Supply Chain Analyst

Job Summary:
Use analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, and enhance supply chain processes. Responsible for analyzing performance, identifying problems, and developing recommendations to improve the organization's Supply Chain.

Key Responsibilities:
Provide analytical support to one or more functional areas Use common processes tools, and information systems to enable supply chain analysis. Ensure data integrity of all analytics and reports. Analyze and interpret Key Performance Indicators to identify areas for improvement and action plans. Participate in six sigma and supply chain improvement projects Use existing business systems to provide analytics and reporting that are capable and repeatable.

Responsibilities

- Analyze monthly actual demand data and prepare insights and reports to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
- Analyze monthly forecast data and develop forecast analysis to support demand planning and IBP reviews.
- Perform demand and forecast exception analysis for China and India region , highlighting significant variations and areas requiring attention.
- Maintain monthly forecast analysis and consolidated demand datasets, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely availability of information.
- Analyze forecast bias, forecast variation, and demand trends to identify deviations and support forecast performance improvement.
- Coordinate with Account Leads to consolidate Vulnerabilities & Opportunities (V&O) inputs and summarize key insights for demand reviews.
- Support Industrial Market Demand Reviews by consolidating relevant analysis, developing review materials and presentations and highlighting key demand changes and exceptions.
- Document key decisions, actions and follow-ups from demand review meetings and support effective closure and governance of agreed actions.
- Collaborate with Demand Planning, Account Leads and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment of demand information used in the IBP process.

Required Skills & Experience

- Advanced Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with high attention to detail.
- Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience or working knowledge of demand planning, forecasting or supply chain planning.
- Understanding of forecast accuracy, bias, variation and exception analysis preferred.
- Exposure to IBP/S&OP processes would be an added advantage.