SASA - IND - Supply Planner

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 customers.
• Develop and maintain suppliers logistic competence towards becoming responsible on their own performance through: working closely with suppliers, running Supplier Development Projects and providing them relevant trainings working methods.
• For various reporting purposes secure a consistent foundation, gather, process and compile data linking to Logistics, Engineering and Supplier Development to enabling decision making, preparing/visualization the different source of data, showing the history, trends, benchmarking, connection between different data.
• Working with multiple Business Teams, collecting, organizing, interpreting, and analyzing data related to purchasing activities. Contribute with experience and analytical expertise with the objective to extract meaningful and actionable insights from available data to support, fact-based decision-making.

We are looking for people with knowledge of supplier capabilities, materials, production flow and capacity planning. You should have the ability to lead to ensure suppliers have goods ready in time and in full to meet customer needs at the lowest possible landed cost. You should be able to translate the Category Plan into logistics solutions and always keep Total IKEA and Total Cost Development in mind.

To be successful in this role, the following competences are important for you.

Competencies

• Degree with Supply Chain/Logistics certifications preferred
• Relevant work experience of 8 to 12 years preferred
• Exposure to multiple industry domains, including textiles, automotive, plastics, metals, and similar sectors, is preferred
• Knowledge of supply chain logistics including different restocking as well as a good understanding of capacity planning
• Good leadership skill to lead and develop suppliers in planning and logistic topics
• Analytical skills and excellent knowledge and usage of needed tools/applications such as Advanced Excel, Power BI etc.
• Advanced knowledge of statistics, analysis methodologies, reporting and data visualization tools
• Strong communication skills and teamwork
• Ability to manage time well, to balance between the factory floor and office work
• Strong business sense and cost consciousness

We welcome your application

This position will be based in Bengaluru, India. Traveling is a part of the assignment since our Supply Planners work closely with our suppliers.

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