About this role
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Conduct operations in the Order Fulfillment Inventory function across SCM. Operate to assure optimal inventory levels based on operational planning activities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead operation team to achieve high performance by fostering a positive team environment, performance assessments, and training / development (OJT).
- Assure operations are aligned with business needs & company objectives guided by Supervisor.
- Execute stable supply plan to fulfill customer demand with optimizing inventory (availability planning).
- Operate inventory based on in & out planning optimizing company inventory.
- Support to analyze GROUP inventory levels, execute plans to reduce average inventory and exit past season inventory efficiently.
- Support to analyze DC capability against company growth plan by Mid-Long term volume plan and support DC Network Study to resolve risks and opportunities.
- Assist open-to-buy (OTB) meetings to drive inventory optimization, propose to develop and execute stock liquidation plans.
- Assist Article Performance Reviews (APR) and monitor to optimize current-season inventory progress.
- Assist to publish Inventory plan include exit activities and secure the plans are within DC’s capacity & capability.
- Support to achieve on-time delivery based on accurate in & out planning to contribute consumer experience improvement with right product and right time product supply.
- Assist to establish system and maintain the flow & process for Japan Supply Chain Inventory operations with optimizing the cost (Inventory & Planning Business Process Owner assist role).
- Reports activities to control optimal inventory level timely.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Key interfaces (internal): SCM, Channel, Demand Planning, Marketing, Finance, IT, and Global Operations.
- Key interfaces (external): 3PL, Clearance channel.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES : Worldwide SCM operation & theories More than 3 years’ experience working in international diverse environment.
- Inventory Management experience in Japan consuming goods industry Analytical / logical thinking Good communication skills Negotiation skill to convince others Relationship management 6 values (Courage / Ownership / Innovation / Teamplay / Integrity / Respect) REQUISITE EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS: University degree preferably focused on International Business Administration, Finance, SCM or Logistics related area.
- IT skills: Outlook Intermediate Word Intermediate Excel Advanced PowerPoint Advanced AI knowledge Intermediate Power BI Intermediate ERP, WMS, and Demand-Supply Integration related software basic knowledge & skills Language skills: Fluent Japanese Business Level English