Category analyst vs production analyst

Differences between category analyst and production analyst duties and responsibilities

Category analyst example responsibilities.

• Help manage open-to-buy with planner weekly through inventory requests, markdowns, and transfers.
• Project manage and enhance IRI database including complete rework of all category classifications.
• Manage relationships with primary suppliers including monitoring and purchasing commodities, forecasting, marketing initiatives and quality control.
• Present findings to management from in-depth analysis of retail accounts using syndicate (IRI) and retailer proprietary data.
• Develop and standardize analysis process, integrating POS data from a broad spectrum of retailers in a variance demographic of clusters.
• Coordinate logistics activities relating to seasonal, agricultural, promotional, new items and discontinue programs.
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Production analyst example responsibilities.

• Manage and order raw material inventory for active production work orders utilizing MRP system in JD Edwards.
• Manage and control the mainframe and peripheral data processing infrastructure.
• Manage and successfully deliver multiple customer migration efforts to allow processing moves from mainframe environments to client/server environments.
• Create, run and troubleshoot UNIX and Perl scripts to prepare and process data from client hard drives.
• Used OMEGAMON to investigate any potential contention or resource problem in IMS, CICS or the MVS system.
• Establish new accounts, process contracts, invoices, payroll, handle all petty cash and expense reports for the shows.
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