Senior Manager, Inventory Planning

Inventory Management

- Serve as a liaison between planning and inventory management to build delivery plans & flow forecasts

- Responsible for building effective inventory strategies that align with financial objectives of the company

- Accountable for collaborating with Inventory Management Lead and FG Planner to resolve issues related to product shipment delays

- Recommend exception management activities

- Support preparation of country S&OP and recommend profitable inventory decisions

- Support MBR preparation and inventory forecast for F4/7/10

- Responsible for driving demand and supply reconciliation process across Greater China

- Driving process standardization and ways of working improvement to better support cross functional teams mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan markets

Manage Supply and Demand Optimally

- Run monthly Greater China SOP meetings

- Reviews and interprets ship risk reports, recommends and supports action plans to mitigate risks.

- Work with regional Supply Planning to submit sizing ratios for products and ensure they meet demand requirements.

- Prepare, track and make recommendations regarding the ‘availability to sell’ report on a monthly basis.

- Tracking of inbound deliveries, PO’s placed ex-factory dates, size ratios, drops and quantities ordered. Monitor global drops and freeze lists. Ensure all changes are made in the Inventory Tracker/Channel Allocation report

-  “Close Out” PC9’s as per Product Life Cycle and work with Merchandise Planners on Close Out report / meeting each month and Update the masterfile monthly to track “active” PC9’s

- Submit inventory and IPS plans monthly and for annual operating plans and board forecasts

Support Forecasting and Planning Activity

- Liaise with Supply Planning and Sales in order to adjust product flow to the sales accounts based on product availability which includes AGR and CID (cancellation, improvements & deferments)

- Quickly troubleshoots unusual situations pertaining to demand flow along with the MP teams and align on execution of solutions.

- Continuously spots opportunities for process improvement within supply & demand management flow

- Key touchpoint and owner for any inter-company requests or execution

- Escalates critical items to the Inventory Management Vice President, Asia & Europe

- Supply and Demand alignment including WOW
- Inventory Snapshot

- Drive demand and supply alignment cross functionally

- Inventory Units & Value(IPS)

- Cross-channel Inventory Allocation

- Core IPS (Demand, Supply & Safety Stock Management)

- Drive Inventory Health & Effectiveness

- Mitigate supply & ship risk

- Reduce E&O and 360 days ageing

- Ad hoc analysis as needed

People:

- Two direct reports

- Managing planner work assignment and balancing appropriately workload

- Provide coaching to planners under your responsibility and work with planner on their career development plan

- Anticipate hurdles for team and drive mitigation actions

- Lookout for business process automation and efficiency improvement opportunities

LOCATION
China, Shanghai - Office
FULL TIME/PART TIME
Full time Current LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.