Description:
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 master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet RESPONSIBILITIES:- Categorise products
- 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 impact on volume/price/daily operation
- Group and classification of 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 accuracy of statistical method used
- Improve methods and errors on an ongoing basis
- Improve forecasting process in terms of data cleansing for budget, Monthly, weekly & daily forecast
- Compile, update, refresh and distribute reports
- Compile performance graphs
- Distribute weekly gap analysis between Actual vs. Budget, Volume & MOM by customer 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/product/group per time series
- Identify per time series your outliers
- Determine the cause of the outliers
- Assis in the creation of best in class processes to improve forecast accuracy
- Analyse Shortsupplies 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
- Coach and develop people
- Solves problems through effective decision making.
- Clear and sound reasoning ability
- Pro – active and Action Orientated (Initiative)
- Brings a strategic contribution
- Lead and drive change for improvement
- Customer orientated
- Thinking and reasoning logically
- Communicates effectively
- Ability to plan and organize
- Ability to apply numerical principles
Requirements:
- Categorise products
- 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 impact on volume/price/daily operation
- Group and classification of 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 accuracy of statistical method used
- Improve methods and errors on an ongoing basis
- Improve forecasting process in terms of data cleansing for budget, Monthly, weekly & daily forecast
- Compile, update, refresh and distribute reports
- Compile performance graphs
- Distribute weekly gap analysis between Actual vs. Budget, Volume & MOM by customer 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/product/group per time series
- Identify per time series your outliers
- Determine the cause of the outliers
- Assis in the creation of best in class processes to improve forecast accuracy
- Analyse Shortsupplies and set parameters for improvement
- 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
- Coach and develop people
- Solves problems through effective decision making.
- Clear and sound reasoning ability
- Pro – active and Action Orientated (Initiative)
- Brings a strategic contribution
- Lead and drive change for improvement
- Customer orientated
- Thinking and reasoning logically
- Communicates effectively
- Ability to plan and organize
- Ability to apply numerical principles
04 Apr 2025;
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