Primary Allocation Responsibilities:
* Execute comprehensive allocation strategies to support merchandise assortment plans, ensuring consistent
alignment with business objectives and buyer direction.
* Manage the end-to-end inventory allocation process utilizing JDA (or other relevant inventory ...
management systems), ensuring timely and accurate product flow across all retail locations.
* Continuously monitor and analyze store performance, sales trends, and regional/seasonal demand to make
data-driven allocation adjustments that enhance product availability and minimize stockouts or overstocks. *
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams-including Buying Units (Buyers, Assistant Buyers, Assortment
Planners, and Inventory Demand Analysts)-to support pre-season and in-season merchandise planning
decisions.
* Conduct in-depth hindsight reviews of past seasons to identify key learnings and apply insights to improve future
allocation and assortment planning strategies.
* Provide clear, strategic recommendations to business units through ongoing review of critical business
performance reports, ensuring decisions are backed by data and market intelligence.
* Proactively manage residual inventory and warehouse stock by ensuring timely allocation to stores, mitigating
potential overstocking or markdowns.
* Evaluate and initiate channel-to-channel transfers, Return to Warehouse (RTW), Return to Vendor
(RTV), Transfers and Returns (TARs), and Enterprise Inventory Reserve (EIR) actions to optimize
inventory health.
Primary Replenishment Responsibilities:
* Drive Instock and adhoc analysis to find opportunities and risks, providing actionable insights to Business
Units, ASMs, and Inventory Distribution Analysts to meet sales, profit, and inventory goals.
* Drive and perform periodic assortment optimization by utilizing tools, providing insights to Inventory
Distribution Analysts and Business Units, and managing processes for expansion and discontinuation.
* Review store level inventory ensuring it aligns with expectations, and action when stores are outside of
tolerance. Identify and action store level opportunities through enhanced analytics and Plano communications.
* Manage demand planning and buy quantification in collaboration with BUs and Sourcing teams. Responsible
for sending supplier information and supporting the demand planning team with data.
* Analyze and quantify vendor projections, fill rates, and in-stock trends.* Run replenishment orders. Review and release of all manual order types. Adjust SOQs on an exception basis
and review/action on exception reports for ordering.
* Review and action Target Inventory/Minimum Safety Stock at all locations (Warehouse, Store, DLC's)
* Manage system setup and maintenance of assortment by activating and deactivating SKUs as per buyers' intent
and optimization.
* Review All Replenishment Parameters to achieve optimal inventory levels and develop and
communicate parameter changes needed for product/category to ASMs, IDAs & Business units.
* Maintain logs for parameters, supersessions and safety stock templates.
* Monitor key performance indicator (KPI) reports to track inventory levels and sales performance. Use these
reports to provide actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making.
* Deliver an outstanding in-store and online experience through balanced, optimized inventory by channel,
volume grade and climate to provide compelling and productive assortment for our customer.
* Identify, analyze, and respond to replenishment ordering and low/high weeks of supply exceptions or
deviations from standard inventory needs.
* Partner with ASMs and Business units to develop and implement inventory strategies to build inventory,
maximize sales, and increase productivity
Core Competencies & Accomplishments:
* 0to 2years of experience in Retail Supply Chain - planning and allocation, merchandising planning,
inventory management and forecasting
* Critical thinking, Problem Solving &Decision-making
* Business planning and financial analysis, Allocation, Planning, Buying, Merchandising, Inventory
Control and Supply Chain knowledge
* Proficiency in Blue Yonder INFORM/JDA/EFAs or other planning and allocation operating
system * ExperiencewithMicrostrategy Planning&Reporting tools a plus
* Proficiency in intermediate to advanced excel.
experience
8show more Primary Allocation Responsibilities:
* Execute comprehensive allocation strategies to support merchandise assortment plans, ensuring consistent
alignment with business objectives and buyer direction.
* Manage the end-to-end inventory allocation process utilizing JDA (or other relevant inventory
management systems), ensuring timely and accurate product flow across all retail locations.
* Continuously monitor and analyze store performance, sales trends, and regional/seasonal demand to make
data-driven allocation adjustments that enhance product availability and minimize stockouts or overstocks. *
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams-including Buying Units (Buyers, Assistant Buyers, Assortment
Planners, and Inventory Demand Analysts)-to support pre-season and in-season merchandise planning
decisions.
* Conduct in-depth hindsight reviews of past seasons to identify key learnings and apply insights to improve future
allocation and assortment planning strategies.
* Provide clear, strategic recommendations to business units through ongoing review of critical business
performance reports, ensuring decisions are backed by data and market intelligence.
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* Proactively manage residual inventory and warehouse stock by ensuring timely allocation to stores, mitigating
potential overstocking or markdowns.
* Evaluate and initiate channel-to-channel transfers, Return to Warehouse (RTW), Return to Vendor
(RTV), Transfers and Returns (TARs), and Enterprise Inventory Reserve (EIR) actions to optimize
inventory health.
Primary Replenishment Responsibilities:
* Drive Instock and adhoc analysis to find opportunities and risks, providing actionable insights to Business
Units, ASMs, and Inventory Distribution Analysts to meet sales, profit, and inventory goals.
* Drive and perform periodic assortment optimization by utilizing tools, providing insights to Inventory
Distribution Analysts and Business Units, and managing processes for expansion and discontinuation.
* Review store level inventory ensuring it aligns with expectations, and action when stores are outside of
tolerance. Identify and action store level opportunities through enhanced analytics and Plano communications.
* Manage demand planning and buy quantification in collaboration with BUs and Sourcing teams. Responsible
for sending supplier information and supporting the demand planning team with data.
* Analyze and quantify vendor projections, fill rates, and in-stock trends.* Run replenishment orders. Review and release of all manual order types. Adjust SOQs on an exception basis
and review/action on exception reports for ordering.
* Review and action Target Inventory/Minimum Safety Stock at all locations (Warehouse, Store, DLC's)
* Manage system setup and maintenance of assortment by activating and deactivating SKUs as per buyers' intent
and optimization.
* Review All Replenishment Parameters to achieve optimal inventory levels and develop and
communicate parameter changes needed for product/category to ASMs, IDAs & Business units.
* Maintain logs for parameters, supersessions and safety stock templates.
* Monitor key performance indicator (KPI) reports to track inventory levels and sales performance. Use these
reports to provide actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making.
* Deliver an outstanding in-store and online experience through balanced, optimized inventory by channel,
volume grade and climate to provide compelling and productive assortment for our customer.
* Identify, analyze, and respond to replenishment ordering and low/high weeks of supply exceptions or
deviations from standard inventory needs.
* Partner with ASMs and Business units to develop and implement inventory strategies to build inventory,
maximize sales, and increase productivity
Core Competencies & Accomplishments:
* 0to 2years of experience in Retail Supply Chain - planning and allocation, merchandising planning,
inventory management and forecasting
* Critical thinking, Problem Solving &Decision-making
* Business planning and financial analysis, Allocation, Planning, Buying, Merchandising, Inventory
Control and Supply Chain knowledge
* Proficiency in Blue Yonder INFORM/JDA/EFAs or other planning and allocation operating
system * ExperiencewithMicrostrategy Planning&Reporting tools a plus
* Proficiency in intermediate to advanced excel.
experience
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