CATEGORY PLANNING ASSISTANT (Superpharm)

The incumbent is responsible for supporting all activities related to inventory planning, management, replenishment and reporting and working with stakeholders to ensure maintenance of optimum inventory levels.

1. INVENTORY PLANNING, MANAGEMENT & REPLENISMENT 

• Collaborates with Category Manager and warehouse to determine item forecasts and maintain appropriate item inventory levels including Product Life Cycle monitoring
• Performs daily maintenance, including but not limited to generating purchase orders and transfers including confirmation, tracking orders with vendors, monitoring and adjusting stock levels.
• Communicates with warehouse and vendors upon receiving discrepancies and prioritization, and working with accounts on reconciliation of invoices as needed.
• Placing purchase orders local and foreign inclusive of order rationale for foreign vendors and some local vendors.
• Sets up and maintains replenishment parameters for items e.g. Reorder points, Maximum inventory, Days coverage and produces analysis of SLOBs reports, Inventory turns reports, Low/High stock prompt reports, Low Fill rates/On time and Open PO prompts/auto close.
• Monitoring of expiry risk and near-dated inventory.
• Utilizes system-generated reports to perform continuous rationalization, determine priorities and areas of opportunity and to confirm and communicate results. Create adhoc reporting when needed.
• Works with Category Analysts to provide feedback to Category Manager on changes in inventory strategy and direction and other business events that impact inventory levels. 

2. VENDOR ENGAGEMENT 

• Identifies and resolves stocking issues - out of stock and overstocking
• Follow up on returns. 

3. TEAM COLLABORATION

• Develops and fosters working relationships with internal counterparts to facilitate productive exchanges of information. Provides data, information and any reports as needed to other departments (warehouse, operations, finance) or vendors