Supply Chain Planning Engineer at Caterpillar developing strategies to align supplier capacity with production demand and improve supply chain performance. Collaborating with Global Purchasing to ensure effective operations in a dynamic environment.
About the role
- Demand Planner role at Thermo Fisher Scientific focused on analyzing customer requirements and developing comprehensive demand plans. Collaborating with teams to ensure forecast accuracy and demand fulfillment.
Responsibilities
- Collects, analyzes, and aggregates customer requirements into a comprehensive demand plan delivered to Supply Planning teams
- Uses trend analysis and other forecast techniques to assess demand risk or opportunities
- Collaborates with divisional business and commercial teams to incorporate customer demand information into the forecast
- Ensures timely demand fulfilment and alignment with AOP and monthly financial updates
- Acts as conduit between Sales teams and Sera Planning to prioritize customer requirements against product availability
- Develops longer term robust forecast system to meet demand requirements
- Monitors shipments status to APJ DCs
- Prepares performance to plan analyses and presents to partners in Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Supply Planning
Requirements
- 3 years in Demand Planning and Supply Planning processes (planning, supply management, capacity leveling, product deployment and inventory control)
- Ability to communicate effectively across the organization and establish relationships with key stakeholders
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry and commercial experience in the Asia Pacific region would be preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JDE) and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and CRM (SFDC) systems(preferred)
- Ability to manage large data, product SKU complexity across multiple markets running multiple ERP systems.
- Strong analytical and statistical modeling skills with demonstrated forecast accuracy improvement
- Experience analyzing customer demand patterns and market trends to develop accurate forecasts
- Experience with S&OP processes and demand planning systems.
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with ability to guide decision-making
- Knowledge of inventory management principles and supply chain best practices
- Navigation of use on Power BI or RPA is a plus
- Self-motivated with minimum direct supervision requirements
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-oriented environment
- Experience with new product launches and product lifecycle management preferred
- Ability to work effectively in a global, matrix organization
- Demonstrated problem-solving and improvement-oriented mindset
Benefits
- Standard Office Hours (40/wk)
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