Supply Planner

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Clicks Group Limited Full time

**Position Summary**:
**Industry**:Wholesale & Retail Trade

**Job category**:Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

**Location**:Cape Town

**Contract**:Permanent

**Remuneration**:Market Related

**EE position**:Yes

**Brand**:Clicks

**Introduction**:
To effectively execute the inventory strategy in assigned categories to manage inventory flow into DC’s and out to stores thereby ensuring optimum inventory levels

**Job description**:
**Job objectives**:

- To effectively develop and achieve replenishment plans based on establishing and maintaining business rules for lead times, safety stock, network, etc. and setting all replenishment parameters
- To effectively manage and monitor budgets, receipt and inventory flow
- To effectively validate monthly forecast and manage open to buy budget
- To achieve Infill and DC Availability metrics
- To work with vendors and the DC on capacity planning in order to manage cost to serve
- To provide forward visibility into all replenishment and ordering requirements both DC and store to minimize stock-outs and/or inventory overruns
- To drive maintaining the distribution network, safety stock levels, and improving customer service by making the product available to meet the demands throughout the distribution network
- To review and act on out of stocks, anticipated out of stocks and low stocks
- To work with the Demand Planner to create a match between supply and demand
- To review causal data and determine reasons for inventory overages, underage’s, excess, and aged stock and resolve with relevant stakeholder
- To review promotional activities while in-flight to determine opportunities
- To review and approve purchase orders and place manual purchase orders as necessary
- To ensure sufficient knowledge of all inventory locations and be able to source products from alternate locations to meet demand (deployment)
- To ensure continuous supplier reviews based on on-time and in full and engage to ensure corrective measures are taken
- To collaborate with buyers, demand planners, suppliers, stores, warehousing, and transportation on inventory flow opportunities to drive cost savings and improved stock efficiency

**Minimum requirements**:
**Job Experience:
**- 3 - 5 years re-buying experience and/or inventory analysis
- Experience with retail buying or supply chain

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Math, Logistics - Essential

**Skills**:

- **
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to build relationships and drive consensus and collaboration across functional groups**
- Forecasting consumer trends and buying habits 9 - 24 months in the future
- Presentation skills with focus being on oral and written communication skills
- Proficiency on MS Office Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point
- Problem solving
- Strong negotiating and influencing skills
- Analytics required to enable above

**Competences:
**- Leading and Deciding
- Interaction and Presenting
- Creating and Conceptualising
- Supporting and Cooperating
- Analysing and Interpreting
- Organising and Executing
- Adapting and Coping
- Enterprising and Performing

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