Inventory Control Specialist

Job summary

Job Description The Inventory Control Specialist is responsible for maintaining accurate, compliant, and efficient control of raw materials and finished goods in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• and ensuring materials are properly received, located, and issued to support uninterrupted production.
• This position serves as a key subject matter expert for inventory accuracy, compliance, and process improvement across the facility.
• to anticipate inventory shortages or compliance issues (Global being used for AIS) for upcoming shop orders.
• To be done on a daily or semi-weekly basis to allow for buyer/planner team to investigate material PO’s or order for upcoming jobs.
• Analyze demand patterns, consumption trends, and production run rates to forecast inventory needs.
• Analyze facility needs for inventory min/max.
• Regularly analyze.
• Function as “go to” subject matter expert for on-site inventory locations of materials.
• Keep an accurate and professional record of material and their corresponding locations by way of BPCS locator system and Vic*** part codes into shared Excel file.
• Issue material into BPCS ERP system after shop order completion.
• Maintain historical data by way of shared Excel file to log over usage by operator, material, shop order, and date of over usage.
• Manage scrap in Mendix shop floor control system; maintain and analyze historical data for scrap.

Responsibilities

• The Inventory Control Specialist is responsible for maintaining accurate, compliant, and efficient control of raw materials and finished goods in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Perform inventory cycle counts regularly.
• Have cycle count signed off on for first 6 months to eliminate possibility of inaccurate information.
• Ensuring material is inventoried correctly with corresponding Vic*** part code.
• Maintain 98–100% inventory accuracy through cycle counts, reconciliations, and root-cause analysis of variances.
• Investigates in BPCS/AS400 when material amount became inaccurate and investigates which shop order caused inaccuracies.
• Keep historical data records of material inaccuracies to determine which material has regularly been inaccurate.
• Regularly organize inventory into defined locations and notify Supply Chain & Logistics Manager when a more strategically sound location is determined.
• Keep shared Excel file of locations.
• Inspect incoming material for quality, damage and ensure correct material is delivered and received into appropriate inventory locations through internal inventory locator system, BPCS, and Mendix software systems.
• Optimize warehouse layout, storage methods, and material flow to reduce travel time and improve throughput.
• Report out professional insight to Supply Chain Manager by way of research and data analysis.

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