Apple

Supply Demand Planner

Apple$88K — $105K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Business Management, or related field
  • 3 years of experience in demand forecasting and supply planning
  • Proficient in analyzing large datasets using Excel, Tableau, or similar tools
  • Experience with ERP or supply planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, or Kinaxis
  • Skilled in managing inventory levels and coordination across distribution channels
  • Strong negotiation skills with suppliers and understanding of sourcing strategies
  • Experience supporting new product launches and managing product transitions

Responsibilities

  • Forecast product demand and analyze production needs
  • Collaborate with key groups to shape supply chain strategy
  • Lead global initiatives to improve efficiencies and customer satisfaction
  • Define capabilities for rapid decision-making and process automation
  • Interface with suppliers to enhance core component technologies
  • Develop sourcing strategies and recommend product innovations
  • Coordinate with marketing for smooth new product transitions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at a leading global technology company
  • Engagement in innovative technology and business process solutions
  • A collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Exposure to sophisticated global supply chain initiatives
  • Potential for career growth in a dynamic market
Full Job Description
Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Forecast product demand, analyzing production needs, allocating global supply across all channels of distribution and influencing quarterly sales projections used in guidance to Wall Street. Collaborate and influence across many key groups within Apple in an effort to both set the strategy and drive the execution of products across Apple's global supply chain. Lead sophisticated, global initiatives to define, build, and roll out innovative technology and business process solutions that increase efficiencies, improve customer satisfaction, and challenge the status quo. Define and build capabilities that provide deep business insight, enable rapid decision-making, and drive automation of evolving business processes. Act as an interface between Apple and the industries that supply core component technologies. Develop and execute sourcing strategies as well as recommending product innovations based on improving technology. Understand and apply concepts of market dynamics and competitive behavior, negotiation and pricing, as well as knowledge of manufacturing processes, and risk mitigation to influence and run supply chain activities by working directly with operational partners to optimize supply constraints in light of demand priorities, factory capacity, logistics requirements, quality challenges, and materials flow throughout Apple's multi-tier global supply chain. Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions. Collaborate with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensure raw material inventory targets are achieved, and minimize material obsolescence during product transition. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, Business Management, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Performing demand forecasting and translating demand signals into supply plans for multi-product portfolios using historical data, demand variability analysis, and planning models in a manufacturing or consumer products environment.

Conducting production planning, capacity planning, and materials requirement planning (MRP) to support operations involving multiple SKUs, production lines, and supply constraints.

Analyzing large operational datasets (e.g., demand, supply, inventory, and fulfillment data) using Excel modeling, Tableau, or similar analytical tools to support supply chain decision-making.

Using ERP or supply planning systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, or equivalent) to manage supply planning, inventory tracking, and fulfillment coordination across multiple products or regions.

Managing inventory levels, service targets, and fulfillment priorities across multiple products, distribution channels, or geographic markets.

Negotiating with suppliers/OEMs and support sourcing decisions by evaluating pricing structures, supplier capacity, lead times, and supply risks.

Supporting new product introductions and product transitions by aligning supply plans with launch timelines and demand assumptions to ensure product availability while minimizing excess inventory and stock shortages across product lifecycles.

Identifying supply chain process inefficiencies, assessing supply constraints, and implementing process improvements or automation initiatives to enhance planning accuracy, operational efficiency, and responsiveness to demand changes.

Preferred Qualifications

N/A

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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