.**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain**:**Build your career at the company that sets the standard.**Caterpillar's supply chain processes are so complex—and successful—that we're regularly benchmarked by other companies and taught as a case study in many classrooms. Working here, you'll take responsibility for ensuring we have the material we need, when and where we need it, to meet customer demand. That may involve interacting with suppliers or using the latest digital, analytics and forecasting tools to determine exactly how many units are needed in specific timeframes, locations and configurations.As you build your skills, you'll have the chance to move into different supply chain roles or jobs in procurement or other parts of the company. You might also get the opportunity to join our three-year professional development rotation. With tracks in leadership, supply chain management, manufacturing engineering, procurement and environmental health and safety, it lets you explore different aspects of our business and gain new technical and leadership abilities.**JOB PURPOSE**:Serves as the facility expert on matters of demand information related to machine and components orders and key performance indicators report out.**JOB RELATED STATISTICS**:Facility Annual Sales: Up to $1B**JOB DUTIES**:Incumbent is the facility expert, and maintains thorough and current knowledge and understanding of the complete orders process from pre-order entry questions through final shipment of product for all products. Coordinates the flow of dealer machine orders and information through corporate and local systems. Serves as the overall orders contact, providing leadership to the facility on all order-related matters. This position is a resource for all order related questions.This position is responsible for the integrity and consistency of all order-related data bases. Assures orders are technically correct, maintains compatibility tables used both by dealers and corporate systems to verify that orders are entered without grief and are considered complete and correct for manufacturing purposes. The exposure of this information is worldwide.Incumbent is responsible for the consistency and content of all products in the corporate price list. Ensures the price list reflects the latest engineering data and compatibility statements, complies with corporate standards, and issues Price List Change Notices (PLCNs) to maintain accuracy. This requires coordination between the product groups, marketing companies and foreign manufacturing plants.This position develops monthly shipment forecasts in coordination with marketing company orders groups and facility operations management. Evaluates existing order backlogs, expected future order activity and current facility operations constraints in developing facility shipment forecast. Works closely with facility operations and supply chain planning to identify and resolve internal facility constraints