Giju Thomas

• Ensuring seamless material availability to our antenna production sites at China, Romania and Mexico • Driving escalations from the sites and planning managers towards the suppliers and solving them • Central point of contact between Sourcing, Supply chain, R&D and external suppliers for escalations • Managing materials between sites to optimize the inventory as well maintain buffer stock levels • Steering our collaboration with key EMS suppliers to achieve our production and sales targets

Functional area: Inventory management and Operational excellence Key activities: • End-to-end management of inventory and logistics for 2 warehouses in Stuttgart • Coordinated with a team of 8 Inventory associates and reported to the regional manager • Demand planning and forecasting together with the commercial team • Implementing new tools and processes that constantly challenges the status quo

Functional area: Inventory and supply chain management Built the first dark store in Stuttgart with a team of 9 from the scratch Key activities: From unloading trucks to creating pivot tables, everything that needed a hand ;)

Functional area: Operative purchasing Key activities: Deep learning about the cutting edge technologies used to shape the future procurement landscape ( SAP S/4 Hana, E-procurement platforms, Artificial intelligence) Key achievement: Developed a software robot named "PUD" that automated a manual, repetitive operative purchasing process from 13 hours to 45 minutes using "Robotic Process Automation"

Functional area: Global supply chain with specific focus in procurement Key activities: Global sourcing, category and commodity management, supplier management, operative purchasing and project purchasing