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SERVICES
- Interface with suppliers
- Provide procurement / production schedules for suppliers
- Product label compliance
- Develop product labeling to ensure compliance with strict US labeling requirements
- File product labels with Tax Trade Bureau (TTB formerly BATF)
- Manage new liqueur and spirit based product filing process for pre-import approval
- Formula approval (Liqueur products)
- Submission of product samples for spirit products
- Ensure regulatory compliance in all states for selling product to licensed entities within the various markets
- Product registration
- Distributor assignment
- Distributor territory agreements
- Price posting
- Monthly sales reporting to state agencies
- File and obtain licenses
- Maintain licenses
- File for National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA) codes
- File for UNIMERC codes from Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS)
- Establish pricing structures
- FOB Ex-USA warehouse
- FOB Port of Lading
- FOB Ex-Works
- Obtain UPC and SCC codes from Uniform Code Council or GS1 for integration with retail point of sale software and electronic warehouse management systems
- Oversee daily sales order fulfillment
- Order entry
- Warehouse interface
- Delivery
- Invoicing
- Inventory management
- Oversee inventory at warehouse location
- Develop forecast models to ensure product availability
- Develop economic order quantities
- Coordinate communication between sales office and warehouse location
- Ensure proper vintage management and First-In-First-Out (FIFO) standard
- Perform / oversee physical count
- Reconcile inventory overages/shrinkage from physical count
- Periodic review of quality of aging product
- Cost Controls
- Monitor all costs associated with transportation of product
- Review pricing structures with financial department when necessary
- Maintain relationships with key customers (purchasing agents and sales managers)
- Delivery fleet management
- State Liquor Authority transport permits
- US DOT requirements
- Insurance
- Department of Motor Vehicles registrations