Supply Chain Analyst

Responsibilities

• Support weekly and monthly rolling forecast processes by consolidating demand signals, identifying supply chain risks, and providing actionable insights to internal stakeholders.
• Analyze supply chain performance metrics, including demand forecasts, order fulfillment, inventory levels, lead times, backorders, and supplier performance.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities to improve service levels, inventory utilization, and operational efficiency.
• Conduct root cause analyses for supply chain disruptions and provide recommendations to improve planning performance.
• Communicate key findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to management and cross-functional teams.
• Maintain inventory by reviewing sell-in, sell-out, open orders, inventory coverage, remaining inventory months, and consumption trends.
• Analyze inventory turnover, inventory days on hand, aging inventory, excess and obsolete stock, and replenishment requirements.
• Recommend actions to optimize stock availability while minimizing excess inventory and carrying costs.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Warehouse, Logistics, and Sales teams to maintain inventory accuracy and availability.
• Analyze freight spend and identify opportunities to reduce transportation costs while maintaining service levels.
• Evaluate and recommend transportation modes based on cost, lead time, inventory availability, and customer requirements.
• Develop, review, and maintain item-level demand forecasts using distributor purchase order history, open orders, POS data, channel inventory, and market insights from the Sales team.
• Analyze demand fluctuations, forecast accuracy, sales trends, inventory levels, backorders, and excess inventory risks to support data-driven decision-making by senior management.
• Monitor forecast accuracy, demand variability, forecast bias, and baseline forecast models such as moving average, trimmed average, and historical trend analysis.
• Support weekly and monthly forecasting reviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with third-party machine learning forecast providers to support forecast improvement initiatives and evaluate forecast outputs against historical demand, POS, channel inventory, and statistical baseline models.
• Extract, organize, analyze, and present supply chain data using SAP, Excel, Power BI, and other analytical tools.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports for management and key stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and improve supply chain reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on process efficiency, automation, reporting accuracy, and cost reduction.
• Aid in reporting enhancements and data integrity initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in supply chain, operations, logistics, inventory planning, procurement, or data analytics.
• Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or similar platforms preferred.
• Experience in the electronics, technology, security, or surveillance industry is preferred, with familiarity in global supply chain operations and inventory planning considered a strong advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Power Query, and data analysis.
• Experience with business intelligence and reporting tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving abilities.
• Understanding of supply chain processes, inventory planning, forecasting, procurement, and logistics.
• Experience with ERP systems and supply chain reporting tools.
• Fully fluent in both Korean and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) or Certified in Planning and Inventory Management (CPIM) from ASCM.
• Experience with SQL, database management, or advanced analytics tools.
• Knowledge of demand planning and forecasting software.
• Experience supporting global supply chain operations and international supplier relationships.