Working as a supply chain planner: training and career
The planner who keeps supply and demand in balance: planning production, guarding stock and keeping the chain flowing from supplier to customer.
At a glance
| Where you work | Manufacturers with their own planning, distribution centres, logistics providers and food and pharma companies with tight delivery times. |
|---|---|
| Status | White-collar |
| Joint committees | PC 226, PC 200, PC 209, PC 220 |
| Bottleneck profession | Yes, according to VDAB |
| Working hours | Mostly day work |
What you do as supply chain planner
- Draw up the production and supply planning and adjust it daily
- Guard stock levels and place orders with suppliers
- Align with production, warehouse, transport and sales
- Flag bottlenecks early and work out scenarios for peaks and shortages
- Analyse planning data and KPIs in the ERP system and report
What employers ask for
- A bachelor in supply chain, logistics, business or equivalent experience
- Strong with numbers and fluent in Excel; experience with an ERP like SAP is a big asset
- Setting priorities when everything seems urgent at once
- Communicating clearly with production, suppliers and sales, often multilingual
- Process thinking: you see the chain, not just your own link
What does a supply chain planner do?
In the VDAB occupational information, working as a supply chain planner falls under Productieplanner. You draw up production plans to produce efficiently and match raw materials, working hours and resources to customer demand.
Training and certificates
The associate degree in transport and logistics, the bachelor in business management and masters such as mobility and supply chain at KU Leuven or maritime and logistics management at the University of Antwerp lead to supply chain planner. Logos, Cevora and mtech+ offer a supply chain planner courses in planning, logistics and ERP, and VDAB has a bachelor in logistics track for job seekers.
Growing as supply chain planner
Planners grow into demand planner, S&OP coordinator or supply chain manager. Each step widens your view of the chain and your impact on the company's numbers.
Procurement and operations are open too: mastering the planning means understanding exactly where in the chain money is won or lost, and that insight is welcome everywhere.
Pay at a glance
Our pay range: €3,000 - €4,400 gross per month, without premiums and fringe benefits, based on the vacancies we fill.
Sector minimum
- PC 226, minimum monthly salaries per class: 2,574.27 to 5,960.82 euros gross per month, valid from 1 January 2026
- PC 200, scale II (from the second year with the company): 2,310.30 to 3,722.55 euros gross per month, valid from 1 January 2026
- PC 209, technical staff: 2,648.62 to 2,948.60 euros gross per month, valid from 1 July 2026
- PC 220, minimum monthly wages per category and experience: 2,333.06 to 4,363.42 euros gross per month, valid from 1 January 2026
Lowest and highest amount in the pay scale table; which amount applies to you depends on your class or category and your experience.
Sources for this data: see the list at the bottom.
What public sources report
| Source | Job title at the source | What the source reports | Sample and date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indeed | Supply chain planner (m/v) | Average 3,725 euros per month; minimum to maximum: 2,810 to 4,938 (base pay, gross or net not stated) | 223 salaries reported; updated 3 November 2026 |
| Jobat | Supply chain planner | Average 3,500 euros per month; minimum to maximum: 2,500 to 4,500 (gross) | number not stated; no date stated |
| Talent.com | Supply chain planner | Median 34,800 euros per year; low to high: 28,200 to 37,440 (gross or net not stated) | 754 salaries reported; no date stated |
| PayScale | Supply Chain Planner | Average 44K euros per year; 10th to 90th percentile: 27K to 67K (base pay, gross or net not stated, rounded by the source) | 26 salaries reported; updated 11 March 2025; not updated for a long time |
Not included: Glassdoor (blocks automated reading), StepStone (blocks automated reading), Statbel (no matching occupational group published).
Why do these figures differ so much? They don't measure the same thing. Glassdoor, Indeed, PayScale and Talent.com count salaries people report themselves or that appear in job ads, often without saying whether they are gross or net. Jobat gives an average gross salary without a sample. Statbel measures officially, but per broad occupational group and for October 2022, so before the indexations of the following years.
The unit differs too: per hour, per month or per year. We convert nothing, because an annual salary may include twelve or thirteen months and holiday pay, and an hourly wage depends on your weekly schedule. A small sample can be far off because of a few outliers.
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Frequently asked questions
Is supply chain planner a bottleneck profession?
Yes, working as a supply chain planner is on the VDAB list of bottleneck professions for 2026, as "Productieplanner". According to VDAB, finding a supply chain planner is hard because there are too few job seekers available and candidates often lack the right experience or training.
Which joint committee covers a supply chain planner?
As a supply chain planner you fall under the joint committee that matches your employer's activity, not a committee for your job. For a supply chain planner these are usually PC 226, PC 200, PC 209 and PC 220. As a supply chain planner you usually work as a white-collar employee.
Sources
Checked on 3 November 2026 unless stated otherwise.
- VDAB, beroepeninformatie Productieplanner (checked on 13 November 2026)
- VDAB, Knelpuntberoepen 2026
- Vlaamse overheid, Hogeronderwijsregister: erkende graduaats-, bachelor- en masteropleidingen, academiejaar 2026-2027
- Logos, vormingsfonds van de bedienden uit de internationale handel, het vervoer en de logistiek (PC 226)
- Sociaal Fonds PC 200: Cevora is het opleidingscentrum van het aanvullend paritair comité voor bedienden
- mtech+, loopbaanfonds van de metaal- en technologische industrie (PC 111 en 209)
- VDAB, opleiding bachelor logistiek voor werkzoekenden
- FOD Werkgelegenheid, minimumlonen.be: sectorale minimumlonen per paritair comité
- Indeed, lonen voor Supply chain planner (m/v) in België (checked on 13 November 2026)
- Jobat, lonen voor Supply chain planner in België (checked on 13 November 2026)
- Talent.com, lonen voor Supply chain planner in België (checked on 13 November 2026)
- PayScale, lonen voor Supply Chain Planner in België (checked on 13 November 2026)
- minimumlonen.be (FOD Werk), PC 226 internationale handel, vervoer en logistiek, geldig vanaf 01/01/2026
- ACV bouw - industrie & energie, loonschalen PC 200 januari 2026
- minimumlonen.be (FOD Werk), PC 209 metaalfabrikatennijverheid, geldig vanaf 01/07/2026
- minimumlonen.be (FOD Werk), PC 220 voedingsnijverheid (andere dan de groentenconservennijverheid), geldig vanaf 01/01/2026
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