Supply Demand Planner
About The Position
Apple Inc. is hiring a Supply Demand Planner in Austin, Texas. The role forecasts demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell-through, and generates weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple’s financial objectives. The planner evaluates risks and implements contingency plans, analyzes product sales to identify opportunities and drive appropriate action, and partners with regional product planning teams to align supply plans with sales requirements. The role coordinates with Marketing and New Product Operations to set launch quantities for new product introductions and support smooth product transitions. It also collaborates with global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, meet raw-material inventory targets, and minimize material obsolescence during transitions. The planner presents product updates and recommended actions to the Operations executive management team weekly, and identifies process improvements, marshals resources, and drives projects to completion.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Industrial Engineering or a related field.
- At least 1 year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Experience and/or education using Excel and Tableau for supply and demand forecast analysis.
- Experience and/or education using Excel and Tableau modeling to analyze backorder data, in-stocks, supply levels, seasonality, year-on-year curve modeling, risk mitigation, and supply/demand shortages.
- Experience and/or education conducting channel supply-demand forecast analysis using Excel and Tableau.
- Experience and/or education analyzing and optimizing existing processes and tools to improve operational efficiency and execution accuracy.
- Experience and/or education designing, creating, and implementing workflows and tools to increase efficiency.
- Experience and/or education analyzing and optimizing inventory distribution to reduce transit time and increase on-time performance.
Responsibilities
- Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell-through.
- Generate weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet financial objectives.
- Evaluate risks and plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate them.
- Analyze product sales, identify opportunities, and drive partner groups to appropriate action.
- Partner with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements.
- Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations to set new-product launch quantities and ensure smooth product transitions.
- Collaborate with global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, achieve raw-material inventory targets, and minimize material obsolescence during product transitions.
- Present weekly product updates and recommended actions to the Operations executive management team.
- Identify opportunities to improve product-planning processes, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
- Analyze and optimize inventory distribution to reduce transit time and increase on-time performance.
- Forecast demand and implement processes for smooth new-product introduction transitions while minimizing excess supply on end-of-life products.
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Job Type
Full-time
