Supply Chain Planner

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Ensure the effective execution of the flow of stock through the value chain in order to achieve sales growth, availability, waste, working capital and reducing distribution costs. Integrate with cross functional stakeholders to understand strategies and targets and translate this into qualitative forecasts, sales plans and vendor orders.

Minimum requirements

• BCom Logistics/Degree in Quantitative Analytics/Operational Research/Industrial Engineering/Applied Mathematics (RPL)
• SQL (Structured Query Language), Power BI and Access advantageous
• 2 years Retail, Supply Chain or Planning experience and/or at least 1 year PnP-specific experience

Competencies

• Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Data Accuracy & Attention to Detail
• Judgement & Decision Making
• Drive
• Flexibility
• Positive, willing attitude
• Networking/Liaison
• Organisational Awareness
• Influencing
• Verbal & Written Communication
• Business Insights
• Environmental Scanning
• Prioritising Tasks
• Monitoring

Sales Plan

Create sales plan:

• Create weekly sales plans for assigned categories using the module document and Standardised T-4 planning process.
• Consolidate all inputs required to plan for promotions, cannibalization, events, seasonal/weather/price changes, and plan accordingly.
• Use annualization trend reports to understand previous year sales base compared to current year and identify trade opportunities where there are gaps.
• Use standardised planning and reporting tools for accurate sales planning and execution
• Understanding the business sales plans and strategy and base your category forecast on these plans.
• Plan for upcoming promotions by extracting upcoming promotional information from the Adnote tool and adhering to the relevant T-5 Promotional planning processes.
• Create a sales and execution plan for new article and seasonal launches.
• Plan for store specific nuances i.e. changing trends, revamps, new stores and for store specific events communicated by the Store Execution Team

Follow the DILO & Rhythm document as set and communicated by your line manager

Incorporate historical forecast accuracy into future planning process and numbers to drive more accurate sales planning and forecasting.

Liaise with business on the sales plan:

• Follow a set weekly rhythm with commercial teams to understand sales strategies and agree on forecast values at T-3
• Share weekly sales plan with divisional teams and distribute agreed sales forecast numbers at T-2.
• Escalate significant differences between sales targets, commercial sales plan and the retail sales forecast.

Operational Execution

Sales Plan Execution:

• Load forecast DIFs in SAP to ensure the system forecast reflects your category sales plan and promotional forecast.
• Follow processes and methods communicated by line management to ensure all forecast uploads are accurate.

• Ensure replenishment parameters are set correctly to reflect the sales plan and forecast accurately.
• Revise min display rules on a regular basis to ensure optimized min display settings.
• Ensure in-week forecast profiles are set correctly to accurately reflect in-week sales demand of stores and articles. Ensure that shelf life is set correctly in SAP for lines linked to assigned category.
• Ensure replenishment master data fields are set correctly for accurate and correct execution of system replenishment.

T-Action and Monitoring:

• Make use of available standardized reports and tools for daily execution and monitoring of orders and sales plans.
• Monitor orders daily to ensure order trends reflect sales plan and in-week forecast distribution.
• Track sales, waste, working capital and availability KPIs daily to ensure sales plans are executed correctly.
• Monitor sales vs forecast and adjust sales plans accordingly to ensure forecast and replenishment parameters reflect customer demand.
• Work through daily and weekly KPI exceptions (available on the story board report for fresh categories) and take action as per guidance provided by your line manager.
• Highlight and elevate any KPI or operational risks identified and work with your line manager to resolve identified issues.
• Understand root cause on high returns and implement solutions that will proactively reduce/avoid returns.
• Execute New article and/or seasonal launches in adherence with the launch process.
• Manage DC stock holding on bulk lines and take responsibility for the ordering process and main