Distribution Clerk Job Description
Distribution Clerk Duties & Responsibilities
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Distribution Clerk Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Distribution Clerk
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Education for Distribution Clerk
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Employers hiring for the distribution clerk job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in General Education, Education, Management, Computer, Math, Associates, Accounting, Graduate, Supervision, Business/Management
Skills for Distribution Clerk
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Distribution Clerk Examples
Distribution Clerk Job Description
- Review digital pictures from the previous day shipments and assign the appropriate job number
- Communicate with the Inventory Control Team
- The Distribution Clerical processes paperwork associated with the shipping and receiving of goods and provides administrative support for the Distribution Center when needed
- Schedule appointments for deliveries if necessary
- Provide administrative support for projects
- Run daily reports for the Operations Department
- Gather, maintain, and file all data and records relative to the distribution center operations
- Answer and screen telephone calls, respond to inquiries, and re-route inquiries to appropriate staff
- Ensure that the warehouse is consistently clean
- Responsible for receiving/delivery of product
- Able to analysis sales information and make fact based decisions
- Must be committed to providing great service to our stores
- Pick up of recycling
- Delivery and/or pick up of product
- Prepare shipping documents & labels
- Previous experience in an administrative and/or coordinator role
Distribution Clerk Job Description
- Perform jam recoveries, restarts and reruns
- Print training manuals
- Package manuals and ship to trainers
- Secure storage of supplies
- Respond promptly and pleasantly to customer requests
- Call appropriate vendors for rental equipment, when needed, and ensure complete tracking from receipt to unit delivery
- Collect, sort, and appropriate disposal of recyclable materials and protected health information
- Conduct accurate inventory counts and data entry utilizing current department technological tools
- Identify damaged or outdated supplies and remove them from inventory, deliver them to the Supervisor or Inventory Control Specialist
- Maintain fiscal accountability through constant vigilance
- Remove all external shipping and packing materials from supplies and dispose of those materials promptly and appropriately
- Maintain cleanliness of all work areas
- Finger and hand dexterity is very important
- Collect, package, and process all outgoing corporate mail and shipments from the main corporate campus both off-site offices
- Stock and maintain inventory of corporate break rooms and copy rooms
- Fulfill and deliver corporate employee requests for office supplies provide other various mailroom services
Distribution Clerk Job Description
- Responsible for logging and safety of equipment
- Responsible for logging of improvements of all equipment
- Responsible to communicate with management on any problems needing attention
- Reports damaged/suspicious activity of equipment to management
- The Refurb processes paperwork associated with the shipping and receiving of goods and provides administrative support for the Refurbwhen needed
- Run daily reports for the Refurb Department
- Gather, maintain, and file all data and records relative to the refurb center operations
- Answer and screen telephone calls, respond to inquiries
- Work with bin locators
- Receive containers
- Able to operate of a forklift
- Involvement in Sarbanes-Oxley internal documentation, testing, and process change management involving operations
- Report and communicate with several levels of management
- Protect organization’s value by maintaining confidentiality of information
- Experience with Voice Pick equipment in a Warehouse - Preferred
- Experience with RF Scan or other equipment in a Warehouse - Preferred
Distribution Clerk Job Description
- ASN reports
- Maintain focus on elimination of backorders
- Schedule pick ups
- Maintain open order reports through order inquiry and transfer tickets review
- Process orders and enter information regarding all receiving and material movements
- Routinely answer inquires from carriers regarding shipment status
- Maintain current filing systems
- Use computer to process, file and organize vendor paperwork and billing information
- Compile, maintain and run work reports using Microsoft Office
- Follow all standard operating procedures and guidelines to ensure compliance with applicable policy, practices and regulatory requirements including OSHA
- Previous record of satisfactory work history
- Mature approach, pragmatic, tenacious with attention to detail
- Assertive, can do, makes things happen attitude
- Passionate and creative thinker, able to translate to pragmatic solutions
- Ability to learn and push yourself to progress with the company
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management staff
Distribution Clerk Job Description
- Play active role in all safety activities including housekeeping
- Be a positive safety role model
- Audit and reconcile receipt of all inbound to insure accuracy of process and material
- Audit and reconcile shipment of all outbound to insure accuracy of process and material
- Participate in monthly and quarterly in-house audits and inventories of customer raw materials and finished goods
- Enter and insure accuracy of BOL and receipt information into customer(s) portals
- Communicate to customers/ vendors via numerous methods shipment detail, spreadsheets info, chep pallet transfers
- Provide back-up support to Receiving Coordinator
- Scan documents into Laser Fiche
- Enter receipts and create Inventory tags for inbound receipts
- Knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Skill in oral and written communication delegation of work assignments
- Ability to perform data entry tasks
- Ability to react in a professional manner with department heads, nurse managers, supervisors, , when dealing with conflict over materiel distribution issues
- Set up Ship Orders in ICS
- Check in and document parcel shipments