Role Purpose

To manage, advise and challenge the business to create a by line forecast so that one agreed number is used by all to plan the company’s future direction and base key decisions on.

Key Accountabilities

Supply Chain Strategy

• In agreement with Supply Chain Director, contributes to the development of Demand Planning strategies ensuring alignment to local and Global Supply Chain Strategies.

Forecast Management

• Responsible for leading discussion with a team (SCM, Marketing & Sales) to produce a scientifically based operational forecast and Annual Business Plan, in order to advise and challenge senior management when agreeing the overall business forecast.
• Manage the process of integrated sales forecasting and S&OP where planners analyse and produce forecasts for planning by coordinating regular reviews and gap analysis (Forecast Calibration/ Consensus Meeting/ S&OP) with generating Demand stakeholders to achieve a consensus and coordinated actions in future plans.
• Review of Promotions / New Products Forecasting – Challenge and raise concerns on promotion and NPD forecast provided by MKT/SCM/Sales and discuss on cannibalization with based items.
• Improve Forecast Accuracy by analyzing root cause of forecast error and defining action plan with MKT/SCM/Sales.
• Discuss and develop action plan for clearance stocks – balance promo, old PVs, PIPO and excess stocks.
• Ensure roll-over of demand plan on monthly basis to enable accurate replenishment plan.

Service Level

• Working closely with the Supply Planning and Customer Service team to monitor weekly dropped orders and prevent future losses by redirecting orders to the correct products via active PIPO management.
• Collaborating with the Commercial stakeholders by actively communicating products overselling/underselling and working with Supply Planners to replenish products in distress.

Reporting

• To generate 18 months rolling forecast and analyse gaps between sales forecast, demand forecast, and in market sales target to enable business gap plan discussion in the Consensus and S&OP meeting.
• To generate reports on excess and aging inventory, and to discuss/identify clearance plan with Marketing, Sales, and S&CM for minimise write-offs.
• To prepare KPI reportings on FCA and BIAS analysis by NART, brand and category level.
• To upload KPI FCA and BIAS, Service Level, Returns and Inventory reports into Supply Chain Dashboard Power BI, and publish at monthly basis.
• Participate in S&OP review and provide necessary reports and analysis to enable S&OP process.
• Identify and seek for process improvement to streamline planning drumbeat and minimize manual efforts.

Projects Assignment and Best Practice Sharing

• The incumbent will be assigned to leads or support projects/sub-projects/actively involves and collaborates with other related projects to achieve the objectives and expected deliverable results of the projects.
• Support best practices sharing with MU ASEAN.