Job Title: Inventory Analyst
Location: Buffalo, NY. 
Contract length: 6 to 8 months
Schedule: 40 hrs/week
Pay: $20/hr to $22.75/hr, DOE

The Planet Group is looking for an Inventory Analyst to join our well-known food manufacturer brand on a contract for six to eight months. The Inventory Analyst will be responsible for reconciling finished goods inventory between the company and third party warehouses, ensuring accuracy of quantities and product status (Good/Blocked/QA). The role includes auditing source documents and EDI transactions for timely and correct posting. The Inventory Analyst also supports product withdrawals, recalls, and track and trace activities, and plays a key role in the QA hold process to ensure product safety.

Job Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in business or related field 
•    1+ year business experience to include customer service
•    Strong written and verbal communications skills
•    Ability use analytical skills to solve problems
•    Strong organizational skills
•    SAP experience is preferred (ECC and/or S4 Hana).

Job Responsibilities:
•    Responsible for processing corporate holds of finished goods with third party warehouses, ensuring product is secure and not available for customer shipments. The inventory analyst serves as the central point of contact for the warehouses regarding product holds which includes tracing product that shipped out to customers and communicating this to all levels within the organization. Safety issues can occur at any time, prioritizing this accountability is critical to the success in the role. •    Hold requirements are communicated to the warehouse for product placed on hold, take confirmation of product hold and provide instructions to warehouses regarding disposition of hold product.    
•    FDA holds and driving timely release of inventory.
•    Execute disposition of hold and destroyed products process within disposable costs parameters and according to company guidelines including documentation, coordination with departments, and reconciliation of accounts.
•    Provide track and trace reports to account for all cases produced within a given timeframe.
•    Post shipments, receipts, and adjustments in SAP
•    Resolve EDI errors and work with our EDI team to identify and resolve EDI gaps.
•    Audit electronic and manual warehouse transactional activities.
•    Investigate and resolve orders that have not been shipped/ received in system to ensure customer invoices are accurate and posted timely.
•    Maintain inventory accuracy of third-party warehouses.
•    Complete inventory reconciliation within appropriate timeline Daily, weekly, monthly.
•    Identify and resolve inventory discrepancies within SAP and the 3PL website.
•    Lead efforts to minimize error rates of orders/ shipments, minimize error rate through analysis. Conduct audit analysis by type, frequency and magnitude and make recommendations to improve performance.
•    Ability to articulate issues with clarity, in both written and verbal format.