Intern: Design & Pilot Planning BOM for Smart Supply

Vanderlande Industries B.V.; Veghel; On-site; EUR 5,200 - 7,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderlande in Veghel offers an internship opportunity to design and pilot a Planning Bill of Materials (PBOM) within the Distribution Supply team. The role focuses on early demand translation into time-phased supply and capacity outlooks (3–18 months) before final engineering designs are frozen.

You will map flows, define data structures, build PBOMs for product families, and develop a dashboard for what-if scenarios.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills with affinity for supply chain planning, BOM structures, and capacity management.
• Comfortable prototyping with Excel, Power BI, Python, or SQL.
• Able to engage constructively with cross-functional stakeholders across Technology, Planning, Procurement and Manufacturing.
• Structured, curious, pragmatic, and fluent in English or Dutch.
• Mandatory enrolment to a Dutch Education System & resident of The Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Perform a current-state assessment and map demand, BOM, planning, and capacity information flows.
• Define the PBOM concept, data model, and high-level process architecture, including links to PLM, ERP, and planning tools.
• Build representative PBOMs for multiple product families (e.g., Conveying, Loopsorter, Linesorter) and test them against upcoming project pipelines.
• Build a prototype dashboard or analytical view to run what-if scenarios regarding volume, project timing, and supply constraints.
• Propose master-data ownership, governance, data-quality controls, and decision rights across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data prototyping

Cross-functional engagement

English or Dutch fluency

Education

Master

Industrial Engineering (desired)

Supply Chain Management (desired)

Operations Management (desired)

Data Science (desired)

Business Information Management (desired)

Technical Business Administration (desired)

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

SQL

Job description

Vanderlande in Veghel offers an internship opportunity to design and pilot a Planning Bill of Materials (PBOM) within the Distribution Supply team. The role focuses on early demand translation into time-phased supply and capacity outlooks (3–18 months) before final engineering designs are frozen.

You will map flows, define data structures, build PBOMs for product families, and develop a dashboard for what-if scenarios.