Facility Procurement Professional - Hosur, India - Caterpillar
Description
Career Area:
Procurement
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Supports supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility.
Responsibilities
- Supporting delivery of a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
- Recognizing the potential for cost and inventory reductions, and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment.
- Operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
- Collaborating with business partners and suppliers, and resolving facility specific supplier issues.
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
Process Management:
Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and handoffs for a specific process.
- Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.
Decision Making:
Knowledge of the data-driven decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to gather and analyze data to make organizational decisions that align with strategic business objectives and goals.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Applies an assigned technique for datadriven thinking in a Decision-Making process.
- Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when interpreting data.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in the process of choosing KPIs and metrics to influence decisions.
- Utilizes the basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
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.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
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 and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers nonverbal cues from individuals and groups.
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP): Knowledge of the processes, practices and systems used in manufacturing requirements planning (MRP); ability to optimize planning for manufacturing cycles and ensure capacity and materials availability.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Participates in developing materials requirements and costs for custom requests.
- Uses job schedule, plant and machine schedule and inventory systems to initiate and oversee jobs.
- Uses available tools to analyze order and develop quotes and realistic delivery dates.
- Plans and schedules production runs for specific products and assures availability of materials.
- Follows key criteria to collect information needed to make good production decisions for operation.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
- Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
- Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates nonroutine issues up chain of command.
- Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
- Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.
Logistics Management:
Knowledge of the processes, tools and operat
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