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Inventory Control Specialist resume examples

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Ramon W. Quesenberry

Inventory Control Specialist, Home improvement retail

Fort Worth, TX · (817) 555 0144 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/ramonwquesenberry

Key Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Eleven years in retail distribution centers, nine of them in inventory control

INDUSTRIES

Home improvement retail, building products, general merchandise

SPECIALTIES

Cycle counting, inventory record accuracy, slotting, variance root cause analysis

SYSTEMS

SAP, Manhattan Associates warehouse management, Blue Yonder, Power BI, Microsoft Excel

CREDENTIALS

Certified in Planning and Inventory Management, Association for Supply Chain Management

EDUCATION

Associate degree in logistics and supply chain management, Tarrant County College

Results at a Glance

$310k

Tracing repeat variances

900

Overtime hours

1,200

Slow moving items

26

Counters and four

Executive Summary

Inventory control specialist with eleven years in high volume retail distribution, covering a 640,000 square foot campus that ships to 84 stores. Owns the cycle counting program, inventory record accuracy and reserve slotting. Chases the root cause behind a variance instead of writing it off.

Signature Achievements

  • Raised inventory record accuracy from 96.2 percent to 99.4 percent across 42,000 pick locations in fourteen months.
  • Cut annual shrink write offs by 310,000 dollars after tracing repeat variances to two failing label printers.
  • Replaced the annual wall to wall count with a daily cycle counting schedule and released 900 overtime hours a year.
  • Brought days of supply on 1,200 slow moving items down from 96 to 61 with no stockouts at store level.
  • Trained 26 counters and four leads on count integrity and halved the recount rate.
  • Built a variance dashboard in Power BI that three sister facilities now run every Monday morning.

Professional Experience

Inventory Control Specialist

Prairie Ridge Home Supply, Fort Worth, TX 2020 to present

One 640,000 square foot distribution center serving 84 retail stores across Texas and Oklahoma.

  • Run the daily cycle count schedule by velocity class and reconcile every variance personally.
  • Own inventory record accuracy reporting for the site and present it in the weekly operations meeting.
  • Manage reslotting for seasonal resets so that fast movers stay in the golden zone.
  • Investigate negative on hand balances and correct the receiving or picking behavior behind them.

Inventory Control Coordinator

Kestrel Wholesale Hardware, Arlington, TX 2017 to 2020

Inventory support for a 210,000 square foot wholesale operation with 19,000 active items.

  • Counted, researched and posted adjustments for four zones and kept an audit trail for each one.
  • Ran the obsolescence review with purchasing and cleared 480,000 dollars of dead stock over two years.
  • Wrote the receiving audit procedure that caught vendor short shipments at the door.

Warehouse Associate

Bexar Valley Fulfillment, San Antonio, TX 2015 to 2017

Picking, packing and replenishment on second shift in a mixed case operation.

  • Picked and replenished to a 99.7 percent accuracy standard and joined the count team.

Licensure and Certification

Certified in Planning and Inventory Management, Association for Supply Chain Management

Powered industrial truck operator, current

Education

Associate degree in logistics and supply chain management, Tarrant County College, 2016

Core Skills

Cycle counting · Inventory record accuracy · Root cause analysis · Slotting and replenishment · Shrink reduction · SAP inventory management · Manhattan Associates · Power BI reporting · Bilingual English and Spanish · Count team training

Inventory Control Specialist resume examples — FAQs

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6 designs, covering Achievement, Editorial, Classic and Minimalist layouts. They all carry the same sections — the difference is the layout, so pick whichever suits how much experience you need to fit on the page.

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