What does Demand Planner do at PepsiCo Turkey? What are the duties and responsibilities?
- Responsible from Beverage Traditional Trade Demand Planning process via Prolink VMI . Managing demand forecast based on Sell-out for VMI customers (Distributors DC) in short horizon (up to 6 weeks)
- Responsible for accurate and timely demand forecast for his/her portfolio, including responsibility for the end-to-end forecasting process in Prolink (JDA)
- Evolving and maintaining documentation and standard operating procedures for DP processes and
- Demand Consensus which builds to a one-number plan and the integration of the DP process into the entire organization
- Responsible for developing and ensuring the accuracy of the PepsiCo Beverage Turkey short term demand, including delivery of the overall forecast accuracy,
- Complete “root cause” analysis to ensure ongoing Demand Planning improvements, including the review and analyses of statistical data, graphs and charts,
- Follow-up performance indicators to meet forecast accuracy and customer service objectives
- Responsible for the appropriate tracking, monitoring and cleansing of forecast, including reporting at various levels of detail, analyse and cleanse, if required; all data pertinent to creating the sales forecast (historical sales, market trends, seasonality) in different hierarchy levels in Demand Module
- Facilitate weekly planning forecast calls & meetings and update forecast as necessary to gather market intelligence relative to customer activities for assigned portfolio (Promotions & Calendar events & New Products)