Inventory Management Coordinator

Medline Industries, LP•REMOTE- Illinois, IL

1d•$25 - $36•Hybrid

About The Position

This role ensures that the inventory levels for all items in the branches are properly assigned to the individual and maintained at acceptable levels, while minimizing supply chain costs to achieve fill rate standards. This role is a predominantly work-from-home position. However, candidate must reside within a reasonable distance from our Northfield, IL office or Mundelein, IL office.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent
At least 2 years related experience with Supply Planning, Materials Requirements Planning or related field.
Experience using inventory or supply planning systems
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft business products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, others)
Ability to analyze data and clearly communicate results and recommended actions to various different levels of the organization
Ability to work effectively with various stakeholders with differing opinions, and balance trade-offs while focusing on results

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Mathematics, Applied Statistics, or related field
Previous experience using SAP
Knowledge of database application(s) such as Access
Experience with BI or data visualization applications such as Tableau or Power BI
Experience in healthcare or medical supplies manufacturing or distribution
APICS CPIM or CSCP certification.

Responsibilities

Manage stock levels at a branch level in conjunction with Demand planning, Buyer teams, and Product Managers to help ensure customer demand is satisfied.
Have knowledge of the IM buying process, including requisitions, forecasting and the relationship between vendor lead times, demand, and safety stock
Monitor and track inventory levels, service levels, surplus/obsolete inventory, vendor performance, and any other relevant KPIs to identify variance from goals.
Use all available resources to analyze root causes and recommend possible actions to improve KPI results.
Identify and understand the relationship of the various stock levels in branches and identifying (executing) potential stock rebalancing to help mitigate customer backorders
Tasks will include vendor PO creation, vendor PO follow-up and resolution of vendor issues, and detailed review of inventory levels for current stocked items in a branch.
Participate in process improvement projects to drive better efficiencies and yield improvement in KPIs
Work with Inbound Operations team on urgent vendor shipments.
Work with Medline divisions on inventory health status.
Customer level inventory preparedness of new prime vendor distribution deals that are launching in your assigned branch.
Root cause backorder analysis on new prime vendor and established account inventory outages.
Collaboration and partnership with key stakeholders in sales and implementation.