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Job Description Summary: The Demand Planner will serve as a source of knowledge and experience for the business needs in the assigned region, acting proactively on identifying trends, and managing risk on major inventory categories. Achieving and maintaining specific plant interaction, as well as good communications skills to result in clear objectives with Operations and Procurement improving customer focus. This position will focus on aligning material demand with O&M needs, ensuring material availability, analyzing business inputs and planning future demand, supporting Process Improvement Projects, and developing management reports and presentations on a high level.
Schedule MRP configuration and run for all businesses.
Keep track of KPIs evolution and improvement to ensure process is achieved
Follow global process guidelines
Ensure a quality analysis is made using all data mining and visualization tools from ERP, and facilitate digitalization of tasks
Review Planned orders and manual reservations for needed material and transition to PRs.
Have interaction as well as good communication skills with internal customers, to deliver clear procurement input to the sourcing areas
Identify and work in close communication with Operations resources responsible for projects/maintenance status reviews to understand impacts on stock consumption forecast
Participate in operational planning/Capex status meetings
Coordinate and lead monthly Demand Planning review process
Work with Operational units across the SBU to collect, determine impact, and incorporate sourcing intelligence (consignment, VMI, etc) into the forecast
Separate SKUs necessities from special equipment necessities included in Capex/Opex plans and define the procurement needs as inputs to Procurement Department
Prepare long term forecasted items requirements for high turnover items to be procured as Outline Agreements or Contracts by Procurement Department
Create and analyze (multi)-annual forecast performance
Perform top down and bottom up forecast validation
Review and resolve operational forecast issues and communicate resolution throughout Supply Chain
Ensure proper and intelligible criteria for material requirement planning practices on ERP systems
Have a clear link between the replenishment strategy and the Inventory optimization/reduction initiative
Develop & maintain operational forecast by item segment in the ERP Demand Planning system
Define Inventory category (groups/subgroups) management strategies for the different businesses in the SBU
Serves as a source of knowledge and experience for the business needs in the region acting proactively on identifying trends, managing risk on major items categories
Review material master data & planning parameters and provide new or updated information to Shared Service Center to process
Support and update the Material Master and focus on duplicates and taxonomy.
Monitor and follow up with Procurement teams on created PO’s and coordinate deliveries of materials based on the demand of the O&M team
Monitor and follow up with procurement and operations on untimely PR’s.
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