EMEA Service Supply Chain Planner

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 (New 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.

• Key deliverables/accountabilities:

• Inventory: Gross inventory
• Operational : Material availability & delivery performance (LOF, Fill Rate, Backlog)
• Finance: Portfolio cost optimization (E&O, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse ...)

• Working relationships: Internal:

• Service Supply chain teams (i.e. Logistics, Make, PLM)
• SCOAH
• Field & Channel
• RPB
• Category and MPS

• External:

• HP Suppliers

• Education (degree) and professional experience required:

• Bachelor/master’s degree in supply chain or math - related subject or Engineering
• 4-7+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Planning or other roles with strong analytical aspects are critical advantage

• Other requirements:

• Fluent in English language
• Supporting EMEA time zone

• Personal skills and qualities:

• Strong Analytical & Math skills
• Critical thinking, ability to make judgement based on data and facts
• Strong Problem-solving skills
• Organizational & Time management skills, ability to prioritize critical and important work / decisions
• Strong communication skills to interact with suppliers, customers and other supply chain team members
• High attention to details
• Able to apply tools and technology to produce results
• Able to understand global business processes and identify impact of change

• Technical skills (procedures and documents the employee has to be acquainted with):

• Strong computer literacy
• ERP
• Integrated Planning System is a +

Job -

Supply Chain & Operations

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (India)

Travel -

Relocation -

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