Your Role
We are looking for an experienced Demand & Supply Planner to conduct monthly pre-S&OP at SKU level across few business and ensure supply sufficiency, right inventory at right quantity, time and cost.
What Will You Do
- To conduct monthly pre-S&OP at SKU level across few business - Singapore, Malaysia, Agency, International (business group to be re-assigned base on progress / workload).
- To be diligent on demand analytics and analytics with common sense and ability to influence sales & marketing base on analytics.
- To ensure supply sufficiency, right inventory at right quantity, time and cost.
- Inventory management – aging, slow moving, obsolete, new launch, promotion .
- To be an effective communicator and team player to work cross-functionally – lateral and horizontal.
- To possess good planning logic and contribute the what-how.
- To be able to adopt changes easily and contribute progressive planning process improvement plan.
- To conduct historical analysis to provide insights into future forecast.
- To collaborate with sales & marketing team to gather quantitative and qualitative forecast, new product launches, promotional plan.
- To manage and maintain the effectiveness of the statistical forecast by adjusting/cleansing historical demand and determining appropriate levels of aggregation for calculating the statistical forecast.
- To report and analyse forecast performance metrics to measure forecast accuracy, assess forecast bias, and identify the root cause analysis to forecast variance.
- To drive and plan replenishment with production planners to ensure supply meets demand. Ensure supply sufficiency at SKU level.
- To validate demand requirements, perform risk assessments, and monitor performance against demand plans.
- To analyse sales trends based on business activity to improve in accuracy, inventory, and service levels.
- To monitor and report slowing moving products and obsolete inventories and planning/executing strategies and interventions to mitigate the risks.
- To work collaboratively across business functions including production planner, logistics, finance, sales & marketing and etc.
What Do We Want
- At least a Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain or Business Administrative orr relevant field.
- At least 5 years of experience in Supply and Demand planning, forecasting, or analysis.
- Must have S&OP Exposure.
- Have strong knowledge in Supply Chain and Material Management Systems in a production environment.
- Have knowledge in Material Planning is an added advantage.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
