Supply Planner (Gregory)

Samsonite•Salt Lake City, UT

34d

About The Position

The Supply Planner is responsible for supply planning, procurement, and inventory management for North America. It is essential that this role understands the outdoor equipment category and seasonality, vendor management, end-to-end procurement and product life cycle in order to meet working capital, inventory availability and sales goals. Supply Planning • Provide a monthly global rollup to factories by partnering with regional managers to accurately communicate consolidated FOB dollar requirements with a 4-6 month rolling forecast window • Manage extended rolling global forecast • Work with the Sales Team to create the demand plan based on hard PO's and sales forecast, revenue goals, historical sales data and seasonal trends • Partner with the sales team to create and maintain annual, seasonal, monthly forecast • Partner with Product Development Team and Global Procurement Teams to develop seasonal product commercialization and tail-out strategies to meet regional launch requirements, factory capacities, lead times, MOQ's and historic metrics • Partner with Logistics team to approve and track finished goods shipments • Monthly reconciliation forecast to revenue • Manage end-to-end strategies for product life cycle launch, tail-out and DM • Track and report backorder status on regular intervals Purchasing • Authorized to act as an agent on behalf of Gregory Mountain Products in the purchase of finished goods in accordance with planning requirements, inventory and working capital goals • Authorized and responsible for maintaining purchasing & inventory systems with accurate delivery dates for open orders, justifying discrepancies and closing, changing or canceling purchase orders as required and in accordance with sales forecast, and reporting pertinent information to Dept management • PO maintenance (placements and adjustments) System and tool setup and maintenance • SAP • Buy Files • Inventory files Inventory Management Develops tools and systems that notify excess inventory (or potential excess) beyond the established horizon at a SKU level, whether at the PO execution stage or at stock holding level • Monitor overall inventory levels relative to sales forecast • Manage and track aged inventory • Global stock transfer orders • 3PL forecasting for Canada Vendor Management • Responsible for monitoring on time delivery rates, total fulfillment and other key vendor performance and purchasing metrics • Collaborates with Development, Import, and Logics teams to find cost-savings / margin enhancements through balancing inventory, packaging and freight efficiencies • Manage day to day communications with finished good vendors - forecast, ship plans, front-end logistics consulting •Track Vendor KPI's

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain or related field.
Excellent communication (verbal & written), organizational, analytical/problem-solving and administrative skills.
Excel Power User
5 years of experience in a purchasing role utilizing an ERP platform
5 years of experience in a forecast, capacity, production, or supply planning role