Supply Planner

POSITION SUMMARY:The Supply Planner is responsible for working cross functionally with demand planning, sales, and production facilities to ensure sufficient inventory is available to meet our customers needs.This position will need to manage appropriate safety stock levels based on product life cycle in order to reduce or eliminate excess and obsolete inventory.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build & maintain constraints to forecast
• Understand and analyze inventory by product category in Israel & NA warehouse locations, including running customer specific inventory and internal inventory projection reports to send to Sales and Sales Operations
• Analyze supply needs to reduce excess inventory and work with sales team on strategy to reduce excess and slow-moving inventory.
• Recommend DOS targets (Safety stock) and monitor adherence; adjust POs as needed
• Provide inventory allocation constraints by customer (when capacity constrained) to Sales leader, who will provide the customer allocation recommendation
• Create POs to be sent to Israel / Europe based on consensus forecast; update and escalate as needed
• Work with global Supply Chain to provide guidance in prioritizing vessel departures out of Israel or Europe as needed based on NA customer priorities, aligned with Sales leadership
• Monitor on time shipment

Requirements :

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Track record of working across several different categories, with knowledge of peak season planning
• Experience working with large big box retailers and ecommerce (direct and drop ship)
• Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams on initiatives that improve forecasting, minimize inventory, and optimize cost to serve
• Systems knowledge in SAP, APO
• Experience with POS and inventory reporting
• Entrepreneurial, agile mentality
• Ability to analyze data and make decisions and recommendations based on relevant information
• Ability and willingness to drive process development and improvement
• IPR experience preferred
• PowerBI experience preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 10%

Education / Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• APICS certification or equivalent preferred
• 5+ years experience in global supply with a durables company; demand experience preferred

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time