Job Description

As Purchasing Development, we purchase the materials and the production capacity to produce both home furnishing products and food. We have more than 1,200 coworkers globally and operate in 27 locations, including four category areas: Wood, Textile Furnishings, Electronics Home Accessories, Metal, Plastic Float Glass, comprising various categories within each area.

You will be part of a small, 3-member micro-team consisting of a Business Developer who negotiates prices and manages the overall commercial relationship with suppliers, and a Production Engineer who manages production processes and quality. As part of the annual action plan for your team, you will be responsible for improving the logistics process to reduce logistics costs in the overall IKEA supply chain. You will also perform:
- Secure operational capacities by ensuring high quality of capacity data from suppliers and by working continuously towards exceptions together with Need Planner and Supplier in a proactive manner.




- Contribute to tactical capacity planning based on supplier performance on agreed capacity.
- Update and secure correct business set-up information in all relevant systems. Furthermore, work with systems and reports to proactively detect and act on possible deviations from goal.
- Prepare suppliers for best replenishment and delivery solutions by continuously maintaining developing supplier delivery performance and sender lead-times.
- Contribute to identifying best logistical offer, furthermore implement, maintain and review by having customer and total cost in mind.
- Actively contribute in the planning and execution of the best set-up for range changes at supplier, constraints periods and activities.
- Continuously follow-up, analyse and take action to improve supplier delivery performance and ensure goods are shipped in time from suppliers.
- Secure correct availability information from supplier to IKEA Retail in such quality that it can be for the benefit of cu

📌 SASA - IND - Supply Planner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Inter Ikea Group
📍 Bengaluru