Capacity Planner

SupplyLogic; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Supplylogic in Fort Worth, TX, seeks a Capacity & Supply Planner to manage product deployment, forecasting, and replenishments. The role supports KPI-driven processes and collaborates with cross-functional teams across operations and customers.

Responsibilities include rolling schedules, WIP focus, and short-term forecast modeling to optimize distribution and inventory deployment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, or supply chain.
• Proficient in statistics, forecasting, production scheduling, and their impact.
• Experience with root-cause analysis to improve forecast accuracy and deployment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with co-packing/repacking production and pull-replenishment concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop a rolling production schedule for kitting initiatives and manage WIP.
• Collaborate with account, kitting, operations, and customers to support requirements.
• Drive replenishments and short-term deployment using statistical modeling.
• Coordinate with SIOP, finance, procurement, and warehouse teams for demand alignment.
• Deliver confirmed unconstrained unit forecasts to supply planning and procurement.
• Work with demand planning and purchasing to mitigate supply issues.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and scale.
• Maintain forecasting and demand-planning systems and reports.

Skills

Demand planning

Forecasting

Inventory management

Supply chain

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in business management / related field

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Microsoft Office

Planning systems

Job description

Capacity & Supply Planner

The Capacity & Supply Planner position is responsible for all product deployment and forecasting activities associated with customers and operations. The position creates and supports product replenishments, kitting production, and product rollouts network wide. Leveraging business intelligence, production/capacity plans, and customer insights, the planner acts as the integration point into the customer and operations team. It also handles basic production scheduling and short‑term forecast modeling.

This position supports the monthly consensus forecasting process and is a key contributor to the monthly SIOP process.

Responsibilities

• Develop a rolling production schedule for kitting initiatives, support account/customer driven programming, create proper work requisitions, and focus on WIP management and cost to serve.
• Maintain strong relationships and collaborate with account teams, kitting team, operations team, and customers to support requirements around kitting initiatives.
• Support and drive replenishments and short‑term product deployment, leveraging statistical modeling such as pull‑replenishment at the distribution level.
• Collaborate with SIOP, executive leadership, finance, procurement, account, demand planner, and warehouse teams to ensure all demand plans align from a distribution‑level perspective.
• Deliver the confirmed unconstrained unit forecast at the appropriate level to the supply planning and purchasing/procurement functions.
• Work closely with demand planning, account, kitting and purchasing teams to understand supply issues and potential mitigation strategies.
• Identify opportunities to gain efficiencies, increase scale, and apply a continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Manage and maintain forecasting and demand‑planning systems and software.
• Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to the demand‑planning process.

Key Results

• Support distribution inventory deployment through replenishment recommendations and drive SLAs with kitting production.
• Maintain strong relationships among account, procurement, finance, capacity/supply planners, leading to effective knowledge sharing and an optimal consensus forecast for decision making.
• Refine systems and methods to continually improve replenishment and kitting deployment, supporting customer demand.
• Execute with excellence in customer replenishment and provide feedback on opportunities and risks regarding customer replenishment performance metrics.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in demand planning, forecasting, inventory management, supply chain, or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistics, forecasting, production scheduling, and forecasting methods, with an understanding of their financial and operational impacts.
• Demonstrated proficiency using root‑cause analysis to improve forecast accuracy and inventory deployment processes.
• Ability to independently identify and resolve problems or take advantage of opportunities.
• Strong analytical, organizational, decision‑making, and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with all teams, areas, and levels of business affecting the forecasting process.
• Familiarity with co‑packing/repacking production, inventory management, direct distribution, and pull‑replenishment modeling.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office; proficiency with Tableau or PowerBI reporting tools is desired; planning system experience preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business management, economics, statistics, business analytics, supply chain management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Computer Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office; experience with Tableau, PowerBI, or similar reporting tools; familiarity with planning systems is preferred.

EEO and Accommodation Statement

Supplylogic is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state laws. If you require accommodation to perform the essential functions of this position, please contact Human Resources to discuss your needs. Supplylogic is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law.