Supply Demand Management
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Our China team will be the voice of Apple’s worldwide customers to the production and operations teams in China. As the liaison Apple’s headquarters and Apple’s Asia Operations team and OEM partners, this person will develop, communicate, and complete end-to- end product demand and supply plans across all channels of distribution in over 80 countries for a current or future product line. Product line assignments will be made at the time of hire in any of Apple’s multi-billion dollar businesses, including Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Wearable and Accessories.
- Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through analysis. Generate and execute weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple’s financial objective. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate
- Define the launch strategy including launch target and execution plan of new product introductions and balancing the New Product Introduction (NPI) end-to-end daily planning to ensure smooth product transitions.
- Partner with Apple Operation team on OEM site strategy development and factory capacity requirements based on demand projections, call out the risks and provide prioritization during constraint.
- Partner with global procurement teams to allocate constrained components to secure customer commits under optimized allocation
- Partner with OEM and Apple Operations / Logistics teams to ensure a detailed execution plan to serve an outstanding customer experience.
- Present product updates and recommended actions to Asia Procurement Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.
- Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Highly proficient in MS Excel.
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, capable of building and nurturing positive relationships with both internal and external partners.
- A strong team collaborator and communicator.
- Prior experience in supply chain or in fields that requires quantitative analysis.
- Skilled in communicating complex analytics, making data-driven insights accessible and actionable.
- Demonstrate initiative, adaptability and problem-solving skills in a changing and dynamic environment.
- Have experiences in predictive and optimization modelling (eg Solver, AI/ML), data visualization (eg: Tableau) or programming (eg, SQL, Python) is preferred.