Strategic Supply Chain Planner — SAP IBP & S&OP

Applied Materials, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin, TX is hiring a Supply Chain Planning Analyst to translate business requirements into planning insight. You will drive material, capacity, and inventory planning while coordinating across functions to mitigate risks and optimize supply.

The role demands 5+ years in planning within complex manufacturing environments. You will work with SAP IBP, SAP ERP, Excel, and Power BI to build dashboards, analyses, and actionable recommendations for executives and teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Support supply response planning across multiple product families and planning horizons.
• Analyze material, capacity, inventory, and supplier constraints.
• Identify supply–demand gaps and develop mitigation recommendations.
• Develop constrained and unconstrained supply scenarios.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly planning cycles, including S&OP / IBP reviews.
• Ensure planning assumptions, risks, and opportunities are clearly documented.
• Analyze forecast, build plan, inventory, capacity, and supplier performance data.
• Generate actionable insight for planners, operations leaders, and management teams.
• Conduct root cause analysis on forecast misses, shortages, and planning variances.
• Build executive-ready summaries, dashboards, and presentations.
• Develop business cases and recommendations supported by quantitative analysis.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Product Management, and Business Units.
• Coordinate planning inputs and assumptions across stakeholders.
• Facilitate issue resolution for material shortages and capacity risk.
• Drive accountability for planning actions and follow-up activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within planning processes.
• Assist in standardizing planning methodology, metrics, and governance.
• Identify opportunities for automation and workflow simplification.
• Contribute to adoption and enhancement of SAP IBP capabilities.
• Maintain planning data quality and system integrity.
• Support master data validation and planning model improvements.
• Perform planning analysis using SAP IBP, SAP ERP, Excel, and Power BI.
• Assist in user testing and deployment of planning process enhancements.

Skills

Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning

Production Planning

Operations Planning

Integrated Business Planning

S&OP / IBP

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field

Tools

SAP IBP

SAP ECC / S/4HANA

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin, TX is hiring a Supply Chain Planning Analyst to translate business requirements into planning insight. You will drive material, capacity, and inventory planning while coordinating across functions to mitigate risks and optimize supply.

The role demands 5+ years in planning within complex manufacturing environments. You will work with SAP IBP, SAP ERP, Excel, and Power BI to build dashboards, analyses, and actionable recommendations for executives and teams.