Job TitleNetwork Planner
Job Description
Operational) Supply Chain Planner
Job description
Are you experienced in the field of Supply Chain? Are you a stress-resistant team-player, with can-do mentality and excellent communications skills? Are you experienced in the Supply or Demand Planning? At Vanderlande we are currently searching for a Project Material Planner!
Your Role
Are you capable of retaining an overview and setting the right priorities? Would you like to work in a pragmatic, dynamic supply chain environment in which you are highly aware of quality, performance and results? Do you know what it takes to implement improvements across the globe?
Your tasks and responsibilities
Network supply form a key part of supply chain within Vanderlande, and their main focus is Execute our daily allocation of workload release towards our factories & subcontractors.
Your responsibilities and activities will be:
- Execute our daily allocation of workload release towards our factories & subcontractors.
- Give advice and enter supply plans from our S&OP tooling into our ERP system.
- Process revisions of the projects on demand and planning
- Be the linking pin between a tactical S&OP team and project execution.
- Handle exceptions within our supply chain
- Caring for details and adhering to a standardized process
- Enabling a smooth order flow by ensuring a timely and first-time right specification handling
- Cooperate and communicate effectively on a global level.
- Understanding the influencing factors of the workload within our supply chain
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- Working experience (min. 4+ years) preferably in a high-tech environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Supply Chain and Planning experience are a plus
- JDE experience is a Plus
- Drive to win, result and goal oriented with a hands-on mentality
Knowledge-Skills-Abilities:
- Knowledge of Supply Chain management (supply and demand)
- Able to collaborate easily with stakeholders
- A strong planner and organizer
- Acting as mature partner for process improvement in procurement and related processes
- Result oriented and stress-resistant
- Self-confident and independent
- Ability to interact with a diverse team of internal disciplines in an international business setting.
- Persuasiveness: Ability to get things done with peers and management by influence.
- Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Maintains a cooperative and flexible work style.
- Initiative; takes over concerns proactively.
- Ability to work across organizational boundaries with inter-disciplinary teams.
- Understands the importance of traceability throughout a process
Your department
Vanderlande is dedicated to improving its customers’ business processes and competitive position. Vanderlande is an expert in automated material handling systems, which we mainly deliver to our customers by executing projects that focus on design, our own manufacturing, 3rd party supply and installation of these systems. Our systems and associated services enable fast, reliable, goods handling in distribution centers, parcel, and postal sortation facilities, as well as baggage handling at airports.
The Global Supply Chain organization plays a key role in the world-wide deliveries of products and services to Vanderlande solutions and consists of three Supply Chain Centers (SCC) in Europe (EU), North America (NA), and Asia Pacific (AP). Supply Chain Coordination North America is part of SCC NA and is responsible for coordinating these Vanderlande projects within Supply Chain.
Top Skills
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
