Senior Allocation and CPFR Planner

Role Overview:

The Senior Allocation and CPFR Planner is responsible for ensuring efficient allocation planning and serving as the conduit between customers and the demand planning team to support Collaboration Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) duties. This role focuses on collaborating closely with the demand planning team, sales team, as well our Channel Partners to assist in executing a robust demand plan and communicating any supply delays or constraints. This role involves understanding the individual accounts’ business strategy and assisting with overall demand planning in an effort to maximize our Forecast Accuracy. Additionally, this role focuses on executing allocation plans across multiple warehouses to ensure orders are being allocated as per plan. The role works closely with the Order Management, Supply, Sales and Marketing teams to plan allocation priorities in the system for on-time order processing and shipments.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Allocation Planning

• • Execute allocation plans and maintain weekly allocation quantities on constrained SKUs with inventory shortages to ensure optimal distribution of products across various channels
  • Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand the allocation splits across top accounts
  • Load SKU-Customer allocations into SAP S4/IBP
  • Track order and shipment against allocation, redistribute if necessary
  • Coordinate with Order Management to ensure accurate and timely execution
  • Monitor allocation plans based on sales trends and inventory availability and advise stakeholders accordingly
  • Partner with Marketing on setting up SKUs for manual allocation
  • Identify out of footprint opportunities and coordinate with the demand and supply planning team as well as internal stakeholders to resolve

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, & Replenishment (CPFR)

• • Serve as the liaison between customers, demand managers, and internal stakeholders to facilitate the CPFR process
  • Facilitate meetings and communications with Customers to provide insights and ensure cohesiveness
  • Review customer data such as POS trends, Inventory Coverage, In Stocks, store/ placement changes
  • Track customer forecast accuracy and align with the accounts on the SKUs/Categories requiring the most attention in improving our joint forecast
  • Summarize forecast changes for the customer account demand plans and highlight major impacts to the Demand and Supply Planners team
  • Review customer in-stocks and create root cause and corrective action analysis for items that fall below the agreed service level agreement (SLA)
  • Clearly communicate to the accounts any supply-related issues Brother is having including but not limited to factory/in-transit delays, production capacity constraints, and warehouse constraints
  • Collaborate between Demand Planning, Marketing and Supply team to understand challenges per SKU/category
  • Assist the Demand Planning team in improving Forecast Accuracy by sharing timely and accurate data/ information from customers as well as internal teams
  • Enhance supply chain efficiency by analyzing data, reporting and managing KPIs

Team Support

• • Support the planning team with reporting, data analysis, meeting facilitation, and process improvement execution
  • Identify inefficiencies in the current allocation processes and provide insights and recommendations.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies that enhance team productivity and performance

 

Experience & Qualifications:

Education

• • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain or related degree

Experience

• • 5 + years of experience in Inventory Management, Procurement, Demand Planning

Certifications

• • APICS or ISM certification such as CSCP, CPIM, and or CPSM Preferred

 

Software/Technical Skills

• • Data Analysis and Forecasting tools (Excel, SAP, Tableau, etc.) Preferred

Other Skills

• • Inventory Management Skills
  • Excellent mathematical and analytical skills
  • Interpersonal skills and ability to build and improve trusting relationships
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to analyze large sets of data to forecast demand, track inventory levels, and develop actionable insights from data
  • Proficiency in documenting processes, maintaining accurate records, and generating comprehensive reports.

 

Additional Details for This Role:

This role will be a hybrid role. Subject to business needs, employees may work remotely up to two days per week. Assigned office days will be determined by managers. #LI-Hybrid
Base Salary

• • The targeted base salary range for this position is $ 90,000.00- $105,000.00per year.
  • Base salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the successful candidate, as well as factors such as internal equity, cost of labor in the hiring location, and alignment with market data.