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ATS resume keywords for Supply Chain Planning (Demand and S&OP)

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Supply Chain Planning (Demand and S&OP) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • demand planning
  • supply planning
  • s&op
  • forecast accuracy
  • mrp
  • inventory optimisation
  • safety stock
  • service level
  • fill rate
  • stock out
  • days of inventory
  • dio
  • abc analysis
  • sku rationalisation
  • production planning
  • distribution planning
  • replenishment
  • sap apo
  • sap ibp
  • kinaxis
  • o9
  • excel
  • planning cycle
  • lead time
  • bullwhip
  • inventory turns
  • working capital
  • scenario planning

The eight questions for Supply Chain Planning (Demand and S&OP)

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many SKUs, plants or distribution points do you plan for?
  2. 2.What forecast accuracy, fill rate or service level do you hold, and where did it start?
  3. 3.What inventory, days of inventory or working capital reduction did you deliver?
  4. 4.Which planning systems and tools do you work in daily?
  5. 5.What sales value or volume does your plan cover in a month or year?
  6. 6.How many stakeholders, functions or suppliers do you align in the planning cycle?
  7. 7.What stock out, lost sales or obsolescence reduction did you achieve, and by how much?
  8. 8.How many planners or analysts do you lead, or which planning process did you build?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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