- Serve as a primary contact for suppliers and partners to coordinate procurement, delivery schedules, and operational requirements.
- Monitor supplier performance across quality, cost, on-time delivery, lead times, and responsiveness; support scorecards, reviews, and corrective actions.
- Coordinate procurement of hardware appliances, components, accessories, and related services, including purchase orders, acknowledgments, order tracking, and delivery follow-ups.
- Monitor forecasts, inventory, replenishment requirements, and supplier capacity to support material availability and reduce shortages and excess inventory.
- Track material shortages, supply constraints, and delivery delays, and coordinate resolutions with suppliers and internal teams.
- Review supplier pricing, purchase price variances, and procurement costs to identify savings, cost avoidance, and process improvements.
- Support NPI readiness through component sourcing, BOM reviews, material availability, supplier coordination, and production ramp-up.
- Coordinate supply chain activities for new SKU setup, engineering changes, product revisions, EOS, EOL, and component obsolescence.
- Work with Sales Operations, Manufacturing, Logistics, Finance, Engineering, and Product Management on supply chain execution and customer fulfillment.
- Maintain supplier, material, pricing, and procurement records and identify opportunities for process standardization, reporting, and automation.
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