Analyst: Demand Planning (Short Shelf Life)

SUMMARY:
You will be responsible for creating realistic demand forecasts by category to enable the supply chain planning process to function optimally and to provide consolidated information to commercial department for company forecasting. Draws up the master schedule to establish the sequence and lead time of each operation.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Categorise products to determine synergies and reaction to external conditions (variables)
• Determine disaggregate and aggregate levels and factors
• Classify events
• Identify and mark all events with an impact on volume/price/daily operations
• Group and classify events by finding similarities between events
• Set parameters and guidelines for Demand Planners to apply in forecasting
• Determine statistical forecast methods to be used
• Determine the monthly, weekly and daily methods to be used
• Analyse different forecast errors per method and set parameters to measure the accuracy of the statistical method used
• Improve methods and errors on an ongoing basis
• Improve the forecasting process in terms of data cleansing for budget, monthly, weekly & daily forecasts
• Compile, update, refresh and distribute reports
• Compile performance graphs
• Distribute the weekly gap analysis between actual vs. budget, volume & MOM by customer and by product category
• Compile management reports
• Distribute weekly short supply analysis
• Create reporting & automated system alerts to proactively identify forecast exceptions
• Identify and analyse outliers
• Determine outlier band per product category/group, per time series
• Identify per time series for outliers
• Determine the cause of the outliers
• Assist with the creation of best in class processes to improve forecast accuracy
• Analyse short supplies and set parameters for improvement

• Bachelor's Degree
• Business English: Fluent
• Code 08 driver's license
• Travel off-site/overnight stay
• Computer literacy (intermediate)
• Working with senior management
• Strong analytical skills
• Effective communication skills

• Coach and develop people
• Solves problems through effective decision making
• Clear and sound reasoning ability
• Pro-active and action orientated (shows initiative)
• Brings a strategic contribution
• Leads and drives change for improvement
• Customer orientated
• Thinks and reasons logically
• Communicates effectively
• Ability to plan and organize
• Ability to apply numerical principles