Supply Planner

Service Support Birmingham, Alabama

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Description

Position at LiftOne

Job Title: Supply Planner 
Department: Supply Chain Management 
Reports To: Inventory Control Manager 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Birmingham, AL; Onsite Dependent 
Travel: Moderate (As Needed ~ 30%) 
  
Find Your Career With LiftOne
We’re a family‐owned company under our third generation of leadership and have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed. 
 
LiftOne invests in people, facilities, and innovative technology as part of the essential role we play in supporting our country’s supply chain and enabling critical goods to be delivered to homes and businesses. We’re a privately held company, and pair our scale with a strong foundation in our culture and values. This combination gives us a competitive advantage in the market and helps make us a trailblazing organization that is built to last. 
 
We’re looking for hard‐working, team‐oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential. We offer great benefits, competitive salaries, and opportunities for advancement to all our employees. Be a part of the essential work we do at LiftOne and make a difference for our customers, our community, and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with LiftOne. 
  
Summary
The Supply Planner optimizes parts inventory to maximize availability and service levels while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving stock. This role develops replenishment strategies, manages stocking policies, and ensures the right parts are available at the right place and time. 
Working cross-functionally with operations, procurement, warehouse, and service teams, the Supply Planner combines analytical expertise with operational knowledge to continuously improve inventory performance. The role relies on SAP S/4HANA and Power BI to monitor inventory health, analyze usage patterns, and drive data-based decisions. 
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Responsibilities
Inventory Management 

  • Manage parts inventory to achieve target service levels and fill rates while controlling inventory investment

  • Set and maintain replenishment parameters: reorder points, safety stock, min/max levels, lead times, lot sizes, and planning policies

  • Analyze usage trends to reduce stockouts, backorders, emergency freight, and excess or obsolete inventory

  • Identify and act on opportunities to disposition, transfer, or return dead and slow-moving stock

Warehouse & Operations 

  • Partner with warehouse and branch teams to ensure inventory accuracy, proper storage, and timely cycle counts

  • Investigate discrepancies and stockouts, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions

  • Monitor that receiving, put-away, replenishment, and transfer transactions are completed accurately

Planning & Strategy 

  • Review demand patterns, seasonality, and equipment lifecycle changes to adjust stocking strategies

  • Evaluate inventory across all locations — warehouses, field vans, lockers, and customer sites — to optimize positioning

  • Recommend inter-branch transfers and stock rebalancing to improve availability and reduce redundancy

  • Coordinate with procurement on supplier performance and lead time management

Reporting & Improvement 

  • Manage branch inventory performance to meet KPI targets using BI dashboards and analytics

  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives across inventory, warehouse, and supply chain processes

  • Stay current on industry best practices and emerging supply chain technologies

     
Key Metrics
Fill rate · Service level · Inventory accuracy · Stockout rate · Inventory turns · Dead/obsolete stock · Backorder and emergency freight frequency · Warehouse transaction accuracy 
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Qualifications 

  • 5+ years in materials planning, supply chain, or a related role; or a bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or Operation

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities

  • Advanced Excel required (pivot tables, VLOOKUP); Power BI proficiency preferred

  • ERP experience required; SAP S/4HANA experience a plus

  • APICS certification a plus

  • Effective communicator and cross-functional collaborator

     
Workplace Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
 
Supervisory Responsibilities 
 This role has no direct reports but is expected to influence and guide cross-functional partners on inventory practices and replenishment strategies.

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