Manager Material Requirements Planning

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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.

Skill Descriptors

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.

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.

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 position requires the candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment off-highway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years weve been helping customers build a better more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services backed by our global dealer network provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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