Will “Central Service Supply Distributor” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Clean display cases, shelves, and aisles.

• Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.

• Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.

• Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.

• Examine and inspect stock items for wear or defects, reporting any damage to supervisors.

• Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.

• Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

• Transport packages to customers' vehicles.

• Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.

• Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.

• Compute prices of items or groups of items.

• Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.

• Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.

• Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.

• Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.

• Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.

• Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.

• Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.

• Keep records of out-going orders.

• Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.

• Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.

• Compare merchandise invoices to items actually received to ensure that shipments are correct.

• Complete order receipts.

• Operate equipment such as forklifts.

• Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.

• Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.

• Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.

• Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.

• Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.

• Provide assistance or direction to other stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard workers.