Tania García Ruiz

Plan, organize and direct the manufacturing operation to ensure the most effective return on assets and achievement of production schedules and overall business objectives.

Responsible of Direct & Indirect Purchases //Procurement + Material Planning // SQA // Production Planning

▪ Calculate Bill-of-Material (BOM) during acquisition phase and throughout the Project Life Cycle ▪ Develop concepts of cost efficient design with R&D to enable customer award and/or product profitability Based on the pre- requisites From Project Managers, gather cross functional input provide a high-level plan for sourcing cases in order to secure continental’s facility operations and get new business from OEM’s. Achievement: Material cost reduction, , supplier localization strategy, Local content. APQP customer milestones. Purchase Volume: 30 million Euros Customers: BMW, Honda, Daimler, Volvo, Ford, Nissan, GM Region: Global ▪ Support Supplier Material and Supplier Tooling Budget-Planning ▪ Involvement of suppliers at a very early point of time (ESI) ▪ Develop Sourcing plan and synchronize with project ▪ Control the supplier-related milestones during the product development phase (APQP, PPAP) ▪ Follow-up on supplier and material status ▪ Support the Supplier and Material Strategies" ▪ Perform and control the Sourcing Activities according to current processes, Sourcing plan (on-time sourcing), Target-costs, Quality-requirements (e.g. SCR) and ADAS Purchasing targets ▪ Responsible to meet Target-BOM-cost ▪ Responsible for Supplier Tooling regarding Budget and Data Management Tooling database ▪ Maintain Sourcing-Forecast for fiscal-year +3 ▪ Securing of Supplier-capacity in case of volume increases ▪ Responsible to provide necessary data to present sourcings in relevant acceptance & approval committees (e.g. SRM, PAB)" ▪ Communication of targets costs, schedule information, etc. towards Category / Plant Purchasing / SQM / SCM / etc. ▪ Developing own problem solving scenarios in case of Project cost and Project timing risks

Manage/ Lead all Global projects(Mexico, Sweden, Brazil, Poland) related to Electrical & Alloys suppliers’ development and cross functional team involvement. Purchasing representative in project team from the acquisition phase until EoP. Achievement: Purchase: $18 MUSD achieving savings of $1.1 MUSD. Spend with 48 global suppliers. High expertise in Low volume negotiations Lead USD to Mexican Pesos negotiations to increase National Hedging

Responsible for Electrical and Electronical Commodities with an annual purchase value of $8.5 MUSD Achievement: savings of $ .7 MUSD with a 35 supplier base Reduced from 45 to 32 suppliers as a result achieving payment terms from 50 to 72 days in average for my portfolio. local content Increase of the buses from 65% to 80% APV in 3 years.

-Ensure spare parts within Suppliers for Vehicles in the road for 15 years. - Responsible for Miscellaneus, Brakes and Filters - Back order focus from 16 days to 4 days .