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• Handling and driving a team of four members.• Analyzed and sourced materials from suppliers all over the World that include pricing, product description/scope ofwork, and lead-times for purchase orders and contracts.For different types of electrical parts such as PCB's, diodes, resistor, wiring harness, IC's etc.• Conduct daily hurdle meeting to review past due, unconfirmed PO’s, challenges and action for pending PO’s to whole team.• Performed and negotiated terms and conditions for purchase orders, engineering service agreements, purchaseagreements, and field services agreements in order to save costs.• Met all KPI's more than 95 %, especially every month achieved 100 % push out which tends to increase the Inventoryrevenue.• Action on all new buys, Push, Pull, Cancel, pre-delivery confirmations to Supplier and monitor Past due Purchase Order• Collaborated with business process team to eliminate process defects by identifying root causes and implementingcorrective actions resulting in 95% purchase order placement on time.• Resolved payment issues with vendors and clients.• Supported all data requirements for a centralized Supply Chain Procurement team.• Determined Customer need and Maintained safety stocks (VMI/Hub) to improve customer service levels withoutincreasing inventory.• Capacity enhancement for monthly schedule and finding out the key and bottle neck process which effects the production• Forecasting the daily production, supplies and machine loading plan as per the priorities.• Analyze backlog and detect problems and raise alerts to organization for Procurement planning.• Planning supplier schedules in advance in preparation for busy seasonal periods.• Working closely with supplier and customers to improve the operations and help in reduction of cost.

• Discussion with supplier on detailed production plan for timely dispatch of Materials as per requirement.• Sourcing and Procurement of Indirect materials which includes sending enquires, floating RFQ getting offers,Rate negotiations, creation of purchase orders.• Handling of subcontractors for semi assembly.• Supply the root cause analysis and solution the suppliers and implement the corrective action.• Working with planning to review Engineering Change Order (ECO) impact on open orders.• Resolving receiving discrepancies (RDR), Material Review Board (MRB), Return to Vendor (RTV) and PPV followingCorporate and Plant policies/procedures.• Making sure that all suppliers’ information and records are up to date.• Review and resolve suppliers’ invoice hold.• Rawmaterial, Production and Dispatch planning.• Responsible for maintenance of all sourcing data within ERP system and ensure it is assigned to products/spendcategories and suppliers.• Sourcing of materials, products or services as per requirement with available and new supplier base with competitivequotes.• Maintain documents as per AS 9000 and ISO 9001:2015 And IATF.

• Analyze workflow, Plan and schedule customer orders based on materials availability, machine capacity and constrains for production. • Capacity enhancement for monthly schedule and finding out the key and bottle neck process which effects the production. • Forecasting the daily production, supplies and machine loading plan as per the priorities. • Development and maintaining internally manufactured stock and inventory management. • Analyze backlog and detect problems and raise alerts to organization for Procurement planning. • Planning supplier schedules in advance in preparation for busy seasonal periods. • Working Closely with supplier and customers to improve the operations and help in reduction of cost.• Raw material, Production and Dispatch planning. • Negotiating with suppliers to minimize the raw materials cost and transportation cost. • Optimize utilization of automatic and semiautomatic processes to reduce manpower requirement • Making sure that all suppliers information and records are up to date. • Keeping accurate records of Products, Contracts, PSW, Pricing and invoicing information. • New Supplier development for contingency plan. • Maintaining the CAPA reports for the rejection and Follow up and Developing Quality system at supplier end. • Duties also included ongoing Lean Manufacturing process evaluation for efficiency gains for all production processes