Demand Planning Professional at Siemens Healthineers

The Role:

• The Demand Planning Professional plans and controls quantities for assigned logistic processes, inventories and stocks, to ensure a 100% availability of all input factors and to contribute to superior logistic process quality

Your tasks and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Complete regular forecasting and planning for several relevant indicators (e.g. turnover, production, inventories, changes in inventory, capital expenditure requirements, employee capacities, etc.).
• Analyze, control and report on relevant KPI (e.g. productivity, profitability, capital tie-up, assets), detects and evaluates plan deviations, and derives recommendations for respective remedial measures.
• Perform qualified cost-and-profitability analyses for specific business cases (i.e. product launches, relocations, review of vertical range of manufacturing, etc.) to prepare respective alternative decisions.
• Develop supplier forecasts and determines logistical processes with suppliers.
• Introduce and implement logistical requirements regarding material provision and delivery as well as material phase-in/out in the PLM process.
• Plan and control assigned inventories and stocks (e.g. supply level, planning adjustments, etc.), analyzes inventory changes and develops measures for inventory reduction.
• Analyze and control logistical processes (e.g. Cycle Time, First Pass Yield, On-time delivery, KPI of effectiveness, productivity, etc.), in order to detect process weaknesses and to start process improvements.
• Maintain a network and cooperates with all involved stakeholder in the respective processes.
• Demand planning for re-agents, instruments and consumables and spares.
• Purchasing from vendors.
• Advanced shipping notifications/confirmations.
• Master data and pricing maintenance.
• Inventory Back order management planning.
• Clearing instructions with logistics companies.
• Monitor shipments with forwarding company.
• Business relevant reporting. Webcycles and intercompany controlling.

Your Qualifications And Experience

• Matric is a minimum requirement
• Tertiary qualification in Logistics Management or similar.
• SAP warehouse experience is preferred.
• Experience on a warehouse management system is essential.
• Must have advanced excel skills.
• Must have experience with 3rd party logistics
• Must have customs/import knowledge.
• Invitro Lab Diagnostics Healthcare experience will be advantageous
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power Suite (PowerBI, PowerQuery, PowerPivot) or equivalent

What else do you need to know?

• Must be a South African National, preferably from a designated diversity group

Excellence, Quality and Compliance in the daily interactions, operations and reporting is not a negotiable requirement, but absolutely mandatory for this role.