Manager Material Requirements Planning

Caterpillar Inc.; Nuevo Laredo; On-site; MXN 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico is seeking a supply chain professional to maintain stock levels, support order flow, and coordinate across departments. You will help ensure material availability and accurate inventory reporting while guiding staffing and performance in materials management.

The role emphasizes collaboration with manufacturing teams and continuous process improvement to support customer priorities and timely deliveries.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of analysis techniques and root-cause problem solving.
• Ability to determine causes and propose viable solutions.
• Understanding of inventory management concepts and processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure inventory stock room environment meets product requirements.
• Manage staffing, development and performance of materials staff.
• Maintain optimal inventory levels and perform stock analysis.
• Coordinate maintenance and support of inventory management software.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Decision Making

Inventory Management

Job description

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.

• Maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility.
• Supervising and controlling new sales orders, identifying the key elements and communicate downstream for required actions.
• Serving as primary contact for customer inquiries; providing feedback about lead time, planned timeline, order change, order reschedules, etc.
• Primary contact with other departments department to manage sales and customer priorities.

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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.

• Maintains agreed-upon inventory levels to provide a flow of raw materials and components from the supply chain to the manufacturing facility.
• Supervising and controlling new sales orders, identifying the key elements and communicate downstream for required actions.
• Serving as primary contact for customer inquiries; providing feedback about lead time, planned timeline, order change, order reschedules, etc.
• Primary contact with other departments department to manage sales and customer priorities.

Responsibilities Will Include But Are Not Limited To:

• 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 labor relations.
• Maintaining optimal inventory levels. Performing inventory analysis and making recommendations for stock levels.
• Coordinating maintenance and support of inventory management software.

Skill Descriptors:

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 Basic Understanding:

• Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
• Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
• Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems
• Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

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 Basic Understanding:

• Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
• Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
• Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
• Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows processes to take stock, release inventory or return into processing; resolves discrepancies.