Supply Planner

Company Overview

Brother is a leading provider of home and office equipment, sewing and crafting products, and industrial solutions. With a legacy spanning over 115 years, our brand is renowned for producing award‑winning printers, sewing machines, P‑touch labelers, and more. Brother International Corporation (BIC) was established in 1954, marking over 70 years of operations in the United States. Our Americas headquarters is located in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

BIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brother Industries Limited (BIL), which was founded in 1908 in Nagoya, Japan, and operates in more than 30 countries worldwide. Brother’s Americas presence includes subsidiaries in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

Brother has consistently been recognized as a best place to work, reflecting our commitment to fostering a workplace culture aligned with our core values of being inclusive, collaborative, customer‑centric, and socially responsible. We value work‑life balance and flexibility, and as a result have introduced policies such as our hybrid office schedule, casual dress code, and flexible Fridays, which allow us to wrap up meetings for dedicated focus time or to start our weekends sooner, year‑round.

Our commitment to employee growth and development is demonstrated through our offering of facilitated courses and certificate programs and our investment in resources that enable self‑paced learning.

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.

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.

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

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

• APICS or ISM Certification…