Inventory Planning Analyst

Overview: At **Konica Minolta**, our mission is simple yet powerful: _The Creation of New Value_. We believe in building smarter solutions, driving innovation, and supporting our customers and society with excellence. As an **Inventory Planning Analyst**, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that the right products are in the right place, at the right time — fueling sales success and keeping operations running smoothly across Canada. This role is ideal for detail-oriented, analytical professionals who thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy cross-collaboration with Sales, Customer Support, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance. **Responsibilities**: **Sales Forecast & Big Hit Inventory Planning** - Ensure inventory is staged to support sales forecasts and major deployments across all regions. - Collaborate with sales teams, customer support associates, and warehouses to reserve inventory and clear backorders. - Create and manage stock transfer orders within Canada to balance inventory. - Ensure production and industrial print orders are fulfilled for month-end revenue delivery. - Partner with Purchasing to track third-party drop ship backorders and ETAs. **Backorder Review & Communication** - Run and analyze daily backorder reports for both direct and dealer channels. - Collaborate with Supply Chain, Traffic, and warehouses to meet committed ETAs. - Publish national backorder reports twice weekly and provide ad hoc updates as needed. **Inventory Allocation & Batch Management** - Allocate inventory based on revenue impact, priority, and transportation lead times. - Manage batch changes for dealer and direct orders, especially at month-end to ensure on-time delivery. - Use SAP transactions to allocate newly received inventory to backorders across Canada. **EOL (End of Life) & New Product Launches** - Partner with Marketing to phase out old products and prepare for new launches. - Ensure correct SAP batch and plant/storage codes are used for EOL items. - Support smooth national launches by updating processes and ensuring inventory readiness. **Regional Replenishment** - Generate and review inventory requisition plans using SAP MD16/ME5A. - Adjust requisition quantities to match stock availability and streamline STO creation. - Optimize inventory by pulling back unused stock after big deployments. **Business Reporting & Insights** - Provide monthly Inside Sales reports for leadership and Finance. - Deliver accurate inventory analyses for Marketing and Finance. - Track KPIs including: - Zero EOL product inventory. - Minimized backorders and excess inventory. - Open box utilization - Ensure timely, accurate reporting to support revenue targets. Qualifications: - Post-secondary education (required). - 5+ years of experience in inventory planning, supply chain, or a related field. - SAP expertise (inventory & purchasing modules required). - Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Excel proficiency essential). - Strong communication and presentation skills at all organizational levels. - Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. - Ability to filter out “forecast noise” and make sound purchasing decisions. - Project management skills (asset). KM About Us: Konica Minolta Business Solutions' (Konica Minolta) journey started more than 150 years ago, with a vision to see and do things differently. The company partners with clients to Give Shape to Ideas by supporting their digital transformation through its expansive Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio. Its business technology offerings include IT Services, intelligent information management, video security solutions and managed print services, as well as office technology and industrial and commercial print solutions. 2025 marks Konica Minolta’s 20th anniversary in production print, for which it celebrates "20 Years of Excellence, Innovation and Impact,” and continues to lead the way in digital commercial printing. This year also commemorates 20 years of Konica Minolta’s bizhub brand. Over the past two decades, the bizhub series has revolutionized office technology and redefined how businesses operate. It has continuously evolved to meet the needs of modern workplaces, fueled by advances in technology and a commitment to innovation. Konica Minolta is proud to be ranked on the Forbes 2025 America's Best Large Employers list, included on CRN’s MSP 500 list numerous times; recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for eighteen consecutive years and presented with Keypoint Intelligence’s BLI 2025 and 2021 A3 Line of The Year and BLI 2021-2023 Most Color Consistent A3 Brand Awards for its bizhub One i-Series. For more information, please visit Konica Minolta online and follow it on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter. Konica Minolta operates on a North American Shared Services model, which aligns cross-border priorities and enhances delivery to its field organization. T