43 Procurement - Inventory Specialist

Land O'Frost•Madisonville, KY

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Become part of an essential team that produces best-selling and trusted brands of lunchmeat and specialty sausage products. We offer full-time set schedules with generous health care benefits, 401K, tuition reimbursement, and paid time off. Land O’Frost has the right opportunity for you. JOB SUMMARY: The Inventory Specialist is responsible for maintaining accurate, real-time inventory levels across RTE, AG, GMP, and warehouse materials while ensuring materials integrity throughout the plant. This role supports transaction accuracy within IFS, enforces FIFO procedures, conducts structured cycle counts, manages retained materials through MRB, supports purchasing and reporting functions and supports Raw when needed. The Inventory Specialist plays a critical role in protecting financial accuracy, supporting procurement processes, ensuring audit readiness, and driving continuous inventory and material control improvements.

Requirements

High school diploma required
Strong computer literacy required.
ERP experience required
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Ability to work independently.
Strong math and analytical skills
Strong verbal & written communication and mathematical skills; must be able to effectively communicate.

Nice To Haves

associate degree preferred
Experience in inventory control, warehouse operations, materials management, or procurement support preferred.
IFS experience preferred.
Experience with Novacura preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain accurate inventory levels across all direct and non-direct materials.
Perform daily, weekly, monthly, and year-end cycle counts and physical inventories.
Reconcile physical counts to IFS system balances.
Maintain ≥98% inventory accuracy.
Investigate, document, and resolve inventory discrepancies promptly.
Perform inventory adjustments in IFS for spices, casings, labels, film, cases, clips, GMP materials, and miscellaneous items.
Develop and maintain structured cycle count systems for weekly and monthly inventory verification.
Count GMP items ordered by procurement.
Ensure all inventory transactions are entered accurately and in real time in IFS and/or Novacura.
Validate scrap, transfers, adjustments, manual entries, and dump dispositions (with management approval).
Perform scrap transactions once approved.
Receive purchased materials in IFS.
File and upload incoming receiving documentation into IFS.
Assist with month-end and year-end reconciliation.
Enforce First-In, First-Out (FIFO) procedures.
Monitor material aging, shelf-life, and expiration.
Maintain retained materials (film, zipper, spices, casings, clips, and other direct materials) utilizing the MRB system in IFS.
Assist with entering MRBs in IFS.
Coordinate material disposition processes in partnership with leadership.
Improve and maintain warehouse organization and labeling standards.
Maintain clear identification of rework and GMP materials.
Track CHEP pallets and general pallet inventories.
Monitor empty tote balances and material flow accuracy.
Support audit readiness and QA material traceability requirements.
Generate daily, weekly, and monthly inventory and AG reports (clips, loops, boxes, zippers, film, labels, glue, tape, etc.).
Track scrap trends, usage discrepancies, and adjustment patterns.
Monitor inventory turns and slow-moving materials.
Communicate consistently with supervisors and managers to resolve discrepancies quickly.