Business Planning Essentials Business planning missions The Business Planner s and challenges sales forecast construction focused on customer
Stakes
• Guarantee the quality of sales forecast from a client and product level • Ensure consistency with the turnover trend Missions
•, coordinate and challenge KAMs in forecast construction by on monthly and weekly basis
• Consolidate the sales forecasts on a M to M+4 horizon done by KAMs and marketing • Propose the promotion and launch forecast on a M+5 to M+12 horizon based on sales and marketing assumptions
• Assess impact of cannibalization on baseline and propose adjustment to demand planner • Follow-up promotions with sales and launches with marketing
Business Planning Essentials Business planner interfaces during forecast process Marketing
BP must have a good knowledge of promotion strategy, launches, ambition to coordinate and challenge replenishment forecast
KAM
BP needs to have a good knowledge of customers, their needs, their events and is the coordinator and challenger of KAMs on the turnover construction
Business Planner Sales analyst
Controller
BP works closely with Controlling to check promotion feasibility on financial aspect and consistency of sales forecast and financial trend
BP needs to be ed by Sales analyst’s reports sell out, sell through, stock level analysis…
Demand Planner
BP works closely with Demand Planner on cannibalization effect of the baseline, promotion and launch update
BP must strongly be ed by the top Management to be considered by Sales force and is the right hand of Sales Director and General Manager if Sales Director is not available
Supply Planner
BP works with Supply Planner to check supply feasibility of the promo and launch General Manager