Material Requirements Planning Supervisor

Career Area: Supply Chain and Logistics Job Description: Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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Job Summary This position is responsible for managing the India supply base that supports the India Distribution Center (IDC) and Caterpillar's global aftermarket network.

This role ensures supplier performance, material availability, and customer service excellence by partnering with suppliers, procurement, logistics, and internal stakeholders.

The position leads efforts to mitigate supply risks, improve supplier delivery performance, reduce backorders, and support Caterpillar's commitment to customers.

What You Will Do: • Lead performance management for the India supplier base, ensuring suppliers meet delivery, quality, capacity, and service expectations.

•Drive material availability and support customer service commitments by proactively managing supply risks and constraints.

•Lead recovery plans for critical shortages, backorders, and high-priority customer orders to minimize business impact.

•Partner with suppliers to improve on-time delivery, lead times, capacity readiness, and overall supply chain performance.

•Analyze demand, inventory, shipment, and supplier performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.

•Collaborate with Procurement, Logistics, Inventory Management, APS, and global stakeholders to resolve supply chain challenges.

•Monitor supplier capacity and develop mitigation strategies to support business growth, demand fluctuations, and supply disruptions.

•Conduct supplier business reviews, manage escalations, and drive corrective actions to achieve sustainable performance improvements.

•Lead and develop a team of supply chain professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

•Provide regular updates to leadership on supplier performance, backorder exposure, inventory health, risk mitigation plans, and key supply chain initiatives.

Degree Requirement Degree or equivalent experience desired What You Have Decision Making and Critical Thinking : Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge: • Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.

•Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.

•Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.

•Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.

•Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Effective Communications : Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge: • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

•Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

•Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

•Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

•Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Inventory Management - MFG : Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.

Level Working Knowledge: • Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies.

•Tracks inventory information for a specific product group or location.

•Works with basic tasks of inventory management for a specific location.

•Produces basic inventory management reports for senior staff to reconcile the inventory balances.

•Performs the receiving, ticketing, checking in and distributing of inventory items for a specific location.

Logistics Management : Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products.

Level Working Knowledge: • Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.

•Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.

•Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.

•Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.

•Works with logistics in a domestic environment.

Performance Management : Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.

Level Working Knowledge: • Identifies opportunities to enhance performance, e.g., practice assignments, training, shadowing.

•Ensures performance goals, checkpoints, and feedback focus on behaviors.

•Provides documented input to formal performance review conducted by manager.

•Observes individual performance and provides fair and objective feedback.

•Uses formal and informal rewards and recognition programs for employees.

Planning and Organizing : Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

Level Basic Understanding: • Seeks help to