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Supply Planner II

Thermo Fisher Scientific
4 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Meriden, CT, United States
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Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Description: At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of a collaborative team supporting supply chain operations for our scientific products and services. As a Supply Chain Specialist II, you'll manage procurement, planning, and logistics activities to ensure timely delivery of products that help make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. This role combines analytical thinking with practical implementation to optimize inventory levels, coordinate with stakeholders, and support continuous improvement in our supply chain processes. You'll work with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, quality, finance, and commercial operations to deliver outstanding customer service while maintaining efficient operations. How will you make an impact? The Replenishment Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving distribution requirements and inventory replenishment plans for assigned product lines. This role supports product availability, inventory optimization, service levels, and working capital objectives by translating supply requirements and inventory signals into actionable replenishment plans. Key Success Measures Product availability and customer service performance. Inventory health, working capital, and excess / obsolete reduction. Backorder reduction and recovery execution. Key Responsibilities Supply Replenishment Responsibilities Own the distribution requirements planning process for assigned product lines to ensure inventory is positioned appropriately across plants, distribution centers, and regional stocking locations. Translate approved demand plans into replenishment and distribution requirements that support customer service, inventory targets, and supply chain constraints. Monitor finished goods inventory levels against forecast, actual sales, customer demand, and replenishment plans. Review and adjust replenishment and distribution plans to reduce stock-out risk, excess inventory, obsolete inventory, and working capital exposure. Identify supply, replenishment, and distribution gaps; escalate risks when demand cannot be met and recommend alternatives to satisfy customer requirements. Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Planning, Logistics, Customer Service, and regional teams to support timely deliveries and backorder reduction. Maintain and review planning parameters, including lead times, safety stock, min/max levels, lot sizes, and inventory targets. Lead problem resolution activities related to availability, replenishment constraints, distribution issues, and customer delivery risks. Compliance, Data Integrity & Continuous Improvement Ensure compliance with regulatory, quality, health & safety, and internal process requirements Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance planning processes and operational performance Maintain high standards of data accuracy within ERP systems How will you get here? Education Bachelor degree and 2 years of experience in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or Engineering Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Experience in demand planning, DRP, supply planning, inventory management, materials planning, or supply chain operations. Experience working with ERP, MRP, DRP, or advanced planning systems. Strong working knowledge of inventory optimization, safety stock strategy, and replenishment planning. Preferred experience with SAP, Oracl…

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