Demand Planning & Forecasting Role - FMCD/Retail

Demand Planning & forecasting

- Develop an aggregate demand plan to arrive at the consensus numbers which will be used in developing deployment and Procurement plans

- Work with Sales and Marketing and lead Consensus meeting to derive the final forecast numbers (Both for the current and next fiscal)

- Drive improvement in forecast accuracy by analyzing existing processes and making recommendations; drive tracking of the performance of SKUs. Accuracy tracking would be at the high level (monthly/item forecasts) and at lower levels of detail (Weekly/ item/location)

- Review how various forecasts split proportionately in comparison to recent history

- Coordinate with supply to identify supply constraints for the projected demand and its impact on the overall unconstrained plan

- Facilitate business development through the planning of new product life cycle and generate the forecast for new products using Like Modelling

- Develop SOPs for new processes in operations and responsible for initiating, implementing & enforce process quality.