Job Advert Summary

• Clover is looking for a Planner: Demand to  join the Supply Chain Planning department. The succesful candidate will create and maintain product forecast for customer groups with Clover. This position is base at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort.

Requirements

• Degree in Supply Chain Management or Logistics
• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
• Business English: Fluent
• Experience in working with senior management
• Computer literacy and Excel (Advanced)

Competencies

• Proactive and action orientated
• Approaches situations with an open mind and solves problems creatively
• Acts with honesty and consistency
• Clear and sound reasoning ability
• Solves problems through effective decision making.
• Displays resilience, determination and flexibility
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective
• Commitment and motivation
• Brings a strategic contribution
• Administrative capabilities
• Thinking and reasoning logically
• Communicates effectively
• Ability to apply numerical principles
• Ability to plan and organize

Duties and Responsibilities
Develop demand forecast on daily/weekly/monthly (Clover and/or Principals)

• Generate statistical based forecast, review exceptions, cleans history, validate assumptions, analyse variance between expected and actual results
• Facilitate monthly rolling demand plan per product Group and/or SKU and/or SKU Family
• Collaborate with Marketing, Principals and Key Accounts to obtain market intelligence (MDT)
• Collect data, analyse historical trends, promotions, analyse market intelligence, map events
• Monitor demand plan daily/weekly/monthly and take corrective action
• Conduct promotional tracking and analysis in terms of volumes and dates
• Analyse deviations and demand changes and present findings to multi discipline team
• Monitor monthly forecast vs weekly forecast and take corrective action
• Develop/track holiday planning forecast
• Collaborate with Supply Planners and discuss future promotions, launches and forecast

Create, analyse, communicate reports

• Analyse and communicate order fill rate (supply levels to customers)
• Run forecast error report, analyse and learn from reason for error
• Draw reports on new listings/discontinuation and facilitate solutions
• Conduct trend analysis on sku’s and communicate corrective action
• Analyse and communicate possible ranging per region
• Run weekly forecast error report per distribution area\sku
• Run and communicate promotional tracking report

Optimise and review ideal inventory levels

• Calculate and communicate ideal buffer stocks according to forecast accuracy levels
• Calculate and communicate minimum and maximum order quantities
• Action stock reports, communicate overstocks and take action to move stock

Maintain Supply Chain Planning Master data

• Create new items
• Phase out discontinued items
• Maintain forecastable items to location (CIC file)
• Maintain distribution relationships (direct deliveries or re-supply orders)
• Maintain factory per branch item master
• Maintain/Setup days to trade (DTT), primary distribution days

Facilitate new product launches between Marketing, Trade Marketing & Supply Chain Planning

• Collaborate with Marketing regarding new launches
• Analyse/Identify similar product
• Generate forecast per region
• Monitor/action/report on new launch project
• Monitor product trend and adjust forecast