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Colmar, Pennsylvania, United States

Colmar, Pa

Manage the organization's demand planning team and toolset to optimize sales while maintaining key performance indicators such as fill rate, inventory turns, and new product growth set by the organizations stakeholders.- Drive collaboration between cross functional teams to share information regarding product application, product lifecycle, and supply chain capabilities.- Consult with the demand planning team to continuously improve cadence/process around developing the demand plan each cycle. Delegate prioritization strategies to utilize time/resources.- Consult with supply chain management leaders to address assumptions around demand planning analysis and decision making process.- Perform forecast accuracy analytics to ensure optimum accuracy is being achieved across the organization. Educate proper root cause analytics to take corrective action where necessary.- Maintain forecast models/parameters within the toolset, analyze trends, and validate data shared with external and internal stakeholders.- Identify variances in the demand plan to ensure that organizational KPI's are met.- Collaborate with sales, supply chain partners, and operations to develop a consensus plan each cycle.Lead Demand Planning Team through SAP APO system implementation.- Act as functional lead and liaison to consultant.- Blueprint the current state of our demand planning process/toolset, and drive the requirements/configuration for our new system.- Develop system parameters for exception management.- Perform User Acceptance Testing and collaborate with the consultant to address problems/issues to get them resolved and re-tested.- Guide the demand planning team through the transition for a seamless supply chain cutover.- Support Dorman through a successful go-live to ensure that the new system is working as designed.

Colmar, Pa

Develop and execute demand planning strategies to drive the supply for various product categories. Execution must adhere to our external customer buying patterns as well our vendors network design.- Partner with product management teams and category managers to aid with large number of new product introductions and new customer forecasts.- Import customer projection data into SAP APO toolset.- Communicate anomalies to external key accounts to resolve/adjust anomalies. Present findings to sales account managers and internal contributors effected by findings.- Utilize order history/shipments, product application data, customer projections, and customer POS/Inventory data, to manage monthly SKU forecast.- Share large forecast adjustments with supply chain partners to drive necessary expedite/de-expedite actions. Identify opportunities/suggestions for re-sourcing initiatives.- Drive information sharing on market trends, customer/industry behaviors, and process improvements with supply chain management leaders.

Colmar, Pa

Facilitate/execute incremental events for external customers by determining the appropriate actions required to derive accurate consensus commit time schedule to allow for optimal order fulfillment of customer demand while achieving the 100% program commit goals.- Partner with cross functional product teams to align product availability with customer ship dates.- Collaborate with operations team at multiple plants to ensure labor/space constraints are not jeopardized by size/timing of rollout.- Drive incremental demand through MRP system to achieve desired supply.- Partner with sales account managers to acquire rollout purchase orders from external customer(s).- Provide department leaders with weekly performance metrics and schedule of future rollouts.

Colmar, Pa

Process external customer requests for incremental product rollouts to facilitate customer adds to nodes of distribution.- Import customer requests through MRP system to determine available to promise dates. - Work cross-functionally with supply planning on ATP alimonies to resolve out of date exceptions, and logistics to analyze expedite options and costs.Generate daily production schedule for assortment builds.- Perform component availability analysis to determine schedule/execution times. - Partner with operations team to identify any time constraints prior to release of production plan.- Execute the release of the production plan to the operations team.

Generated new business opportunities through marketing via traditional and non-traditional channels.Managed teams of marketers and assigned daily responsibilities.Trained new employees on marketing techniques.Communicated with potential customers to explain product and service information and answer questions.