Material Planner

**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain**:
**JOB PURPOSE**:This position collaborates with suppliers to ensure execution to planned orders and 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 RELATED STATISTICS**:
of suppliers per Analyst: Less than 60

Facility Supplier Spend per Analyst: less than $500M

of supplier schedules / releases per Analyst per day: Less than 850

**JOB DUTIES**:
Incumbent ensures the timely delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate deliveries, shipping schedules and work schedules to meet facility production plans. Using supplier collaboration technologies, collaborates with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production.

Actively collaborates with suppliers to perform root cause corrective actions to resolve quality and supplier performance issues. This work may require planning for alternate manufacturing methods.

This position analyzes established parts schedules and production requirements, converting requirements into appropriate piece parts, requisitioning the materials, regulating inventory levels and issuing work orders. Analyzes engineering releases for changes and/or new releases and coordinates effective release dates to provide an efficient depletion of related existing stock items.

Incumbent manages and performs supplier scheduling and implementation of engineering changes for the efficient manufacture of products and components. This position supports supply chain performance efforts by monitoring and tracking supplier performance metrics.

Minimal Travel Required

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:

- Knowledge of procurement activity based on MRP with global suppliers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- College or university degree, or equivalent, preferably in Supply Chain and/or Logistics Management or Industrial Engineering is required
- Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization and communication skills
- Understanding of company policies and procedures

Ability to use and troubleshoot the MRP, MRC systems

Relocation is available for this position.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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