of requirements.
• Conducts cost reduction and process improvement evaluations (e.g., handling time, movements between locations, misidentification of core and components).
• Research, implement and report on inventory cost reduction plans.
• Assist with timekeeping and payroll for warehouse.
• Responsible for maintaining a quality work environment, including good housekeeping (e.g., 5S).
• Assist in plant-wide training of personnel to include organizational ethics, safety standards, work flow processes and practices that relate to the handling of inventory.
• Provide technical support to employee involvement teams.
• Coordinate inventory-related processes, production metrics and continuous improvements with benchmarks.
• Support business development, purchasing and warehousing with ad hoc inventory analysis.
• Assist in preparing documentation useful for formulating marketing and procurement policies and strategies to improve inventory turnover.
• Special projects, as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to use Materials Info-flo system and other computer software to enter data, analyze, create reports, graphs, and spreadsheets.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Must be able to read and understand English.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Certifications in APICS desirable.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.