Inventory and Purchasing Assistant
Key Responsibilities:
- Process and manage purchase orders, ensuring accuracy, timely submission, and follow-up
- Maintain strong vendor relationships through regular communication, performance monitoring, and resolution of procurement-related issues.
- Conduct regular inventory assessments, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing surplus.
- Collaborate closely with internal departments, including production, logistics, and finance, ensuring alignment across purchasing processes.
- Monitors and maintains current inventory and safety stock levels; tracks purchase orders and investigates problems.
- Records purchases and usage, maintains database, performs physical count of inventory and reconciles stock count to computer generated reports.
- Inspect shipments and shipping documents for damage, correct quantities and delivery dates.
- Match shipments to their associated purchase orders and enter receiving data on paperwork.
- Label, prepare and organize received stock for inventory.
- Perform monthly inventories and provide count data.
- Manage courier packages incoming and outgoing. (FedEx, UPS)
- Return damaged products to senders