Replenishment Analyst
Metro Inc. is a company focused on providing quality products and services in the retail sector. They are seeking a Replenishment Analyst responsible for ensuring stores maintain optimal inventory levels while minimizing waste through data analysis and effective communication with stores and suppliers.
Responsibilities
- Prepare purchase orders and liaise with stores ensuring department objectives including service level, waste reduction and product quality are met
- Practices “just in time” inventory to maximize freshness and minimize shrink and waste
- Regularly liaise with stores to ensure review of merchandising plans, inventory levels, and product quality
- Maintain ordering criteria such as consumption, MRP and forecasting profiles in SAP
- Analyze data from SAP, BW and BI systems to maximize sales, inventory turns and gross margin
- Periodically meet with merchandising team ensuring appropriate responses to changing market conditions and promotional plans are executed appropriately
- Keep informed with regards to supply market conditions, market opportunities and competitor activities
- Ensures that every store requirement is fulfilled daily with the freshest and highest quality product being procured
- Identifies potential overstock situations proactively
- Ensuring every effort is made to ship product to stores with regular vendor communication, including contingency deliveries if necessary
- Works with Inventory Managers to continually improve the logistics process to reduce distribution costs and/or inventory levels
Skills
- Post Secondary education in Supply Chain, Retail Management, Business or industry experience and knowledge
- 1–3 years previous replenishment work, preferably in grocery retail
- Knowledge of perishable food products replenishment
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to identify problems and draw upon a range of choices to formulate solutions
- Knowledge in inventory and supply chain concepts
- Superior time management, priority management and organizational skills
- Excellent skills in Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Flexibility to adapt to changing customer demands, schedules, and working under the challenge of tight timelines
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Self-motivated with the ability to possess a great sense of urgency
- Knowledge of SAP – Replenishment module and BW is a definite asset
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