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Supply Chain Planner
What is a supply chain planner?
A supply chain planner keeps a business running smoothly by ensuring it always has the right inventory level, either in stock or storage, to meet customer demands. These logisticians predict the organization’s inventory needs based on everything from their financial needs to changes in the market.
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What does a supply chain planner do?
Supply chain planners execute various tasks, including overseeing product acquisition and allocating supplies, managing business systems, and strategizing ways to contain costs. What a supply chain planner does largely depends on how a company divvies up the roles and responsibilities among its logistics team. Other team members might include:
Senior demand planner
Demand planning manager
Distribution manager
Logistics analyst
In some cases, members of the logistics team may even report directly to you.
No matter how the company sets up its team, your job as a supply chain planner is to ensure that the organization has the supplies it needs when it needs them so it can produce and sell products to customers. You might do this by forecasting sales, tracking performance, and keeping up with global trends and demand to create a strategic plan ultimately. Doing this helps the company's operations run more efficiently, often saving the organization money and helping it stay ahead of the competition.
The Inner Hebrides (/ˈhɛbrɪdiːz/ HEB-rid-eez; Scottish Gaelic: na h-Eileanan a-staigh, lit. 'the Inner Isles') is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. Together these two island chains form the Hebrides, which experience a mild oceanic climate. The Inner Hebrides comprise 35 inhabited islands as well as 44 uninhabited islands with an area greater than 30 hectares (74 acres). Skye, Mull, and Islay are the three largest, and also have the highest populations. The main commercial activities are tourism, crofting, fishing and whisky distilling. In modern times the Inner Hebrides have formed part of two separate local government jurisdictions, one to the north and the other to the south. Together, the islands have an area of about 4,130 km2 (1,594 sq mi), and had a population of 18,948 in 2011.[1][2] The population density is therefore about 4.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (12 inhabitants per square mile).
There are various important prehistoric structures, many of which pre-date the first written references to the islands by Roman and Greek authors. In the historic period the earliest known settlers were Picts to the north and Gaels in the southern kingdom of Dál Riada prior to the islands becoming part of the Suðreyjar kingdom of the Norse, who ruled for over 400 years until sovereignty was transferred to Scotland by the Treaty of Perth in 1266. Control of the islands was then held by various clan chiefs, principally the MacLeans, MacLeods and MacDonalds. The Highland Clearances of the 19th century had a devastating effect on many communities and it is only in recent years that population levels have ceased to decline.
Sea transport is crucial and a variety of ferry services operate to mainland Scotland and between the islands. The Gaelic language remains strong in some areas; the landscapes have inspired a variety of artists; and there is a diversity of wildlife.
