Supply Chain Corporate Intern: a project built for this posting

Over a 12-week onsite assignment, the intern joins a Caterpillar supply chain team and takes on project work in areas such as process ownership, logistics improvement, or demand and order planning. Typical work includes evaluating workflows, running root-cause analysis, and supporting sales-and-operations planning so the right inventory is available.

Company: Caterpillar
Posting title: 2027 Summer Corporate Intern- Supply Chain
Location: Multiple
Season: Summer 2027
Pay (as posted): $25.00 - $43.00 per hour (depends on major and completed academic hours)
Deadline (as posted): 2027-02-28
Majors named: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Distribution, Industrial Engineering/Technology, Management Information Systems, Business Administration/Management (Supply Chain, Statistics, Math or Logistics focus)

Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-16. Read the full posting ↗

What this role is really testing

Supply chain process analysisRoot cause analysisData-driven continuous improvementLogistics workflow evaluationInventory and demand planning logicStructured problem-solving (e.g., fishbone, 5-why)Clear written communication of findings and recommendations

The project

Supplier Delivery Performance Root Cause Analysis

A one-page professional analysis memo that takes a realistic, self-created dataset of supplier on-time delivery records, identifies the top failure patterns using a structured root cause method, and proposes three ranked corrective actions with expected impact. This maps directly to the role because it demonstrates exactly what the team does daily: spotting process breakdowns in a supply chain, reasoning through causes, and communicating fixes to stakeholders.

Create a simple spreadsheet (12–15 rows) simulating three months of supplier delivery data with columns for Supplier Name, Part Category, Promised Delivery Date, Actual Delivery Date, Days Late, and Region. Populate it with realistic variation, some suppliers consistently late, one region underperforming, one part category always delayed, so the data tells a story worth analyzing.
Analyze the data manually or with basic spreadsheet formulas to calculate on-time delivery rate by supplier and category, then build a fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram on a single slide or page that maps the top root cause you identified to its contributing factors across the categories of Supplier, Process, Transportation, and Communication.
Write a one-page memo addressed to a fictional Supply Chain Manager that states the problem with one supporting metric, presents the fishbone finding in plain language, and lists three corrective actions ranked by ease-of-implementation versus expected impact, formatted as a simple 2-column table. Export the memo and fishbone diagram together as a single clean PDF.

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