About Known Known is a full-service supply chain solutions company providing white-glove support from sourcing and quality control to shipping, customs clearance, and inventory planning. We help clients manage the complexities of their supply chains through service, communication and coordinated execution. Our planning team manages inventory planning and replenishment on behalf of clients, helping them maintain the inventory they need while controlling costs. We work closely with their teams to turn data into purchasing decisions and keep plans aligned with changing business needs.

About the Role
The Inventory Planning Analyst joins Known’s planning team to manage forecasting, replenishment, and purchase order execution for client operations across a network of distribution centers, stores, and vendors. Reporting to the Director of Operations, this person turns demand and supply data into clear purchasing recommendations, keeps planning systems and purchase orders accurate, and delivers recurring planning cycles on schedule. The analyst works directly with clients to explain recommendations, resolve planning questions, and coordinate priorities. Success requires strong analytical judgment, careful follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple projects alongside a fixed planning calendar. Responsibilities Planning and replenishment
• Own the planning cycle from order suggestions and RFQs, working with Procurement, through purchase order placement.
• Manage forecasts, demand plans, supply plans, and order proposals in DemandCaster. Deliver biweekly and monthly order cycles on the established calendar.
• Create, update, receive, and approve purchase orders in NetSuite; reconcile them daily and resolve or escalate discrepancies.




• Prepare work order suggestions and maintain the supporting item links and bills of materials in NetSuite and DemandCaster.
• Maintain the make-to-order item list through monthly sales reviews, status updates, and reporting. Data and systems
• Analyze vigente vendor lead times, identify changes, and maintain accurate lead times in NetSuite and DemandCaster.
• Maintain item and supplier master data, including item setups, tags, planning hierarchies, alternate sources, history links and planning system settings.
• Keep data aligned across systems, including pack quantities, weights and customer part numbers. Clients projects and reporting
• Serve as a key client contact on planning matters. Explain order recommendations, discuss rates and timelines, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Manage planning projects from request through completion. Agree scope and deadlines, assign tasks and owners, report status weekly, flag risks early and close projects.
• Manage three to five concurrent projects alongside the planning calendar. Projects may include new item setups, lead time reviews, process improvements, system transitions and client analyses.
• Produce monthly inventory turnover reporting and explain the data and assumptions behind order recommendations.
• Keep SOPs, training videos, templates, and the submission calendar current.




• Provide ad hoc analysis for directors and leadership. What success looks like
• Deliver accurate, error-free order suggestions by each scheduled submission date, with quantities, assumptions and supporting data checked before release.
• Refresh forecasts and adjust replenishment recommendations as demand, inventory, lead times or client priorities change.
• Reconcile purchase orders daily, resolve discrepancies within your control and promptly escalate exceptions that require input from others.
• Keep planning inputs current, including lead times, item settings, supplier data and planning parameters.
• Track project milestones and meet agreed deadlines, communicating risks early and confirming revised timing when priorities or dependencies change.
• Give clients and internal teams clear explanations of planning recommendations, exceptions and next steps. Requirements
• 1–3 years of hands-on experience owning forecasts, replenishment planning and client communication in an inventory planning role.
• Experience using NetSuite and CSV uploads to manage purchase orders, item receipts aand and other ERP related functions.
• Exposure to an inventory, demand or supply planning tools
• Strong Excel skills or a willingness to learn
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, meet recurring deadlines, and communicate changes in priorities or timing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain planning recommendations and handle confidential client information with discretion.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to identify discrepancies and follow them through to resolution.

📌 Inventory Planning Analyst (México)
🏢 Known
📍 México