Demand Planning & Allocations Analyst

At Schylling, we create timeless moments of joy, laughter, and imagination for kids of all ages. Since 1975, we’ve been designing toys that spark creativity, inspire play, and bring smiles, whether through cherished classics or fresh innovations with a nostalgic twist. The Schylling portfolio includes iconic brands like Nee Doh®, LAVA® Lamp, Big Wheel®, Sea-Monkeys®, and many beloved classic toys, each crafted to encourage curiosity, discovery, and a sense of wonder.

Join us in bringing play to the world!

The Demand Planning & Allocations Analyst plays a key role in ensuring Schylling has the right inventory, in the right quantities, at the right time, to meet customer demand.

This role combines demand planning, inventory analysis, forecasting, and inventory allocation. The Analyst will analyze historical sales, customer demand, open orders, inventory availability, incoming purchase orders, and supply constraints to develop actionable recommendations for purchasing, inventory planning, and customer fulfillment.

The position will also manage and optimize inventory allocations within our ERP (Net Suite), ensuring available and incoming inventory is appropriately allocated to customer orders based on demand, customer priorities, expected receipts, and business needs.

This role serves as a critical cross-functional partner to Sales, Purchasing, Customer Service, Operations, and Warehouse teams. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, comfortable working with large amounts of data, and able to translate data into clear business recommendations.

• Analyze historical sales, customer demand, seasonality, trends, promotions, new product launches, and other relevant demand signals to support accurate forecasting.
• Develop, maintain, and update demand forecasts for assigned products and categories.
• Analyze changes in customer demand and identify trends that may impact inventory requirements.
• Compare forecasted demand to actual sales and identify significant variances, trends, and potential risks.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to incorporate business intelligence and upcoming activities into demand planning.
• Identify products with increasing or decreasing demand and assess the potential impact on inventory requirements.
• Support monthly and periodic demand planning processes and provide analysis to Supply Chain leadership.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and identify opportunities to improve planning assumptions and forecasting methodologies.
• Incorporate new product introductions, product transitions, promotions, seasonality, and other business factors into demand planning.
• Communicate significant changes in demand and potential supply implications to Purchasing and Supply Chain leadership.

• Manage and optimize inventory allocations within Net Suite to support timely and accurate customer order fulfillment.
• Analyze available inventory, open sales orders, backorders, incoming purchase orders, and expected receipts to determine appropriate inventory allocations.
• Allocate and reallocate inventory based on customer demand, requested ship dates, customer priorities, supply availability, and business needs.
• Monitor inventory commitments and ensure allocations accurately reflect current inventory and supply expectations.
• Identify allocation conflicts, inventory shortages, and fulfillment risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Monitor incoming purchase orders and expected receipts to determine when inventory should be allocated to open customer demand.
• Partner with Warehouse and Operations teams to ensure inventory allocations support efficient fulfillment.
• Help establish and maintain inventory prioritization rules and allocation best practices.

• Analyze supply versus demand to identify potential stockouts, excess inventory, and inventory imbalances.
• Monitor inventory levels and projected inventory positions against forecasted demand.
• Identify products at risk of stockouts and proactively communicate potential customer or revenue impacts.
• Identify excess or slow-moving inventory and provide…