Analyst Supply Chain I

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At Mary Kay we are committed to enriching the lives of women and their families around the world, we offer careers with unlimited opportunities to do something beautiful every day. More than 5,000 employees work in locations around the world. They provide the products, marketing and other support to millions of Independent Beauty Consultants (IBCs) who work as independent contractors, selling our products directly to consumers in nearly 40 markets on five continents. 

We are a company that believes in our people and cares for them with truly exceptional benefits. We offer:
•    A comprehensive health plan which includes medical, dental, and vision with low premiums
•    401(k) plan
•    A generous profit-sharing program
•    Free access to on-site fitness center and on-site clinic 

 Job Summary:
Under general supervision and utilizing Mary Kay, Inc. Business Systems, provides analytical support to one or more areas of Inventory Control and Transportation & Logistics Department which researches, analyzes, and monitors components, raw materials and finished goods for all domestic and international locations as well as third party vendors.  Ensures that inventory is tracked and accounted for as production is complete and is transferred through the distribution channels.  Disseminates timely information for transportation and logistics to manufacturing, purchasing, inventory control, branch operations, and subsidiary operation to support business decision. 

 Also provides other support as needed by management discretion to support business needs in the management of pack outs and logistic support in the coordination of movement of product domestically and international.

Responsibilities:

• Researches and analyzes the monthly MPS for pack outs. Initiates work orders and purchase orders for 3^rd party pack out suppliers. Initiates and verifies current bills of materials and routing requests for components and finished goods to be transferred to 3^rd party pack out suppliers to support inventory accuracy. Reconciles work orders for targeted variances levels, shipments, receipts, and completions. Proactively resolves issues as they arrive with updates to management to ensure timely movement and completion of commodities. Coordinates the transfer of components and/or finished goods between 3^rd party pack out vendors, R3 and ASRS warehouses, and other outside vendors.  Confirm shipping schedules and makes necessary adjustment and prioritization when low critical inventory is needed.  Provides a status update to management when items appear on the critical low inventory list and available inventory is ready to ship to branches.
•  Collaborates with Configuration Management and Marketing teams to ensure bill of material updates and product programs are in synch.  Provides 3^rd party vendors with non-routine inventory shipping information and assists with the shipping schedule of finished goods. Requires collaboration with GIC, Configuration Management, Finance, AS/RS Warehouse, and other departments as needed to determine inventory accuracy and movement in shipments to meet business needs.

• Utilizes a basic knowledge base to plan transportation and logistics services for finished and raw materials, inbound and outbound, as well as materials from contract vendors to the international distribution and manufacturing centers.
•  Provides inventory-related support to an international region(s) including inventory level maintenance, forecast loads, lead time maintenance, shipment generation, in-transits, and transportation modes.  Responsible for inventory allocation and shipment resolution for assigned markets, as well as monitoring low inventory items using weekly critical reports.  Develops and maintains a communication channel with assigned international region responding to subsidiaries request within 24 hours; and serves as the primary contact to subsidiaries for all forecasting and inventory-related questions.
•  Compiles global transportation and logistics data completing initial analysis of metrics and reports to measure business performance of internal programs and external providers.  Provides a general overview of the relation between the cost and time elements to the Transportation and Logistics Team for internal and external scorecards.  This includes effectively managing freight providers, monitoring freight performance, and troubleshooting problems as they arise.
• Disseminates timely information for transportation and logistics to manufacturing, purchasing, inventory control, branch operations, and subsidiary operation to support business decision.  Analyzes, updates, tracks, and routes numerous reports for management, including but not limited to assembly status reports, production completions, assembly shortages, low critical inventory, new promotions, flash sales, NPD, work orders, purchase orders, product programs, service levels at the branches, both domestic and international, special reports, budget preparation.  Researches and analyzes available inventory and reviews planned production to notify impacted departments.
• Coordinates purchasing activities for the Distribution Assembly and Transportation departments.  Enters supplier information in the Mary Kay, Inc. business system database (JDE) and ensures accurate labor costs for each pack out.  Ensures that the Agile system is updated with the pack out labor cost for new promotions.  Generates orders and creates documents for purchase of supplier labor and or goods for the Distribution Assembly group. Coordinates delivery dates, times, and locations to ship finished pack outs.  Works with the Transportation team to confirm direct shipments to the branches, as well as ASRS.