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Ashley Furniture Industries · 4 months ago

Inventory Analyst

Arcadia, WI

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Ashley Furniture Industries is the largest manufacturer of home furnishings in the world, and they are seeking an Inventory Analyst to join their Supply Chain Planning Team. The role involves ensuring product availability in distribution centers, generating and analyzing inventory reports, and communicating with various internal customers to maintain inventory levels that meet customer demands.

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Responsibilities

Use the Supply Chain Management System to ensure product availability in Ashley’s Distribution Centers

Create new transfer orders and amend existing transfer orders to maintain sufficient inventory levels necessary to meet projected sales demands

Determine appropriate warehouse destination and transfer quantities

Balance inventory levels throughout the Distribution Centers to ensure we have complete sets available for resale

Communicate with a wide variety of internal customers such as distribution center management, Ashley Distribution (ADS), Customer Service, Supply Chain, etc

Generate and analyze inventory reports; determine items and quantities to be transferred to ensure optimal warehouse inventory levels that deliver the desired customer satisfaction rates based on cost and service levels

Accurately enter inventory transactions, such as overages, shortages, damages, returns and cycle count adjustments, into computer database

Identify severe inventory conditions that will adversely affect customer satisfaction and communicate these conditions to management; make recommendations for solutions

Make and/or recommend transportation mode changes based on product availability and customer demand to maintain a high-in-stock percentage rate and high level of customer satisfaction

Recommend container destination changes on imported products to reduce overall transportation and warehousing costs

Create, update, save and distribute multiple reports and department Key Process Indicators (KPIs) on a regular basis to support the Supply Chain Planning team and upper management

Evaluate the reliability of the supply chain flow to ensure product availability

Contribute to the planning of long- and short-term business objectives and make recommendations for process improvements

Assist in developing, monitoring and maintaining standard operating procedures

Demonstrate the Company’s Core and Growth Values in the performance of all job functions