Functional Area: HLS Furniture Lighting

Position’s Objective:

Support category head(s) on demand & supply planning for the upcoming season.

Key Responsibilities:

Inventory Management:

Ensure that the stock level of the category is within the prescribed limits as per company norms
Monitor the stock cover to maintain optimum stock turns
Tweak forward month buying based on the projected closing stock of the current and forward months
Allocation & replenishment to stores as per capacity & customer profile.
Stock rotation in market & Stock monitoring at the Warehouse

Category Planning

Prepare option plan
Create buy plan to breakup monthly targets and distribute the buying for the month accordingly
Prepare OTB Plan
Propose the bi annual discount list
Prepare & do periodic review of yearly ARS projections
Prepare monthly ARS plan - value wise, quantity wise
Send monthly buy plan and product presentation to the markets to enable them to do store stock planning

Dispatch Planning

Allocation planning with markets
Upload STO on SAP as per STO Upload request
Enable special requests from store/ customer request through stock rotation or from the product warehouse

MIS & Analysis

Review costings style wise to ensure targeted GP & flag negative deviations from the targeted GP
Generate department wise sales report, hierarchy wise sales and stock report, current month SKU wise sale report, ARS stock out report, Monthly/fortnightly sales report, Promotional trackers & provide insights
Monitor store performance for the category

Education Qualification: MFM NIFT / Pearl / MBA

Knowledge & Skills:

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