Occupation Atlasforecast manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/aeb7c6bd-22c9-43c2-8551-a1cc2560584f
forecast manager
Forecast managers have a deep understanding of the operations of the company, the inventory levels, production batches, requirements and costs of production per product, and trends in the demand levels. They use all that information in combination with forecasting software in order to define production orders aiming for the most efficient production combinations.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (24)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse economic trends
- analyse logistic changes
- analyse market financial trends
- analyse supply chain strategies
- analyse supply chain trends
- assess supplier risks
- corporate social responsibility
- estimate costs of required supplies
- financial forecasting
- follow company standards
- forecast dividend trends
- forecast future levels of business
- forecast production quantities
- identify suppliers
- liaise with managers
- maintain relationship with customers
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- manage inventory
- manage supplies
- order supplies
- strive for company growth
- supplier management
- supply chain management
- supply chain principles
Optional (16)
- analyse logistic needs
- assist in planning production scheduling
- calculate purchasing levels of raw materials
- consumer goods industry
- coordinate purchasing activities
- economics
- forecast economic trends
- forecast products' demand
- forecast sales over periods of time
- international business
- manage logistics
- manage standard enterprise resource planning system
- monitor ingredient storage
- statistics
- study sales levels of products
- use sales forecasting softwares
O*NET equivalents
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