Supply Chain Planning Engineer

Career Area

Supply Chain and Logistics

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The Supply Chain Planning Engineer will lead and support the deployment and embedding of the enterprise Sales & Operations Planning (SOP) process, solutions, and standard work by partnering closely with facility supply chain, product groups, procurement, and digital teams. In this role, you will build a strong understanding of the supply network and leverage digital planning solutions to improve data quality, enable effective capacity planning, and strengthen synchronization across the end‑to‑end supply chain.

This role plays a critical part in establishing and maturing capacity planning capabilities across facilities, directly enabling stronger enterprise‑level planning and decision‑making. The work does not stop at building capacity plans. The insights you provide flow into the broader SOP process, helping the enterprise proactively understand the impact of capacity constraints on the machine business before they become execution issues. This role adds significant value during periods of ramp‑up and change by improving visibility, enabling earlier trade‑off decisions, and helping leaders act with confidence in a dynamic, high‑velocity environment.

• Understand Caterpillar demand requirements for internal and external suppliers and ensure the data in the NPE – Supply Planning pass all the quality checks
• Understand and identify supply capability and constraints in the network and ensure the data is recorded in the NPE – Supply Planning after passing all the quality checks
• Onboard rough cut capacity planning process (RCCP) for internal supply nodes into NPE – Capacity Collaboration and NPE – Supply Planning
• Facilitate the discussions on supply constraints and build impacts, within the procurement review on workday 20
• Facilitate the discussions on supply constraints and build impacts with the SOP coordinators / Value Chain Managers on workday 2
• Track & report on the metrics and any improvement plans, to the senior leaders in procurement and operations
• Develop SOP processes to support the demand or supply planning initiatives for enterprise Machine SOP group

In addition to the above, provide leadership to solution development and implementation to any workflow or standard work enhancements identified for continuous improvements within Machine SOP group.

Extensive knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Extensive knowledge of the decision‑making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• 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.

Extensive knowledge of effective project management…