Business Planning Specialist
Current▪ Plan, develop, and implement strategies, including demand planning, procurement, inventory control, budgeting, administration, sales, and logistics.▪ Create purchase plans based on sales analysis, market trends and sales targets, negotiate with headquarters in Japan, to ensure that Canada receives the required inventory in a timely manner.▪ Analyze variances between forecasts, purchase plans, budgets, and actuals for product categories and recommend solutions to improve accuracy.▪ Review sales forecasts for product categories, determine appropriate promotion plans, and communicate plans to sales team.▪ Maintain accurate rolling demand plans while monitoring sales to ensure product availability.▪ Monitor stock level, fill rate, inventory turnover and other KPI’s to address and eliminate deviations.▪ Monitor weekly orders, inventory availability, and assist to resolve any order processing issues in collaboration with operation and logistics teams.▪ Prepare demand plans for new products launch and end-of-life products.▪ Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to plan and implement successful product transitions.▪ Identify opportunities to improve business planning process to positively impact service levels.▪ Generate forecast and sales reports and disseminate information to Canon Japan and Canon USA.