Aerovironment - Simi Valley, CA
posted about 2 months ago
We are currently seeking a SIOP/Demand Planner to join our team at AeroVironment. This position plays a crucial role in the corporate-wide Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) implementation and management of demand planning. The Demand Planner will be responsible for recommending monthly forecast adjustments and assumptions to a cross-functional SIOP team to achieve a consensus forecast by product line. This involves regularly reviewing forecast trends and variances to minimize disruptions to operations and the supply chain. The Demand Planner will identify root causes for variances and present recommended solutions for approval. Additionally, the role includes facilitating weekly, monthly, and quarterly SIOP reviews with key stakeholders and decision-makers, ensuring that the forecast maintenance is accurately reflected in Oracle. The Demand Planner will translate monthly demand into weekly buckets to meet supply and demand patterns, maintaining and reconciling a rolling five-quarter forecast while considering operations and supply chain capacity constraints. Collaboration with the Master Scheduler is essential to ensure that weekly supply aligns with customer demand. The role also involves analyzing key customer accounts across business development to highlight trends, associated drivers, risks, and opportunities, and working closely with Finance to minimize forecast errors. The Demand Planner will be responsible for demand planning accuracy metrics and assist in managing SIOP RAILs, maintaining SIOP metrics, and ensuring that forecast maintenance and consumption in Oracle are reconciled with actual demand. Furthermore, the Demand Planner will work with Business Development (BD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) teams to align product transitions, obsolescence, introductions, and changes to minimize financial impacts on the business. The position requires facilitating and supporting regular SIOP meetings to ensure the successful implementation of SIOP practices at AeroVironment. The Demand Planner will also recommend customer-specific forecasts based on inputs from BD and Finance to support operational execution of the business plan for near-term deliveries. This role involves working on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors and resolving a wide range of issues creatively, with minimal supervision, while adhering to company policies and procedures.