Demand Planning Operation & SIOP, Thailand

Essential Duties and Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Animate the regional monthly collaborative sales forecast process (CSF) for Country Selected full transactional business scope/Division assign such as (HD, PP, DE, IA).

Require building the consensus with key business owners with each BU/Product line in charge about future demand outlook, with consideration all related factors such as historical sales, phase in/phase out, cannibalization, causal factor, market trends, seasonality, promotion, inventory level, price changes, lead time & generate statistical following Kinaxis Tools.

• Lead the monthly SIOP with participation of Country President, Business Units VPs, Country CFO, GSC Logistics head, CS&Q Director, and other related function.

Articulate the key demand, inventory and operation challenge in respective BU/Zone or country and facilitate the consensus discussion for solution and decision.

• Supporting Distribution Requirement Planning Process (DRP) with country Supply planner & LoB planner to ensure all the basic parameters like forecast, unhealthy stock, excess, obsolescence Inventory Management must be maintained correctly inside Kinaxis & SAP system & full communicated to Supply Planner

• Lead & Work together with Logistic Analyst by Weekly related revenue risk with the support from Ops Interlock Process (Backlog analysis & Forecast Analysis)

• Weekly meeting with Commercial team and key customer to have the visibility & support needed/Co-Planning if directed.

• Support the inventory planning, stocking policy & safety stock management.in term of forecasting perspective & do Co-Planning with key customer.

• Make recommended adjustments to forecast to influence the inventory targets (input: forecast accuracy, forecast value add-ed, unhealthy stock level, customer OTDC, stocking policy, safety stock management) based on changes in demand and market trends, target to manage inventory level, inventory health and minimize the provision rate.

• Monthly review CSF Flags, forecast item configuration, choose the feasible forecast model for each forecast item group (more into Master Data supports for forecasting tools)

• Training & coordinate with Offer Marketing to improve the efficiency of the forecast planning process.

Complete relevant reports (weekly & monthly) as and when directed + work closely with operational Teams

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.


* Strong background in Demand Supply planning & Forecasting.

Working knowledge of IBF (Integrated Business Forecasting), SIOPs (Sales & Operations Planning)


* Experience using SAP (Kinaxis/Similar tools, DRP, MM module) &/or Kinaxis (sales forecast and DRP module), or other ERP statistical software packages.


* Strong analytical abilities /Hig...