EMEA Service Supply Chain Planner
Description -
Job scope/summary:
The scope of the SSC Print Planning team is to plan, source and deploy across EMEA the right printing commercial and consumer parts to our customers: Break-Fix (Onsite/Channel/MPS) / Part sales (RPB) / MPS supplies.
The Supply Chain Planner will manage a given portfolio /product line; he/she will plan inventory for EMEA Network for the products assigned to drive high level of availability within the inventory limitations, minimizing SC planning related costs.
Job specifics/responsibilities:
Planning activity for a specific portfolio:
- End-to-End Planning: Maintain part availability to support customer needs: Calculate the needs for spare parts (or Whole Unit Exchange), place appropriate supplier Purchase Orders and monitor the planned deliveries from suppliers.
- Inventory Management: Manage inventory in EMEA Network (Central warehouse, Virtual Hubs, Country Hubs) by defining inventory targets for all EMEA locations.
- Lifecycle Management: Work on problems of diverse complexity and scope (Recent Product Intro,
Life-Time Buys, Rolls, Upgrades, others)
- Customer Delivery Performance: Analyze planning performance of the products assigned; timely spot deviations and launch effective mitigation plan
Finance/Cost and service level accountability:
- Manage Good Inventory Scrap costs (Excess & Obsolescence) –
- Minimize Planning-driven costs (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse)
- Develop Finance / Cost acumen linked to planning activity, understand the cost impacts and balance with SL expected results
- Bring creative ideas to improve Cost and/or SL. Develop data analysis capability in order to prioritize actions that will strongly influence results.