Inventory Control Analyst

Greene Tweed • Kulpsville, PA

23h

About The Position

At Greene, Tweed, you'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success. If you enjoy continuous learning and are excited about working with and creating technological solutions, explore career opportunities with Greene, Tweed. Essential Duties/Responsibilities: Support the development and implementation of a robust cycle counting process through standard work in the SAP / S4-Hana ERP environment. Conduct monthly planned counts, scheduled and managed daily, coordinate with the various functional areas regarding standard workflow and accounting for operational demands. Coordinate with various teams at all levels to communicate plans and expectations for the cycle counting process. Coordinate with management on planning strategies to achieve a 100% cycle count of all inventory bin locations, capturing all materials counted over a calendar year. Work closely with Inventory, Warehouse, Finance, Production, Quality, and Methods to deliver these actions, and provide value added feedback on discrepancies. Deliver daily reporting of counts, discrepancies, and accuracy, along with longitudinal analysis of all data to seek trends and develop corrective actions. Perform root cause analysis actions to determine failure modes, identify top offenders, and provide recommendations and corrective action through daily bridging of gaps in the process. Provide data collection to be reported daily / monthly and contribute to the development and maintenance of KPIs for this role. Act as a trainer and develop super-user status in SAP / S4-Hana to be the champion of inventory integrity. Identify where inventory actions are resulting in errors, and allow for improvement through training, BOM validation, timely transactions, and material handling practices. Execute inventory related improvement initiatives to help reduce discrepancies, safeguard inventory value, and increase cost visibility of the cost of business at Greene Tweed. Provide oversight to required actions that remove obsolete inventory from stock, physically and virtually as directed by Supply Chain and Finance. Identify, solicit and gain support within departments based on identified goals and targets. Deliver on standard work initiatives to ensure delivered results.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent experience required
• 2-4 years’ experience in a warehouse / inventory setting.
• Distribution, or inventory leadership experience working with varied levels of hourly and salary teams.
• Proven ability to analyze data and processes to determine root cause and corrective actions.
• Manage through ambiguity and investigate complex scenarios that involve looking beyond the surface.
• The ability to interact with other departments and influence their actions to adopt proper behaviors to drive standard work and inventory integrity.
• Ability to learn the S4-Hana process functions and act as a trainer for the various departments that will be interacting with inventory activities.
• Ability to work on their own with little direction or direct supervision.
• A good communicator, who is not afraid to reveal underlying issues and make recommendations on actions.
• Capable of organizing data into tables, charts, graphs to interpret and communicate information.
• Able to travel (domestic & international) 25 – 50% varying based on demand.
• This position requires U.S. Person status as defined by applicable law for authorized access to data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). A U.S. Person includes U.S. Citizens, U.S. Nationals, lawful permanent residents, and workers granted refugee or asylum status in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of a robust cycle counting process through standard work in the SAP / S4-Hana ERP environment.
• Conduct monthly planned counts, scheduled and managed daily, coordinate with the various functional areas regarding standard workflow and accounting for operational demands.
• Coordinate with various teams at all levels to communicate plans and expectations for the cycle counting process.
• Coordinate with management on planning strategies to achieve a 100% cycle count of all inventory bin locations, capturing all materials counted over a calendar year.
• Work closely with Inventory, Warehouse, Finance, Production, Quality, and Methods to deliver these actions, and provide value added feedback on discrepancies.
• Deliver daily reporting of counts, discrepancies, and accuracy, along with longitudinal analysis of all data to seek trends and develop corrective actions.
• Perform root cause analysis actions to determine failure modes, identify top offenders, and provide recommendations and corrective action through daily bridging of gaps in the process.
• Provide data collection to be reported daily / monthly and contribute to the development and maintenance of KPIs for this role.
• Act as a trainer and develop super-user status in SAP / S4-Hana to be the champion of inventory integrity.
• Identify where inventory actions are resulting in errors, and allow for improvement through training, BOM validation, timely transactions, and material handling practices.
• Execute inventory related improvement initiatives to help reduce discrepancies, safeguard inventory value, and increase cost visibility of the cost of business at Greene Tweed.
• Provide oversight to required actions that remove obsolete inventory from stock, physically and virtually as directed by Supply Chain and Finance.
• Identify, solicit and gain support within departments based on identified goals and targets.
• Deliver on standard work initiatives to ensure delivered results.

Benefits

• eligible employees with a competitive benefits package that includes health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401k savings plan, life and disability insurance, tuition assistance and more, to meet the diverse needs of all employees and their family members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED