Demand Planning Manager

Location Tokyo
Discipline Supply Chain & Procurement
Job type Permanent
Salary Negotiatable
Reference 37650

【COMPANY OVERVIEW】

European home appliance maker

 

【JOB RESPONSIBILITIES】

  • Responsible for developing a short, medium- and long-term forecast (18 months rolling) for the assigned channels/customers including new launches with cross functional collaboration with sales, product line, marketing & finance.

  • Developing effective forecast models based on industry trends and demand patterns which includes Statistical Baseline generation and outlier corrections, incl. sell-out and channel inventory.

  • Identifying and mitigating risks that could impact demand forecasts, such as supply chain disruptions or changes in market conditions, including seasonal slowdowns or upcoming promotions

  • Improve monthly Forecast Accuracy and reduce Forecast Bias to have optimum inventory & less write offs in the business.

  • Create visibility on Excess & SLOB to the business commercial team to enable creation of liquidation plan fully reflected in Demand plan within monthly S&OP cycle.

  • Manage correct SLA/Safety stocks based on the statistical safety stocks modeling and with the agreement from supply planning team.

  • Manage E2E phase in and phase out plan to have minimum SLOB while improving “Time to Market” for NPI, Responsible for activities related to Supply Chain within launch planning process.

 

【REQUIREMENTS】 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Production Engineering, Business Management, Foreign Trade, Statistics, etc.

  • At least 5– 8 years of experience in Demand Planning, working with the sales teams & customers

  • Strong knowledge of overall S&OP, demand planning, forecasting, scheduling & MRP techniques and SAR ERP systems such as SAP – ECC, SAP APO, SAP IBP etc.

  • People & team management experience,

  • MS Office advanced.

  • Advanced English.

  • Available for international travels

 

【FOR FURTHER INFORMATION】

Contact NAME: Luigi Cirillo

  Luigi.cirillo@cornerstone.jp

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