* Manages the supply network:
- Systematically assess current and new suppliers with effective segmentation / tiering to ensure healthy supplier pipeline to support current and future category requirements and priorities.
- Lead the onboarding of new suppliers and ethical exit of others together with Quality Department and Engineering Department.
- Ensure Master
Purchasing Agreements are in place and enforced.
- Ensures supplier compliance (Ethical Sourcing, Global Security) and facilitate implementation of Structural Corrective Action Plans (CAP).
- Ensure purchasing process for new projects; RFQ, Bidding and Tender, Ensure negation to get more competitive BOM cost.
* Supplier key account (strategic - value oriented)
- Prepares and leads the Joint Business & Improvement Agenda, Supplier Performance Scorecard & Business Review Meetings for assigned suppliers
- Ensures that proper Structural Corrective Action Plans (CAP) are in place to bridge any performance gaps and followed through.
- Establishes Supplier Account Plans to continuously improve performance, Operational Excellence and Productivity via Strategic Business Initiatives and Supplier Competence Development Programs.
- Escalation for Quality, Costing, Supply Chain Security, Ethical Sourcing, Legal, Finance to get priority from supplier leadership on case-by-case basis.
* Supplier integration in Order Fulfilment
- Ensure capacity management & system cost reductions initiatives
- Escalation for Plan & Deliver to get priority from supplier leadership.
- Have a plan to develop backup suppliers and a risk management plan to minimize shortages of goods or high costs of raw materials.
* Supplier performance management.
- Participate in the process of evaluating the capacity of shipments delivered to each supplier according to the established criteria
- Participate in periodic or when necessarily need evaluation of strategic suppliers.