Latheesh Kumar THOKALA

Main Supplier contact for the Quality of all Purchased BOP Parts of Mercedes MMA Platform. Discussion of Customer Requirements and Follow up to get Supplier Feasibility Commitment Supplier Kick-Off meetings and BAG Alignments from Tool-Go to APQP Phase & SOP PPAP On-Time, supplier escalations, Discussions with Design & PQL Teams are daily activities

Ensuring the Quality of Purchased Parts, supplier production technologies for ZERO DEFECTS Follow-up with suppliers from development phase to final production approval – APQP & PPAP Work with Global Q-Teams to develop suppliers based on Customer Specifications and Standards Initiate Quality improvement ideas and Train Suppliers & Plants to enhance Quality Performance

New product development, process planning and optimization activities at various Faurecia plants Budget planning, financial documents and capacity management of new product launches Support of process optimization: MTM, cycle time, degree of utilization, productivity and quality Innovations, cost reduction and Continuous Improvement Activities in Production Planning