Demand & Supply Planner Full-time Job

Key Accountabilities:

Successfully completing all Demand and Supply Planning activities for a Category in an omni-channel environment (Retail and Ecommerce) to ensure stock availability.

Develop collaboration with Category Management Team and Brands by giving visibility of the forecast and sharing KPI (On Shelf availability, Forecast Accuracy, Stock Cover).

Manage inventory to ensure replenishment activity related issues are resolved proactively and collaborate with other cross-functional stakeholders such as Logistics, Category Management, Commercial team and Master Data.

Demand Planning: Regional omni-channel scope

Validate and adjust proposed baseline forecast within the Planning System

Manage Animation & Newness forecasts for all brands for both Retail and Ecommerce:

Initialization with Data from Offer or Stores Teams

Forecast adjustment based on the initial sales both in stores and online

Prepare in monthly cross-department collaboration meetings with analysis:

- Forecast Meetings

- Launches Review

- Stock Meetings

- Supplier evaluation meetings (any key callouts on KPIs/performance)

Ensures the overall forecast is consistent with historical sales of products, trend, and planned events (Operations, Media Campaigns, Ramadan etc.) and considers the impact of product cannibalization, defined in collaboration with Catman

Analyze of Forecast Accuracy, monitoring and communicating internally any concerns and managing appropriate corrective actions

Conduct analysis on Out-of-stock instances after analyzing reports as part of order check and adjustment process that is carried out weekly

Support the development and evolution of all Forecasting processes and systems

Follow the processes implemented for the Demand planning scope

Build strong relationship with internal Category Merchandising Team and external Brand Teams for all interrelated activities

Analyze reports for over and under forecasting for novelty products, review and analyze the updated plan with Catman and address forecast adjustments

Supply Planning & Purchasing: Lead the regional replenishment of Retail and E-store assortment

Ensure optimal product availability on shelves in all stores through replenishment order calculations with the replenishment tool

Manage the purchasing plan through optimum use of the Planning system (Leadtime, frequency of orders, safety stock)

Calculate stock rebalancing needs between stores through optimum use of parameters (Excess stock, cover stock)

Manage In & outbound Orders for the brands managed through the warehouse

Apply stock policy per brand/per ABC/per country

Support Logistics Team (KSA and Dubai team) with the purchase order process, validating and advising urgent orders

Optimize stock returns & transfer opportunities between all Stores: Identify overstock and propose action plan to Category Management and Negotiation team

Ensure stock availability during roll out of new brand/stores with right opening order quantity and effectively managing transfers within the network.

Collaborate with Regulatory Team to ensure products are in line with regulations & compliance for all Markets

Communicate with KSA Head office Supply Chain Team to support their local KSA activities

Share Purchasing plan with defined suppliers after validation with Category Management

Track the supplier Fill Rate to alert Category Managers and challenge the brands during meetings

Carry out stock management and transfer activities as per the defined process

Reporting, System Improvement, Stock balancing, and Analysis

KPI’s: In-Stock, Days of Inventory, Supplier Fill Rate, Forecast Accuracy, Inventory Value, Brand Analysis etc.

Prepare action plans with Category-Management and Finance Teams for slow movers and obsoletes to secure a good stock quality

Prepare Supply Chain reports to support brand negotiations by the Category Merchandising Team

Participate and prepare with Category management meetings with brands

Contribute to key projects or process improvement related to Supply Chain

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