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# Planner/Buyer, Supply Chain at Aperia Technologies, Inc

- **Company:** Aperia Technologies, Inc
- **Location:** Hayward, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aperiatechnologies/jobs/6205690004

## Job description

Aperia is unlocking a new era of efficiency and sustainability for commercial vehicle fleets, by developing innovative hardware and data analytics solutions. Inventors of the award- winning and disruptive Halotm Automatic Tire Inflator, and the cloud delivered Halo Connect tire analytics platform. Aperia saves fleets thousands of hours of down-time every week, reduces the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the freight industry. Join us as we expand our product offering and take the next steps on our journey toward bringing the "backbone of our economy" into the automation age.

We are unable to sponsor H-1B visas or any other employment-based visas for this position at this time.

## Your Role

As a Planner/Buyer on Aperia’s Supply Chain team, you own both the demand and the supply side of your assigned commodity groups, a mix of off-the-shelf components and build-to-spec parts. You are the day-to-day contact for the suppliers and contract manufacturers who make them. Through regular touchpoints you will understand their capacity and constraints as well as they do, and make sure they always know what Aperia needs next. When something slips, a late shipment, a design change, a demand spike, you are the person who sees it first and drives it to resolution.

## Your Responsibilities

- Translate Aperia’s production and sales plans into a demand forecast, applying the planning method that fits each inventory group, MRP, min/max, kanban, or reorder point to support inventory planning.
- Own item master planning parameters in NetSuite (lead times, safety stock, lot sizing, reorder points) by maintaining them accurately so that MRP output is trustworthy enough to act on.
- Place and manage purchase orders from release through receipt, including expediting, de-expediting, and resolving PO, acknowledgement, and invoice discrepancies to support timely material availability.
- Publish rolling delivery schedules to contract manufacturers so they can level-load their factories.
- Run shortage and clear-to-build reporting; escalate and resolve bottlenecks cross-functionally before they become line-down events.
- Partner with Engineering and Quality on engineering change orders, sequencing cut-in dates, managing run-out of superseded revisions to minimize excess inventory.
- Manage supplier performance using delivery, quality, and responsiveness data, and bring the data to quarterly business reviews.
- Support inventory health in your commodity groups: cycle count follow-up, aging and excess/obsolete review, and inventory turns analysis to maintain effective stock levels.
- Support new product introduction by sourcing prototype and pilot builds and setting up new items for production.
- Negotiate pricing, MOQs, lead times, and payment terms within approval limits to support cost and supply objectives.

## Skills/Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or related field.
- 3+ years in purchasing and planning (both preferred), in a manufacturing or hardware environment.
- Hands-on experience running planning and purchasing in an ERP system such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics.
- Strong Excel, pivot tables, lookups, and comfort cleaning and analyzing several thousand rows of ERP data without help.
- A track record of resolving supply problems by pulling in the right people, rather than escalating and waiting.
- Clear, direct written communication with suppliers across time zones.
- Ability to work on-site at our Hayward, CA facility five days per week.

Pay Range: $95,000 - $105,000

*Base salary only. Salary is dependent on multiple factors including, but not limited to, experience and location.

**Additional compensation may include equity, bonuses, stipends, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and long-term disability insurance.

## About Aperia Technologies, Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aperia Technologies provides automatic tire inflation and predictive tire management platforms for commercial truck fleets, improving fuel efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $68.7M, multiple rounds including Series B and venture rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Hayward, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (likely founders are not widely named; no info in search results)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Tire management technology, commercial transportation, mechanical/industrial engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B – commercial truck fleets (enterprise and mid-size fleets), with Tires-as-a-Service offerings
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Change the world, one revolution at a time” – to uncover opportunities, reveal creative technology solutions, and make transportation more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly.

## Products & Services
- **Halo Tire Inflator**: Automatic tire inflation system (hardware) that maintains optimal tire pressure, reducing fuel consumption, tire wear, and downtime. Lab-tested to one million miles and road-tested over 30 billion miles.
- **Halo Connect**: Predictive tire pressure monitoring platform (SaaS + IoT) that provides real-time alerts and analytics to fleets.
- **Halo Connect i3**: Next-generation platform combining automatic tire inflation with predictive TPMS and machine learning, offering the most advanced tire management solution for commercial fleets. Integrates with Tires-as-a-Service models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $7.2M (estimated from LinkedIn); Total Funding $68.7M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: eLab Ventures, Municipal Employee Retirement System, Augment Ventures (led seed round), and other unnamed investors. Strategic partner: Goodyear (exclusive automatic tire inflation agreement for Tires-as-a-Service with Halo Connect i3, announced March 2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 119 employees (16.2% YoY growth); 100 billion miles driven across the Halo platform; 30 billion road-tested miles; expansion into Tires-as-a-Service; multiple patents granted in 2024-2025 (hub-integrated inflation system, automatic pressure management system); new product launches (Halo Connect i3) in 2024.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Rugged, American-made hardware validated over billions of miles of real-world data. Algorithms trained on more than 30 billion miles, delivering predictive alerts that reduce false positives and improve uptime.
- **Comprehensive solution**: Only tire management platform offering automatic inflation, predictive analytics, and Tires-as-a-Service integration in a single ecosystem.
- **Sustainability moat**: Delivers the most CO₂ savings per dollar spent of any truck technology available today, aligning with fleets’ ESG goals.
- **Industry trust**: Chosen by the world’s largest brands and now partnering with Goodyear, one of the largest tire manufacturers globally.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth via Tires-as-a-Service**: Partnering with Goodyear to embed Halo Connect i3 into tire leasing models, shifting from hardware sales to subscription-based services.
- **International expansion**: Presence in Netherlands, Mexico, and Canada; listed offices in the US (Hayward, Burlingame, Northville, MI).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in machine learning and predictive analytics to reduce tire-related downtime further.
- **Sustainability leadership**: Emphasizing environmental impact as a core differentiator, with tire pressure management reducing diesel usage and tire waste.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven environment**: Team members are enthusiastic about positively affecting the environment and the freight transportation industry.
- **Culture highlights**: Values teamwork, positive collaboration, and “fulfilling successes, magnificent failures, and needle-moving contributions.” Employees report being both challenged and supported.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Multiple physical offices (Hayward, Burlingame, Northville, MI). Roles likely on-site or hybrid, especially engineering and manufacturing positions.
- **Notable perks**: Unique development opportunities, measurable impact on company growth, involvement in pioneering tire management technology.
- **Employee ratings** (from LinkedIn): Overall 3.7/5, Work-Life 3.6, Culture 3.6, Compensation 3.3, Career 3.7. Recent job postings include Mechatronics Engineer, Sr. Engineering Project Manager, Reliability Engineer, Sr. Software Product Manager, Talent Operations Associate, and more.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasizes rugged design, real-world testing, and cross-disciplinary mechatronics skills. Technical roles span hardware, software, ML, and manufacturing.

## Sources
1. [Aperia Technologies Homepage](https://aperiatech.com)
2. [Aperia Technologies Company Page](https://aperiatech.com/company/)
3. [Aperia Technologies Careers Page](https://aperiatech.com/careers/)
4. [Aperia Technologies LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aperia-technologies)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board for Aperia Technologies](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aperiatechnologies)
6. [PR Newswire – Goodyear Agreement (March 2025)](https://www.prnewswire.com) (referenced in LinkedIn news)
7. [PR Newswire – 100 Billion Miles Milestone (May 2024)](https://www.prnewswire.com) (referenced in LinkedIn news)

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