- Professional
- Escritório em Chennai
The Analyst – Purchasing and Inventory role at Wesco/Anixter is accountable for forecasting activities associated with customers and products and the subsequent procurement activities and overall effectiveness of inventory with a key focus on maximizing the return on investment and service to our customers. The purpose of the role is to build a forward visibility of future customer requirements, set supply policies and ensure purchase orders are placed effectively and to service level KPI’s.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor inventory levels & recommend inventory stock adjustments as necessary
- Maintain customer inventory letters of intent
- Manage and maintain the creation of an accurate demand plan in support of the sales forecast and replenish items for defined sales markets / customers across the APAC region.
- Deliver forecast accuracy improvements against defined KPI’s through collaboration with key stakeholders such as Turn, Stock Health, Inventory provisions and inventory to budget for both pre-stock and replenishment items.
- Reviewing excess inventory with stakeholders and working on stock rotations with key vendor.
- Follow process to enforce robust policies and procedures for both inventory and sales that optimize restocking decisions, enforce lead time management, availability measurements.
- Analyze inventory data to identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Overseeing the placement of the project and complex customer inventory to initial customer requirements providing a just in time delivery service
- Analyze and recommend inventory rebalancing and supplier returns.
- Coordination of intercompany and supplier returns
- Monitor SO cancellation report daily and take necessary actions, follow up with sales team to ship out the aged, allocated inventory
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years required, Degree Level, Supply Chain or Business-Related Field
- Demand/Supply Planning/Procurement experience required.
- Credentials of working with high SKU counts, multiple suppliers and customers across geographies.
- Experience of project lead demand planning desirable
- Proficiency in inventory management software and ERP systems
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