Material Requirements Planning Supervisor

Caterpillar Inc; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc seeks a senior supply chain professional to manage the India supplier base for the IDC and global aftermarket network.

You will partner with procurement, logistics, and stakeholders to improve delivery performance, mitigate risks, and reduce backorders while supporting customer commitments. Strong leadership and strategic thinking are essential.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of decision-making processes and associated tools for informed judgment.
• Ability to analyze data and organize ideas for effective outcomes.
• Experience in planning, prioritizing, and documenting processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage India supplier base performance to meet delivery, quality, capacity, and service expectations.
• Drive material availability and proactively manage supply risks and constraints.
• Lead recovery plans for shortages, backorders, and high-priority orders to minimize impact.
• Partner with suppliers to improve on-time delivery, lead times, and capacity readiness.
• Analyze demand, inventory, shipment, and supplier data to identify risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Logistics, Inventory Management, APS, and global stakeholders to resolve challenges.
• Monitor supplier capacity and develop mitigation strategies for growth and disruption.
• Lead supplier reviews, manage escalations, and drive corrective actions for performance.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Logistics Management

Planning and Organizing

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Effective Communications

Inventory Management

Performance Management

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Summary

This position is responsible for managing the India supply base that supports the India Distribution Center (IDC) and Caterpillars 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 Caterpillars 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 organizations performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.

• 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 modify priorities as new information surfaces or conditions change.
• Demonstrates the ability to estimate the time and resources required to complete tasks.
• Identifies own key assignments, schedules, and process steps.
• Applies the concept of critical path in order to complete work in a timely manner and keep larger tasks on track.

Problem Solving

Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Supply Chain Management - MFG

Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.

• Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
• Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
• Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products or components.
• Participates in supply chain management activities.

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