Planner: Demand

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The Demand Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining accurate demand forecasts by analysing historical data, market trends, promotions, and customer insights. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to support monthly demand planning, monitor forecast accuracy, identify variances, and implement corrective actions to ensure optimal product availability and business performance.

Minimum Requirements

  • Degree

  • Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at therequired level

  • Business English: Fluent

  • Experience in working with senior management

  • Computer literacy (Advanced)

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop demand forecast on daily/weekly/monthly (Clover and/or Principals)

  • Generate statistical based forecast, review exceptions, cleans history, validateassumptions, analyse variance between expected and actual results.

  • Facilitate monthly rolling demand plan per product Group and/or SKU and/or SKUFamily.

  • Collaborate with Marketing, Principals and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence(MDT).

  • Collect data, analyse historical trends, promotions, analyse market intelligence, mapevents.

  • Monitor demand plan daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective action.

  • Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates.

  • Analyse deviations and demand changes and present findings to multi discipline team.

  • Monitor monthly forecast vs weekly forecast and take corrective action.

  • Develop/track holiday planning forecast.

  • Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches andforecast.

Create, analyse, communicate reports

  • Analyse and communicate order fill rate (supply levels to customers).

  • Run forecast error report, analyse and learn from reason for error.

  • Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions.

  • Conduct trend analysis on sku's and communicate corrective action.

  • Analyse and communicate possible ranging per region.

  • Run weekly forecast error report per distribution area\sku.

  • Run and communicate promotional tracking report.

Optimise and review ideal inventory levels.

  • Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels.

  • Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities.

  • Action stock reports, communicate overstocks and take action to move stock.

Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master data

  • Create new items.

  • Phase out discontinued items.

  • Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file).

  • Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders).

  • Maintain factory per branch item master.

  • Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days.

Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning

  • Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches.

  • Analyse/Identify similar product.

  • Generate forecast per region.

  • Monitor/action/report on new launch project.

  • Monitor product trend and adjust forecast.

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