Samsonite
The Supply Planner is responsible for supply planning, procurement, and inventory management for North America. It is essential that this role understands the outdoor equipment category and seasonality, vendor management, end‑to‑end procurement and product life cycle in order to meet working capital, inventory availability and sales goals.
Supply Planning
Provide a monthly global rollup to factories by partnering with regional managers to accurately communicate consolidated FOB dollar requirements with a 4‑6 month rolling forecast window
Manage extended rolling global forecast
Work with the Sales Team to create the demand plan based on hard PO’s and sales forecast, revenue goals, historical sales data and seasonal trends
Partner with the sales team to create and maintain annual, seasonal, monthly forecast
Partner with Product Development Team and Global Procurement Teams to develop seasonal product commercialization and tail‑out strategies to meet regional launch requirements, factory capacities, lead times, MOQ’s and historic metrics
Partner with Logistics team to approve and track finished goods shipments
Monthly reconciliation forecast to revenue
Manage end‑to‑end strategies for product life cycle launch, tail‑out and DM
Track and report backorder status on regular intervals
Purchasing
Authorized to act as an agent on behalf of Gregory Mountain Products in the purchase of finished goods in accordance with planning requirements, inventory and working capital goals
Authorized and responsible for maintaining purchasing & inventory systems with accurate delivery dates for open orders, justifying discrepancies and closing, changing or canceling purchase orders as required and in accordance with sales forecast, and reporting pertinent information to Dept management
PO maintenance (placements and adjustments)
System and tool setup and maintenance
SAP
Buy Files
Inventory files
Inventory Management
Develop tools and systems that notify excess inventory (or potential excess) beyond the established horizon at a SKU level, whether at the PO execution stage or at stock holding level
Monitor overall inventory levels relative to sales forecast
Manage and track aged inventory
Global stock transfer orders
3PL forecasting for Canada
Vendor Management
Responsible for monitoring on time delivery rates, total fulfillment and other key vendor performance and purchasing metrics
Collaborates with Development, Import, and Logics teams to find cost‑savings / margin enhancements through balancing inventory, packaging and freight efficiencies
Manage day to day communications with finished good vendors—forecast, ship plans, front‑end logistics consulting
Track Vendor KPI's
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Supply Planning
Provide a monthly global rollup to factories by partnering with regional managers to accurately communicate consolidated FOB dollar requirements with a 4‑6 month rolling forecast window
Manage extended rolling global forecast
Work with the Sales Team to create the demand plan based on hard PO’s and sales forecast, revenue goals, historical sales data and seasonal trends
Partner with the sales team to create and maintain annual, seasonal, monthly forecast
Partner with Product Development Team and Global Procurement Teams to develop seasonal product commercialization and tail‑out strategies to meet regional launch requirements, factory capacities, lead times, MOQ’s and historic metrics
Partner with Logistics team to approve and track finished goods shipments
Monthly reconciliation forecast to revenue
Manage end‑to‑end strategies for product life cycle launch, tail‑out and DM
Track and report backorder status on regular intervals
Purchasing
Authorized to act as an agent on behalf of Gregory Mountain Products in the purchase of finished goods in accordance with planning requirements, inventory and working capital goals
Authorized and responsible for maintaining purchasing & inventory systems with accurate delivery dates for open orders, justifying discrepancies and closing, changing or canceling purchase orders as required and in accordance with sales forecast, and reporting pertinent information to Dept management
PO maintenance (placements and adjustments)
System and tool setup and maintenance
SAP
Buy Files
Inventory files
Inventory Management
Develop tools and systems that notify excess inventory (or potential excess) beyond the established horizon at a SKU level, whether at the PO execution stage or at stock holding level
Monitor overall inventory levels relative to sales forecast
Manage and track aged inventory
Global stock transfer orders
3PL forecasting for Canada
Vendor Management
Responsible for monitoring on time delivery rates, total fulfillment and other key vendor performance and purchasing metrics
Collaborates with Development, Import, and Logics teams to find cost‑savings / margin enhancements through balancing inventory, packaging and freight efficiencies
Manage day to day communications with finished good vendors—forecast, ship plans, front‑end logistics consulting
Track Vendor KPI's
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