DEMAND & SUPPLY PLANNER
NESTLE SAUDI ARABIA
Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months
• Demand & Supply Planning for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia handling for branches (Jeddah, Riyadh, Khobar & Abha)
• Handling day to day supply planning operations and ensuring stock availability of all branches.
• Driving the Consensus Demand Planning meeting by facilitate to Sales and Marketing, with the collaborate collected data’s and quantify the demand by brand and SKU level for next 6months as rolling forecast.
• Facilitate monthly S&OP meetings to communicate historical data and review upcoming forecast projects to Sales, Marketing, Finance & Senior Management to bridge the gap against forecast & Budget (OP).
• Timely communicate information to all stakeholders using the appropriate communication method
• Consult with functional teams such as Central DSP Team, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Product Development to obtain relevant data and insights on demand
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to influence the demand on the supply chain and prioritize demand for order fulfillment based on business objectives and customer segmentation
• Participate as the demand owner/representative in an organization’s sales and operations planning process, to enable demand-supply balancing analysis
• Confer with management on demand planning and forecasting assumptions, analysis, and decisions
• Prepare reports and statistics related to the demand planning and forecasting function
• Manage forecast models, analyze trends, manage forecast tools, and maintain accurate data
• Develop and measure key performance indicators to track and evaluate forecasts made, to assist in assessing the effectiveness of the demand planning & forecasting function, and to work towards continuous improvement
• Support business, marketing, inventory or production strategies, and organizational / supply chain improvement opportunities to meet market needs
• Leading the Demand Planning process on strong level and generating high level forecast accuracy, helping to control the inventory.
• Maintain system forecast in APO and drive accurate system-generated forecast, SAP input with a high degree of accuracy.
• Review and assess risk to supply and demand variability and identify opportunities to manage and mitigate risk
• Develop, implement and use tools and technology for managing and analyzing the supplier portfolio
• Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with all stakeholders Stock Management: Safety stock, average stock, slow movers and non-movers minimization, write-off’s, implement action plans for resolution with commercial and marketing team.
• Reporting out of stock / over stocks based on that indent with Factory (FGP) & coordinate with logistics team for timely supply stocks to achieve weekly sales
• Use the sales forecast, inventory and transits as key input for replenishment planning module for branches.
• Control inventory levels within the branches as per agreed targets,
• Consider warehouse capacity constraints; implement structured work flows to deliver improvements on customer ordering trends to maximize regional targets.
• MIS - Monthly Forecast Accuracy, Weekly & Monthly Supply Analysis, RCA Report, Category Trend Analysis’s
• Coach and mentor staff as required
• Perform and/or direct day to day administrative tasks.
Demand & Supply Planning geographically covers 21 branches of Saudi Arabia in addition exports to 6 Nations.