Inventory Job Description
Inventory Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective inventory job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included inventory job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Inventory Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Inventory
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, CSCP, CPIM, NAPM, SAP, CPSM, OSHA, LSS, CIRM, CIPM
Education for Inventory
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the inventory job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Business, Education, Management, Accounting, Technical, Finance, Associates, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business/Administration
Skills for Inventory
Desired skills for inventory include:
Desired experience for inventory includes:
Inventory Examples
Inventory Job Description
- Able to backfill for other inventory control personnel as needed
- Maintain a clean workable stock room designed for efficiency in locating parts
- Knowledgeable of computer systems and making accurate data entries in accordance with established procedures
- Will use a forklift to move/lift inventory for counts
- Processing sorted mail from Sorting and Special Processing departments
- Ensure quality assurance when stamping batches and attaching headers
- Ensure proper delivery of batches to scanners
- Understand how inventory is purchased, received, handled, and picked
- Must be able to analyze information gathered in order to identify potential problems or discrepancies
- Communicate with other departments to eliminate discrepancies
- Be able to work without supervision
- Compressor knowledge
- Managed up 10 people in warehouse
- Count merchandise in stock and posts totals to inventory records
- Generate reports such as inventory balance or shortages
- Prepare lists of depleted items and recommends survey of defective or unusable items
Inventory Job Description
- May be assigned facilities housekeeping and maintenance duties as needed, such as sweeping, wiping, dusting, cleaning, and mopping
- Taking a detailed inventory of products within the warehouse
- Ability to quickly navigate the warehouse and where products are staged
- Ability to take direction in other areas as assigned
- Responsible for issuing, storing and control of components in stockroom necessary for smooth operation of production
- Conduct regular Cycle Counts of Inventory
- Identify and Correct inventory discrepancies
- Use of Warehouse Management System for all inventory functions
- Daily Cycle counting
- Processes inventory adjustments
- Excellent track record of attendance and reliability
- Eagerness to learn and grow within a company
- Must have prior forklift experience/certification
- Grab the small cart along with totes
- Select your stamps (HCFA multi, Bad Original, etc)
- Prep processed claims for scanning
Inventory Job Description
- Prepares inventory labels
- Identify damaged items and remove from inventory
- Work effectively with all departments to meet material requirements in support of Production Customer Service
- Assist receiving, checking in merchandise, opening containers matching to purchase orders for processing
- Rotate stock to assure first in, first out (FIFO) flow of inventory
- Efficiently pick customers’ orders for shipments, ensuring that the correct number and type of product is picked
- Assembling orders for shipment
- Carrying or transporting orders to shipping location with handling equipment
- Tagging or marking shipments as requested
- Repacking and weighing any orders that require such handling and report any quality variances
- Walk through the aisles grab the corresponding sort type and stamp the PO Box
- Create scanning or keyable cover sheets
- Ability to use a hand-held scanning tool
- Able to stand/walk extended about of time
- Space recognition
- Ability to print labels
Inventory Job Description
- Ability to stand for long periods of time and keep up with production flow
- Requisitioning parts
- Putting parts away
- Assist maintenance and engineering team in locating parts
- Obtain quotes to order parts
- Labeling parts
- Stand for 6 to 8 hours
- Counting and managing inventory
- Conduct product counts
- Documentation of inventory counts
- Forklift Experience is a PLUS (Sit Down, Stand Up, Cherry Picker)
- Previous warehouse, general labor, shipping receiving, and or stocking experience is a PLUS
- Inventory management experience is a PLUS
- Replenishment and returns experience is a PLUS
- Wine industry experience is a PLUS
- Must have an inventory background
Inventory Job Description
- Utilization of computer programs for inventory tracking
- Updating records as needed and ensuring accuracy
- Operate industrial lift truck and order picker
- Using documenting procedures to accurately display inventory data
- Moving materials when needed
- Keeping the product organized according to standards
- Other duties if assigned by supervisor
- Accurately enter and/or print transfers
- Accurately Complete Cycle counts
- Accurately process non-conformance's that pertain to inventory
- Must be familiar with computers/able to navigate with ease
- Must be able to lift up to 50lbs regularly throughout the day
- Must pass drug screen and background checks
- Minimum two to three years related experience required preferably in transportation, logistics, inventory control or materials management
- Willingness to consent to drug screen and background check
- Comfortable working in a production environment and meeting deadlines