Supply Planner Courses

Supply Planners ensure the organisation has sufficient raw materials and inventory in place to satisfy production needs and fulfil customer orders — without running out of materials or becoming overstocked. They use forecasting and analysis tools to predict production needs and customer demand, and then determine optimum stock levels.

As a Supply Planner you could be submitting a report to the Supply and Distribution Manager with a list of expiring and ‘at-risk’ inventory, developing an overseas inventory forecast model, investigating anomalies in the POS (point of sale) real-time-updates against the actual inventory in the warehouse, liaising with the Production Manager to discuss the logistics requirements for a new customer, monitoring shipping arrivals, or checking the documentation on a large inventory transfer between warehouses.

To succeed in this job role you will need to be proficient in inventory planning software, have outstanding attention to detail, and be able to produce meaningful reports, forecasts, and recommendations from sales and production data.