Demand Planner

Education/Qualification

• Yeditepe University Turkey – International Logistics and Transportation bachelor’s degree

Systems used

• Microsoft Word and Excel
• MyPPM
• PowerBI
• Tableu
• SAP
• SAP Superuser

Key skills

• Advanced English
• Native Turkish
• Elementary German

Career Summary

Current Employer – Retail – £882.1m T/O

Position – Senior Demand Planner

Dates – January 2025 – Present (Temp Contract)

• Develop and manage regional demand plans across multiple business lines to ensure accurate sales and supply forecasts at the style level
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build long-term strategic business plans
• Identify risks and opportunities in forecast accuracy to support optimized decision-making
• Utilize historical data and market intelligence to enhance forecast reliability and demand visibility

Previous Employer – Food Manufacturer – £54m T/O

Position – Demand Planer

Dates – February 2024 – January 2025 (Various roles from July 2018 – January 2025)

• Execute the demand forecasting process by consolidating data from Sales, Marketing, and Finance to develop a consensus demand plan
• Improve forecast accuracy using market dynamics, trend analysis, and sales history
• Lead the Monthly Demand Review meeting as part of the IBP process
• Serve as a liaison between Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance teams to support financial forecasting

Position – Demand and Supply Planning Supervisor

Dates – February 2019 – January 2024

• Managing the Demand & Supply planning steps to maintain operations efficiency with integrating business functions. Optimizing the S&OE and IBP processes in line with business strategy. Ensure providing an accurate & sustainable end to end planning process with the SAP IBP system
• Supporting to build the long term business plan with identifying risks & opportunities in both volume and margin level forecast for an accurate P&L forecast by forming the network between all stakeholders
• Coordinating the planning team to ensure a sufficient inventory based supply forecast based on S&OE and IBP process indicators to meet customer satisfaction with building most efficient supply & production planning in short, mid and long term horizon. Identify the potential risks, lead to create action plans with all stakeholders and ensure optimum inventory levels of raw materials in plant& warehouses
• Monitoring daily MRP outcomes and maintaining to deliver most efficient master production plan according to customer and organizational needs with SLA requirements
• Support sourcing functions for the resolution of internal and external purchase orders to avoid issues such as shortages and production delays that may affect on-time delivery
• Development of KPIs and management reports to support and improve decision making across the relevant functional areas

Position – Demand and Supply Planning Supervisor

Dates – February 2019 – January 2024

• Managing the Demand & Supply planning steps to maintain operations efficiency with integrating business functions. Optimizing the S&OE and IBP processes in line with business strategy. Ensure providing an accurate & sustainable end to end planning process with the SAP IBP system
• Supporting to build the long-term business plan with identifying risks & opportunities in both volume and margin level forecast for an accurate P&L forecast by forming the network between all stakeholders
• Coordinating the planning team to ensure a sufficient inventory-based supply forecast based on S&OE and IBP process indicators to meet customer satisfaction with building most efficient supply & production planning in short-, mid- and long-term horizon. Identify the potential risks, lead to create action plans with all stakeholders and ensure optimum inventory levels of raw materials in plant& warehouses
• Monitoring daily MRP outcomes and maintaining to deliver most efficient master production plan according to customer and organizational needs with SLA requirements
• Support sourcing functions for the resolution of internal and external purchase orders to avoid issues such as shortages and production delays that may affect on-time delivery
• Development of KPIs and management reports to support and improve decision making across the relevant functional areas

Position – Logistics Coordinator

Dates – July 2018 – February 2019

• Develop and implement logistic strategy with selecting best third-party logistics partners. Monitor third parties and coordinate international forwarders
• Optimizing warehouse management systems and maintaining operations efficiency
• Supply Chain distribution in warehouse and production plant
• Vendor management: Coordinating suppliers and ensure the shippings are align with supply plan
• Identify the gaps in the supply plan and initiate action plans with the team

Previous Employer – Manufacturer (Turkey) (Various roles from March 2011 – February 2018)

Position – Logistics and Operations Manager

Dates – January 2015 – February 2018

• Develop and implement supply chain strategy with maintaining cost effective operations based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics and customer satisfaction with high KPI rates
• Manage supply chain planning of the company according to annual, quarterly and yearly sales budgets. Formulate the daily Material Requirement Planning system. Coordinate operations cash flow balance with finance department according to our supply plan
• Managing third party warehouses operations to reach highest efficiency and coordinate local & international forwarders
• Managing registration processes of new products and coordinate the communication between marketing department, suppliers and ensure the application to ministry systems
• Ensure all logistics activities comply with annual budgets, quarterly forecast and monthly demand plans and reporting

Position – Logistic and Operations Responsible 

Dates – March 2011 – January 2015

• Optimize logistics operations and warehouse management system with ensuring operations efficiency
• Support product launches

Previous Employer – Health, Hygiene, and Nutrition Products

Position – Import and Export Responsible

Dates – July 2007 – May 2009

• Managed end-to-end import/export processes for raw materials and pharmaceuticals
• Monitored transportation KPIs for logistics third parties and warehouse operations
• Supported regulatory and tender administrative tasks