Material Planning Supervisor-2

**Career Area**:
Supply Chain and Logistics

**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.

Manager Material Requirements Planning

Job Posting Title: Material Requirements Planning supervisor.

**Salary**: £45,348-£56,684 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Location: Peterlee, County Durham

Hours: Full Time - 36.50

Travel: Not required

Closing Date: Wednesday 8th May

Job Reference: R0000254699

Hiring Manager: Stephen Brown

**Your impact 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**:
Maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility.

**Responsibilities**
- Ensuring that the environment of the inventory stock room is in line with requirements for each product.
- Managing staffing, development, and performance management of materials management workers. Ensuring proper labour relations.
- Defining and maintaining optimal inventory levels. Performing inventory analysis and making recommendations for stock levels.
- Coordinating maintenance and support of inventory management software. Degree Requirement Degree or equivalent experience desired

**Skill Descriptors**

Information Capture: Knowledge of the methods, channels and processes to obtain needed information; ability to identify, capture and document relevant business information in an auditable, organized, understandable and easily retrievable manner.

**Level Working Knowledge**:

- Follows defined procedures to document all routine information.
- Identifies relevant established standards, policies and practices.
- Fulfils routine information capture needs in own area.
- Uses automated tools to capture, organize and archive relevant information.
- Cites examples of different types of relevant information that need to be captured.

**Planning: Tactical, Strategic**:Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

**Level Extensive Experience**:

- Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
- Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
- Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
- Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
- Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
- Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

**Decision Making and Critical Thinking**: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyse 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.

**Level Extensive Experience**:

- Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
- Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
- Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
- Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
- Analyses and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
- Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

**Distribution Center Management**:Knowledge of distribution processes, issues and considerations; ability to effectively manage the receipt, storage, and distribution of inventory to stores and/or customers.

**Level Working Knowledge**:

- Works with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) basic processes and operations.
- Maintains item and inventory management records.
- Helps minimize bottlenec