Supply Chain Repair Planner

Supply Chain Repair Planner

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Job specifics/responsibilities:

Planning activity for a specific portfolio:

• DMD Forecasting: 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.
• 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. Maximize Repair vs New Buy supply flow.
• Inventory Management: Manage inventory in EMEA Network (Central warehouse, VHUBs, CHUBs) by defining inventory target 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: Report planning performance of the products assigned; timely spot deviations and launch effective mitigation plan
• Perform monthly, weekly & daily planning activities for the products assigned to drive the key deliverables.
• Actively participate on meetings with other members of the team.

Finance/Cost and TCE accountability:

• Manage Good Inventory Scrap costs (Excess & Obsolescence) –
• Minimize Planning-driven costs (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse)
• Share best practices among the team thru active participation in performance reviews or team meetings.
• Develop Finance / Cost acumen linked to planning activity, understand the cost impacts and balance with TCE expected results; capture the committed costs in respective trackers (Non Prod PO, Air Freight, …)
• Bring creative ideas to improve Cost and/or TCE Develop data analysis capability in order to prioritize actions that will strongly influence results.

Repair  Operations Management :

• Repair Forecast Management:
  • provide regular and accurate monthly forecasts, including long-term (end-of-life) volume projections
  • communicate on production priorities based on projected backlog; manage planning metrics and ensure corrective actions in case of deviation.

• Defective Management:
  • provide monthly defective projections to Repair Vendor
  • optimize and prioritize defective flow sourcing to enable more efficient defective inventory cost
  • switch on/off defective collection decision
  • monitor Defective return rate % – spot deviations and elevate contributors
  • ensure monthly MPTV adjustments to limit impact on P&L

• Cost Management:
  • Validate “Repair flag” with Finance
  • Manage Inventory Scrap costs (Excess & Obsolescence) – for Good and Defective inventory
  • Support for material liability minimization trough timely providing an accurate Repair forecast (short-term and EOL)
  • Minimize Planning-driven costs (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse)

• Repair Planning – KPI management:
  • Maximize Repair Planning KPIs – Repair Ratio %, Forecast Accuracy, BO (Back Order) and LOA (level of Availability), Inventory – Good Inventory vs Business target and Defective Inventory – vs Baseline.
  • Analyze accuracy deviations on Repair metrics and elevate contributors – Defective return rate %, Repair Efficiency %, Production Scrap Rate %

Key deliverables/accountabilities:

• Inventory: Gross inventory
• Operational: Material availability & delivery performance (GLOS, LOF, LOA), Backlog included aged backlog
• Finance: Portfolio cost optimization (Inbound, exception, airfreight, rebalancing, reverse ...)
• Meet commitments
• Productivity and efficiency
• Process quality and accuracy

Education (degree) and professional experience required:

• High School /Bachelor/Master degree
• 3 to 5 years of professional experience in Planning or Supply Chain similar functions

Other requirements:

• Fluent in English language
• Partner management experience is a plus

Personal skills and qualities:

• Managing Complexity (Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work to tight deadlines)
• Big Data and Real Time Analytics
• Analytical problem solving
• Customer Focus / Intimacy (strong communication skills; positive can-do attitude; customer centric approach)
• Ability to work with maximum autonomy (remote management/team)
• Assertiveness to drive actions and achieve operational performance targets
• Innovative thinker able to use creative solutions in problem solving

Technical skills:

• MS Office
• Planning ERP

We love our work environment and career growth journey. We think you will too:

• Inspirational and collaborative team that supports your growth
• Various career paths that foster your development in various fields (e.g. contract and customer relationship management, business analysis, DATA & Automation, process design and optimization, new systems integration, project management, trainings, leadership etc.)
• The great professional exposure with a wide range of collaborators (e.g. corporate clients, business sales functions, higher management) empowers you to have a meaningful impact

What do we offer:

• Additional medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Additional days paid leave
• Food vouchers
• Wellness program (incl. sport cards)
• Work-life balance support including work from home opportunities

We’re looking for visionaries who are ready to make an impact on the way the world works. At HP, the future’s yours to create!

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