Procurement Expert

Project overview

Procurement Expert

Reference: 50f9be8d-b9e1-4ef7-8b2b-564d4bf2574b

Responsibilities

• Project to manage and further develop order and inventory management in a retail and distribution environment with a strong product range
• Ensuring product availability and optimizing inventory, capital commitment, and service levels in daily operations
• Further development of forecast, planning, and inventory logic, including safety stocks, order quantities, and returns processes
• Establishment and further development of transparent KPI management for inventory turnover, DIO, forecast accuracy, out-of-stock situations, and stock turnover, among others
• Optimization and digitalization of existing planning, procurement, and management processes in the SAP/ERP environment
• Coordination of relevant interfaces between purchasing, category management, logistics, sales, controlling, IT, and operations, as well as implementation of agreed optimization measures

Requirements

• Experience in inventory management, supply chain planning, or planning, ideally in a retail or distribution environment
• Sound knowledge of inventory optimization, forecasting, planning, and service level management, as well as experience with relevant supply chain KPIs
• Experience in the functional and operational management of larger teams, ideally around 15-20 employees
• Very good SAP/ERP knowledge and experience with digital and automated planning and procurement processes
• Strong understanding of the interrelationships between product availability, inventory costs, capital commitment, and profitability
• Hands-on and assertive working style with strong stakeholder management and experience in cross-departmental change and optimization projects

Project details

asap

3 MM++

• Start: ab sofort
• Duration: 3 Monate
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Hamburg, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German

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