Advisor, Material Planning

Accountabilities

• Understands product demand requirements for assigned products to ensure appropriate level of supply.
• Aligns forecast assumptions with segment forecasters.
• Translates customer and financial requirements to actionable forecasts for Operations and Procurement.
• Governs demand consumption rates and provides early warning and mitigation options to supply issues.
• Maintains Continuity of Supply (COS) for assigned products to maintain standard lead times.
• Works with the supply chain to correct supply imbalances, both excesses and shortages, as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
• Establishes demand shaping programs with segments during times of supply imbalances or when required to meet a shift in the regional marketing or financial plans.
• Manages product/peripheral transition to avoid delivery delay and E&O.

• Provides segments with the Forecast Assumptions package that must contain the product roadmaps, RTS dates, EOML dates, cost, price, form, feature, and function and market share.
• Analyzes supply-demand relationship to determine appropriate lead-time.
• Understands price and lead-time elasticity of products, and incorporates this into lead-time management and forecast.
• Works with product launch teams to ensure that products are successfully introduced into the marketplace and that products launch with accurate forecast and supply.
• Understands Bill of Materials (BOM) structure.
• Understands supply chain design and flexibility.
• Assesses supply supportability position for commodities and identifies mitigation alternatives for COS issues.
• Analyses data and provides recommendations to team and leadership within the function.