Employees responsible for Finished and Dry Goods Inventory Management and Supply and Demand Planning by contributing to one or several missions below:
- Contribute to sales budget construction and achieve consensus for operational demand forecasts by facilitating a collaborative planning process with involved stakeholders (sales, marketing, finance, logistics, production)
- Define and monitor supply/demand KPI's
- Manage a team and share and communicate supply and demand planning vision and strategy with them
- Provide short term and long term plans to guide the efficient operation assets
- Translate production requirements into proactive plans to guide production day to day priorities and work programs to enable timely delivery of final product
- Support the implementation / integration of supply/demand management strategies and processes
- Anticipate and assess the impacts of unexpected events on demand and sales on the planning horizon
- Compare sales to the forecast on a day-to-day basis and propose corrective actions to stakeholders
- Define and communicate the target stock model according to life cycle (new products, recurrent items, phasing out...)
- Calculate the supply need taking into account the demand (resulting from demand and distribution planners) and inventory policy
- Allocate the supply needs between the sources (Production, sub-contractors, inventory and procurement)
- Initiate and lead production (internal and external) and procurement plannings on mid/long term horizons
- Optimize the supply plan according to cost, cash and fixed asset utilization objectives