Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead. **About the team:** **Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI)** is a diverse organization within Azure comprising more than 3,500 people across the United States in the Puget Sound, Silicon Valley, Hillsboro, Oregon and Raleigh, North Carolina, and internationally across Europe, Asia, and Australia. Around the world our teams invent, build, and deliver hardware infrastructure and global capacity to fuel the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge on Azure. We are Mission First, People Always. Our Mission: Powering the world's computer with the most advanced hardware systems & infrastructure. **Internship Period:** Summer of 2025 (Jun.~Sep.) **Target candidates** : University students from related major **Location** : Taipei, Taiwan A Supply Chain Planner Intern builds support plans and designs service experiences for new products, programs, or offerings. Critically reviews new support scenarios to identify potential incidents/risks and their mitigation; determines if new plans are necessary to support offerings and opportunities or if plans should be removed. Analyzes experience feedback and monitors key performance indicators to improve the customer experience, increase return on investment, and identify new opportunities. At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. **Responsibilities** + Executes forward or reverse supply plans provided. Performs tactical elements of supply plan, including understanding the part level gaps between demand and supply. Manages programs with low complexity and/or receives direct guidance. + Uses tools and processes for managing supply and driving improvements to avoid additional labor needs, while gaining a foundational understanding of these tools and processes. + Conducts analysis and gathers information for "what-if" scenarios impacting supply and demand management for forward and reverse planning. + Reworks/refurbishes finished goods, executing mitigation solutions for goods, and redeploys them in another area, when applicable. + Assists with the review of staffing, capacity, bills of materials, and change orders. Tracks metrics related to operational performance of suppliers. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain/Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field + Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .