Supply Planner

Role Overview

The Supply Planner is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective flow of products through the supply chain, optimizing inventory levels and meeting customer service targets, while analyzing supply chain risks. This role involves supply planning, inventory management, and collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Demand Planning, Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Logistics, Order Management, and Sales. The Supply Planner analyzes data, monitors key performance indicators, and uses planning tools to create supply plans that support business goals while minimizing costs and stockouts.

Duties & Responsibilities

Supply Planning

• • Release monthly purchase orders to Brother’s factories in accordance with demand, lead time, and optimal safety stock levels
  • Collaborate with factories to understand monthly capacity, bottlenecks or constraints, and phase purchase orders to account for peak season and holiday downtime at the factories
  • Provide feedback & input into S&OP for any constraints to the forecast
  • Manage a balanced network of inventory across Brother’s three distribution centers in the US, re-routing or using warehouse transfers and out-of-footprint shipping where necessary
  • Work within Brother’s SAP ERP system to set and maintain optimized planning parameters, streamlining the monthly buy plan as much as possible
  • Partner with Product Marketing on new item set up, info records, and material master, coordinate transition management and new product development launches
  • Track inbound containers to ensure accurate arrivals to warehouses and timely fulfillment of SKUs with projected shortages
  • Coordinate with Order Management on customer order fulfillment if assistance is needed with allocation, out-of-footprint shipping, or arrival timing from factory

Reporting and Analysis

• • Enhance supply chain efficiency by analyzing data, reporting, and managing KPIs
  • Report customer fill rate weekly, including root cause analysis for top inventory shortages and corrective action
  • Build inventory projections for your Division and Categories for a rolling 12-month period
  • Track adherence to inventory coverages, highlighting both shortages and top excess inventory SKUs and a corrective action
  • Pull monthly purchase order details to the factory to create a Cash Flow report for treasury and accounting
  • Track backorders and publish recovery timing to cross-functional partners in Sales and Order Management

experience & Qualifications

education

• • Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in Business, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field

Experience

• • 3+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management, Procurement, and Demand Planning

Licenses/Certifications

• • APICS or ISM Certification such as CSCP, CPIM, and/or CPSM – Preferred

Software/Technical Skills

• • Data Analysis and Forecasting tools with the ability to develop actionable insights from data (Excel, SAP, Tableau, etc.) – Preferred

Other Skills, Knowledge, & Abilities

• • Inventory Management Skills
  • Strong understanding of S&OP processes
  • Excellent mathematical and analytical skills
  • Interpersonal skills and ability to build and improve trusting relationships
  • Strong attention to detail

Additional Details for This Role

This role will be a hybrid role. Subject to business needs, employees may work remotely up to two days per week. Assigned office days will be determined by your manager. #LI-Hybrid

Base Salary

• • The targeted base salary range for this position is $68,000 – $80,000 per year.
  • Base salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the successful candidate, as well as factors such as internal equity, cost of labor in the hiring location, and alignment with market data.
  • The base salary accounts for the entirety of the on-target earnings for this role. No additional incentives or variable pay are applicable.

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