Elaina Cole, Class of 2019
Job Title: Inventory Planner
Employer: Advance Auto Parts
Current Role:
Conducts analysis of sales and store on hands for 7 different categories to allocate products out from DC to 4,500 stores
Creates seasonal "builds" of inventory for winter and spring items
Impacts plan-o-grams to determine how much to purchase of each sku and each store, then allocates out new product from DC, and turns off old product from replenishment
"App State's MBA program helped prepare me for this role in multiple ways. The most utilized skill I use now that was learned during my time as a student is data analysis. How to handle large data sets and excel functions/formulas to pull the specific information I need out of a large amount of data." - Elaina Cole