SUMMARY:
Join a young, dynamic team, BASED IN CAPE TOWN ,who are passionate about retail, numbers and complex problem solving. Thrive under pressure in an every changing environment. Strive to do better, find a smarter way of doing things, work with a operational environment who are hands on, time sensitive and extremely detailed orientated.
POSITION INFO:
Groceries Demand Planner/Supply
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Supply Chain Planner you will be responsible for the delivery of accurate stock quantities timeously at site / article levels while balancing and achieving the KPIs within your assigned categories i.e. Sales Targets, Availability, Waste & RTC, Working Capital and Cost of Distribution. Your role will include the integration with key stakeholders and execution of defined processes w.r.t. planning, operations & analytics. It is required of you to adopt a continuous improvement mentality for the enhancement of systems, processes & planning tools to keep these relevant, in a continuously changing environment.
- Management of stock flow throughout the entire value chain for a specific category
- Analyse historical sales trends to forecast for normal replenishment and different types of promotions to calculate required inbound volumes per distribution centre (DC)
- Monitor and adjust order forecasts into DC on the inbound rosters to improve accuracy and include promotional volumes
- Use a Just-in-Time approach to determine when stock needs to be ordered into the DCs
- Forecast and align master data for new store openings and newly centralised vendors
- Update roster master data to improve order forecasts
- Calculate a feasible order to accommodate deals and price increases
- Prevent out of stocks by tracking vendor strike rates and sales trends
- Daily calculations of promotional requirements and allocations to stores
- Create allocations to stores for promotional stock as per agreed rules
- Manage short dated, obsolete, and dormant stock
- Weekly meetings with commercial team to align internal master data on new/relisted articles
- Vendor collaboration process (including but not limited to)
- Share order forecast volumes
- Align master data to resolve order errors
- Work towards vendor strike rate improvement
- Strive towards reaching KPI targets (including but not limited to)
- Manage working capital at DC and store level
- In-store availability
- Sales growth targets in alignment with Commercial
- Communicate risks/anomalies to relevant stakeholders
- Actively work towards optimising/automating daily functions and processes
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- High emotional intelligence
- Professional attitude in the working environment
- Analytical thinking
- Business mindedness
- Professional communication skills
- Controls quality & standards
- People orientation
- Planning and organisational skills
- Time management
- Systems centric/holistic approach
- Driven to complete tasks by due dates
- Ability to prioritise tasks/emails under pressure/time constraints
- Ability to function well under pressure
- Passion for Retail
- Resilience - Work in unstrucutred, fast paced environment
- Flexible/adaptable- quick to change
- Accountable – take ownership of area
- Attention to detail
- Sense of urgency
- Ability to manipulate vast amounts of data to produce a meaningful report
REQUIREMENTS:
- BCOM Logistics / Degree in Quantitative Analytics / Operational Research / Industrial Engineering / Applied Mathematics
- Min 2 years planning experience
- Mathematics in Matric
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Advanced Excel
BENEFICIAL:
- SAP experience - advantage
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