Demand Planner – ابراهيم القرشي

Job Summary:

Supply Chain Planning Officer is responsible for monitoring and managing global inventories and forecasting sales and production levels for materials that are needed. This includes tracking inventory delivery performance and response time, as well as handling capacity planning and other logistics projects. The role of Supply Chain Planner is critically important to the successful operation of an organization by meeting customer demand, increasing efficiency, decreasing waste, and lowering costs.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Reviewing historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models.
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions.
• Plan both short- and long-term to align supply and demand to support inventory needs
• Project forward-looking inventory positions and financial implications
• Facilitate collaboration meetings with stakeholders and vendors to review purchase forecasts, proposed orders, and other operational issues
• Monitor movement of materials through purchasing, storage, production, and retail distribution
• Set preferred stock levels and prevent excess inventory
• Review supplies to ensure quality, monitor stock levels and maintain accessibility to information
• Build relationships with transportation, warehouse supervisors, and co-workers to achieve higher performance
• Use scheduling software to coordinate deliveries
• Administer Enterprise Resource Planning data for manufacturing
• Develop and monitor internal and external key performance indicators including forecast accuracy and vendor scorecard metrics
• Make recommendations on flow considerations
• Design and create new tools to help improve the planning functions of supply chain
• Prepare detailed reports relating to MRP, back orders, and schedules
• Engage in continuous improvement as it relates to processes and material availability
• Manage relationships with key suppliers to maintain quality of goods, timely delivery, and compliance to terms of contracts
• Monitor weekly and monthly production plans, prioritizing work orders

Job Details

Preferred Candidate