Role & responsibilities

- Develop and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure consistent quality and timely delivery.

- Monitor supplier performance through KPIs such as quality (PPM), delivery adherence, cost, and responsiveness.

- Drive supplier quality improvement initiatives through audits, process reviews, and capability assessments.

- Coordinate with suppliers for root cause analysis (RCA) and ensure effective closure of issues via SCAR, 8D, CAPA.

- Ensure compliance with quality standards like IATF 16949, ISO, and customer-specific requirements.

- Lead supplier audits (process, product, and system audits) and ensure closure of audit findings.

- Collaborate with SQA, Procurement, and Manufacturing teams for supplier selection, evaluation, and development.

- Manage new supplier onboarding including PPAP approval, sample validation, and process capability verification.





- Drive cost optimization initiatives through value engineering (VA/VE), negotiation inputs, and process improvements.

- Ensure timely resolution of supplier-related defects to avoid line stoppages and customer complaints.

- Monitor and reduce supplier rejection rates (GRN rejects) and improve incoming quality levels.

- Support Recent Product Development (NPD) by aligning supplier capabilities with product requirements and timelines.

- Implement standardization and horizontal deployment of best practices across suppliers.

- Coordinate containment actions (sorting, rework, replacement) during quality issues and crisis situations.

- Use data analytics (Excel/Power BI dashboards) to track supplier trends and enable data-driven decision-making.

📌 Receiving Inspection Head - Quality Assurance (Jaipur)
🏢 NBC Bearings
📍 Jaipur