Demand Planner

AppleOne Employment Services; High Point (NC); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services is seeking a Demand/Supply Planning professional to drive forecast accuracy and inventory management for North America Industrial operations. The role requires collaboration with account teams, product managers, and multiple business functions to meet timelines and customer requirements.

The candidate will manage forecast, track back orders, and coordinate with production planning to ensure inventory availability and production scheduling aligns with customer demand.

Qualifications

• Post-Secondary Degree / Diploma in Business, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum three years of relevant work experience in a planning function for a manufacturing company with sound knowledge of End-to-End Supply Chain.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate and influence at all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Forecasting and updating supply notes; hosting demand calls with the commercial team.
• Partner with master scheduling, production planning, and logistics to meet customer requirements.
• Lead cross-functional meetings to resolve daily issues and ensure on-time delivery.
• Support inventory management and phase-in/phase-out processes to optimize stockHealth and SOX compliance.

Skills

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Excel/MS Office

Negotiation/Influence

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business / Supply Chain

Tools

SAP

IBP

OMP

MS Excel

Job description

Onsite for first 4 weeks. Then 3 in office 2 home or FT office

Position Description

• The purpose of this role is to support Industrial Business. The individual will be the voice of the customer that will drive Demand, Supply, and Inventory decisions to support the Industrial business in North America (NA).
• The individual will collaborate with the account teams, product managers, and various business functions around demand requirements and new business opportunities to meet required timelines.
• This person will be responsible for meeting the inventory metrics associated with Industrial business in NA.
• Indirect managerial responsibilities and/or provide functional guidance to other work streams (i.e. customer service, production planning, master scheduling, detailed scheduling, procured planning, sales and marketing teams) within the business.

Qualifications and Minimal Skills/Knowledge

• Post-Secondary Degree / Diploma in Business, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline
• Minimum three years of relevant work experience in a planning function for a manufacturing company with sound knowledge of End-to-End Supply Chain
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate and reason and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to present and lead meetings with cross functional team
• Strong Excel / Word / MS Outlook / PowerPoint / MS Teams
• SAP / OMP / IBP
• Strong problem solving, analytical skills and quick-thinking and ability to make decisions independently.
• Ability to manage complexity and resolve conflicts that arise from balancing multiple priorities.
• Ownership skills with ability to lead yet work as part of team.

The responsibilities of the successful candidate will include but not limited to:

Perform the day-to-day tasks to support the Industrial Business in North America. This includes forecasting, updating supply notes and hosting demand calls with commercial team. Maintaining shutdown list and interact with operations to help set the daily priorities.

• Manage forecast in SAP / IBP/ other.
• Track back orders.
• Interact with Sales, Operations, Technical and Product Group
• Manage Shutdown tracking.
• Work with Master Scheduler to ensure production is scheduled and will meet customer requirements.
• Works with the CSR’s to resolve daily issues including supply, logistics and delivery.
• Support the North American Industrial Managers to meet customer production requirements.
• Quickly resolve Back Orders
• Making sure we have inventory available to meet customer requirements.
• Manage phase out / phase in process.
• Manage the variability in production at our customers.
• Work with product group to launch and obsolete codes as required.
• Manage trial batch list, work account teams to prioritize trial batch timing.
• Request new GMC creations as needed at appropriate plants.
• Set up BOMS / Routings of new products to support production planning.
• Manage phase out inventory to zero.
• Host New Business Opportunity process.

Inventory Management

• Look for opportunities to lower inventory yet meet customer requirements.
• Manage consignment inventory at our APC consignment locations.
• Manage inventory heath to support inventory SOX processes.

Manage Supply Chain KPI’s to help drive Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Cost improvements.

• Forecast Accuracy
• OTIF

IBP Process

Support the IBP Process to support the North American Industrial markets in the areas of service levels, performance against production schedules, inventory strategy, demand planning and supply planning.

• Collaboration with commercial groups
• Tracking KPI’s, preparing slides and presenting as needed.