Supply Plannerat CDW Careers

Description

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

The Supply Planner position resides within the Procurement department.  This role is responsible for executing a strategic inventory plan for a Brand or Category with alignment on plans across the organization. The planner develops and monitors a supply plan to best fill the unconstrained consensus demand plan.   

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Build and maintain successful relationships across departments and with our partners, to drive efficiencies and better serve our customers. 
• Effectively utilize supply chain tools and best practices to optimize supply planning procedures, analytics, metrics and standards that ensures timely and efficient delivery of products to customers. 
• Develop and maintain partner relationships in tandem with the demand planner to contribute to targeted supply chain and category goals. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of the product categories and analyze the competitive landscape to deliver appropriate supply recommendations and maintain our inventory goals. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of CDW's pricing hierarchies and price elasticity within their product category and can effectively manage products through their complete lifecycle. 
• Thorough knowledge of inventory policies and their impact to stocking and inventory management. 
• Analyze data to identify problematic areas and implement improvements. 
• Utilize Blue Yonder analytics to report on supply chain metrics, including days of supply, aging inventory, backorders, lead-time, and primary supplier fill rate. 
• Maintain Supply Planning parameters including: Forecast allocation and consumption rules, Inventory Policy, Pack Size, Calendars, etc. 
• Utilize Blue Yonder Supply Chain Platform to analyze demand patterns, set stockout horizon, and lead-time thresholds. 
• Leverage Blue Yonder supply planning module to troubleshoot and analyze inaccurate replenishment recommendations. 
• Collaborate with demand planners and suppliers for planning SKUs and ensure Supply Plan meets Demand Plan. 
• Proactively assist the demand planner in troubleshooting low forecast accuracy performance. 
• Align with Product Management to drive product offerings and earn incremental funding. 
• Collaborate with the Brand Management to meet or exceed budgeted partner controllable margin and revenue goals. 
• Publish monthly Supplier Projections to key suppliers. 
• Implement supply chain optimization projects. 
• Drop ship planning may be a required responsibility depending on brand/category. 

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology or Supply Chain related field OR 4 years' of Supply Chain experience AND 
• 1 year of experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or Pricing experience. 

Required Qualifications

• Critical thinking and resourcefulness to solve problems with supply chain and inventory management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact and present to all stakeholders including executive leadership.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Microsoft Excel.
• Demonstrated negotiation, business acumen, and partner management skills along with strong product and category knowledge.
• Ability to travel when required.
• Strong analytical skills to recognize and interpret both history and forecasts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Supply Chain Management in highly transactional and volatile markets.
• Experience with demand planning / forecasting applications (preferably as a user; JDA Demand & Fulfill a plus).

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small. 

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers. 
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
 

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status

Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/