As a potential employer, ifm encourages you to do what you love — offering an international, innovative environment where you can pursue your personal strengths and passions. As Supply Chain Planner (m/f/d), you will actively participate in monthly capacity planning, manage safety stocks and delivery capability, and take on insights into leadership tasks as deputy team leader within a meaningful, diverse role.
About This Supply Chain Planning Role at ifm
Core Focus: Monthly capacity planning comparing requirements, forecasts, and production capacities
Leadership Exposure: Insights into leadership tasks, taking on responsibility as deputy team leader
Key Metric: Managing capacities, safety stocks, and ranges to ensure 97% delivery capability
Systems Focus: Parameterization of ERP/APS planning systems, ideally SAP, for continuous process improvement
🇩🇪 Why This Role in Tettnang Matters
Strategic Location: Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg — near Lake Constance, home to ifm’s manufacturing operations
Company Stability: Security of an internationally operating family business
Cross-Functional Impact: Close collaboration with sales, production, purchasing, and demand planning teams
Career Development: Diverse range of tasks with individual development opportunities based on prior knowledge and interests
Position Overview
This Supply Chain Planner (m/f/d) role at ifm in Tettnang involves active participation in monthly capacity planning, developing scenarios and recommendations for the capacity planning review meeting, and managing capacities, safety stocks, and inventory key figures to ensure a 97% delivery capability. You will drive efficiency through planning system parameterization, support operational production planning and shop floor management, and collaborate closely with internal teams to develop best practices.
Why This Role Matters: As Supply Chain Planner at ifm, you directly influence production reliability and delivery performance for an internationally operating family business, gain hands-on exposure to leadership responsibilities as deputy team leader, apply analytical and SAP/ERP planning skills to real capacity and inventory challenges, and build a long-term career within a company that invests heavily in individual training and development.
Key Responsibilities
Capacity Planning & Forecasting
- Active participation in monthly capacity planning by comparing requirements, forecasts, and production capacities
- Development of scenarios and recommendations for action for the monthly capacity planning review meeting
Inventory & Delivery Performance
- Managing capacities, safety stocks, and ranges, as well as monitoring relevant production and inventory key figures
- Ensuring the company’s 97% delivery capability target is met
Process Improvement & Systems
- Increased efficiency through parameterization of planning systems and continuous development of operational planning processes
- Operational production planning and active participation in shop floor management to ensure market- and plan-compliant production
Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Insights into leadership tasks and taking on responsibility as deputy team leader
- Close collaboration with internal interfaces (sales, production, purchasing, demand planning) and peers for the joint development of best practices
Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- Completed studies in business administration, (industrial) engineering with a focus on logistics/supply chain, or a comparable qualification
Experience Requirements
- Several years of professional experience in supply chain planning, production planning, or S&OP
- Good knowledge of ERP/APS systems, ideally SAP
Essential Skills
- Strong analytical understanding of numbers and a structured, independent work style
- Strong communication and coordination skills when dealing with diverse interfaces
- Very good German skills and good English skills (at least B2)
About ifm’s Manufacturing & Supply Chain Environment
ifm is an internationally operating family business built on meaningful work, diverse responsibilities, and a culture of respect, openness, diversity, courage, and appreciation. Based in Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg, the Supply Chain Planner role offers direct involvement in capacity planning, shop floor management, and cross-functional collaboration, supported by an extensive employee benefits package and strong investment in individual professional development.
Career Philosophy: At ifm, working means doing what you love — pursuing your personal strengths and passions within a supportive, growth-oriented environment.
Who Should Apply?
- Supply Chain / Industrial Engineering Graduates: With several years of planning experience
- S&OP Professionals: Experienced in capacity, demand, and inventory planning
- SAP/ERP Specialists: Comfortable configuring and optimizing planning systems
- Aspiring Team Leaders: Looking to build leadership experience as deputy team leader
- Bilingual Candidates: Fluent in German with strong English communication skills
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