Your Mission
- Exercise independent judgment in determining appropriate stock levels by analyzing current business trends and forecasts for each store and product type
- Optimize product orders while considering various parameters including store’s physical capacity, stores daily receiving capacity, and distribution centers’ production capacity
- Develop and execute product flow plans by considering distribution schedules, inventory capacity constraints, and sales plans
- Work closely with Merchandising, Planning, and Store Operations teams to ensure merchandise strategies are executed in a timely manner, orders are executed or adjusted based on promotional changes and marketing initiatives, and launches of new styles are executed
- Issue transfers as needed to capitalize on top sellers and/or to ensure stores have capacity to continue receiving goods
- Analyze store activity and leverage historic product data and input from field to identify store-specific trends, variances and opportunities, and upcoming events that would influence allocations
- Analyze sales to stock ratios to ensure stores have the correct balance of inventory
- Ensure purchase orders are completely fulfilled and shipped in a timely manner
