Demand & Inventory Planner

JOB TITLE: Demand and Inventory Planner

DEPARTMENT: Supply Chain

REPORTS TO: Supply Chain Manager

SUMMARY: The North American Demand and Inventory Planner will coordinate with sales locations to consolidate demand and sales forecasts to identify capacity constraints and conflicts to initiate strategic asset planning activities. The DIP will also be responsible for identifying opportunities to resolve local capacity constraints across manufacturing capabilities based on cost and service level requirements. They will also monitor and package reports on regional inventory development, as well as working with local management in developing inventory strategies and coordinating Regional transfers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Force continuous improvements in the area of demand planning within the Region

- Monitor current month order pattern and check against plan (plan vs. order)

- Initiate corrective actions in agreement with BL's goals

- Monitor stock and service level for assigned product groups in California, Texas, and backup for Canada

- Coordinate MRP and RCCP, resolve as many conflicts as possible in advance of S&OP meeting, communicate to BLs

- Facilitate S&OP meeting and record decisions

- Follow-up decisions made in S&OP meeting and ensure correct actions are met

- Ensure an on-going optimization of inventory levels in balance with required service levels

- Manage material availability, shortages and overstocks and gives clear directions to OF or MP

- Monitor inventory development and create alerts against targets if anomalies are observed

- Elaborate inventory issues mitigation proposals based on alerts and communicate to BL, SCM, Prod.

- Participate/lead supply chain projects

- Develop and implement strong standard operating procedures.

- Eliminate any manual process kept outside of Oracle ERP by automating the process through Oracle ERP system.

- Identify cost reduction opportunities in the supply chain domain and work towards driving the cost down.

- Analyze sales forecast, past sales trend and recommend optimum inventory to meet the customer demand.

- Monitor and review performance of third-party service providers like warehouse operators and logistics providers.

- Provide necessary training to the warehouse operating team to ensure that they function in a timely and accurate manner.

- Assist in sourcing & purchasing quality Raw Materials, Packing Materials and Services at competitive rates.

- Implement, track, and adapt to agreed KPI’s to drive supply chain performance.

- Prepare weekly and monthly management reports to demonstrate department performance against the set KPIS’s.

- Support and assist in implementing and maintaining certified management systems ascribed to DK such as ISO 9001. Identify training needs of personnel. Promote awareness of risks and opportunities associated with their work. Maintain an understanding of the Quality policy and how they personally contribute to meeting DK objectives and goals

- Support and assist in implementing and maintaining the RCMS program. Identify training needs of personnel. Promote awareness of the RCMS guiding principles and Dorf Ketal's HSSE policy, objectives and goals in addition to how they can contribute to them.

- Other projects as required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Education/Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Economics, or Engineering preferred

- Min 10 years’ experience analyzing and/or managing inventories and capacities

- Must have experience within an organization that is operations/manufacturing based

- Coordinating and consolidating sales forecasts and balancing against capacities

Work Conditions:

This position requires working in a standard office environment with moderate noise levels, primarily sitting at a computer workstation. Employees will need to be able to lift light objects, have close vision for computer work, and communicate effectively with colleagues and clients via phone, email, and in-person interactions.