Sr. CPFRA, Replenishment

We are currently hiring a FT, Sr. Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment Analyst, in Boston.

The primary function of the Senior Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) Analyst, is to champion the customer. The Analyst manages the customer shipment plan by maintaining effective replenishment plans, optimizing truckload efficiencies, and driving continuous improvements within the order generation process. The Sr. CPFR Analyst, Replenishment provides regular and ad hoc analysis, supports the standard work for the use and optimization of internal software, and is responsible for maintaining optimal replenishment settings for customers by partnering with supply chain planning teams and customer service. This role is critical to ensuring an accurate and efficient VMI replenishment process to the wholesalers, while delivering wholesalers with shipment plans that achieve desired inventory targets, high service levels, minimal obsolescence, and full truckload utilization that is demand driven.

*A Hybrid position at Boston Beer requires that our coworkers reside within commuting distance to be onsite according to their teams’ weekly schedule. 

What You'll Brew: 

• Utilize internal software to manage customer replenishment plans and order creation process for assigned regions and drive accountability for customer service and truckload efficiency
• Monitor, escalate, and resolve/ repair shipment risks (stuck shipments, late orders, etc.), potential service level impacts, and continuous improvement opportunities as well as orphan & SAP data issues related to planning parameters driving VMI logic
• Partner with BBC Demand Planning and BBC Sales to support monthly BBC S&OP and facilitate external S&OP discussions with strategic customers
• Responsible for developing tools and processes to measure TLO performance, identify critical exceptions, and reconcile depletion vs shipment variances.
• Provides advanced root cause analysis and issue resolution, complex problem solving, and strategic and critical thinking that drives TLO optimization and continuous improvement
• Provide focused attention on network plan that ensures on-time and in full delivery from BBC shipping locations to SKU at wholesaler granularity
• Ensure replenishment settings, inventory parameters, and wholesalers’ active product assortment align with company policies for desired stocking levels and service level targets
• KPI accountability to support operating performance in the following areas:
  • Customer service (service level)
  • Truckload efficiency 
  • On time in full
• Facilitate an accurate and efficient replenishment plan by thoroughly reviewing morning alerts in the following areas:
  • Wholesaler sawtooth synchronization
  • VIP Data exceptions
  • A/B year-round SKUs not on VMI
• Recommend enhancements to delivery truckload utilization that drive efficiencies within order generation process, sourcing assignments, and weak lane analysis
• Ensure automated loads transmitted to SAP are both full and demand-driven and customer-centric and deliver a shipment plan to supply planning that is demand-driven and supports service level and truckload utilization
• Partner with BBC Customer Service and BBC Sales teams to perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting, provide training, and engage in collaborative problem solving and wholesaler specific issue resolution
• Support demand and KPI root cause analysis by collaborating with CPFR Analyst – Demand and BBC Distribution and Inventory Planning to achieve desired stocking levels and service level targets
• Support demand and KPI root cause analysis by collaborating with BBC Distribution and Network Planning to achieve desired truckload utilization
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, such as Distribution, Network Planning, Inventory Planning to deliver a demand- driven signal to supply and achieve wholesaler KPIs of service level, OTIF, and truckload utilization
• Cross-functional projects including, but not limited to, New Item initialization, Seasonal Transition execution, scarcity and allocation analysis, and S&OP collaboration
   

What Ingredients You'll Bring: 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years broad-based supply chain / inventory / replenishment planning experience in a CPG, VMI, or allocations operating environment
• Strong analytical abilities with an ability to manipulate large data sets a must; Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills a must
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and project management skills are necessary 
• High sense of urgency an