About the role:
The role will assist the Demand & Supply Planning Manager in managing vendors and end-to-end inventory management to ensure continuous supply. You will be required to coordinate with multiple stakeholders to plan, analyze, organize, evaluates for the allocation process.
What will you be doing
- Perform end-to-end of the order cycle for Grocery inventory management including coordinating with the suppliers and distribution centres, to ensure timely delivery of goods to island-wide stores.
- Responsible for healthy on-shelf availability of inventories to meet customers demands.
- Work closely with Planners on weekly demand forecasting activities, and plan and communicate weekly allocation to stores.
- Follow up on exceptions and costing in the system
- Work with flow-through suppliers to secure stocks for promotions and festive.
- Work closely with the suppliers for timely rebuy of all perishable SKUs and continuously improve on service level including van sales, DSP vendors.
- Responsible for optimising inventory levels to meet customer demand while minimising excess stock and improve stock holding by managing MOQs and delivery frequency.
- Work closely with the Commercial team and the distribution centres to anticipate and manage promotions, festive build-ups, new products, excess products, and discontinued items exit strategies.
- Work closely with the Commercial team to manage slow moving stocks and plan for timely clearance.
- Utilize demand forecasting, inventory analysis, and other data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement in replenishment processes and performance
- Monitor and track KPI, drive performance and perform root cause analysis
- Management of key upscale indent vendors.
- Ensure full compliance on processes and audit and highlight any exceptions.
About You
- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or equivalent
- Minimum 1 year of work experience in similar capacity.
- Experienced in forecasting, data analytics, inventory planning, supply chain concepts, statistical forecasting, and related processes.
- Proficient in advanced Microsoft Excel, Power Query, Power BI and analytical skills will be an added advantage.
- Knowledge of SAP and DC operational routines in Retail industry is an added advantage.
- Dynamic, self-motivated, and able to work under pressure.
- Strong analytical capability, negotiation, communication (spoken & written) and planning skills.
