Demand & Supply Planner (Temporary)

Demand Planning

• Active Cooperation with the Country Commercial Teams
• Establish and maintain frequent contacts with the local Commercial Teams, beyond routine meetings and pre-scheduled calls, to allow a spontaneous and constant exchange of information on the commercial plans
• Build expertise on the commercial planning processes, including budgeting of new activities, Systematic Post Promotion Evaluation (SPPE), and estimation of cannibalization impact.
• Provide knowledge transfer on planning concept and method to the Commercial Teams, to enable them to better understand what is required from them. Month Business Planning (MBP)
• Extract actual sales by channel.
• Review statistics, disaggregation factors, and seasonality patterns.
• Highlight outliers in the history and validate baseline with Commercial Teams.
• Maintain the latest country activity plan in the planning tool.
• Maintain Systematic Post Promotion Evaluation (SPPE) as learning log in the planning tool.
• Maintain product introduction or renovation plans in the planning tool.
• Document all amendments and discussion points in preparation for MBP reviews.
• Conduct pre-MBP Reviews on a monthly basis. Organize, convene, and conduct the monthly Country MBP Reviews.
• Take minutes of each decision of the Country MBP Reviews and incorporate them in the planning tool
• Disaggregate the MBP into weeks and SKUs.
• Maintain InLight weekly and on time (product master, actual dispatches, actual demand, actual stocks, demand plan, stock covers) and address exceptions.

Continuous Improvement, VMI & Project Management

• Forecast Accuracy Improvement Deploy and maintain the measures requested by Supply Chain HQ to monitor the performance of the MBP process and executes DPA and BIAS learning and execute continuous improvement process with commercials teams.
• HQ & Market Reporting Provides DPA report, OOS report, MBP participation KPI etc., to HQ monthly Maintains slow-moving inventory, food products aging report on a market level.
• Supply Follow Up and Inventory Monitoring
• Monitor weekly stock coverage and on-going demand, upon facing the risk of OOS, requests ‘air freight’ to HQ.
• Sharing ‘stock coverage file’ including OOS risk, new product schedule before & after launch, phase-in and out information with commercial teams on a bi-weekly basis.

Boutique Supply

• As a Boutique supply project champion, coordinate the implementation process with HQ in Nessoft and manage roll out in a close liaison with Boutique team, which includes training and planning parameter set up and replenishment planning validation.

Coaching for Boutique Supply Coordinator

• Coaching Boutique supply coordinator to contribute to smooth replenishment planning & logistic transfer management, inventory level, OOS prevention, to become a trainer for new BTQ staff related to BTQ supply & logistics transfer