Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst

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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.

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JOB PURPOSE/DESCRIPTION:  The position will provide capacity planning support for Caterpillar facilities worldwide.  Primary responsibilities will be gathering capacity data, executing statistical analysis of product demand, and providing insights into current state capabilities and future needs.  Contribute to the concept and development of complex components and subsystems while strengthening Supply Chain Planning and manufacturing engineering skills.  Interact with a global team of industry experts and contribute to the delivery of capacity planning projects.  Continually learns and stay abreast of innovative technology. 

The Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst is responsible to achieve strategic capacity planning targets, including improvements the establishment of capacity planning requirements, agility requirements, inventory requirements, and Supply Chain assessments for a supplier.

JOB DUTIES:

Responsible for working within a cross functional projects focused on supplier capacity requirements, agility, and demand forecast visibility.

The Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst provides support for purchasing categories supporting the Enterprise Production Planning for Suppliers (EPP-S) Process, which develops the long-term capacity plan for suppliers.

The Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst is required to work and communicate effectively with diverse, multi-functional teams to apply the capacity planning process and support efforts to develop gap closure plans for suppliers.

The Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst is required to take an enterprise-wide view of Supply Chain and capacity planning processes and tools, as well as leverage a thorough knowledge of manufacturing and agility to support the efforts of multiple teams across functions and divisions. Incumbent supports efforts to gather and analyze data on value stream/product family level to define capacity and agility requirements for each supplier based on statistical modeling and product insights.

The Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Analyst uses statistical data from the EPP-S toolset to provide baseline capacity planning data for key suppliers. This position coordinates with the Supply Chain Planning engineer in the documentation of this data into the EPP-S tool. This work requires the ability to leverage statistical concepts and tools. The incumbent must be able to work within teams consisting of members from multiple functions, driving collaboration and communication across divisions, including Purchasing, IT Support personnel, product group personnel, and global Supply Chain members.

Skill Descriptors
Business Process Improvement : Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes and assesses their feasibility.
• Evaluates financial, cultural, technological and other factors that need to be addressed.
• Recommends new approaches that seek the use of advanced technology.
• Establishes requirements for large changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities and processes necessary to make business improvements.
• Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes; defines how to gather and keep customers.
• Works to overcome BPI resistance from managers, the labor force and other groups.
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 Extensive Experience:
• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.
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 Extensive Experience:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

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.
Project Management : Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Extensive Experience :
• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
Logistics Management : Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
• Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.
• Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.
• Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.
• Works with logistics in a domestic environment.
Procurement: Knowledge of buying and procurement; ability to work with organizational strategies and practices, and use tools for buying goods, supplies, equipment and services needed to conduct business.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Monitors effectiveness of procurement policies in high-cost or critical path purchases.
• Selects appropriate qualified suppliers and negotiates related contracts.
• Compares and contrasts alternative sourcing strategies (sole sourcing, reverse auctions, etc.).
• Develops alternative sources of supply for the manufacturing organization.
• Assists in creating contingency plans for and with critical suppliers.
• Coordinates the procurement of a variety of products, materials and services.
Supply Chain Management - MFG : Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in Supply Chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Manages Supply Chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
• Advises others on capacity issues at various points in the Supply Chain.
• Monitors the complete Supply Chain management process.
• Consults on Supply Chain network design projects or processes.
• Quantifies and evaluates benefits and risks of various Supply Chain strategies and approaches.
• Participates in joint planning, process design/redesign with clients and partners.

Basic Qualifications

  • 2+ years of progressively responsible Supply Chain, manufacturing, or procurement job experience OR Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Supply Chain Engineering

  • 2+ years of experience in the development and deployment of Supply Chain or Manufacturing Engineering processes 

Top Candidates will also have

• Experience and knowledge of capacity planning concepts and tools.

• Experience and knowledge of Supply Chain principles, specifically those applied to capacity planning, agility planning.

• Strong understanding and previous experience using common Supply Chain systems.

• Must have analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to creatively solve very complex problems.

• Thorough understanding of company policies and procedures and solid product knowledge

Additional Information:

The location for this position is Peoria, 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.

Employee benefit details

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 a salary because we value your performance.  We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

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