SASA-IND-Supply Planner

You will work in a small, 3-member micro-team with a Business Developer, who negotiates prices and take care of the overall commercial relation with the supplier, and a Production Engineer who takes care about production process and quality. As part of the annual action plan that your team will comprise, you will be responsible for improving the logistics process in order to ethically 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.