Sammi Tan

 Develop and manage global sourcing strategy with commodity – Resistor, with focus on driving material cost optimization initiatives through competitive leverage, process improvements.  Manage and lead supplier selection process, supplier relationships and ongoing supplier performance and improvement.  Handling global plants supply chain issues.  Monitoring and taking action on plants and suppliers on non-compliance of open PO.  Actively support engineering and product teams with new product launches by sourcing new components on time and within budget.  Conduct regular performance reviews with suppliers, establish improvement expectations and follow up on progress meeting those.  Develop, negotiate and implement supply agreements based on continuous improvements in all areas of the business.  Responsible in overall data management and data integrity, cost negotiation plan and material analyst’s KPI.  Support Sanmina operations in resolving major supplier issues (capacity, supply, quality), taking leading role as required.  Manage 150,000 items count for estimate 150 vendors.

 Resolve receiving and quality issues such as defective materials, damaged goods and other claims resulting from purchased goods.  Work closely with vendors to move towards JIT delivery to contain and control inventory holding risks.  Communicate regularly and pro-actively with vendors on the market situation of the supply of materials.  Prepare and generate the expediting material status report (Aces) on weekly basis with updated information.  Responsible for the material supply for India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand plants. Average successful rate is 80 % - 90%.  Provide alternate solution to the plant when there is tight market supply.  Alternate sourcing (cross reference), to save/earn PPV.