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Caterpillar Inc

For more than 85 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2011 sales and revenues of $60.138 billion, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services, Caterpillar ... Read More

Address	100 North East Adams Street Peoria, Illinois USA 61629
Website	www.cat.com
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Material Availability Analyst

Description

As an EDI coordinator you will help to increase material receiving efficiency and improve
inventory accuracy at the facility level by validating form and content of Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) transactions.

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

* Represent client facilities as the EDI Coordinator responsible for contacting suppliers on EDI conformance and accuracy issues.
* Assisting suppliers in providing quality EDI transactions to improve client facility receiving and inventory accuracy.
* Identify, prioritize and contact suppliers not (always) sending EDI transactions.
* Identify, analyze, prioritize and contact suppliers with EDI accuracy issues to determine Root Cause Corrective Action and inform Client Facing staff of situations that need further resolution.
* Support material availability and inventory accuracy by ensuring EDI transactions are not interrupted during transitions from Legacy to more modern systems such as Mach1. This entails prioritization of suppliers as well as tracking and testing EDI transactions to ensure supplier compliance and readiness for system transition.
* Work with Global Purchasing to ensure supplier continuous compliance with Corporate policy/practices regarding EDI by escalating issues with non-compliant suppliers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

* A college degree or an equivalent on-the-job-experience.
* Strong customer focus, good communication/interpersonal skills.
* Good team skills for working in a cooperative and diverse team environment.
* Experienced in working with MS Excel.
Desired Qualifications:

* Basic understanding of Supply Chain Management and inbound material receiving processes at the warehouse level.
* Knowledge in ANSI X12 and/or EDIFACT EDI.
* Competency in a foreign language is an asset (Italian, Hungarian, Polish, French).
* Good communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.

Other Job Information

Vacancy type:	Full Time	Contact Mode:	not provided
Fax:	309-675-6620	Contact Name:	not provided
Job Duration:	not provided	Phone:	309-675-1000
Email:	CATir@CAT.com