Job Description

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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.

The primary objective of this role is to support the Product Support & Logistics Division (PSLD) in achieving its inventory and customer service goals while ensuring alignment with PSLD policies and business requirements. As a Logistics Analyst, the individual is responsible for supporting Production Withdrawal (PW) requests and addressing inventory optimization inquiries related to Caterpillar Parts. The role involves coordinating and managing workload activities to ensure timely allocation and shipment of materials for emergency and production line-down situations, while also ensuring inventory optimization requests are resolved efficiently to support supply planning objectives.

This function involves working on projects and ad hoc analysis to enhance systems and process efficiency within Cat Parts.

What You Will Do:

• Responsible for providing Business and System support to Inventory Optimization queries.
• Responsible for providing Business and System support to production and supplier withdrawals.
• Develop automated processes to aid in data cleansing and maintenance using analytical tools.
• Identifying opportunities for improvements including cost, quality, and service of customer needs and issues.
• Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.
• Execute adhoc requests from business partners and Inventory Management team.
• Work closely with global teams in making process improvements and enhancements to production withdrawal process.

Degree Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering / Math’s / Science / Commerce.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in Supply chain management, Logistics, 3PL, Warehousing, Service parts Logistics and supplier performance management.
• SAS or SQL coding experience.
• Power BI visualization capabilities.

What You Have:

Accuracy and Attention to Detail Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights. Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy. Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

Inventory Management: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage organization's materials, commodities, merchandises, or products.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manage daily/weekly service loss analysis and share RCCA for top loss parts.
• Involves detailed root cause analysis for discrepancy between systems and documentation of the same.

Effective Communications: Understanding 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 Extensive Experience:

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.

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 Extensive Experience:

• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact 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:

• Assesses common problems and obstacles surrounding data-gathering.
• 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 Power BI to generate different types of data visualization.
• Follows established standards and procedures to obtain, aggregate and analyze data for visualization.

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 www.caterpillar.com/careers

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:

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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.

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.

Posting Dates:

August 17, 2026 - August 24, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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