Inventory & Demand Planning Manager

• May 2022 - Present

Demand Planning Manager

• Sep 2021 - May 2022

*Responsibility of implementation VMI Project for Turkey Beverages Portfolio and BeveragesTraditional Trade Demand Planning process via Prolink VMI. *Managing demand forecast based on Sell-out for VMI customers (Distributors DC) in shorthorizon (up to 6 weeks). Ensuring for accurate and timely demand forecast for portfolio,including responsibility for the E2E forecasting process in JDA & Oracle. *Weekly basis root cause analysis to ensure ongoing Demand Planning improvements,including the review and analyses of statistical data, queries, graphs and charts. *Weekly basis historic trend analysis and error-handling with market intelligence, covering interchannelsales trends on consolidated DC's. *Evolving and maintaining documentation and standard operating procedures for DPprocesses and ensuring demand consensus which builds to a one-number plan and theintegration of the DP process into the entire organization. *Responsible for developing and ensuring the accuracy of the PepsiCo Beverages Turkey shortterm demand, including delivery of the overall forecast accuracy (FA improvement up to %61 Availability improvement from %75 to %93 within 12 weeks). *Conducting weekly planning forecast calls & meetings (with 14 different sales territories andfor 70 different DC locations) and update forecasts as necessary to gather marketintelligence relative to customer activities for assigned portfolio (Promotions & Calendarevents & New Products & Launch & Pricing Prebuilds). Show less

Demand Planner (East Asia, South Asia, Maghreb)

• Apr 2021 - Sep 2021

*Developing a reliable and capable demand plan across 18 months horizon for each cluster and market, including launches and relaunches, and perform ongoing analysis of demand variability, assess risk and taking corrective action to close gaps.*Keep demand tool fresh and active, determining correct parameters for sustainability of business and ensure that forecasts are streaming to ERP.*Communications with SC, Finance, Sales & Marketing departments to reconcile adjustments of planned requirements in case of changing demand.*Monitor and drive focused improvements in forecast accuracy and bias in collaboration with Sales & Marketing teams to achieve cluster targets. Reviewing and analyzing historical sales trends, researching demand drivers, developing base demand forecasts, maintaining consensus forecasts with Sales and Marketing.*Close collaboration with product management teams to plan launch and re-launches, managing phase-in/out processes targeting smooth transition for minimum obsoletes.*Leading S&OP meetings to discuss plans, projects, KPI’s, problems and opportunities.*Addressing SKU’s uncovered by the forecast reviews, stockouts, potential obsoletes and slow movers.*Execution and optimization of the necessary supply chain process, A to Z.*Working in a highly diversified people environment with many cultures from Europe to Asia. Show less

Supply Chain Analyst MEAA

• Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

*Masterdata management for all supply chain activities in MEAA plants with describing and prioritizing parameters to support sustainability of business in cluster.*E2E inventory management and operate business developing projects to target increasing adherence for long term rolling plans.*E2E planning optimization while regular analysis for constraints and calculations of lot sizes, safety time, EOQ, EPQ.*Data analysis to ensure demand and supply balance, to advise for forecasting anomalies and outliers.*Root-cause and SWOT analysis for SC KPI’s and visualization of results, creation of tools in order to make data analysis for SC metrics to improve optimization for better decision-making.*Cost allocation with interpreting financials in order to manage future cash flows.*Keep in touch with group SC and setting a bridge for consolidation of local SC teams.*Leading business development projects in customer service, procurement and planning functions (demand, production, logistics). Show less

Inventory Planning Assistant Specialist

• Feb 2019 - Apr 2020

*E2E inventory planning and optimization in IBP structure.*Analyzing results and managing future risks and opportunities.*Scheduling shipments, according to occupancy of WH and financials.*Blending and capacity optimization for cost-effective solutions.*Creating and developing inventory files, tools, dashboards and reports, redesigning material flows.*Following and reporting budget-realizations and KPI’s, taking actions when required.*Taking roles in such projects with production, logistics, purchasing, supply, financial and R&Dteams. Show less

Manufacturing / Long Term Intern

• Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

*Experience of lean manufacturing methods and implementations, OEE analysis.

Store Manager

• May 2015 - Jul 2018

*Managing retail sales and targeting excellence customer experience in dietary supplement industry. *Arranging meetings with stakeholders in order to make advertising in different locations as a brand representative, organizing indoor and outdoor events. *Experience of recruitment, pricing, periodic market analyzing, stock management. *Taking education from professionals and giving education to colleagues. *Experience during university period. *Managing retail sales and targeting excellence customer experience in dietary supplement industry. *Arranging meetings with stakeholders in order to make advertising in different locations as a brand representative, organizing indoor and outdoor events. *Experience of recruitment, pricing, periodic market analyzing, stock management. *Taking education from professionals and giving education to colleagues. *Experience during university period.

Engineering Intern

• Jul 2014 - Aug 2014

*Experience of Steel Continuous Casting Process and material flows. *Experience of Steel Continuous Casting Process and material flows.