Supply Chain Specialist

Here at Avanos Medical, we passionately believe in three things:

• Making a difference in our products, services and offers, never ceasing to fight for groundbreaking solutions in everything we do;
• Making a difference in how we work and collaborate, constantly nurturing our nimble culture of innovation;
• Having an impact on the healthcare challenges we all face, and the lives of people and communities around the world.

At Avanos you will find an environment that strives to be independent and different, one that supports and inspires you to excel and to help change what medical devices can deliver, now and in the future.

Avanos is a medical device company focused on delivering clinically superior breakthrough solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. We are committed to creating the next generation of innovative healthcare solutions which will address our most important healthcare needs, such as reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we develop, manufacture and market recognized brands in more than 90 countries.

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The Demand & Supply Planner role will be reporting to the ANZ Supply Chain and Customer Care Manager and will be accountable for driving S&OP Process, optimizing the supply of finished goods from demand, procurement, sourcing, and shipment to customers as well as perfomrming logistic /operations activities, managing day to day 3PL warehouse tasks. Drive continuous improvement projects in transport and warehouse operation by working with 3PL.

Drive cost savings and efficiency in transport and warehouse cost. The individual will be a key business partner to support sales, marketing, and distribution teams.

This position contributes to effective planning of the national stock, international replenishment plans with vendors and effective deployment of inventory, analysis of inventory health, Perfomrming day to day 3PL activities, new product introduction and driving S&OP Process to ensure the best business outcomes.

• Lead S&OP process by Utilizing a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing and Finance to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts to improve forecast accuracy results.
  • Engage Sales & marketing team in discussions
  • Present accurate and clear presentation slides.
  • Analyse the data prior to the meeting and provide insights based on your data analysis
  • Capture accurate meeting minutes and follow up
• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.
• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Closely coordinate and communicate business action plans with Global supply planning, Demand planning and Marketing.
• Lead root-cause analysis into major forecast variances
• Lead initiatives to improve forecast accuracy
• Maintain demand plan to accurate represent future customer demand for the next 24 months
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive actions in identifying potential demand issues quickly, reduce inventory obsolescence risk.
• Use Effectively demand planning tool to develop accurate statistical forecast by running batch jobs, removing history abnormalities, maintaining system parameters accurately and making sales and marketing adjustment by using uploading tools.
• Communicate pro-actively with Sales and marketing when demand execution (sell-thru) falls short or over expectation to understand if forecast reinstates required & work with supplier to manage return to targeted supply & inventory coverage.

• Develop a supply plan for imported traded/Finished goods and monitor short to medium term fluctuations in inventory level vs. target
• Set Inventory levels across ANZ to meet local sales plan and ensure outstanding customer service.
• Using S4 hana and advanced planning tools (Demand solution or any other demand planning tool) the role expects individuals to execute supply and demand planning to identify demand & supply imbalances, check and maintain inventory target levels, inventory health, lead Product rollover.
  • Maintain accurate safety stock level,
  • Review and Maintain accurate planning parameters in S4 HANA
  • Set inventory targets.
  • Develop reporting for analysis purpose,
  • Do daily root cause analysis of…