Demand Forcasting Analyst (Global Forecast)

Company DescriptionAshley Furniture Industries, LLC is the largest furniture manufacturer in the United States and a leading global home furnishings provider, serving retail partners in 155 countries since 1945. Renowned for both quality and innovation, Ashley offers a broad product assortment designed and manufactured in advanced facilities. The company's mission focuses on improving quality, reducing costs, growing the business profitably, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Guided by its vision to be the best home furnishings company, Ashley strives to deliver exceptional value, selection, and service in every aspect of its operations.Role DescriptionAnalyze, update, and monitor the forecast by SKU warehouse level for accuracy using a statistical forecast system and communicate changes to appropriate departments. Evaluate and monitor future orders versus forecast, make forecast changes when needed. Maintain and follow up whole product planning life cycle including product status, product forecasting, promotion readiness and inventory. Calculate and monitor forecast KPIs (Accuracy and Bias) against the targets, identify errors and provide solutions to improve forecasting performance. Identify out-of-the-norm conditions on any product and communicate to management, make recommendations for solution. Interact and build relationships with key business partners to ensure accurate data and forecasting. Evaluate inventory and the reliability of the supply chain flow for approval of Ad Notice, promotional requests, and customer projections to ensure customer satisfaction and product availability. Identify planned drop items and/or groups; evaluate and make recommendation for best time frame for drop based upon remaining finished goods inventory, raw material inventory on hand and/or at vendor locations. Negotiate with Production, Purchasing and/or vendor regarding the final run dates and provide direction for expediting, deferring and/or cancelling orders when necessary and ensure proper inventory levels are available. Recommend excess inventory items to be added to the Hot Buys develop a plan and make recommendations for closing out remaining inventory. Requirements:English communication skills (4 skills)At least 2yrs experiences work as Demand Planning / Supply chain planning / Data analyst / ...Proficiency at data analyst skills: Power BI, Python and SQL🌟 If you’re excited, plz send your CV directly to me as below email for quickly response! 🌟📩 NNguyenThiKim@Ashleyfurniture.com (Sue)