Analyst: Demand Planning (Short Shelf Life)

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NES021417/Phind

Date posted:

Friday, April 4, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
You will be responsible for creating realistic demand forecasts by category to enable the supply chain planning process to function optimally and to provide consolidated information to commercial department for company forecasting. Draws up the master schedule to establish the sequence and lead time of each operation.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

Categorise products to determine synergies and reaction to external conditions (variables)
Determine disaggregate and aggregate levels and factors
Classify events
Identify and mark all events with an impact on volume/price/daily operations
Group and classify events by finding similarities between events
Set parameters and guidelines for Demand Planners to apply in forecasting
Determine statistical forecast methods to be used
Determine the monthly, weekly and daily methods to be used
Analyse different forecast errors per method and set parameters to measure the accuracy of the statistical method used
Improve methods and errors on an ongoing basis
Improve the forecasting process in terms of data cleansing for budget, monthly, weekly & daily forecasts
Compile, update, refresh and distribute reports
Compile performance graphs
Distribute the weekly gap analysis between actual vs. budget, volume & MOM by customer and by product category
Compile management reports
Distribute weekly short supply analysis
Create reporting & automated system alerts to proactively identify forecast exceptions
Identify and analyse outliers
Determine outlier band per product category/group, per time series
Identify per time series for outliers
Determine the cause of the outliers
Assist with the creation of best in class processes to improve forecast accuracy
Analyse short supplies and set parameters for improvement

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree
Business English: Fluent
Code 08 driver's license
Travel off-site/overnight stay
Computer literacy (intermediate)
Working with senior management
Strong analytical skills
Effective communication skills

Competencies:

Coach and develop people
Solves problems through effective decision making
Clear and sound reasoning ability
Pro-active and action orientated (shows initiative)
Brings a strategic contribution
Leads and drives change for improvement
Customer orientated
Thinks and reasons logically
Communicates effectively
Ability to plan and organize
Ability to apply numerical principles

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