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- Responsible for developing the 18-month active Supply Network Plan that balances constrained demand with supply Review forecast performance metrics in Supply Chain Analytics tool and analyze results and trends
- Analyze factors that contribute to metric results, such as user contribution and sales team responsiveness
- Explain reasons for variances and highlight upcoming events that may impact the next month’s demand forecast.
- Responsible for maintaining sufficient inventory of raw materials to fulfill production needs.
- Ensures that MRP is accurate and up-to-date in the relevant planning system.
- Drive the new cross-functional, collaborative demand forecasting process for all products in a distributive area
- Ensure the Sales Managers communicate information affecting the forecast prior to generation of the initial forecast (use existing reports where applicable and gather necessary information regarding new/lost business, events, promotions, planned supply disruptions, etc.); manage initial inputs and incorporate into forecast as appropriate
- Conduct demand analysis to determine high error/high volume customers and terminals; generate statistically-valid forecast; apply market knowledge (event profiles, market trends, seasonality, etc.) to determine overrides necessary within the statistical forecast.
- Create weekly and event-based refreshes to the forecast as appropriate.
- Determine and apply criteria for triggering a forecast refresh (execute demand forecasting process for locations/products out of tolerance).
- Provide decision support to Regional S&OP decision makers along with Regional Demand Planner on the impact to supply of potential decision alternatives. Develops alternative solutions to supply constraint.
- Initiate supplier evaluation monitoring system for the supplies to help in the supply process control considering the operations / quality / service level parameter for both local & foreign supplier.
Job Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, IBP Experience, and APICS CPIM certified or similar accreditation are plus.
- 3 -5 years of relevant experience in an international environment.
- Comprehensive Supply Chain or Logistics Education or Experience is required
- Intensive Operational knowledge of SAP is a must.
- Advanced planning skills
- Advanced proficiency in the English language
