Inventory Officer at Kimberly-Clark

Job Description

• The Inventory Officer RM WH is key to accurate material stocks and consumption at the mill shop floor and in the SAP R/3 system. The main purpose is to ensure that system stocks of materials and finishing supplies are fully aligned to physical stocks in the mill.
• To ensure this is the case, the main responsibility of the Inventory Officer RM WH is to declare finished products in a timely manner, check and solve back-flushing errors and analyze system consumption vs actual consumption (via regular stock counts) to track BOM in-accuracies and to drive accurate product costing.
• As part of capturing actual production volumes and material consumption the Inventory Officer RM WH also has to enter machine hours into SAP provided by Operations
• The Inventory Officer RM WH also has to ensure that materials required for production are called off from the warehouse (4961) in a time for production via STO in R/3 (4960- production plant)

Main Responsibilities
Production declaration:

• Declares production in a timely manner based on information provided from operations

Material consumption:

• Reviews back-flushing error report (COGI) daily and solves errors in report (in collaboration with planning / operations / finance)
• Does frequent material stock counts at shop floor and adjusts system stocks to match actual stocks
• Reviews & analyses count differences and shares outcomes with Mill planning and operations to drive data & BOM accuracy

​Machine hour recording:

• Enters machine hours provided by Operations into SAP
• Material Supply to operations:
• Calls of raw materials,& finishing supplies form from Warehouse (Lagos DC) 4961 via STO in SAP to (Lagos Diaper Plant 4960)

Material returns:

• Returns materials back to the warehouse(4961) via an STO in SAP from Diaper plant (4960)

R/3 once a week (once a day)

Qualifications

• National Diploma ND in either Commercial, Social Science, or Engineering Field.
• Experience in Warehousing / Materials handling & management
• Computer skills (Excel, Word etc essential)
• Basic SAP knowledge

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

• A role in the new mill Lagos Nigeria.