Inventory​/Purchasing Analyst

Summary

In this role you will be responsible to perform and report a variety of analysis such as inventory discrepancies, excess or obsolete inventory, freight costs, and unavailable inventory. You will also be in charge of maintaining costs updated according to latest purchases.

• Maintain information on all stocking items and vendor information, including costs, in our ERP system.
• Set up and maintain new part numbers as needed.

• Monitor the timeliness of cost updates.
• Analyze and explain PPV variations at month end.

• Conduct and coordinate weekly cycle counts on all locations.
• Analyze and report results.
• Enter inventory adjustments within a maximum of 8 days after completing the inventory count.
• Recommend changes, upgrades, or policies to correct generated differences.
• Prepare and send communications to each store with significant differences and expected completion dates.

• Monitor and process Carrier and RCD invoices with differences in price or quantity.
• Monitor orders not received 30 days past the expected receive date.
• Prepare and monitor claims related to these suppliers.
• Update claim status.
• Coordinate monthly meetings to review the status of the Carrier account.

• Monitor the aging of Icron items.
• Develop policies and procedures for purchase and processing of Icron items.
• Conduct monthly or weekly reviews of Icron as needed.
• Move items to regular inventory when determined they will not be sold.
• Provide weekly reports on aging.
• Contact owners and obtain commitments to action plans.
• Coordinate the annual physical inventory.
• Develop location reports including order and item codes.

• Perform permanent review of account 4000.
• Investigate and process inventory adjustments.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of adjustments.

• Weekly review and follow‑up to completion of outstanding issues related to operations such as negative inventory and zero cost items.
• Address price variations.
• Handle returns.

• Review and approve margin hold for all segments.
• Perform activity on a daily or weekly basis.
• Contact order owners or managers for explanations of differences.

• Keep a log of all freight expenses by vendor and purchase orders placed by all vendors.
• Analyze freight logs to calculate freight factor per vendor, twice a year or as needed.

• Review and analyze ESD (excess, slow, and damaged) inventory.
• Host and present results in weekly meetings.

• Monthly review, follow‑up, and investigation of unavailable inventory reports to set month‑end reserve.
• Investigate and process warranty expenses in unavailable inventory.
• Monitor the collection and elimination of unavailable inventory from stores.