Responsible to manage suppliers which are in a distressed situation or cannot supply service parts in the required quantities for the Ford Customer Service Division. Coordinate call offs with SCM teams and work closely with legal advisor and Supply Risk team of OE business. Cross check suppliers financial status and act upfront to any potential distressed situation, work on challenges due to product changes towards electric vehicles and the impact on the supply chain. Central coordination on FCSD supply status during Covid-19 shut down times of suppliers. Involved on current critical constraints material calls due to missing sub-components and raw materials- exchange with global Ford teams on production and aftersales. Align delivery plans with suppliers and SCM departments on most critical cases and ensure that customers orders are fulfilled as we cannot let any customer wait in these days on missing spareparts. Combine logistical and buyer expierience to achieve those goals. Ford has to treat every customer with highest priority and ensure that spare parts are available for them. Besides Covid China Lockdown, Semiconductor and Ukraine crises are those most critical constraints to overcome currently- looking forward to overcome the next challenges. Use to think ahead and out of the box to manage these challenges. Supported by a broad internal and external networks to find solutions.

Body Styling Kits, Spoiler, Mud Flaps, Vehicle Personalization.Knowledge of RIM, PUR and Injection Moulding

RACK EPAS Steering, Mechanical Steering Gear, Hydraulic Steering Gears, ESCL and MSCL locks

Coordinate CD4 Chassis program costs and track status of program towards the upper management. Create sourcing documents for the commodity buyer and jointly push supplier for lower costs on chassis component parts.

Specify, control and improve all inbound material flow into Russia, all rail traffic of production material in Europe and Turkey. Improved situation on transport times, container demurrage and detention costs. Onsite support during a warehouse fire to run alternative wh operations and kept Ford production running.

Coordinate part changes within the World Wide Engineering Release System (WERS) of Ford and ensure properly release of new part level. EUCD plattform - run alignment meeting with JLR and Volvo teams to get common changes implemented.