4.4 KiB
Market evidence report — purchase-planner
Source: 36 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 36), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 34 | 94 % |
| senior | 2 | 6 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 19 | 53 % |
| 2 | ERP systems | 9 | 25 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Office | 6 | 17 % |
| 4 | SAP | 6 | 17 % |
| 5 | Oracle | 5 | 14 % |
| 6 | ERP system | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | MRP systems | 3 | 8 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 15 | 42 % |
| 2 | procurement | 13 | 36 % |
| 3 | purchasing | 12 | 33 % |
| 4 | inventory control | 9 | 25 % |
| 5 | inventory management | 6 | 17 % |
| 6 | material planning | 6 | 17 % |
| 7 | supplier management | 6 | 17 % |
| 8 | cost analysis | 5 | 14 % |
| 9 | negotiation | 5 | 14 % |
| 10 | supply chain management | 5 | 14 % |
| 11 | inventory planning | 4 | 11 % |
| 12 | problem solving | 4 | 11 % |
| 13 | supply chain planning | 4 | 11 % |
| 14 | contract administration | 3 | 8 % |
| 15 | data entry | 3 | 8 % |
| 16 | demand forecasting | 3 | 8 % |
| 17 | production planning | 3 | 8 % |
| 18 | production scheduling | 3 | 8 % |
| 19 | purchase order processing | 3 | 8 % |
| 20 | risk mitigation | 3 | 8 % |
| 21 | vendor management | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continuous improvement | 5 | 14 % |
| 2 | MRP | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | supply chain management | 3 | 8 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue resolution | 5 | 14 % |
| 2 | cost reduction | 4 | 11 % |
| 3 | inventory management | 4 | 11 % |
| 4 | purchase order processing | 4 | 11 % |
| 5 | vendor communication | 4 | 11 % |
| 6 | inventory monitoring | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | pricing updates | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | purchase order creation | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | purchase order maintenance | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | supplier communication | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 36 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
36 ads.
Top hard skills:
- data analysis — 42 % (15 ads)
- procurement — 36 % (13 ads)
- purchasing — 33 % (12 ads)
- inventory control — 25 % (9 ads)
- inventory management — 17 % (6 ads)
- material planning — 17 % (6 ads)
- supplier management — 17 % (6 ads)
- cost analysis — 14 % (5 ads)
- negotiation — 14 % (5 ads)
- supply chain management — 14 % (5 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 53 % (19 ads)
- ERP systems — 25 % (9 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 17 % (6 ads)
- SAP — 17 % (6 ads)
- Oracle — 14 % (5 ads)
- ERP system — 8 % (3 ads)
- MRP systems — 8 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 6 % (2 ads)
- NetSuite — 6 % (2 ads)
- Power BI — 6 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 94 % · senior 6 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Purchasing Coordinator | 10 |
| material planner | 3 |
| Buyer Planner | 2 |
| Procurement Coordinator | 2 |
| Buyer/Planner | 1 |
| Buyer/Planner (Onsite) | 1 |
| Buyer/Planner I | 1 |
| ECN Coordinator- Purchasing Material Planner | 1 |
| Inventory & Purchasing Planner | 1 |
| Job Supply Chain Purchasing Planner | 1 |
| Material Planner- Mid Level | 1 |
| Onsite Purchasing & Logistics Coordinator | 1 |
| Onsite Wholesale Purchasing Coordinator | 1 |
| Planner | 1 |
| Planner & Buyer | 1 |
| Planner/Buyer-Mebane,North Carolina | 1 |
| Planner/Buyers | 1 |
| Production and Purchasing Planner | 1 |
| Purchasing Buyer | 1 |
| Senior Material Planner | 1 |
| Sr Buyer Planner | 1 |
| Strategic Purchasing Coordinator | 1 |
| Supply Chain Planning & Purchasing Manager | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.