Your Role
The planner will be responsible for planning of Spare Parts, Consumables & Accessories to support our growing aftermarket business. You will be working in a team based at our office in Bangkok, Thailand. This role is primarily focused on planning and ordering of material within our internal flows, adapting orders to variable demand while maintaining key KPI's surrounding availability, inventory and freight costs.
Right at the very beginning of our journey to creating better customer experiences, the value and quality we achieve in planning shapes everything we do. So as a planner for the aftermarket, your negotiation and relationship building skills will be critical to the continued flow of materials to our new and existing customers and consumers.

A Typical Day

You will ensure that we have the right material at the right place at the right time and in those odd cases where that is not possible, keep all stakeholders well informed while working on solutions and improved lead-times. Developing and maintaining relationships with all stakeholders and continuously enhance stockholding policies & forecasts to reflect the latest demand patterns. You study order behaviors and drive improvements in the daily processes. You will interact with and monitor the performance of our global supplier base.
Management of inventory planning for regional warehouse, with multiple sources of supply, both internal and external vendors.
Plan inventory and purchase orders strategically by leveraging all aspects of the planning tool and stockholding policies.
Proactively avoid shortages through Risk of run-out process.
Communicate availability dates (ETA/ETD) with all relevant stakeholders.
Coordinate ad hoc stock-ups for sales promotions or quality campaigns in your warehouse of responsibility.
Planning of initial stock for new product launches.
Manage planning related master data.
Timely updates of performance indicators and actively plan corrective actions to reach targets.
Continuously improve the ways of working.