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Job Description:

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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.

JOB DESCRIPTION FOR DART - Inventory Analyst (X734)

The Supply Chain Services group part of Product Support & Logistics Division currently has a job opening for a ‘DART EDI Coordinator – Inventory Analyst’ position located in Bangalore, India facility.

Data Accuracy & Records Tracking (DART) Team Overview:

The Data Accuracy & Records Tracking (DART) being part of SCS group is responsible for seamless execution of critical processes for Caterpillar manufacturing facilities in the areas of New Product Introduction (NPI), Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Electronic Data Interface (EDI), Shipping label and Analytics solutions. Supply Chain Services DART team delivers value by initiating and participating in business-critical projects and solutions.

JOB PURPOSE:

This position is responsible to improve inbound receiving efficiency for facilities that include Caterpillar manufacturing, logistics centers, and cross-dock facilities located globally through on time support on the daily ASN (Advance Shipment Notice) requests from facilities, manage Misdirected ASNs and coordinate with suppliers to ensure EDI ASN & SP20 shipping label to meet enterprise standards.

What You Will Do:

Degree Requirement:

Additional Requirements:

What you have:

Business Acumen : Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge :
• Comments on the organization's business model and financial goals.
• Communicates key considerations for business decision making process.
• Cites examples of types of information needed to make sound business decisions.
• Participates in business task to get things done in own unit or area.
• Caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.

Standard Operating Procedures : Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP); ability to design, implement and evaluate standard operating procedures affecting daily and strategic business operations in order to increase operational efficiency.
Level Basic Understanding :
• Compiles current research relevant to standard operating procedures.
• Explains usage of standard operating procedures in business operations.
• Describes main issues and considerations when using standard operating procedures.
• Identifies key features and functions of standard operating procedures.

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.
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 non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

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.
Level Working Knowledge :
• 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.

Data Gathering and Reporting : Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.
Level Working Knowledge :
• Detects and summarizes patterns in data and findings by producing simple reports.
• Assesses common problems and obstacles surrounding data-gathering.
• Customizes data fields to meet clients' needs.
• Interprets and explains results of a data-gathering initiative.
• Participates in projects to gather data for needs analysis.

Data Visualization : Knowledge of principles, techniques and processes of data visualization; ability to create high quality figures effectively for various business scenarios and storytelling.
Level Working Knowledge :
• Creates figures for regular data visualization tasks in an honest and compelling way.
• Develops or uses appropriate tools and software, such as Tableau and Data wrapper, to generate different types of data visualization.
• Follows established standards and procedures to obtain, aggregate and analyze data for visualization.
• Outputs statistical models into charts, graphs and maps to demonstrate outliers, patterns and trends of data.
• Employs data visualization in documents or reports to tell informative and compelling stories.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Tools : Knowledge of electronic data interchange tools; ability to design, implement and maintain tools and facilities in order to establish a computer-to-computer interchange of electronic data among organizations.
Level Working Knowledge :
• Maps EDI data within appropriate applications; develops and test new maps.
• Assists in the development of tools and techniques for electronic data interchange.
• Adheres to electronic data interchange standards, policies and guidelines.
• Operates main functions of electronic data interchange tools and facilities.
• Compares different applications for use in different electronic data interchange situations.

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.
• 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.

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of India which can be found through our employment website at .

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of a variable bonus. Additional benefits include paid annual leave, flexi leave, medical and insurance (prorated based upon hire date).

Final Details:

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If you are interested in joining our team, please apply using an English version of your CV. We look forward to meeting you!

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

Job Id: R000395166

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

A role in Inventory Management means applying your specialized and well-informed point of view to what we buy, from whom, how much, and where it needs to go from there. You’ll use the right combination of data and expertise to achieve the best possible product availability through proper inventory positioning. You’ll establish and develop great relationships with our vendors to encourage on-time shipment and delivery to stores and ultimately, guests.

As an Inventory Analyst, you'll develop business strategies to drive availability and profitable sales. Make an impact by managing and allocating inventory to stores, negotiating and maintain business relationships with the largest vendors in the industry, and formulating in-depth inventory forecasts. It’s your skills that help bring guests what they want, when they want it, whether guests shop our stores or online. We’ll be supporting you with extensive training and robust development to help you grow as a strong Inventory Analyst. This position includes competitive pay and discounts, and flexible scheduling.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:
• Four year degree or equivalent experience
• Entrepreneurial spirit with strong analytical, forecasting, problem solving, and detail orientation
• A performance driven individual who demonstrates strong initiative and has superior leadership skills
• Ability to manage large sets and interpret data
• Demonstrated planning, organization, and decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Comfortable with ambiguity

PRIMARY FUNCTION

As part of the F&B Inventory Management team your daily deliverables you will be expected to:

• Lead assignments and participate in projects for specific department or pyramids.
• Determine approach to work, and course correct based on changing objectives / strategies.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of business function and upstream/downstream impact of work to related job families.
• Strong analytical approach to identify opportunities and problem solve and bridge the gap.
• Effective communication with peers, partners and leaders
• Provides business specific coaching & mentoring to others in the department or immediate team.

You will be tasked on optimizing inventory for multiple divisions or pyramid and will be accountable for metrics goverened by key business functions such as promotions, forecasting and allocation of inventory. Driving and achieving business goals through collaboration with MPLS counterparts,CFTs and your leader will be key to this role.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Forecast Accuracy : own, measure and improve the forecast accuracy of inventory for various categories of business leveraging various forecasting techniques. You will be responsible to create processes, tools and routines that will enable continuous improve of the key metrics.

Integrated Demand Planning : partner with Demand Planners to create/elevate a capability that ensures accurate forecasting and inventory health for your business. Strong understanding of financial and Supply chain metrics to enable regular check-ins and consensus on tops down and bottoms up forecasting

Promo Management: Partner with Planners and PPCoE to manage inventory through accurate promo forecasting and rectifying all relevant components to achieve department instock goals. Set promo levers in Replenishment systems, advise risk to AD OOS and communicate store level risk/overstock.

Out Strategy Management:  Perform End Of Season analysis, monitor and take actions to reduce lumpy inventory through markdowns, decoding, pushing and salvage.

Allocation:  Maintain instock goals through effective product distribution. Analyze sales history and trend to maximize sales potential by developing allocation strategies that maintain proper store inventory levels.

Historical Analysis:  Analyze and summarize business performance of product categories, monitor sales, inventory, margin and other factors impacting Instocks & profitability.

Managing Operation:  End to end ownership of categories. Ownership of business and operational metric for the team, weekly recaps and work allocation in the team. You will be also tasked with driving the business review meeting in close collaboration with your leader.

Execute Strategies : Execute strategies to drive supply chain initiates to support alternative forms of fulfilment

Leader Backup:  As a senior team member you are expected to be the operational leader for the team in the absence of leader.

Communication:  Ensure timely and proactive communication with key stakeholders such as Planner and Inventory Analysts at Target India and Minneapolis. Strong global partnership and communication with key partners, Sr. Inventory managers and Sr.Directors is also key to this role as you will lead various workstream initiatives and CFTs. You will also lead MBR and QBR discussion with the team and key stakeholders.

Mentoring and Onboarding:  As subject matter experts, train and mentor new team members.

Special Projects/Pilots:  Participate in cross functional and other special projects impacting business strategies.

Process Captainship :  Drive operational excellence in assigned processes through effective partnership with relevant stakeholders.

REPORTING/ WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Reports to Sr. Inventory Manager. Works closely with Planners and Inventory Management teams in Minneapolis and other teams as necessary.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduate / PG with 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience. Relevant experience in retail industry with working knowledge in supply chain, specifically in the Demand Forecasting/Planning and Inventory Management domain for CPG/FMCG businesses.
• Analytical modelling, problem solving skills and knowledge on forecasting
• Data management and interpretation using statistical concepts
• Strong planning and operational skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Proficiency in excel and good knowledge of other MS Office tools
• SQL, data aggregation and visualization(dashboards)
• Assertiveness and strong initiative
• Ability to work well with others and contribute to a positive environment.
• Ability to train and guide others
• Highly motivated and committed to the development of high-quality work

Desired:

• Knowledge of R, Python and Team management skills.

Job brief

Inventory account control for India and other APAC subsidiaries
Month closure activities - Job order closure, Analysis of Job order variances , WIP analysis
End-to-End ownership of Inventory related GL accounts
Month end close related tasks

Supporting the local GAAP audit

Roles and Responsibilities

Inventory account control for India and other subsidiaries

Month closure activities - Job order closure, Analysis of Job order variances , WIP analysis

Standard cost updation

Month close reports - To ensure the balances are matching - Sub Ledger Vs GL

Preparation of Account reconciliations / Inventory reconciliations

To actively take part in Standard Cost updation activity

Compute E&O/Inventory reserve as per policy

Computing the cost and the sale prices for inventory items

To take part in testing various programs and new set ups relating to Cost

To be point of contactwith respect to Inventory for the entities being managed

Participate in special projects for process improvement

Month end related tasks for period closing

StatutoryAudit support – Local GAAP

What You'll Do

To closely monitor the inventory values and provide inventory analysis for all products to improve the working capital metrics (DOH) through effective co-ordination with cross functional team

• Responsible for analyzing and managing the plant Inventory level, Optimizing Inventory to meet the committed ENCORE Inventory and DOH by every month with support of Procurement, Planning and Sales ops and update the Inventory performance to APAC
• Analyze Inventory data: Collect, analyze and interpret inventory data to identify trends, patterns and areas for Improvement
• Optimize Inventory levels: Develop and Implement Inventory optimization strategies to minimize stockouts, overstocking and obsolescence
• Drive and reduce the slow-moving Inventory with action plan
• Drive and reduce the E&O liquidation with proper analysis
• Manage Inventory Metrics: Track and report on key inventory metrics, such as DOH, Inventory encore vs actual, MTO ageing, E&O
• Develop and maintain reports to track inventory performance and provide insights to stakeholders
• Review of Buy analysis with support of reporting, Procurement and planning
• Monitoring the inventory movement and provides regular analysis for inventory reduction and corrective actions
• Preparing Inventory report on weekly basis and conducting review meeting for action plan with inventory stakeholders
• Monitoring quality non-conformance inventory for its liquidation liaising with Quality and other cross functional team
• Periodic master data review on Safety stock, lead time, MOQ, MTO /MTS etc. and maintaining in SAP ERP liaison with SCM & operations team
• Analyzing the E&O inventory and exploring for action plan for liquidation complying with company policy
• Following up for timely execution of exception actions like pull in, push out and cancel on supplier/customer orders and thereby balancing the supply & Demand
• Daily Monitoring and controlling excess receipt against plan
• Monitor and review the forecast Vs consumption through effective co-ordination with demand planner and order booking team
• Effectively participating in SIOP facilitating with data on inventory impact due to forecast variance
• Monthly analysis of DOH report –hits and misses analysis
• Monitoring service inventory and supporting inventory actions

Qualifications

• Any Engineering/ Finance Degree with inventory controller/ inventory analysts experience
• 8+years' experience in Inventory and SCM function

Skills

• Good knowledge in SAP ERP system
• Power BI Dashboard
• Good Knowledge in MS tools and Macro
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High degree of professional presence and customer interface skills
• Very adept at influencing to achieve results through others when required
• Team player
• Ability to get things done through teams effectively
• Ability to forge strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Good interpersonal skills, planning and analytical ability
• Highly ethical and able to work in cross functional team

Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

In one of our Manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

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