Senior Executive/AM - Demand Planning & Forecasting - Supply Chain Solutions

Key Responsibility Areas :

- Create a single demand forecast with input from multiple roles (e.g., sales, marketing, finance and others) within the organization with a consensus forecasting process.

- Include causal factors (e.g., weather, natural disasters, competitor actions) into demand forecasts and to model events (e.g., sales promotions, marketing events, economic activities).

- Make rapid product introduction decisions and allocate forecasts down to the SKU level.

- Integrate the order management process with the demand planning process.

- Use the demand forecast as an input into the sales and operations planning process.

- Implement performance metrics to measure the return on forecasting value.

- Shape demand using what-if analysis and scenario planning.

- Segment demand forecasts based on key product or customer characteristics.

- Use statistical forecasting methods, software tools such as SAP APO or Demand Planner tool like ARIMA.

- Report demand metrics automatically across the corporate enterprise.

- Measure order fill rates and customer service levels.

- Link demand forecasting and supply planning using a sales and operations planning process.

- Continuously improving forecasting techniques, method, and approach

KPI's :

- Reduce information overload by focusing on the - critical- KPI- s

- Enable exception-based management by comparing performance vs. plan

- Drilldown reveals source of variance

- Provide trended performance analysis

- Increase visibility and accountability

- Simple and intuitive interface to data

- Standardize key metrics across the enterprise, customers and vendors with high accessibility

- Increase the timeliness and decrease the cost of reporting