Dipl.-Ing. Michael Heinzmann

Head of Global Category Management Electronic Systems & Components, Chemical Parts and Rotor Blades

Procurement Business Partner @ Professional Lighting Europe. Lead Procurement Engineering activities being an integral part of the business management team. Product cost reduction via design for excellence, value engineering and supply chain optimization. Align business needs and product roadmaps with procurement strategy and supplier capability offer. Early involvement of commodity management and supplier in product design process and customer projects.

- Realization of a cross-company Procurement and Supplier Early Involvement Function. - Implementation of India Procurement team to support R&D teams and global customer projects. - OEM Selection and 3rd Party Contracting for in building wireless network solutions. - Leading Global Commodity Team EMS & Electronics over an interim period of several months.

Global Commodity Management with responsibility for > 25 material categories and > 300 Supplier. Category Strategy Creation and execution of Supplier Base Management.

Member of the Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Integration Team, the merger of Nokia Networks and Siemens Communications. Leading a sub-work group for Sourcing & Procurement on behalf of Siemens to design and execute organizational blueprint and mode of operation for the new company NSN.

Head of Procurement Engineering Technology. Leading a team of Procurement Engineering experts supporting the Business Unit with advanced purchasing insights to develop technology roadmaps and standardization programs.

Implementation of “Procurement Engineering” as a function of advanced purchasing and supplier involvement at Siemens Information and Communications. Further roll out and building a Procurement Engineering organization over the entire Business Group.

Joint Venture - Program and Liaison Manager @ Interdigital Corporations USA, New York and Philadelphia. Siemens on site representative for supplier strategy implementation and New Product Introduction.

-Technical Supplier Interface -Center of Manufacturing Technology. -Concurrent Engineering, Prototyping and New Product Introduction. -Purchasing of customized and critical components. -Managing Supplier Performance Rating (Technology, Quality) and act as liaison to Purchasing

Qualification, Environmental Testing, failure detection and analysis. Technical approval and data management for Passive Components and Semiconductors Transfer and Harmonization of Component Database after Siemens internal group consolidation.