Supply Chain Planning Manager

## Supply Chain Planning Manager Apply:
Decatur, Illinois:
Full time:
Posted Today:
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** Career Area:
** Supply Chain and Logistics
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* Job Description:

**** Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
** 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.

As a
** Supply Chain Planning Manager - Engineering Change Control & Manufacturing
** you will lead a local team responsible for moving engineering changes from release through material and production implementation. You will lead the execution of engineering changes into production, ensuring BOM effectivity and material requirements are accurately coordinated across multiple product groups while supporting impactful changes.  Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Materials, you will help ensure engineering changes are accurately planned and implemented while supporting material availability and production requirements.

You will also strengthen the processes, tools, and metrics that enable effective Product Change Control while maintaining a Plan for Every Part and appropriate, timely material availability.  
** What makes this role exciting:
** This is an opportunity to lead a highly visible team responsible for ensuring engineering changes are effectively translated into material and production requirements. You will have broad visibility across product groups, lead and develop an experienced team, and directly influence how thousands of engineering changes are implemented into production each year.

This role also offers meaningful opportunity to improve how the organization works, from strengthening change-control processes and performance metrics to solving issues that affect material readiness and manufacturing execution. For a leader who enjoys connecting technical change with operational results, this role offers significant visibility and impact.  
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* What you will do:

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* * Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven professionals responsible for supporting engineering change control and supply chain execution.
* Manage manufacturing change control and product-release activities, ensuring engineering changes are accurately released and implemented into production.
* Oversee Bills of Material (BOM) effectivity and associated material changes across Decatur product groups.
* Lead escalations involving late engineering changes, partnering with key stakeholders to identify constraints, establish priorities, and drive timely resolution.
* Oversee engineering change and release activities supporting approximately 7,000 engineering changes annually.
* Ensure product and engineering changes are accurately translated into material requirements and manufacturing implementation.
* Monitor operational reports, performance metrics, and key indicators to identify trends, risks, discrepancies, and improvement opportunities.
* Establish and improve processes, tools, metrics, and standard work to strengthen team effectiveness, accuracy, and productivity.
* Partner with Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Materials, and Logistics to coordinate engineering changes and minimize disruption to production.
* Support Plan for Every Part (PFEP) processes and appropriate material and inventory availability to meet manufacturing requirements.
* Coordinate planning dependencies and material requirements to support the effective implementation of engineering…