Inventory Management
- Serve as a liaison between planning and inventory management to build delivery plans & flow forecasts
- Responsible for building effective inventory strategies that align with financial objectives of the company
- Accountable for collaborating with Inventory Management Lead and FG Planner to resolve issues related to product shipment delays
- Recommend exception management activities
- Support preparation of country S&OP and recommend profitable inventory decisions
- Support MBR preparation and inventory forecast for F4/7/10
- Responsible for driving demand and supply reconciliation process across Greater China
- Driving process standardization and ways of working improvement to better support cross functional teams mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan markets
Manage Supply and Demand Optimally
- Run monthly Greater China SOP meetings
- Reviews and interprets ship risk reports, recommends and supports action plans to mitigate risks.
- Work with regional Supply Planning to submit sizing ratios for products and ensure they meet demand requirements.
- Prepare, track and make recommendations regarding the ‘availability to sell’ report on a monthly basis.
- Tracking of inbound deliveries, PO’s placed ex-factory dates, size ratios, drops and quantities ordered. Monitor global drops and freeze lists. Ensure all changes are made in the Inventory Tracker/Channel Allocation report
- “Close Out” PC9’s as per Product Life Cycle and work with Merchandise Planners on Close Out report / meeting each month and Update the masterfile monthly to track “active” PC9’s
- Submit inventory and IPS plans monthly and for annual operating plans and board forecasts
Support Forecasting and Planning Activity
- Liaise with Supply Planning and Sales in order to adjust product flow to the sales accounts based on product availability which includes AGR and CID (cancellation, improvements & deferments)
- Quickly troubleshoots unusual situations pertaining to demand flow along with the MP teams and align on execution of solutions.
- Continuously spots opportunities for process improvement within supply & demand management flow
- Key touchpoint and owner for any inter-company requests or execution
- Escalates critical items to the Inventory Management Vice President, Asia & Europe
- Supply and Demand alignment including WOW
- Inventory Snapshot
- Drive demand and supply alignment cross functionally
- Inventory Units & Value(IPS)
- Cross-channel Inventory Allocation
- Core IPS (Demand, Supply & Safety Stock Management)
- Drive Inventory Health & Effectiveness
- Mitigate supply & ship risk
- Reduce E&O and 360 days ageing
- Ad hoc analysis as needed
People:
- Two direct reports
- Managing planner work assignment and balancing appropriately workload
- Provide coaching to planners under your responsibility and work with planner on their career development plan
- Anticipate hurdles for team and drive mitigation actions
- Lookout for business process automation and efficiency improvement opportunities