Description
Plan, direct, and coordinate inventory control activities to ensure accurate stock records, efficient replenishment, and compliance with organizational policies and applicable regulations. Oversees cycle counting, physical inventories, stock integrity, and inventory systems across locations.
- • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, putaway, counting, and issuing inventory.
- • Plan, develop, or implement inventory control, safety, and security programs and activities.
- • Inspect physical conditions of storage locations, racking, and inventory handling equipment and order maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
- • Plan, organize, or manage the work of inventory control and warehouse staff to meet accuracy and service targets.
- • Collaborate with procurement, production, sales, and finance to integrate inventory control with ERP, MRP, order management, and accounting processes.
- • Analyze inventory performance to determine cost-effective stocking policies, replenishment methods, and slotting strategies.
- • Resolve discrepancies related to counts, system records, lot or serial tracing, returns, or customer inventory issues.
- • Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, putaway, picking, cycle counts, physical inventories, and adjustments.
- • Monitor operations to ensure compliance with inventory procedures, safety rules, quality standards, and regulatory or audit requirements.
- • Analyze the financial impact of inventory changes, such as safety stock, order quantities, product mix, write-offs, or reserves.
- • Monitor inventory levels, availability, and aging to prevent stockouts, excess, or obsolescence.
- • Establish or monitor inventory KPIs, such as accuracy, turns, days on hand, service level, and shrink.
- • Prepare and manage the inventory control budget.
- • Oversee compliance with import or export recordkeeping, lot control, and regulatory traceability as applicable.
- • Prepare management recommendations on stocking policies, reorder points, cycle count frequencies, or slotting changes.
- • Interview, select, and train inventory control, cycle count, and warehouse personnel.
- • Advise sales, customer service, and finance on inventory availability, allocations, reserves, and adjustments.
- • Analyze expenditures and inventory carrying costs to develop plans, policies, or budgets that improve turns, accuracy, and service.
- • Confer with department heads to coordinate production schedules, purchasing, and fulfillment around inventory constraints.
- • Implement specific customer requirements, such as consignment, vendor-managed inventory, internal reporting, or customized inventory metrics.
- • Maintain inventory metrics, reports, cycle count records, adjustment logs, root-cause analyses, and training or safety records.
- • Examine inventory transactions, invoices, and documentation for conformity to internal controls and audit standards.
- • Plan or implement efficiency and sustainability improvements in inventory handling, slotting, packaging, or materials movement.
- • Evaluate suppliers, third-party logistics providers, or service partners for inventory accuracy, safety, and compliance performance.
- • Negotiate service levels and fees with 3PLs, inventory service providers, or audit firms.
- • Develop or implement plans for storage layout, racking, bin locations, and material handling equipment to optimize space and accuracy.
- • Direct inbound receipt, putaway, inventory control, and outbound allocation processes to meet accuracy, safety, and cycle-time targets.
- • Plan or implement improvements to ERP or MRP item masters, BOMs, and inventory control processes or system integrations.
- • Recommend or authorize capital expenditures for inventory systems, scanners, scales, or storage equipment to increase efficiency and accuracy.
- • Review demand forecasts, work orders, consumption reports, and variances to plan counts, replenishment, and labor assignments.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
