Planning & Fulfillment Specialist (m/f/d)

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Production Planning Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this position, you will have a key role in Smart Buildings, Electrification, Enclosures and Distribution Business Area. This role involves providing assistance in the development of the planning and fulfillment processes. Reporting to the Production Planning Manager you will ensure the efficient planning and fulfillment of products required by customers, focusing on performance improvements such as on-time delivery, lead time reduction, forecast accuracy and supply plan optimization. You will support production scheduling, material planning, and inventory optimization while driving improvement initiatives and ensuring high customer service levels and leading Supply Planning within ABB’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, including Anaplan deployment. Your main tasks will be: • Identifying bottlenecks, trends and root causes for non-performance, and driving improvement initiatives in Planning & Fulfillment • Develop and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and reports for planning and logistics performance using BI tools (e.g. Power BI) • Support demand forecasting, inventory planning, and capacity analysis with data-driven insights • Create an accurate schedule considering the customer needs, mains service metrics (ROTD & Past Due Orders) and material availability according to supply chain constraints. Releases production orders in SAP and tracks the plan vs. actual production • Calculating and maintaining inventory parameters in planning systems and ERP systems: safety stock, reorder point, lot size, lead time, and replenishment strategies • Minimizing the late backlog by proactively identifying root causes and implementing recovery plans • Collaborate with operations, procurement teams to improve supply chain efficiency and provide forecast to SCM team to facilitate a correct material planning strategy • Opportunity to be involved in improvement projects related to logistics area

Qualifications for the role

• Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Industrial Management or equivalent
• Good IT skills, good knowledge of Microsoft Office package (Excel is essential preferable advanced)
• Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Customer-focused, action-oriented, and systematic approach to process improvement, standardization, and deployment, with digital awareness and analytical skills
• Ability to translate data into actionable recommendations
• Ability to work effectively in a global, cross-cultural environment, to tight deadlines and able to deal with multiple issues
• Strong written and spoken communication skills in German and English
• A deeply collaborative, solutions-oriented approach
• First working experience in SCM or Planning & Fulfillment would be considered as a plus
• First experience with supply chain or logistics data analytics, familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
• Basic knowledge of ERP systems (e.g. SAP PP/MM/SD/WM)
• Basic knowledge of forecast Tools (i.e. Anaplan,..)

What's in it for you?

• Evolve in your career: through trainings and our Open Job Market, your career development continues!
• From Employee Assistance Program to global Parental leave, we got you covered!
• Get exposed to cutting-edge technology in Electrification and have a visible impact on the future

Benefits

More about us

Electrification provides leading electrical distribution and management technologies, solutions and services to electrify the world in a safe, smart and sustainable way. The portfolio includes medium- and low-voltage electrical components, switchgear, digital devices, enclosures, and circuit breakers, among others. With our products, solutions and services, we collaborate with customers to improve power delivery and security, enhance energy management, efficiency and operational reliability, as we seek to achieve a low carbon society. go.abb/electrification ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications. The Division’s highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers’ carbon reduction strategies. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory ABB is able to offer you an interesting role within a highly motivated team, together with open communication structures. On the basis of a personal, practice-oriented induction programme, you will be given the opportunity to acquire the confidence needed to work independently and self-reliantly within your assigned area. Even after the joining phase, ABB offers a wide range of individual career development opportunities and supports you in realising your career goals with targeted training measures. At ABB you will find an attractive working environment in all phases of life - including mobility services such as bicycle leasing, policies for sabbaticals and home office, the ABB children's vacation camp and taking care of family members. Interested in joining our team? We are looking forward to receiving your complete application through our online tool. In the case of equal suitability, people with severe disabilities and their equals are given preference. ABB AG Recruiter responsible for the job: Julia Fink