Supply Chain Manager

About This Role

Leading efforts within one or more supply chain functions, including materials, production, inventory, logistics, demand management, and order fulfillment, is the core of this role. The Supply Chain Manager ensures internal and external customer expectations and requirements are met from end to end in each supply chain. This position leads multi-location supply chain teams with end-to-end responsibility for supply chain operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations across functions to ensure a dependable and efficient supply chain
• Lead continuous improvement projects that align with Cummins Operating System and Functional Excellence direction and leverage common processes tools, and information systems
• Support Corporate Supply Chain initiatives and lead the cross Business Unit planning processes to ensure intra-company alignment
• Mitigate long term supplier constraints by collaborating with functional stakeholders
• Create common supply chain processes and procedures by establishing collaborative business partner relationships
• Approach daily problem solving and continuous improvement opportunities strategically and tactically to achieve performance targets
• Develop, understand and improve necessary Key Performance Indicators
• Analyze operational trends and develop corrective action plans
• Address supply chain failures promptly to ensure operations stability; escalate as appropriate
• Prepare and manage an annual operating plan including expense resources, and capital
• Manage, coach, and develop staff; work with employees to set goals in training and development, performance, and career planning

Requirements

• College, university, or equivalent degree required
• Significant level of experience required
• 5-7 years of relevant experience preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively, developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Talent for developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals
• Ability to direct work, providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done
• Drives engagement, creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Drives results, consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Ensures accountability, holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Instills trust, gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
• Optimizes work processes, knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
• Inventory Management and Optimization: uses analytics and algorithms to determine the optimal level of inventory investment across the end-to-end supply chain within specific constraints (warehouse space, customer delivery, etc.); provides guidance and expertise on planning parameter refinement; develops inventory strategies to support Cummins' strategy and not just a business unit strategy
• Material Planning: uses advanced tools (e.g. Advanced Planning Command Centre, Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards etc.) to take a decision related to parts availability, inventory optimization and root cause analysis
• Materials KPI Management: operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact to others
• Supply Chain Knowledge: influences, with the ability to concisely explain and/or elaborate on, the multi-disciplined and end-to-end integration of the flow of information, products, and services to achieve the desired result for the end customer within the first-fit or aftermarket business segments while balancing the tensions of inventory, cost, and delivery
• Values differences, recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization

Important Details

• Relocation Package: Yes

About the Company

Cummins Inc. manages material planning, procurement, logistics, warehousing, transportation and supplier performance for manufactured and outsourced products, including exclusive oversight of OSP facilities, to ensure optimal delivery, quality, cost, and operational performance.