Material Planning Supervisor

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

Job Description:

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Role Definition
Maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility.

Responsibilities
Ensuring that the environment of the inventory stock room is in line with requirements for each product.
Managing staffing, development, and performance management of materials management workers. Ensuring proper labor relations.
Defining and maintaining optimal inventory levels. Performing inventory analysis and making recommendations for stock levels.
Coordinating maintenance and support of inventory management software.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.
Level Working Knowledge:
Follows defined procedures to document all routine information.
Identifies relevant established standards, policies and practices.
Fulfills routine information capture needs in own area.
Uses automated tools to capture, organize and archive relevant information.
Cites examples of different types of relevant information that need to be captured.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Extensive Experience:
Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

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 Extensive Experience:
Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Distribution Center Management: Knowledge of distribution processes, issues and considerations; ability to effectively manage the receipt, storage, and distribution of inventory to stores and/or customers.
Level Working Knowledge:
Works with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) basic processes and operations.
Maintains item and inventory management records.
Helps minimize bottlenecks and delays and the resulting impact on operating costs.
Uses real-time inventory software, with guidance, to move supplies where needed, when needed.
Assists in resolving issues related to physical space management.

Inventory Management: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage organizations materials, commodities, merchandises, or products.
Level Working Knowledge:
Performs the receiving, ticketing, checking in and distributing of inventory items for a specific location.
Produces basic inventory management reports for senior staff to reconcile the inventory balances.
Tracks inventory information for a specific product group or location.
Works with basic tasks of inventory management for a specific location.
Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies.

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.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of essential job functions as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates:

February 11, 2025 - February 25, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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