A professional who compiles and maintains records of quantity, type, and value of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies stocked in establishment. Respnsibilities include:

• Counts material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies in stock and posts totals to inventory records, manually or using computer.
• Compares inventories to office records or computes figures from records, such as sales orders, production records, or purchase invoices to obtain current inventory.
• Verifies clerical computations against physical count of stock and adjusts errors in computation or count, or investigates and reports reasons for discrepancies.
• Compiles information on receipt or disbursement of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies, and computes inventory balance, price, and cost.
• Prepares reports, such as inventory balance, price lists, and shortages.
• Prepares list of depleted items and recommends survey of defective or unusable items.
• May operate office machines, such as typewriter or calculator.
• May stock and issue materials or merchandise.
• May be designated according to item inventoried as Property-And-Equipment Clerk (petrol.
• & gas); or type of inventory as Inventory Clerk, Physical.