Supply and Inventory Planner (m/f/d)

Overview

As a Supply and Inventory Planner, you translate demand plans into feasible supply strategies for test systems and options, balancing capacity, lead times, and inventory. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure supply feasibility, inventory health, and timely mitigations, enabling reliable customer service and efficient execution. You provide visibility into gaps, E&O exposure, and buffer effectiveness to support S&OP, shortage management, and risk-aware decision making. This role offers ownership over inventory positioning and risk mitigation in a multi-tier external manufacturing network.

Verantwortungsbereiche

• Translate demand plans to feasible supply plans at test-system and options level, balancing capacity, material availability, lead times, inventory, and logistics constraints
• Define and maintain inventory targets, safety stock, and buffer concepts aligned with service and cost objectives
• Provide supply and inventory inputs for Supply Review and S&OP, including gaps, coverage, shortage risk, E&O exposure, and mitigations
• Serve as planning interface between Demand & Supply Planning Lead and cross-functional teams including S&OE, Logistics, and external manufacturers
• Run scenarios to assess impacts of demand changes, constraints, lead-time changes, and ramp-up on service, inventory, cost, and risk
• Monitor inventory health across locations and coordinate mitigation to prevent obsolescence and excess
• Coordinate execution handover with Supply Operations and S&OE, including constraints, shortages, expediting needs, and allocations
• Maintain dashboards and reports tracking KPIs (feasibility, inventory health, coverage, turns, E&O risk, buffer effectiveness) and drive parameter improvements

Zentrale Anforderungen

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Minimum 5+ years in supply/inventory planning, ideally in outsourced/external manufacturing
• Strong understanding of capacity, lead times, MOQs, safety stock, buffers, E&O, and service/inventory trade-offs
• Proven experience with ERP/MRP and planning systems (Oracle, Kinaxis)
• Experience with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and global supply networks in matrix environments
• Cross-functional planning interface experience (S&OP, shortage management, handover, escalation)
• Strong analytical/problem-solving capabilities with data-driven approach
• Exposure to NPI/change control, phase-in/phase-out, last-time-buy, obsolescence management
• Preferred: APICS/ASCM CPIM/CSCP or equivalent
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools and advanced Excel
• Analytical thinking
• Communication
• Stakeholder management
• ERP / MRP
• Oracle
• Kinaxis