Kloudhire

Demand and Distribution Planner Location: Alsip, IL

Location : HINSDALE, IL
Posted on : 09-08-2023
Job Type : Full Time only
Salary : 100,000 - 200,000

Job Description:

Demand and Distribution Planner Location: Alsip, IL
Demand Planning : Develop and execute rolling 24 month demand plan to meet organizational goals

Develop demand forecasts based on demand patterns and business trends.
Work with customers, sales team, marketing and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy. Schedule monthly forecast meetings as required.
Maintain demand planning processes and systems to improve forecasting accuracy. Identify areas of improvements and recommend action plans.
Develop, analyze data and report KPIs and demand planning metrics, identifying risks and opportunities
Coordinate with supply planning team as it relates to constraints, upsides and validation of supply plan vs demand plan
Participate in various meetings as it related to demand planning in the IBP model

Distribution Planning: Ensure the effective management and distribution of stock

Proactively placing product to cut lead times for customer from order to delivery. Coordinate with logistics and warehousing team to maximize cost efficiencies.
DRP Data Management: Keeping system data accurate to minimize stock returns, credit notes, re-work, etc.
Adjustments to demand plan in Demantra to support production planners, ASCP, and DRP in Oracle.
Coordinate with demand planner to ensure product is supplied to correct regions to support demand plan and sales initiatives, market timing and allocations.
Slow Moving stock management: Raising awareness of slow moving stock amongst commercial team in order to minimize inventory holding costs.
Management and communication of exceptions reporting to ensure on time delivery for customer orders. i.e consumption reporting, BTO/MTO, selling
Demand Control: Identifies and manages issues in short term demand / supply
Communication of over/under selling to demand plan and facilitating resolutions
Proactively balancing stock cover to maximize profitability and minimize working capital costs, attend weekly production meetings
Compare open orders to existing inventory and future demand to identify SKU??s where Demand should be adjusted, work with appropriate Sales Manager to ensure adjustments are made.
Review and evaluate demand/supply synchronization on a daily basis in order to respond more quickly and proactively to potential demand/supply imbalances
Back up for Demand Planner
Customer & Sales Demand Planning Consolidation: Oversee Open Order Management
Partner with Demand Planner Commercial & Customer Service teams to drive monthly target achievement by converting open orders into sales by providing exception reports from ASCP
Work with sales on communication of allocations / supply shortages to optimize order management/shipping
Liaise with supply to understand and communicate production timing to ensure customer excellence on current orders, MTO, BTO etc.
Attend monthly demand reviews and DMR meetings to understand long term demand strategy and balance with short term requirements