Inventory Planning Analyst

As Inventory Planning Analyst, you are the main responsible for Inventory Planning and Inventory Management.

Inventory planning:

• To settle the Stock Target, for both REPL and OE, Total Business Units, including Regional, European and Manufacturing Distribution Centers
• To plan together with Tactical and Operational Team the Monthly Inventory level with 18 months horizon. This include mapping total inventory, production, import, sales and export.
• To define together with Logistics the optimal Distribution Centers (DC) set up. This include total inventory level per DC and product groups to be stored at each DC (including good stock, OE SK, SMDS, 2A)

Inventory management:

• Lead a PDCA process to analyze the quality of the stock (good stock, OE SK, SMDS, 2A) and do Root Cause Analysis on the slow moving inventory
• Work with Sales and Product teams to identify countermeasures to keep OE SK, SMDS, 2A stock at lowest possible level
• To work with Finance Team and make sure the accruals are set and managed correctly, in line with the Sales target
• To simulate next 12 months Quality of the stock to optimize the Inventory Planning & take preventive action against generation of slow moving inventory
• To identify and discuss with sales and LSCM team future risk on Service level (shortages) and opportunities
• To identify and implement with Logistics Team, strategical and tactical process to best support overstock sales actions while keeping a close eyes on costs.

Stakeholders:

• Regional LSCM Teams (Planning & Customer services)
• LSCM - Tactical and Operational Teams
• LSCM - Logistics & Distribution Planning Teams
• Sales, Demand Planning and Product Teams
• TCE Team
• Finance Team

Main KPIs

• Map of the Inventory, production, import, sales and export, for 18 months horizon – Actual, Forecast, OB, Total channels. One map for Business Category (PC4, TBR, OTR, AG. MC).
• Inventory management - Quality of the stock. Actual, Projections, Targets. Sales actions Actual vs Forecast.
• First Order fill

These KPI’s are part of the SO&P and OPCOM material, and once per month part of the LSCM Weekly Sales & Operations Execution meeting

As Inventory Planning Analyst, you are the main responsible for Inventory Planning and Inventory Management.

These KPI’s are part of the SO&P and OPCOM material, and once per month part of the LSCM Weekly Sales & Operations Execution meeting.

More information

As Inventory Planning Analyst you are responsible for the stock target setting and data analytics development within the Inventory Planning team.

Taking an end-to-end approach means there is a strong focus on collaboration with Logistics, Supply Chain, Customer Services, Sales & Marketing teams in regions and HQ.

Next to the target setting the you will define, develop and implement the tools required to enable the Inventory Optimization initiatives.

The stock targets are set all across the network. As such, you are responsible for the calculation, master data maintenance, network simulation, and identifying improvement opportunities.

This includes the definition of the transportation lanes, which have to be aligned with the Logistics team ensuring the most efficient distribution of the goods while maintaining the required service level.

The stock targets are driving the Supply Plan, which is coming from EU factories, and by importing from overseas Bridgestone locations as well as off-take collaboration with competitors. Hence, the key task for the Inventory Planning team is process that drives:

• Ideal stock target definition
• Tactical or pre-build stock consideration for the Tactical horizon
• Define the volumes to be pushed from MDCs, and set the targets at the ELC/RDC so they are pulled accordingly thought the DRP cycle.

One of the keys to success with Inventory Optimization is to digitalize the team’s activities and develop the required toolset.

You will be working closely with the Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics and will be growing your digital and data analytics skills.

You support the Regions in new ideas and projects related to improving customer satisfaction and improving availability. This can include Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) or any other alternative ways of managing the stocks.