Job Description
• To lead the short term and long term demand planning process to ensure that the Operations process is running efficiently and effectively.
• To ensure that a quality demand forecast together with relevant scenarios is available in a timely manner for pre-S&OP and S&OP meeting
• Take responsibility for the accuracy for this forecast for the OTIF process to be executed efficiently.
• Support and provide input to the Pre-S&OP and S&OP process regarding the strategic forecasting process.
• Act as a primary contact of the planning team towards marketing and trade team.
• Identify opportunities for improvement across the integrated demand planning process.
• Manage and enhance the demand planning system which provides demand plan to production planning and S&OP planning
• Communicate results to product development so that BOM forecast and SKU forecast could be executed
• Ensure that the processes are in place to identify improvement areas of purchasing planning.
• Multiple Interfaces within local context to regulatory bodies (Customs, Ministry of Commerce, ITC)
• Volatile Market in terms of Demand Fluctuations and accuracy of Demand Forecast
• Frequent Changes to regulations
• Supply Chain Model Changes in terms of Strategic Factories and Localization
• Multiple Business Models e.g. Imported FG, Locally Produced FG