Tng Ying Zhen

• Create, analyse, and distribute various department reports so site can understand inventory requirements and ensure proper execution of inventory activities. • Analyse and understand the root causes of process or inventory deviations and provide summary and exception reports to site management personnel. • Develop reporting methodologies that illustrate trends, issues, and areas where improvement may be needed and recommend some action plans. • Drive system and business process solutions for continuous improvements in inventory management. • Analyse and provide some action plans to drive down excess and obsolete (E&O) materials. • Review with buyers on order management while guide demand planning analyst on demand management in order to optimize inventory level. • Coach and mentor new or less experienced members of purchasing and demand planning team to ensure optimum effectiveness.

• Validate, analyse and load customer demand into system with using tools such as Kinaxis Rapid Response and JDE Oracle. • Review material shortages and work with buyers to close the shortage gap and accomplish customer needs and organizational goal. • Commit Clear to Build (CTB) to customer and revenue to cross-functional team (CFT). • Release and reschedule work orders to production planners for production planning. • Simulate new customer forecast with providing demand change impact in order to discuss with project manager and customer for a better decision making on new demand loading. • Collaborate with CFT to handle engineering change order (ECO) from customer in terms of bill of material (BOM) change, either ECO phase in or cut in with providing material feasibility for making date driven decisions on how to implement these changes with minimal disruption to production and customer delivery timelines. • Attend customer conference call to communicate CTB plan. • Improve on reporting preparation and analysis with using Microsoft Power Query as optimizing the reporting process to save time while ensuring that reports are aligned with business goals and provide valuable insights.

• Manage Material Requirements Planning (MRP) messages, including purchase order (PO) placement, expediting orders, pushing out delivery dates, and handling cancellations as required to ensure smooth operations. • Handle parts with various commodities such as printed circuit board (PCB), customised engineering component (CEC), programming component, and electrical & electronic (EE) component. • Work with suppliers to negotiate better pricing, reduce purchased price variances, and lower minimum order quantities (MOQs), in order to focus on cost reduction strategies and minimize liability through effective supplier negotiations. • Proactively search for alternate sources to mitigate supply risks and ensure consistent availability of materials, reducing dependency on single suppliers. • Closely track and follow up on all supplier shipments to ensure on-time delivery, addressing any delays or issues promptly to maintain production schedules.

• Work closely with buyers to identify and resolve issues with problematic inventory or lots. • Prepare daily or monthly reports, namely open order report, aging parts in locations, and on time delivery report for buyers to refer and execute. • Collaborate with buyers to clear aged inventories, particularly in secondary locations. • Take the lead of industrial trainee team, guiding them to provide support in analysing root causes and finding practical solutions to reduce problematic lots.

Major: International Business, Minor: Risk Management