Supply Planner

Vanderlande Industries GmbH; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderlande Industries GmbH seeks a Supply Planner to balance demand, supply, capacity and financial outcomes within a complex IBP-driven environment. You translate demand signals into feasible supply plans, coordinating across materials, suppliers, capacity and execution.

You will participate in IBP/S&OP, align local and integrated plans, and collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, engineering and finance to resolve constraints and drive improvements in planning maturity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field.
• Experience in supply planning, material planning, S&OP or IBP environments.
• Experience in working in a matrix organization and cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g. SAP, JDE, Anaplan, or similar).
• Ability to balance short-term execution with mid- to long-term planning.

Responsibilities

• Translate demand into supply scenarios.
• Identify constraints and risks.
• Enable cross-functional decision-making within your domain and x-domains.
• Support meaningful discussions in monthly S&OP / IBP meetings.
• Develop realistic supply plans based on available capacity, supplier capabilities and network constraints.
• Identify critical components and capacity constraints and drive mitigation action.
• Identify gaps between demand and supply capability and define mitigation scenarios.
• Evaluate trade-offs across service, inventory, cost and working capital.
• Work closely with supply planners in and across your domain to align supply plans.
• Ensure consistency between local plans and the integrated plan.
• Act as a connector between central planning, domains and execution functions.
• Contribute to the monthly supply planning step within the IBP / S&OP cycle.
• Prepare inputs for planning and decision meetings.
• Highlight risks, assumptions and decision points.
• Ensure alignment between Demand, Supply, Resource/capacity and Financial planning.
• Handover decision from S&OP towards S&OE to execute.
• Collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, finance and project teams.
• Align with procurement to ensure material availability and supplier performance.
• Linking pin with NPI to ensure new product data available in the planning tool and properly embed in the planning process.
• Translate approved supply plans into ERP / execution systems.
• Manage plan changes, project updates and supply chain exceptions.
• Ensure alignment between tactical plans and operational execution.
• Improve planning processes, data quality and KPI transparency.
• Contribute to increasing planning maturity in areas such as Inventory alignment, Execution prioritization, Structured decision making.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision-making

Planning & forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business

Tools

SAP

JDE

Anaplan

Job description

Supply Planner

Are you energized by balancing demand, supply, capacity and financial outcomes in a complex, project-driven environment? Do you thrive when working across organizational boundaries to create a single, aligned plan?

We are looking for a Supply Planner who operates at the heart of our Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle for the domain Distribution, working in a matrix organization with other domains and corporate planning.

Your Role

As a Supply Planner, you are responsible for translating demand signals into a realistic, feasible supply plan, taking into account constraints across materials, suppliers, capacity and execution.

• Translate demand into supply scenarios
• Identify constraints and risks
• Enable cross-functional decision-making within your domain and x-domains
• Support meaningful discussions in monthly S&OP / IBP meetings

Key Responsibilities

1. Supply Planning & Scenario Building

• Develop realistic supply plans based on available capacity, supplier capabilities and network constraints
• Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action
• Identify gaps between demand and supply capability and define mitigation scenarios
• Evaluate trade-offs across service, inventory, cost and working capital

2. Operating in a Matrix Organization

• Work closely with supply planners in and across your domain to align supply plans
• Ensure consistency between local plans and the integrated plan
• Act as a connector between central planning, domains and execution functions

3. IBP / S&OP Participation

• Contribute to the monthly supply planning step within the IBP / S&OP cycle
• Prepare inputs for planning and decision meetings
• Highlight risks, assumptions and decision points
• Ensure alignment between:
  • Demand planning
  • Supply planning
  • Resource/capacity planning
  • Financial planning
• Handover decision from S&OP towards S&OE to execute

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, finance and project teams
• Align top-down financial targets with bottom-up operational plans
• Support resolution of supply constraints and operational challenges
• Linking pin with NPI to ensure new product data available in the planning tool and properly embed in the planning process

5. Network & Materials Planning Integration

• Provide visibility on shortages and surpluses across sites and suppliers
• Enable network-level decision making by consolidating planning inputs
• Align with procurement to ensure material availability and supplier performance
• Identify critical components and capacity constrain and drive mitigation action

6. Execution & Plan Translation

• Translate approved supply plans into ERP / execution systems
• Manage plan changes, project updates and supply chain exceptions
• Ensure alignment between tactical plans and operational execution

7. Continuous Improvement & Planning Maturity

• Improve planning processes, data quality and KPI transparency
• Contribute to increasing planning maturity in areas such as:
  • Inventory alignment
  • Execution prioritization
  • Structured decision making

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or a related field
• Experience in supply planning, material planning, S&OP or IBP environments
• Experience in working in a matrix organization and cross-functional teams
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights and decisions
• Strong (senior) stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g. SAP, JDE, Anaplan, or similar)
• Ability to balance short-term execution with mid- to long-term planning

Key Competencies

• Cross-functional collaboration: effectively working across domains and hierarchy levels
• Analytical thinking: translating data into decisions and scenarios
• Influencing without authority: effective in a matrix organization
• Decision-making: balancing trade-offs across service, cost, inventory and capacity
• Process orientation: contributing to structured IBP / S&OP processes