Distribution Center Inventory Coordinator

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The companys portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.

At Post Consumer Brands, weve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and, more recently, pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, weve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.

This phase is still new, and thats what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, were looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

Northfield, Minn. is home to two Post Consumer Brands manufacturing plants, the Campbell Mill and Ames Mill, two distribution centers, and more than 750 team members. The Campbell Mill plant is 1 million square feet and is home to 7 manufacturing technologies to produce a wide variety of cereal products our customers know and love. Northfield is a town steeped in history, featuring two colleges and the original Ames Mill where the Malt-O-Meal Company got its start. 

JOB FUNCTION

This individual serves as an expert in Warehousing Policies and Procedures, Warehousing Setup, System Testing, and Deployment for all Post Consumer Brands Distribution Centers. Individual will have the technical expertise and knowledge to understand and troubleshoot all warehousing related systems with the ability to create best practices as well as train and coach others. Responsibilities may include interacting with visitors to the Northfield DC campus, monitoring restricted Inventory within the campus DCs, accountability for all Northfield campus DCs & Production site wooden pallet inventories & the replenishment of, assisting QA & Customer Solutions with the tracking & disposition/disposal of aged & wasted items, greet & direct all outbound/inbound over the road drivers & process all necessary paperwork (BOLs/Pack slips/etc.), troubleshoots inventory discrepancies with the Accounting group . This individual must possess strong interpersonal skills & excellent multitasking abilities.

JOB ACTIVITIES/DUTIES

1. Customer Focus
1. Inventory Accuracy
2. Quality Control and Compliance
3. Coordinate and investigate inventory and shipping inquiries made by warehouse personnel.
4. Prepare and distribute warehouse reports requested by warehouse supervisor, warehouse personnel, production, QA, and etc.
5. Provide explanations on how to interpret transactional information.
6. Investigate inventory questions and discrepancies posed by internal (Accounting/Quality) customers, and take corrective action if needed
7. Monitor and maintain all inventories for all campus wooden pallets including GMA White Wood, CHEP. Reorder as needed. CHEP pallets are rented and transactions must be done on the website to transfer them out of our inventory and move them out to our customer sites as shipped. Fulfill Key Performance Metrics
2. Technical/Functional Expertise 
1. Strategy - Assist in development / implementation of processes and procedures to support and improve DC office operations. When efficient processes have been set up, pass along same data to other DCs to help them out.
1. Evaluate and make recommendations related to space utilization in campus DCs that store aged/wasted items.
2. Identify and maintain methods to streamline office procedures.
3. Be the key Warehousing partner for all testing scenarios. Utilize WMS and other applications to successfully test different IT scenarios for implementation of projects.
2. Tools - Maintain an excellent knowledge of related applications to support warehouse operations.
1. High Jump Advantage Dashboard.
2. High Jump Web terminal.
3. Cosmos
4. PY systems (testing systems)
5. Hyland Onbase
6. BlueJay
7. AFO
8. Microsoft Office tools.
9. JD Edwards
10. OTM
11. Microsoft Office 365
12. Supertool
3. Daily Execution
1. Work with inbound drivers and office staff to facilitate trailer placement at various campus DCs or yard storage locations.
2. Validate carrier pick up information, correct forms are filled out and completed, and print appropriate Bill of Lading for outbound shipments.
3. Communicate to incoming Customer Pick-Up carriers PCB internal safety policies and procedures prior to loading and allowing on PCB loading docks.

1. Maintain and communicate all company inventory control policies, practices and procedures within all facilities
2. Responsible for identifying the training needs related to inventory control for each facility and scheduling appropriate trainers to roll out the proper training
3. Maintain an excellent knowledge of related applications to support warehouse operations (High Jump, JD Edwards, OTM, etc.), monitors warehouse JDE transactions to ensure inventory between systems stay in sync. Makes required adjustments as necessary.
4. Identify and lead research around inventory related problems, resolve issues, finds root causes, and develop solutions with cross functional teams. Identify opportunities to improve procedural flows and/or reduce variation
5. Act as subject matter expert, super user, training developer or trainer as assigned for inventory movement, cycle counts and inventory control process
6. Track, report and communicate Key Performance Indicators, perform root cause analysis, demonstrate continuous improvement and follow-up on action plans in the inventory control process
7. Noncompliant/Hold/Quarantine - Monitors product statuses in all warehouses to support business operations. Gathers are required data in the effort to capture all product in any efforts to identify and place product on hold in the event of a product retrieval.

1. All shipped bills of lading must be scanned onto the Hyland OnBase daily. Audit documents and input manual data for BOLs without Ship dates.
2. Order office supplies as needed by office coworkers and/or warehouse staff.
3. Deal with damaged cases of cereal which might go to “Take Home”, go to waste and which cases go to Channel One as a donation.
4. Check out invalid LPs at various sites and notify manufacturing site as needed to solve problem.
5. Maintain Excel spreadsheets containing various data, pallet log, damaged case food shelf loads, Customer Pickups, Invalid/MISSHIP LPs, Pallet Log, etc.
6. Process accumulated data at month end and transmit findings to appropriate personnel as requested.
7. Make adjustments on web terminal as needed for damaged cases, food shelf loads, etc.
8. Make adjustments to Receipts from Vendor loads.
9. Review noncompliance and quarantined items for accurate timely dispositions of product.
10. Maintain logs for Driver Check in, Outbound load pickup, after Hours Load pickup and Inbound Empty Trailers.
11. Communicate with Purchasing about outsourced manufactured goods with external vendors.
12. Order Waste feed trailers and Cardboard trailers for DC locations in Northfield.
13. Maintain filing of Outbound and Inbound BOLs to hold for the required period of time.
14. Create generic LPs for warehouse personnel and for outsourced manufactured goods that we receive in.
15. Use OTM to determine which facility is preparing and shipping loads. This aids us when a driver shows for a load which in not ready for shipment.
16. Learning the functions of OTM and JDE to gather information that we had once used COSMOS for.
17. Answer phones and assist callers. Direct calls to Dispatch to set up CPU appointments. Direct calls to individuals when needed
1. Key Performance Metrics
1. Pallet Inventory
2. Excess Aged / Waste Inventory
1. Results - Meet key metrics.
1. Analyze
1. Evaluate and identify inventory discrepancies, while continually monitoring compliance
2. Evaluate demonstrated performance against targeted performance and identify opportunities to lessen any gaps.
2.  Act
1. Engage and inform DC manager(s) of transactional errors.
2. Provide specific recommendations and obtain approval to act on them
3. Assists in development and maintenance of Inventory Accuracy policies.
2. Act
1. Opportunity - Assist in investigating problems, finds root causes, and develops solutions. Identify opportunities to improve warehouse procedural flows and/or reduce variation and implement same.
2. Resolution - Resolve issues that may affect

EDUCATION: 

• Minimum of a high school diploma or GED
• Additional training in warehouse/transportation or supply chain functions preferred.

EXPERIENCE:  

• Minimum of six months experience as a loader and/or shipping computer operator
• Supervisory experience in a warehousing environment.

OTHER CHARACTERISTICS:

• Strong math, problem solving, and data entry skills.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast paced, team environment.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external customers as well as the distribution team.
• Takes initiative to follow-up, problem solve, and complete duties in a timely manner.
• Knowledge of warehouse management system and distribution process flow.
• Understands financial impact of decisions related to warehousing and transportation.

Information :

• Company : Post Holdings
• Position : Distribution Center Inventory Coordinator
• Location : Northfield, MN
• Country : US