Hallmark Marketing - Kansas City, MO
posted about 1 month ago
As a Demand & Shipment Planner at Hallmark Marketing Company, you will play a crucial role in enhancing forecast accuracy while minimizing inventory levels and waste. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Supply Chain organization to ensure flawless execution of programs. You will monitor retail sales against forecasts and make necessary adjustments to improve accuracy and reduce excess inventory. Utilizing advanced planning tools, you will generate forecasts for future shipments to support production planning and create recommended orders from distribution centers to stores. In the demand planning aspect of your role, you will prepare and manage data that drives effective demand planning activities, ensuring data quality and addressing any exceptions. You will maintain forecast profiles and parameters, enrich forecasts with internal and external inputs, and manage the forecast exceptions report. Your responsibilities will also include monitoring ongoing forecasts, generating accuracy reports, analyzing performance metrics, and collaborating with integrated planning partners to align forecasts with planning targets. Additionally, you will ensure that production and procurement decisions align with established inventory policies. In terms of retail ordering and replenishment, you will prepare data to define master data for the replenishment process, manage calendars and schedules, and consult with internal partners on replenishment rules. You will monitor replenishment plans, manage key reports and dashboards, and resolve issues related to retail inventory positions. Your role will also involve coordinating with partners on SKU replacement strategies and managing incoming communications for account-level inquiries. Lifecycle management will require you to implement sell-down strategies based on retail activity and authorize inventory disposition at the SKU level. You will provide research and analytical support, troubleshoot issues, and communicate with key partners in Supply Chain, Merchandising, and Customer teams to manage priorities effectively. This position also involves mid-term forecasting and planning, where you will consolidate and provide monthly forecasts to the rough-cut capacity planning process.