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Transportation Analyst

CATERPILLAR INDIA PRIVATE LTD

4.3

based on 1.2k Reviews

5-10 years

₹ 8.3 - 10.3L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)

Chennai

1 vacancy

Transportation Analyst

Caterpillar Inc

posted 10hr ago

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Flexible timing

Key skills for the job

Logistics Supply Chain Management Operations Mining Engineering Analytical Chemistry Logistics Management

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Job Description

Analyzing transportation plans and identifying opportunities for improvements to meet client needs.

Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.

Generating and analyzing reports of transportation costs, carrier performance and lead times.

Assisting in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity and providing solutions to reduce lead times.

What You Have:

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level Working Knowledge:

Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.

Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.

Creates process flow or workflow diagrams.

Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.

Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Level Working Knowledge:

Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.

Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.

Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.

Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Extensive Experience:

Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.

Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.

Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.

Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.

Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.

Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Transportation - PHA: Knowledge of and experience with the means of transporting materials and goods to and from suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and customers the manufacturing facility.

Level Extensive Experience:

Demonstrates expertise with all major modes of domestic transportation.

Shares approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.

Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short- and long-term transportation needs.

Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.

Works with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch.

Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.

Logistics Management: Knowledge of the processes, tools and operational considerations for effective and efficient movement of goods and materials; ability to understand, predict and control the movement of goods, materials and supplies.

Level Working Knowledge:

Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.

Works with logistics in a domestic environment.

Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.

Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.

Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.

Supply Chain Management: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and implement strategies, practices and tools for controlling the whole processes.

Level Working Knowledge:

Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.

Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.

Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.

Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products.

Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of India which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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