Supply Demand Planner, Infrastructure Services
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We are seeking a highly motivated Supply Demand Planner who will be responsible for end-to-end supply planning of data center consumables and infrastructure materials. This is a strategic supply chain operations role requiring close collaboration with cross-functional teams, integration centers, and suppliers to ensure seamless material availability. We're looking for a dedicated and passionate person to join this amazing team-if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you!
Description
In this position, you will be the central point of contact for supply planning of data center consumables and infrastructure materials, generating supply plans that meet Apple's operational and financial objectives. You'll drive demand synchronization across multiple planning systems, manage consumables contracts, and maintain critical supplier relationships.","responsibilities":"Demand Planning & Synchronization: You will manage demand across multiple systems, including Horizon planning, DIRP (Demand Integrated Resource Planning), SAP MRP load management, and Clear To Build (CTB). You'll orchestrate servers demand synchronization, ensuring alignment across cloud infrastructure, engineering teams and integration centers. You will sense changes to demand patterns and adjust supply plans accordingly to maintain efficient inventory levels.
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Consumables & Infrastructure Management: You will oversee consumables contracts, conduct regular safety stock reviews, and manage synchronization with infrastructure teams and integration centers. You'll maintain strong working relationships with individual partners across the organization and lead supplier synchronization meetings to ensure material availability and resolve supply constraints.
Cross-Functional Partnership: You will partner with Engineering, Logistics, Site Services, and Integration Center teams to solve complex supply chain problems quickly, sometimes with limited information. You'll dive deep into details, analyze root causes, and communicate solutions clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
Process Improvement & Leadership: You will identify improvement opportunities in supply planning processes, develop business cases, garner resources, and drive projects to completion. You'll influence tool development and lead change management initiatives across users of new processes and systems. You will also develop reporting frameworks that facilitate data-driven decision making and provide insight into supply health.
Preferred Qualifications
Meticulous attention to detail with excellent organizational and time management skills
Strong understanding of demand planning systems and processes including MRP, demand forecasting, and capacity planning
Familiarity with data center consumables and infrastructure materials (cables, racks, PDUs, baffles, fiber optics, DAC, Cat6, etc.)
Proven ability to manage multiple partner relationships simultaneously, including engineering teams, integration centers, and external suppliers
Good communication skills with ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive process improvements
Ability to understand configuration management and build multi-level product BOMs
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
3+ years of work experience in supply chain with emphasis on supply planning, demand management, inventory optimization or similar
Experience working with ERP/MRP systems, like SAP, or similar
Proficiency in data analysis tools like Excel, Numbers, or SQL
Experience with data visualization platforms such as Tableau, Business Objects
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