.**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**:This role develops and recommends production, attachment, and inventory schedules and order fulfillment activities for the facility.**JOB RELATED STATISTICS**:Facility Annual Sales: Up to $1B**JOB DUTIES**:This position is responsible for preparing order schedules to fulfill product orders from the facility.Monitors the production plan and modifies as needed to maintain acceptable product availability and inventory levels. Supports data collection and analysis of actual results against business variables of the RBM forecasts such as sales to users, orders, shipments and factory and dealer inventory. Assists in the development of a plan and business case for critical review by Product Managers, materials, factory managers and marketing subsidiaries, explaining why this plan provides the best compromise to conflicting objectives. Adjusts RBM forecast for supply constraints such as machinery, equipment, manpower, etc.Supports the global S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process and attends meetings with marketing subsidiaries on a monthly basis acting as SME. Supports data gathering for analysis of industry and dealer trends and helps assess risks and opportunities. 6 Sigma training is a key attribute to this position as worldwide historical statistics on salesSupports data gathering to provide availability administration including demand management, special order programs, responding to critical deals, quoting delivery for large projects, etc. Helps prepare scheduling proposals to accommodate special situations such as strike hedge plans or reviewing costs and consequences of layoffs, carrying inventory, using plant shutdowns, etc.Supports oversight and analysis and development of complex attachment forecasts utilizing the latest tools available to compensate for changes in dealer ordering behavior
