at Caterpillar, Inc. in Mossville, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Career Area:
Supply Chain and Logistics
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you’re joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.
Job Summary:
OEM Solutions Group provides integrated solutions for OEM applications leveraging Cat® components and machines. OEM strives to solve customer problems while generating profitable and sustainable growth for Caterpillar and OEMs. OEM Solutions utilizes the CAT dealer channel as well as a direct path to market for OEM Customers. This role will be focused specifically on Material Requirements and will lead a team of Logistics Planning Analysts. This position also maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility. Additional responsibilities will also include supplier relationship management, surplus, safety stock, and RSSM inventory processes.
What You Will Do:
- Ensuring that the environment of the inventory at the warehouse is in line with requirements for each product.
- Working directly with cross functional teams including commercial, engineering, manufacturing, scheduling, category purchasing and many others.
- 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.
Education Requirement:
A Bachelors degree or equivalent (3+ years supply chain, logistics, or manufacturing engineering experience)
What Skills You Will Have:
Information Capture:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position will require less than 10% travel.
What You Will Get:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:
+ Competitive Base Salary
+ Annual incentive bonus plan*
+ Medical, dental, and vision coverage
+ Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
+ 401k savings plan
+ Health savings account (HSA)
+ Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
+ Short and long-term disability coverage
+ Life Insurance
+ Paid parental leave
+ Healthy Lifestyle Programs
+ Employee Assistance Programs
+ Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)
*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.
Final details
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