Planner: Demand - Roodepoort at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary
Clover is looking for a Planner: Demand to create and maintain product forecasts for customer groups, to join our Supply Chain Planning department. This position is based at the Clover Head Office in Roodepoort.

Requirements

• Degree.
• Relevant experience in applying job-related concepts, techniques, and processes at the required level.
• Business English: Fluent.
• Experience in working with senior management.
• Computer literacy (Advanced).

Competencies

• Proactive and action-oriented.
• Must be a team player.
• Achieves results effectively.
• Maintains high standards.
• Commitment and motivation.
• Collaborates with others to achieve a common objective.
• Customer-oriented.
• Communicates effectively.
• Ability to plan and organize.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop Demand Forecast on Daily/Weekly/Monthly Basis

• Generate statistical-based forecasts, review exceptions, clean history, validate assumptions, and analyze variance between expected and actual results.
• Facilitate monthly rolling demand plans per product group, SKU, and/or SKU family.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Principals, and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence (MDT).
• Collect data, analyze historical trends, promotions, analyze market intelligence, and map events.
• Monitor demand plans daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective actions.
• Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates.
• Analyze deviations and demand changes and present findings to a multi-discipline team.
• Monitor monthly forecast vs. weekly forecast and take corrective actions.
• Develop and track holiday planning forecasts.
• Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches, and forecasts.

Create, Analyze, Communicate Reports

• Analyze and communicate order fill rates (supply levels to customers).
• Run forecast error reports, analyze and learn from reasons for error.
• Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions.
• Conduct trend analysis on SKUs and communicate corrective actions.
• Analyze and communicate possible ranging per region.
• Run weekly forecast error reports per distribution area/SKU.
• Run and communicate promotional tracking reports.

Optimize and Review Ideal Inventory Levels

• Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels.
• Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities.
• Action stock reports, communicate overstocks, and take action to move stock.

Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master Data

• Create new items.
• Phase out discontinued items.
• Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file).
• Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders).
• Maintain factory per branch item master.
• Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days.

Facilitate New Product Launches Between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning

• Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches.
• Analyze/Identify similar products.
• Generate forecasts per region.
• Monitor/action/report on new launch projects.
• Monitor product trends and adjust forecasts.