.**Career Area**:Manufacturing & Supply Chain**:**How Your Work Shapes the World**When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.**JOB PURPOSE**:This role develops and recommends production, attachment, and inventory schedules and order fulfillment activities for the facility.**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 sales.Supports 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. Monitors attachment inventory daily and develops schedules to achieve inventory turns goals while maintaining good availability on key attachments to compensate for order changes and diversions from stock inventory
