Karthick Chandrasekar

About Karthick Chandrasekar

At Ford Motor Company, our team focuses on efficient procurement, ensuring service parts…

Experience

1. Senior Supply Chain Scheduler

   Ford Motor Company

   Oct 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Responsibilities:• Responsible for setting up a proper raw materials and components inventory levels. • Procurement of service parts from external Global Suppliers, Ford plants and catering to the dealers.• Schedule release on suppliers, follow-up with suppliers for delivery promise.• Liaise with the transporter and traffic team for shipment delays.• Follow up with QC team, Depot and Contract Packers for prioritization of receipts or any shipment discrepancies.• Validating and sending weekly forecast to the suppliers based on which the suppliers can keep the parts ready at their depot.• Follow-up with Purchase for resolving purchase related issues. This could be price revision request from suppliers, tool breakdown, supplier bankruptcy, resourcing.• Responding to Customer Liaison, High-level Helpdesk and Golden Service about part availability date.• Coordinate with Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Purchase and supplier during engineering level changes.• Coordinate with suppliers and campaign coordinators for procuring parts from supplier to meet campaign requirements.• Educate the suppliers on importance of Q1 rating and try to improve their delivery performance.• Take premium freight decisions based on part criticality.• Responding to queries from Supplier, Purchase, Inventory, Central Forecasting and Supply chain management team.• Work in conjunction with suppliers to secure on time delivery and improve other processes to support increased supplier delivery performance ratings.• Attending Purchasing / Logistics meetings to resolve issues outside supply chain.• Arranging premium freights by coordinating with the logistics team.• Ensuring there is a backup for my set of suppliers to make sure there is no supply chain gap in my absense which is vital.