Analyst, Inventory ControlBrother Industries

Role Overview

The Analyst, Inventory provides strategic analysis and issue resolution for inventory errors, consumption, and reconciliations. This position requires collaboration and relationship development with other departments including finance, accounting, and the various product division teams across the Brother network, to resolve issues, optimize processes, perform internal audits for vendors, and for ensuring that all adjustments/transfers follow Standard Operating Procedure. This position is accountable for achieving targets for certain Key Performance Indicators, and creating reporting for senior management based on those measurements.

Duties & Responsibilities

Cross Functional Collaboration

• • Develop relationships and resolve inventory issues with various departments in the Brother network
  • Identify strategic process improvements in relation to inventory related process steps and support implementation
  • Investigate cycle count and other inventory related errors and provide feedback to management and the warehouse
  • Inform the the third party vendor to cycle count product when system variances are discovered and follow up on the results, making inventory adjustments as needed
  • Train inventory control employees (including 3PL employees) in established processes and procedures

Analyze Data

• • Create and manage various inventory reporting models, including presentation of results to management
  • Conduct daily analysis to anticipate and resolve potential problems
  • Identify the root cause of inventory adjustments and discrepancies using available reports
  • Provide accurate information on inventory in stock

Receiving/Shipping Discrepancy Resolution

• • Manage various inventory reporting models, including presentation of results to management
  • Create reports to identify the root cause of inventory adjustments and discrepancies
  • Provide accurate information on inventory in stock
  • Investigate receiving discrepancies and communicate with various departments within Brother and its vendors and resolve receiving and shipping issues

Physical Inventory

• • Reconcile all inventory discrepancies for accuracy
  • Retrieve and analyze information from the Warehouse Management System and Brother’s SAP system of record to perform analysis and process optimization
  • Investigate shipping discrepancies and collaborate with various departments to resolve

Experience & Qualifications

Education

• • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) Supply Chain or Logistics

Experience

Minimum 3 years

• • Working in a distribution environment in inventory control position with experience in inventory analysis, cycle counting and resolving inventory errors

Software/Technical Skills

• • SAP Warehouse Stock module
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • WMS – Warehouse Management System experience

Other Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• • Ability to analyze system problems/issues and exercise insightful judgement
  • Ability to drive results with moderate supervision
  • Ability to work with other departments and 3rd party vendors
  • Ability to get results without direct oversite from internal departments and third party logistics providers
  • Excellent verbal and written skills

Additional Details for This Role

This role will be an onsite role. You are expected to work from the stated job location 5 days a week. #LI-Onsite

Base Salary

• • The targeted base salary range for this position is $ 55,000.00 - $ 70,000.00 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.