Logistics Support Specialist I

Job Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Receiving:

• Generates labels and purchase orders from vendor receipts to be used by order checkers for verification.
• Schedules and manages appointments with vendors.
• Verifies the manifest and works closely with category management to resolve overage issues.
• Locates slots for new product and collects measurements from order checkers. Enters specs into software system and produces required receiving documents.

Releasing:

• Processes and modifies retail store orders from the warehouse management system (WMS) to create a router, which summarizes the sequence of dock departs.
• Releases processed orders from WMS to Vocollect system.
• Calculates cubic weight to manually create separate orders in the computer system for overflow inventory.

Inventory:

• Counts selection slots once a period and reserves once a quarter.
• Verifies that slots are either filled or empty according to specified placements.
• Runs a count of an aisle range and checks for empty reserved slots. Finds solutions to ensure proper inventory count to achieve an accuracy goal.

T-Zone:

• Receives notice from logistics partners regarding products that do not fit in the reserved slot. Abandons product in the computer system and notates the reason for abandonment.
• Researches and resolves product placement issues to assign proper slots to goods.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Basic knowledge of WMS.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Basic knowledge of the warehouse communications system.
• Basic knowledge of SAP reporting and transactional applications.
• Basic mathematical skills.
• Ability to research information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to reason, form concepts and recognize and solve problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form with partners and vendors.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods and processes.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.
• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and productivity.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret information.
• Ability to prepare reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• High school Diploma or GED required.
• One or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education preferred.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to use fine finger movements (ex. sorting and typing).
• Frequently required to stand or walk.
• Frequently required to sit for long periods of time.
• Occasionally required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel or squat.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a warehouse setting.
• Noise level varies.