Trinity Health - Ann Arbor, MI
posted 9 days ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Ann Arbor, MI
Hospitals
About the position
The Supply Chain Inventory Tech at Trinity Health Michigan is responsible for managing inventory control tasks, ensuring the accurate processing and safe movement of products. This role serves as a liaison between the supply chain and various departments, maintaining supply inventories to meet patient care requirements while adhering to financial management principles. The position involves receiving products, placing orders, and assisting in inventory accuracy, all under limited supervision.
Responsibilities
- Acts as customer service liaison to departments by working with department personnel in recommending inventory supply levels and adjustments.
- Acts proactively to avoid inventory shortages and works directly with departments to resolve issues.
- Checks and receives deliveries from vendors by comparing invoices against purchase orders and counting/inspecting received goods.
- Reports any discrepancy or damaged goods to supervisor.
- Analyzes trends in supply usage to optimize supply levels and mix.
- Closes out requisitions/orders, transferring them from the active to completed files.
- Assists Health Center user departments and/or vendors in resolving discrepancies including availability issues (backorders), credit issues, lost shipments, returned goods, while ensuring inventory accuracy.
- Performs various related clerical duties including processing stores requisitions, typing, sorting and distribution of mail, photocopying and filing, and answering telephone calls.
- Inventories medical and other supplies, generates replenishment requisition, restocks departments according to established inventory levels and schedules while maintaining supply location in an orderly fashion.
- Checks expiration dates on all dated materials to avoid use of outdated supplies.
- Returns and replaces outdated materials.
- Learns other job functions within supply chain team and backfills as required.
- Maintains a work environment that is clean and free of clutter.
- Utilizing the department's management information system, produces purchase orders, performs status checks on existing orders, performs inventory stock status inquiries, and records material receipts pursuant to purchase orders.
- Answers the telephone and responds to routine inquiries, relays messages as necessary, and maintains good customer relations.
- Assumes responsibility for processing orders in the absence of the supervisor.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Able to obtain and maintain counterbalance reach truck and powered pallet jack certification.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to organize daily tasks.
- Capable of comprehending and operating the supply chain information system.
- Demonstrated mathematical and analytical skills necessary to collect and process data required for routing and/or special statistical reports.
- Able to work independently and organize own work.
- Must be able to bend, lift (50 lbs.), push/pull carts (200 lbs.).
Nice-to-haves
- Previous experience preferred.
Benefits
- Free parking
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
