Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Restaurant Technologies provides bulk cooking oil management services to the food service industry. The Demand and Supply Analyst owns Depot inventory decisions and transactions, manages transfer orders and inventory parameters, and develops insights for supply chain strategies, demand forecasting, and inventory optimization. The role also supports cross-functional planning, process improvements, and alignment of supply and demand with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Order Management: Analyze, approve and create internal transfer orders to deploy inventory to Depots; work with warehouse and logistics teams to ensure timely and efficient fulfillment of orders
- Inventory Management: Analyze and update optimal Depot inventory levels to minimize excess/obsolete stock while ensuring sufficient availability to meet customer needs
- Supply Planning: Recommend supplier order adjustments to Supply Planner in order to ensure supply plans are aligned with the demand forecasts
- Demand Forecasting: Update and analyze forecast accuracy reports to recommend forecast changes to the Demand Planner in maintaining accurate demand forecasts based on sales trends, historical data, and market intelligence
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Present forecast accuracy results in the S&OP process with recommendations for changes to align supply, demand, and business objectives; Identify supply-demand gaps; Working with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to align forecasts and plans
- Process Improvement: Identify risks and opportunities within the supply-demand network and recommend adjustments
Skills
- Minimum of **2 + years MRP demand planning, supply chain planning, or inventory/order management
- Minimum of **2+ years of experience working with Oracle or similar ERP systems
- **Excellent analytical skills**, especially in Excel to aggregate/summarize large amounts of historical data and identifying trends or problems
- **Critical thinking and problem-solving** abilities with a high sense of ownership and commitment to performance excellence
- **Communication Skills:** Ability to explain complex data to non-technical stakeholders (ie. Sales, Marketing, Finance)
- **Collaboration:** Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially working with internal customers
- **Understanding of Supply Chain Principles:** Knowledge of how demand impacts inventory, production, and distribution
- **Business Acumen:** Understand how market trends, sales strategies, and external factors impact demand
- This position is open for fully remote work to qualified candidates located in the continental US
- Anticipate up to quarterly travel for business meetings; travel frequency may vary based on your location
- Preference will be given to candidates who are currently located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and are open to hybrid work arrangements
- **Bachelor's degree** in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- **Influencing Skills:** Ability to challenge assumptions and drive alignment in S&OP processes
Benefits
- Fully remote work is available to qualified candidates located in the continental US.
- Hybrid work arrangements are available for candidates currently located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
- Professional development
- Competitive health care coverage
- Incentives
- A healthy work and life balance
- A flexible and supportive environment
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