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The person who is awarded this job will be responsible for ordering, receiving, inputting and stocking all inventory. This person will also be responsible for calling customers on special orders as well as keeping shelves clean, organized and stocked.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Additional Skills
- Perform various administrative functions
- Keep shop and warehouse clean
- Prepare price quotations
- Knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles
Work Setting
- Retail
Inventory Clerk Specific Skills
- Reconcile calculated inventories with physical counts
- Maintain stock rotation
- Compile inventory reports
- Unpack items received
- Verify receipts and packing slips
- Conduct quality control
- Place stock on shelves
- Record the quantity, type and value of stock on hand using computerized or manual inventory system
- Prepare inventory costs, retail pricing and profit reports
- Pack items for shipping and distribution
Work Location Information
- On-site customer service
- In shop
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Purchasing Clerk Specific Skills
- Verify stock availability from current inventories
- Resolve delivery and other problems with suppliers
- Process purchases
- Prepare purchase orders
- Obtain price quotations from catalogues and suppliers
- Calculate costs of orders
- Set up and maintain inventory control system
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Windows
- Word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
- Electronic Mail
- Database software
- General office equipment
- Accounting software
- Inventory control software
- Internet browser
- Monitoring and tracking software
Work Site Environment
- Non-smoking