Malarvili Nagarajan

- Creates, reviews, issues and follows-up on purchase orders to ensure timely delivery. - Develop and implements cost reduction programs related to products and processes. - Manages and coordinate all procurement activities and review Material Master (MM) and Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) template (include risk buy) associated with new products/product transfer. - To work with an optimum number of suppliers that can meet requirements for quality, service and cost. - Ensure suppliers deliver purchased items in a timely manner. Alert program management and planning of any potential Assurance Of Supply (AOS) issues. - Work with planning to review Engineering Change Order (ECO) impact on open orders. - Consistently validate lead-time and Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) to ensure accuracy. - Get Purchase Price Variance (PPV) approval through the proper process. - Resolve receiving discrepancies, Material Review Board (MRB), Return to Vendor (RTV) and PPV following Performance Excellence guidelines and Corporate and Plant policies/procedures. - Provide justification and waterfall charts on purchases for Excess and Obsolesces (E&O), Inventory Deposit, Inventory Revaluation and other reports requested by customer. - Understand Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) process. - Visits suppliers as leader of a supplier qualification team to determine if sources are capable of meeting present or future company needs. - Monitor supplier performance such as hub inventory, responsiveness to forecast, order reschedule and independent demand. - Maintaining close liaison with suppliers on their production capacities, readiness and material supply. - Support in Physical Stock takes activities. - To assist Purchasing Manager in the general supervision of the general supervision of the Purchasing Section under their lead. - Participate in the Environmental, Safety & Health Management System.

- Review customer Request for Quotation (RFQ) / Request for Information (RFI) and management's requirements to model costs and simulate pricing. - Verify parts whose prices are negotiated between the end customer and the supplier and upload to ERP System before the quarter kicks in. - Participating in Repricing activities for customer to ensure the customer contract price tally with the supplier given price to minimize Purchase Order issue. - Manage the initial setup and ongoing maintenance of purchasing and vendor information. - Receive request and analyse for completeness to enable purchasing and consequently manufacturing. - Analyse data to quantify business impact to ensure financial integrity. Perform MOQ analysis to prevent excess inventory. Negotiate to get best MOQ (Minimum Order Qty) based on EAU (Estimated Annual Usage) to reduce excess inventory. - Manage quality of data setup to be within the expectations of the requestor. - Acquire the right level of confirmation and approval when necessary per guidelines. - Focal point to coordinate and communicate resolution of PO issues with respective team. - Engage with supplier to set initial contract with new vendor and negotiate competitive terms & conditions. - Resolve PO issue to support internal customer on streamlining PO execution. - Participate in ongoing process improvement and team activities. - Create and maintain documentation (e.g. process, procedure). - New application / tool adoption and adaptation for process improvement. Actively participating for any new tools testing implementation and at the same time giving feedback on the process improvement.

- event program management which includes logistic setup and arrangement. - material inventory check, ordering, tracking, receiving, delivering to traning room. - training room readiness check - manage on-site NEO classes - respond to instructor and learners enquiries - class attendance closure - adhoc training room booking support - for staffing, source for resumes for external hire using external sourcing channel and Taleo - provide support in external government program for documentation. - upload external resume to Taleo database; move candidate profile to 'Review' tab to ensure HM able to review the profile; phone screening candidate availability.