Your Mission
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Rolling Forecast Process for Sales, GP and Inventory
- Ensuring purchasing is in line with demand planning and inventory requirement
- Owning the demand forecast by category and channel level monthly, seasonal and yearly level
- Managing order placement timelines based on actual sales, sales forecast, inventory situation
- Driving stock movement across channel along with stakeholders to ensure maximum usability of inventory
- Working closely with the merchandising teams to ensure the purchasing plan is aligned with the sales plan
- Managing annual inventory plan and will control Inventory turns / Company- wide inventory maximization
- Continuous improvement of above processes using automation
- Planning supply chain capacity and budget end to end for all warehouses of PUMA India
- Monitoring and tracking supply chain performance in line with inventory management plans
- Proactively identify and address issues which might disturb inventory or supply chain plan
- Close co-ordination with retail planning and finance team to ensure efficient dissemination of information
Key Deliverables:
- Targeted inventory turns for the company as well as different sales channels
- Inventory availability by channel, category and product type in line with sales requirement
- Reduction of unusable inventory holding thus increasing share of usable inventory
- Weekly and monthly MIS regarding health of inventory from various aspects
- Rolling inventory overview for current and next year for financial and supply chain planning
- Reduction of risk and flexibility of changing of purchase plan without resulting under or over purchase
- Clarity of OTB consumption and overview of upcoming purchase plan by channel and category
- Supply chain plan for the company – current and rolling next 3 years
- Driving multiple drive short-term and long-term initiatives in parallel