Analyst: Demand Planning at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary    

• Clover is looking for Analyst: Demad Planning  to create 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. 

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 (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

Duties and 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