Demand Planning Specialist ( Assistant Manager)

Reporting to: Supply Chain Head

OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE JOB

_ Manage forecast process to deliver accurate demand, forecasts, and provide the meaningful market intelligence to archive sustainable growth and to exceed business expectation.

_ Duties include budgeting, inventory, and service management, and taking active role as process owner on the Sales and Operation Planning process (S&OP)

_ At this level, the position has a great degree of impact on the business results.



KEY RESPONSIBILITIES



Material Management:

- Material Master Data Owner (MMDO)

- Leading NPI (New Products Introduction) process. Work with PM for model line-ups, launching plan to share to all stakeholders and prepare for products compliance.

- Setting safety stocks and import cost for each material.



Demand Planning and Forecasting Management:

- Host the S&OP Consensus meeting to work with Sales and Product marketing team for sales forecast.

- Conduct current and future forecasting analysis, insuring forecasting processes.

- Challenge Sales Forecast where appropriate with PM Manager

- Analysis and generate Forecast Accuracy Report by SKU

- Manage demand plan database to ensure the integrity of data used for analysis.

- Monitors and reviews historical sales and promotion impact, as well as pipelining assumptions, to continuously improve forecast accuracy, and to provide contingency plans for management teams.



Purchasing Management:

- Build purchasing plan regarding sales forecast.

- Create PO and get all Signatures then send to suppliers.

- Create PO in SAP and maintain all transaction in SAP.

- Confirm SOP to factory.

- Working closely with all Suppliers on purchasing of products.

- Control PO: order quantity, SKUs, Delivery lead-time.

- Follow up delivery term to make sure PO will be received on time.



Inventory Management:

- Control inventory by delay or advance shipment to make sure stocks healthy.

- Manage inventory levels to maximize customer service and inventory turns.

- Perform analysis and make recommendations on inventory levels, cost, forecast.

- Expedite orders as required per the forecast or actual sales changes to balance inventory level in support of targeted inventory level.

- Work closely with sales team to balance inventory level for each warehouse to support sales target.

- Implement and control inventory dashboard.