Brand Group Planner
Hire Resolve
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop demand forecasts for New and Existing products based upon demand patterns and business trends/assumptions.
- History correction: Correct historical sales data to improve quality of time series input into statistical forecasting.
- Statistical forecasting: Analyse and assign appropriate statistical models and parameters to enrich statistical forecasts in order to generate accurate base line forecasts in SAP-APO.
- Promotion Planning: Utilise promotional volumes/plans obtained from Sales/Marketing to finalise promotional volume input into SAP (i.e. EPP).
- Propose and implement solutions to improve forecast accuracy and minimise bias.
- Responsible for the finalization of the category demand plans by leading the Pre-S&OP Meetings and its resultant inputs and outputs.
- Replenishment of products from Hubs/PCs/3PMs using aligned process (CRP/MIP/NDF).
- Safety Stock Planning using ASAS in APO: Monthly creation and refinement of safety stock to ensure optimum inventory levels by product.
- Support the Launch/Relaunch (L/RL) process by ensuring uninterrupted supply of new and relaunched products.
- Active management of Critical stock (i.e. excess, obsolete, close to expiry) using HIT to ensure reduction of bad inventory.
- Exception Management: Review APO Supply Planning alerts as required on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and execute actions with supply units.
- Left over Management of Relaunches ensuring the optimum amount of inventory and lowest write off costs.
- Leading VAS process with the external supplier by ensuring stock is reworked efficiently and timeously and at the agreed pricing addressing any financial workflows queries promptly.
- Create and maintain demand and supply product master data for new, relaunched, and exiting products in SAP PLM/PE2/APO.
- Ensure high integrity of product master data via monthly health check and overall data management.
- Lead and execute monthly S&OP meetings (i.e Pre-S&OP) for responsible categories in order to ensure alignment of plans across the key business areas.
- Support monthly meetings between Key Account Managers and their respective customers to provide forecasting insights and analytics.
- Actively contribute to category specific S&OP meetings
- Proactively identify and advise the business of potential supply risks and opportunities in forward plan.
- Assess and present mitigating and cost-effective options to the business to close the supply gaps.
- Generate and analyse monthly Demand & Supply Planning (KPI/PI) reports: Service Level, Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, Inventories as well as Write Downs/Scrapping to enable performance and root cause management
- Lead and manage delivery of Planning-specific savings initiatives and other optimization projects.
- University or similar Bachelor's degree - ideally in Supply Chain, Engineering, Commerce, Statistics & Mathematics or Other Sciences
- A Minimum of 3 years' experience in a demand planning/forecasting and/or supply/production planning
- Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft office suite (Excel, Word, Power point, Outlook)
- Good knowledge of SAP Modules (R/3, APO-DP, APO-SNP, PLM. Working knowledge of MM and BI advantageous.
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