.**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**:To supervise the material planning and functions for the facility, ensuring material availability and POU availability and drive disciplined inventory systems usage and collaboration with material suppliers.**JOB RELATED STATISTICS:**Annual facility supplier spend: $500M to $750M Facility Supplier Schedules / Releases per day: 500 to 750 Facility work orders for worked material per day: Up to 75 of total supplier spendPersonnel: Up to 25 Mgmt and Salaried, up to 25 Contract / Agency, up to 25 Hourly.**JOB DUTIES:**Direct Reports Include: Material Planning Team Leads and Material Planning AnalystsPlans and directs the material planning and material logistic functions to meet the facility plan objectives and satisfy customer needs. Interfaces with Operations, Business Resources, Global Purchasing, Suppliers, Logistics, Engineering and worldwide Cat facilities.Plans, initiates, and maintains a material procurement process that establishes and achieves the least total cost, best quality and timely delivery for facility material purchases from internal/external suppliers. Includes managing inventory and record accuracy through monitoring shortage / surplus exception, supplier follow ups, negative on-hands and daily delivery performance.Provides leadership and support to projects driving the implementation of improved supply-base management. Establishes and nurtures supplier relationships. Leads facility projects that identify and implement methods to assure suppliers are meeting Caterpillar's technological, communication, material delivery, financial management, and quality needs. Provides material requirements expertise to project teams implementing supplier-quality improvement efforts, Six Sigma projects and Lean Events as required.Selects, trains and assists direct reports while providing career guidance and opportunity for added experience and training