Essential Duties and Responsibilities will include but not limited to\:
• Animate the regional monthly collaborative sales forecast process (CSF) for Country Selected full transactional business scope/Division assign such as (HD, PP, DE, IA). Require building the consensus with key business owners with each BU/Product line in charge about future demand outlook, with consideration all related factors such as historical sales, phase in/phase out, cannibalization, causal factor, market trends, seasonality, promotion, inventory level, price changes, lead time & generate statistical following Kinaxis Tools.
• Lead the monthly SIOP with participation of Country President, Business Units VPs, Country CFO, GSC Logistics head, CS&Q Director, and other related function. Articulate the key demand, inventory and operation challenge in respective BU/Zone or country and facilitate the consensus discussion for solution and decision.
• Supporting Distribution Requirement Planning Process (DRP) with country Supply planner & LoB planner to ensure all the basic parameters like forecast, unhealthy stock, excess, obsolescence Inventory Management must be maintained correctly inside Kinaxis & SAP system & full communicated to Supply Planner
• Lead & Work together with Logistic Analyst by Weekly related revenue risk with the support from Ops Interlock Process (Backlog analysis & Forecast Analysis)
• Weekly meeting with Commercial team and key customer to have the visibility & support needed/Co-Planning if directed.
• Support the inventory planning, stocking policy & safety stock management.in term of forecasting perspective & do Co-Planning with key customer.
• Make recommended adjustments to forecast to influence the inventory targets (input\: forecast accuracy, forecast value add-ed, unhealthy stock level, customer OTDC, stocking policy, safety stock management) based on changes in demand and market trends, target to manage inventory level, inventory health and minimize the provision rate.
• Monthly review CSF Flags, forecast item configuration, choose the feasible forecast model for each forecast item group (more into Master Data supports for forecasting tools)
• Training & coordinate with Offer Marketing to improve the efficiency of the forecast planning process.
Complete relevant reports (weekly & monthly) as and when directed work closely with operational Teams