Role Purpose:
This role manages the Company’s Revenue Stream to meet company objectives through the integration of inventory plans into the sales and promotion by forecasting activities associated with customers and products; create and maintain forecast models for the customers; incorporate business intelligence into planning; plan for stock replenishments for new and existing products, manage inventory levels, & eliminate obsolescence and meet or exceed customer order fill rates.
Key responsibilities
Develop & implement inventory systems capable of management of decentralized stock management with multi-hub, stock receipt, transfer & order processing portability.
Inventory planning through demand forecasting based on past sales trends, promotion activities & new product launches.
Ensure optimum use of warehouse space through robust inventory management practices & effective product replenishments.
Manage decentralized inventory planning across all the hubs in liaison with hub manager to ensure company inventory policy is complied with.
Identify and resolve supply exceptions by expediting stock replenishment orders, re-allocating existing inventory and establishing safety stock parameters.
Work closely with the Operations and customer service to ensure target order fill rates are being met for daily customer orders.
Monitor receipts and transfers ensuring timely delivery and availability of product as well as in accordance with the inventory plan.
Planning for any grouping of product, customer, geography or channel to market to meet demand plans. Plan in units, sales values, or costs
Improve business performance through lower supply chain and operating costs, faster cash-to-cash cycle times, and higher customer service levels.
Improve planning and scheduling and resolve potential long-range capacity issues before they become crises.
Continuous assess warehouse requirements & advice management when to plan for expansion or reduction in line with business growth strategy. Align demand to performance to avoid wastage.
Quickly simulate impact of demand and supply changes on profit, service levels, and deployment strategies
Develop business processes that include practices and procedures for demand planning, supply planning, reconciliation and integration of demand, supply financial, and new product plans.
Job Qualifications
Minimum 5 years working experience in Supply Chain environment, of which 3 years should be in Supervisory Role.
Experience with the distribution/inventory management.
Excellent analytical and communications skills.
Prior experience applying supply chain principles including procurement, sourcing, inventory management and logistics.
Must possess strong leadership skills and be well organized, self-motivated, focused on meeting deadlines and able to multitask within a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to support and interact effectively with other core business functions (Sales, Product Development, Distribution and logistics).
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