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Function: Operations
Family: Inventory Mgmt

What Inventory Mgmt contributes to Cardinal Health
Inventory Management is accountable for the design and execution of demand planning and customer forecasting systems; supply planning, product deployment and expediting processes; and the development and implementation of a stocking optimization model to minimize costs and inventory while delivering on service requirements.

What is expected of you for success in your role

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of universally accepted inventory management concepts and applicable SOPs
• Independently analyzes customer demand, interprets trends and initiates needed changes
• Creates, approves and implements SOPs
• Applies theories to optimize forecasting, purchasing and inventory systems
• Uses data mining and analysis tools
• Recommends and implements solutions to optimize inventory investment and maximize customer satisfaction

• Works to understand complex functional situations by paying attention to the details of the tasks at hand and by breaking them down into smaller pieces
• Collaborates with others and builds strategic alliances globally; negotiates to build broad-based support and/or persuades others in order to influence important outcomes.
• Ensures that customers have a positive experience; commits to meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency while providing flawless transactions, services and products; manages monetary assets and other resources to optimize cost effectiveness.
• Measures and evaluates the effectiveness of protocols, programs or deliverables; compares measurement results to standards and takes immediate action to close gaps identified.

Accountabilities in this role

• Manage the supply disruption and allocation management process for the Specialty business
• Work closely with the other Inventory Management teams as well as the Sourcing and Specialty Sales teams to align specialty product portfolio supply with customer demand
• Track and monitor potential slow move inventory
• Work closely with a cross function team to develop and implement the exit strategy for slow move inventory
• Execute source switch requests
• Analyze usage submitted for new customer implementations, make recommendations for any changes and load holdouts, adjust forecasts, request off cycle buys, etc.
• Track and report forecasted new sales vs. actual to improve new customer forecasting accuracy
• Responsible for meeting service level and DIOH targets
• Create and maintain SOP's
• Relay critical information for customer communications
• Perform other activities and duties as determined by the Supervisor, Inventory Management - Specialty

  Qualifications
  

• Bachelor degree, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience
• Proficient in Microsoft office, with strong Access and Excel skills
• Previous supply chain experience
• Previous experience using data warehouse inventory management systems
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills