AM- Central Planning

Job Purpose

Job Context & Major Challenges

Key Challenges

• Less Exposure to Buying and Merchandising function to interpret and analyse issues and their necessity to initiate developments or suggest ways of workings/solutions with existing tool.
• High attrition Rate in Buying teams necessitate the Training for new joinees on the solution/tool. No Knowledge transfer from the Buying Team on the Symphony/Kanvas tool to the successor. This delimits exposure and trial of new advanced features available in the tool to be piloted and roll out for efficient usage of the software.
• High Attrition rate in the CSCM team with experienced people moving out of the Symphony/Kanvas Implementation without detailed knowledge transfer.
• Rigorous follow-ups with the Consulting and the Project Solutions Technical Team on any script or developmental changes, explaining the need and desired implications of proposed changes.
• Roll out to other channels and businesses with different ways of merchandising process and aligning them to a common platform or ways of working or realigning the software tool basis customer needs and requirements.
• Continous interaction with inhouse IT teams on developments required in the system to capture information flow to enable smooth functioning of the softwares.
• Regular cleaning and upload of information of the softwares.
  

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

• Train Business people on Symphony and Kanvas usage
• Feed data in Symphony before season launch so that allocation happens
• Identify ways by which manual allocation can be stopped and allocation can be done through Symphony
• Provide solution to any hiccup that happens mid-season
  

• Gather and analyze the requirements given by business users
• Get developments done by relevant IT teams on time
  

• Collect/Store data
• Create dashboards in excel to keep track of allocation and alignment
• To get the reports automated in BIW
  

• Test new features
• Roll out of feature in all the brands live on symphony
  

• Gather and analyze the requirements given by business users
• Get developments done by relevant teams on time
  

• Get images from E comm team
• Upload images in Kanvas