Supply Chain Coordinator

** 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.
** Role Definition
** Manages purchased material requirements, taking appropriate actions to ensure material availability when needed, with appropriate inventory levels required to support customer requirements and inventory administration.
** Responsibilities*
* • Establish and maintain material planning methods and safety stock strategies, understand and monitor delivery/response times, forecasting methods and the subcontracting process, in accordance with assigned products and services, complying with materials and demand planning guidelines.  
• Execution and monitoring of purchase orders according to the demand signals for the assigned products, starting from placing purchase orders until the delivery of the product, ensuring that the correct material is delivered to the right place and at the right time.  
• Monitor material shortages tools, adjusting the delivery schedule with suppliers as needed, according to inventory availability and demand signals. Communicate shortages or risk of shortages to customer.  
• Monitor inventory levels and tools to disposition inactive, obsolete or excess inventory following materials and demand planning guidelines.
** Skill Descriptors
** Business Process Improvement:
Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.  Level: Working Knowledge  
• Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.  
• Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.  
• Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.  
• Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.  
• Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.

Analytical Thinking:
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.  Level: Working Knowledge  
• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.  
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.  
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.  
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.  
• Identifies the major forces, events, and people impacting and impacted by the situation ision 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 Communication:
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…