AppleCare Supply Demand Planner
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Job overview
AppleCare Service seeks a highly analytical planner to manage service inventory and global supply and demand forecasts. The role analyzes demand trends, balances supply and demand, and communicates forecasts, priorities, and disruptions with vendors, distribution centers, and cross-functional partners. It also partners with AI/ML teams to develop and implement enterprise solutions and optimize workflows, supply costs, and inventory levels.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200692694-3956
Summary
The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it!
AppleCare is the service division in Apple where we provide the after sales service, repair and support to our customers. Our mission is to innovate and complete extraordinary service supply chain that deliver the right part to the right time, at competitive cost to service our customers.
AppleCare Service is looking for a highly analytical, motivated, hard-working individual with a supply and demand planning background in fast-pace, high-product-mix environment. You will lead service inventory planning, identify and analyze demand trends at both macro and micro levels, balance supply and demand while generating and managing forecasts on a global scale.
Description
This role requires consistent management of AppleCare service inventory through the use of advanced planning systems to analyze supply and demand situations across the globe, supporting customer segments and channels across service customers, business-to-business partners, and many others while achieving target fill rates, avoiding and mitigating backlog, and achieving financial goals. The role also requires consistent and clear communications of forecasted supply, constraint prioritization, and management of supply chain disruptions with partner teams including vendors, distribution centers, and our global cross functional partners. Additionally this role also requires partnership with AI/ML solutions teams to develop, test, and implement enterprise-wide solutions as well as to optimize existing workflows, supply cost, and inventory levels.
Minimum Qualifications
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5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience
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Experience in supply planning, demand planning, commodities and procurement management, inventory management or supply chain management
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Possess a solid understanding of world-class supply chain practices, strong analytical capabilities, strong leadership skills, and business savvy
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Effective in communication, influencing, and negotiation in a matrix organization including one-on-one, small and large groups, and with peers and executives
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Ability to both think strategically and implement tactically, a persistent attention to details, a high level of comfort in running large data sets and conduction ad hoc analysis, skills for blending quantitative and qualitative data
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Experience with cross-functional collaboration to achieve outstanding customer. Service in a complex and fast-paced environment
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Consistent track record in delivering on operational KPI’s while leading projects and initiatives. Sense of priority and urgency to meet deadlines from different partners
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High proficiency in Excel and ability to learn applications quickly
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Familiarity with AI/ML solutions and applications
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Knowledge of SAP or other equivalent MRP tools
Preferred Qualifications
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8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent work experience
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Experience in supply planning, demand planning, commodities and procurement management, inventory management or supply chain management
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Masters degree in a related field or MBA preferred
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Experience in implementing AI/ML solutions and applications
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Experience in reporting tools such as Business Objects, Tableau, or similar tools
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Microsoft Office Suite (MOS) certification or equivalent certification
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Lean, six sigma or equivalent certification
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 594 open Supply Chain Planner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$102–154K/yr74 salary ranges
- US median$35–40/hr21 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 89 open Supply Chain Planner jobs in California and 594 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Supply Chain Planner postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (486 postings).
- Education
- 249 of the 594 open Supply Chain Planner jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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