Wajeeha Khalid Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Working as a Demand Planner to support the Voila business of Sobeys. Responsible for buying and managing pets and household products.
• Additionally, working on Ad hoc project with senior management to help stock up the new Voila distribution facility at Calgary, AB before the launch in May 2023.
• Coordinate promotional execution with merchandizing, suppliers and distribution teams.
• Work closely with vendors and category team to review promo items and forecast.
• Deliver against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure success based on forecast accuracy targets.
• Manage accurate demand forecast that incorporate current and relevant market information to predict customer demand and buy correct qtys without compromising product availability.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for buying and managing inventory for cheese/butter/chilled juice items in JDA/IPFR/SAP for LCL and SDM.
• Used dashboard metrics to check top shorts and projecting shorts to take proper action for product availability such as rushing PO, applying T3/S2 flag/ following up with transport or vendor on late POs.
• Experienced in managing team of 4 members and escalating/ resolving issues while managers were on vacation.
• Reported daily progress/issues to Supply Chain Director.
• Connected with transport/ vendor to track POs and provide updates/ETAs to management.
• Strong knowledge of IPFR/JDA/SAP to investigate and eliminate the root cause of excess and shorts.

Ontario, Canada

• Planned flyers and instore promos into Item Selection Allocation Tool (ISAT) and JDA.
• Used TopShelf system to pull promotional forecast when planning new promotions and creating markdowns/ price adjustments and to review exit strategies for low performing items.
• Run integrity checks and assortment reports to ensure all stores get product for promos to maximize sales.
• Executed cost and retail price changes in SAP system.
• Collaborated with Supply Chain to ensure on-time arrival of products for promotions and for distribution of replacement products.
• Sending weekly sales report to category director and team members using MicroStrategy tool to highlight key performance points to improve future sales.

Ontario, Canada

• Ad tracking and communicating out of stock/problem items for Nofrills.
• Handled all promotional issues for Nofrills.
• Used SAP/JPA and CSC online to track inventory and store orders to ensure complete distribution of all products.
• Reviewed upcoming promotions and communicate ad changes or inventory issues to nofrills team.
• Ensured execution on all Seasonal programs weekly including program inventory tracking to complete distribution of all product
• Investigated, followed-up and resolved all issues relating to firm inventory on hand including processing of firm shorts

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Entered the alpha and numeric data accurately into in-house Eatec System.
• Entered Products detail, Menu, Flight details, Sales order and, Purchase Order.
• Reviewed the accuracy and relevancy of all data entered into databases.
• Placed online orders and entered quantity and price of items.
• Ordered substitute food products, if any particular items shorted.
• Accountable for keeping inventory and count of all supplies and stocks.