As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges. You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources.
The Supply Chain Processor - Analyst will support inventory and asset management, inbound logistics, and device shipping and support.
Key Responsibilities:
Inbound Logistics: Receiving, processing, and managing inventory for all incoming AR P&D hardware, including proto@types and off-the-shelf hardware.
Distribution & Support: Distributing hardware to internal teams and external partners, including managing domestic and international shipments. This also involves device setup and preparation (e.g., charging, software installation, turning on the device and checking for defects, updating software). Team is responsible for monitoring shipping progress, working with central teams to complete necessary paperwork for international shipments and providing updates to recipients.
Lifecycle Management: Handling hardware swaps, recalls, and secure disposal of confidential pre-production hardware and materials as well as a waste of production devices.
Warehouse Management: Overseeing AR P&D warehouse operations in Mountain View (MTV) and Waterloo (WAT), conducting inventory counts and optimizing the warehouse layout and storage capacity.
Basic Hardware Support: Providing minor on-site hardware support, such as tightening screws or applying protective taping.
Device Validation: Testing and validating new AR devices to ensure functionality and quality. Note: This is not QA. This is an ad-hoc one off request to enable the tech support team to come up to speed on how to use the hardware and how to support the end user.
Program Support: Preparing and supporting devices for various AR programs, including user experience (UXR) research studies, external developers and product demonstrations.
User Support: Delivering frontline technical support and troubleshooting assistance to all users of AR proto@type hardware and production devices (i.e. off the shelf AR/VR headsets and glasses).
Demo Support: Provide in-person hands on support to PMs, Executives and Engineers providing demos to internal and external customers.
Documentation: Creating and maintaining user support documentation for all proto@type devices.
Tool Development: Developing scripts for device setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
Hardware Issue Management: Triaging hardware bugs, conducting fault analysis, and managing the RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) process in conjunction with the logistics team.
Role Requirements:
Monday - Friday, shift between 7AM - 7PM PST (9 hour work day, including 1 lunch hour)
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of 2 years of experience in inventory management and/or asset management
Professional Skills:
Analytical Skills: Analyze data, identify trends, and make informed decisions to optimize operations. This includes understanding inventory levels, transportation routes, and potential bottlenecks.
Communication Skills: Effective coordination with internal teams, suppliers, and customers. This includes clear and concise communication of logistics plans, updates, and potential issues.
Organizational Skills: Strong organizational skills to manage tasks, track progress, and ensure deadlines are met. This involves planning, scheduling, and prioritizing tasks efficiently.
Technical Skills: Basic understanding of logistics software, inventory management and transportation tools. This can include using warehouse management systems (WMS) and understanding data analysis tools
Problem-Solving Skills: ability to quickly identify and solve problems. This includes anticipating potential issues and developing contingency plans
Basic Scripting: understand basic scripting to execute commands for possible device troubleshooting
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/flexcareers#block-section-total-rewards)
Role Location Hourly Salary Range
California $27.84 to $33.64
Colorado $26.00 to $32.02
District of Columbia $27.10 to $27.10
Illinois $24.59 to $26.91
Minnesota $24.00 to $25.87
Maryland $25.50 to $27.49
New York/New Jersey $26.00 to $34.80
Washington $27.84 to $27.84
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