Maintain supplier deliveries during supplier capacity strains and financial crisis situation, safeguarding the requirements of the stakeholders (e.g. parts delivered to locations, continuous supplier production, etc.) with an implementation of short and long-term activities to keep the production at the expected level.
Provides "lessons learned" feedbacks accumulated from the field and projects involved, to improve procedures and process that targets the prevention of the supplier's insolvency and capacity strains.
Leads cross-functional task force, a team of experts assembled whenever the situation is applicable (e.g. Industrial Engineer, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Accounting, Purchasing, Legal and External Consultants).
Provides inputs for the Vendor Tooling Specialist, to safeguard vendor tooling data, whenever tooling issues are part of the root cause analysis from the supplier capacity strains. Performs capacity audits at selected suppliers, monitor capacity strains and if necessary leads external consultants for capacity audits.
Leads Logistics suppliers and solve until successful de-escalation to a minimum and hand over to Supply Chain.