Title: Purchasing & Inventory Control Analyst

Reports to: Corporate Inventory Manager

Description

This analyst is responsible for end-to-end purchasing and inventory control for assigned suppliers and/or product groups, supporting 11 branch warehouses in VA, NC, and SC. Responsible for purchase order, on-time delivery performance, surplus, fill rate, and dead stock management. Identifies root causes of misses to KPI targets (including but not limited to Fill Rate, Turns, and dead stock allowance) and implements appropriate corrective actions to achieve recovery to targets and goals. Requires strong collaboration with our sales and supplier relations teams.

Responsibilities

1. Purchasing: Supplier PO creation and management of assigned portion of EECO assortment, executing their purchasing work within the provided budgetary metrics.

2. Inventory Control: Monitoring performance metrics, communication of issues, maintain system settings for location/items within their assigned portion of EECO assortment.

3. Supplier Management: Monitoring assigned supplier’s performance against targets, collaboration with the sales team and procurement & vendor relations manager to solve fill rate and on time delivery issues.

4. Program Ownership: Participation in ERP system efficiency reviews, identifying opportunities for adjustment and creation of new BI reporting, and establishing/ sharing out best practices with other analysts.

Position Requirements:

1. BA/BS in business, supply chain management, industrial distribution, industrial engineering, or a related field is preferred.

2. 5+ years’ experience in purchasing experience in B2B wholesale distribution or similar industry.

3. Applied experience with purchasing and inventory control activities, working directly with sales, supplier relations, and operations teams.

4. Applied experience with ERP replenishment systems (EPICORE/P21), working with processes in areas of purchasing, inventory control, warehouse, and supplier system integrations.

5. High proficiency in analytics, working with complex spreadsheets and business intelligence reporting tools such as Power BI.

6. CPSM, CPSD, CPIM, CSCP certifications are desired.

Detailed Description

Purchasing:

1. Managing supplier po creation and maintenance

2. Monitoring supplier’s fill rates and on time delivery performance

3. Collaboration with the Sales Team and the Procurement/Supplier Relations manager to resolve any issues in supplier performance.

4. Ensuring that inbound costs (supplier po’s) are reconciled against provided budgets and collaborating with the Corporate Inventory Manager to identify solutions to discrepancies.

Inventory Control

1. Monitoring performance metrics (Turn, DSI, OH%, Customer PO Fill rates, etc.) and resolving any target misses through collaboration with the IC Analyst and Corporate Inventory Manager.

2. System maintenance for location/item combo settings

3. Identifying usage trends to inform location/item settings and required purchasing actions (collaboration with Sales)

4. Implement policies and controls to enforce company-wide procurement guidelines, ensuring compliance across inventory and sales teams.

5. Location/Inventory balancing (WHSE XFR)

6. Supplier Returns

Supplier Management

1. Analyze supplier performance for fill rate, lead time, shipping accuracy, and other metrics to mutually agreed-upon targets.

2. Collaboration with the Sales Team and the Procurement & vendor relations manager to resolve in target misses.

Program Ownership

1. Participation in ERP system efficiency design.

2. Identifying opportunities for adjustment of current and creation of new BI reporting.

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