NAOMI COLON
Haledon,USA
Summary
Diligent professional with superior work ethic, friendly demeanor and several years of experience. Previous roles have resulted in improved inventory accuracy, streamlined processes.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Inventory Analyst
Ferrero
Parsippany, NJ
01.2022 - Current
- Communicate periodically with warehouse management on issues found
- Provide resolution for all inventory-related problems that may arise, involving IT or adjusting processes if necessary
- Continuous learning and training on warehouse operating systems
- Collaborate with business partners to identify and resolve discrepancies between systems to reduce service risks in the overall supply chain
- Resolve Goods Issue errors
- Process Physical/ systematic inventory destructions
- Assists with physical and virtual inventory counts as needed
- Responsible for monthly and annual inventory adjustment data collection
- Responsible for monthly inventory reports for Supply Chain leadership meetings
- Responsible for managing scrap processes and scrap orders at warehouses
- Responsible for running ad-hoc reports / investigations
- Responsible for inventory management of Returns
- Ensure daily accurate inventory alignment between SAP and 3PL warehouses
- Ensure all inventory processes, internal and external, are compliant with company policies
- Coordinate the inventory movement data collection process for product recalls
Inventory Audit/Allocator
10Spot Madrag
North Bergen, NJ
01.2014 - 01.2022
- Meet sales, gross margin and inventory turn goals
- Manage all allocations to stores
- Provide weekly reporting to the Buying and Planning teams for category performance
- Analyze seasonal selling trends to maintain appropriate inventory levels
- Work closely with the field to understand their specific business needs and create necessary assortment and unit allocations which support the opportunities
- Run Weekly Transfer check report to ensure all transfers are completed
- Resolve unknown Skus daily
- Run weekly reports (Sales, Flash, Clearance, Received Not Sold)
Inventory Control Analyst
Michael Kors Inc.
East Rutherford, NJ
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Reviewed sales and inventory activities for over 100 retail locations throughout the USA, modified inventory investments accordingly resulting in increased sales and reduced markdowns
- Worked with POS/IT departments to resolve issues pertaining to items costs, POs and ASNs
- Monitored Sales Audit (Epicor) on a daily basis for rejected UPCs and corrected errors
- Communicated to stores proper policies and procedures regarding the researching and correction of inventory issues
- Reinforced proper annual / bi annual inventory procedures and preparations with Store teams to ensure a timely and accurate count
- Compiled annual / bi annual inventory data determining Shrink rates by location and Total Chain
- Adjusted and maintained accurate inventory levels for all US locations
- Booked (adjusted) physical inventories based on Store/SKU counts
- Addressed all inventory inquiries and adjustments for the stores, reconciled inter-company transfers and adjusted inter-store transfer receiving discrepancies for all US locations
- Reconciled all clothing allowances for retail staff
- Interacted with vendors regarding all billing discrepancies
- Worked with Stores / DC’s and Vendors to investigate and resolved all unknown receiving, transfers and sales activities
- Interacted with the warehouse and logistics department to manage and resolve outstanding ASNs/Distributions
- Reviewed both open ASNs and transfers reports and followed up with the stores on all outstanding items
- Worked with Vendor community to ensure invoice accuracy (counts, costs, and product), initiated appropriate credits, chargebacks or PO cost
- Followed-up with the merchandising division regarding all cost discrepancies
- Participated in semi-annual physical inventories
- Made cost and receiving adjustments to purchase orders
- Generated Stock Ledger, COGS reports and assisted with General Ledger month-end reconciliation
Replenishment Analyst
Vitamin Shoppe
North Bergen, NJ
01.2005 - 01.2008
- Reviewed out-of-stock, low-stock and high-stock reports in order to determine where inventory level needed to be adjusted
- Recommended and maintained changes for store replenishment parameters
- Worked with Retail and Merchandising organizations to develop and maintain store replenishment parameters to ensure target inventory positions at stores
- Monitored product performance and adjusted replenishment parameters
- Worked with Purchasing, and Operations to align flows to/from DC; Worked with Category Manager to identify and execute item allocations needs
- Worked with Inventory Control to appropriately respond to cycle count issues
- Distributed new items, the reduction and sell-off of discontinued items and proper handling of items trending up or down in the store models
- Coordinated product returns (RTV’s) between DC and store locations
Inventory Control Coordinator / Junior Accountant
Ermenegildo Zegna Corporation
Englewood, NJ
01.2002 - 01.2005
- Planned and supervised year-end inventories and cycle counts functions
- Performed a monthly purchase, inter-company transfers and in-transit reconciliation between the general ledger and the retail system and adjusted any discrepancies as necessary
- Booked GL inventory transactions for all locations at landed cost
- Assisted in year-end budgeting and forecasting reviews
- Managed transfer process between stores (Store to Store) and DC (Store to DC, DC to store) locations
- Performed shortage analysis and reporting, making recommendations where appropriate
- Prepared and posted monthly entries to the General Ledger
Education
Certification in Network Engineering and Data Communications -
Chubbs Institute
Jersey City, NJ01.2005
Skills
- SAP
- JD Edwards
- AS400
- JDA/MMS
- Citrix
- Epicor POS module
- KWI
- Cognos
- RLM
Languages
Bilingual; fluent in English and Spanish
Timeline
Inventory Analyst
Ferrero
01.2022 - Current
Inventory Audit/Allocator
10Spot Madrag
01.2014 - 01.2022
Inventory Control Analyst
Michael Kors Inc.
01.2008 - 01.2012
Replenishment Analyst
Vitamin Shoppe
01.2005 - 01.2008
Inventory Control Coordinator / Junior Accountant
Ermenegildo Zegna Corporation
01.2002 - 01.2005
Certification in Network Engineering and Data Communications -
Chubbs Institute