Career Area:
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Job Description:
Material Planning Analyst 1
Lafayette, Indiana
The Large Power Systems Division currently has an opening for a Material Planning Analyst 1 . In this role, you will collaborate with suppliers to ensure execution to planned orders, schedules, and resolves issues with suppliers to ensure material availability for facility production. The incumbent works with the facility production schedulers and operations personnel to support facility production and point of use material availability. Ensures alignment of facility inventory accuracy and inventory systems planning parameters with the plan for every part to maintain planning integrity
Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Ensures the timely shipment and delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate shipping schedules and work schedules to meet facility production plans.
Using supplier collaboration technologies and Material Planning systems (MRP) and tools, collaborates with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production.
Analyzes established parts schedules and production requirements, converting requirements into appropriate piece parts, requisitioning the materials, regulating inventory levels and issuing work orders.
Actively collaborates with suppliers to perform root cause corrective actions to resolve supplier performance issues.
Supports Releasing in planning material for new releases and assists in coordinating effective release dates to provide an efficient depletion of related existing stock items.
Manages and performs supplier scheduling and implementation of engineering changes for the efficient manufacture of products and components.
Supports supply chain performance efforts by monitoring and tracking supplier performance metrics.
Provides Material Planning expertise to facility functions in support of improving demand variability, forecast credibility and usability for production planning.
The ability to reliably work remotely via Caterpillar VPN connection is required
Minimal Travel Required.
Basic Qualifications:
Top Candidates will also have:
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field
Experience as a material planning analyst that includes experience in managing Material Planning strategies (MRP, SAP, KANBAN, etc) and/or equivalent college course work
Knowledge and/or experience in material control, Purchasing, parts distribution, inventory control, manufacturing engineering, Operations and transportation or logistics is desired
Strong analytical and problem-solving skill
Working Knowledge and practical use of Excel
Knowledge of 6 Sigma project management principles
Practical experience with Inventory Management Systems
APICS or other professional certification with a Supply Chain focus
Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization and communication skills
Ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision
Additional Information:
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant.
This position may require
This position will close on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:59pm CT.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants for this position that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers
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