Administration - Inventory Analyst

BlueLinx • San Antonio, TX

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About The Position

The Inventory Control Administrator is responsible for balancing inventory with demand, monitoring available materials, and ensuring inventory accuracy. The role works with sales, operations, dispatch, logistics, yard and warehouse personnel, and the Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) System Planner to support customer deliveries, inventory control, and remanufacturing production.

The position verifies and amends daily logistics routes, communicates routes to sales staff, and incorporates order changes and exceptions into driver routes. It monitors inventory levels, supports product availability while minimizing inventory costs, maintains accurate inventory records, and conducts cycle counts and physical inventory reconciliations. The role also supports work order accuracy, material readiness and follow-up for remanufacturing, processing and costing remanufactured orders, coordinating truck and trailer movements, dispatching tire repair and roadside service, and reporting inventory controls to the Operations Manager and GM.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the OTM System Planner to verify and amend the branch’s daily logistics routes.
• Work with sales and operations to ensure customer orders are routed appropriately and route changes or exceptions are included in the following day’s driver routes.
• Communicate daily routes to sales staff.
• Analyze inventory levels and work with sales staff to support product availability and minimize inventory costs.
• Perform regular cycle counts and make inventory adjustments when necessary.
• Identify and process damaged inventory according to BlueLinx processes and procedures.
• Maintain accurate records of inventory levels and locations.
• Balance inventory daily with yard and warehouse personnel and adjust records to match physical counts.
• Assist yard and warehouse staff in locating items with incorrect locations or inventory numbers.
• Ensure work orders are correct and fully completed and that stock is allocated to the correct job.
• Collaborate with sales staff to revise production schedules when material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions occur.
• Ensure materials are ready and available for remanufacturing production.
• Follow up on materials holding up remanufacturing production until they are received.
• Process remanufacturing orders after material is released from Reman and cost the finished product.
• Participate in physical inventories and reconcile inventory records for a complete and accurate count.
• Coordinate drop-off and pick-up of trucks and trailers in and out of the shop.
• Dispatch tire repair and roadside service as needed.
• Communicate with drivers about delivery discrepancies.
• Adjust delivery routes in coordination with the Route Planner.
• Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly inventory control reports to the Operations Manager and GM.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed