Roles &

- Responsibilities

- Supplier Qualification &
- Approval –
- Evaluate, audit, and qualify current suppliers based on technical capability, quality systems, manufacturing capacity, and customer requirements.
- Supplier Quality Audits –
- Conduct supplier process, system, and product audits using ISO 9001, IATF 16949 (where applicable), VDA 6.3, and customer-specific requirements.
- Incoming Quality Management –
- Establish incoming inspection standards, sampling plans, acceptance criteria, and control methods for PCBAs, PCBs, electronic components, mechanical parts, and electromechanical components.
- Supplier Defect Management –
- Identify, contain, and resolve supplier-related defects, including PCB fabrication defects, component failures, solderability issues, dimensional deviations, and material nonconformities.
- Root Cause Analysis &
- Corrective Action –
- Drive supplier 8D, 5-Why, Fishbone, CAPA, and RCCA activities, ensuring verified root causes and effective permanent corrective actions.
- Supplier Performance Monitoring –
- Track supplier PPM, incoming rejection rate, SCAR closure, audit scores, quality cost, and recurring defects through supplier scorecards and periodic reviews.
- NPI &
- New Part Qualification –
- Support new product introduction through supplier process validation, First Article Inspection (FAI), sample approval, PPAP/APQP documentation, and qualification builds as applicable.
- Supplier Process Capability &
- Improvement –
- Evaluate SPC, Cp/Cpk, process variation, control plans, PFMEA,



and inspection systems to improve supplier process capability and prevent defects.
- Electronic Component Quality &
- Traceability –
- Ensure component authenticity, lot traceability, date-code control, MSL compliance, ESD protection, shelf-life management, and counterfeit component prevention.
- Supplier Change Management –
- Review and approve supplier changes involving materials, components, manufacturing processes, tooling, locations, and alternate parts before implementation, following customer approval requirements.
- Cross-Functional Quality Coordination –
- Coordinate with SCM, Engineering, Production, NPI, IQC, Test, and Customer Quality teams to resolve material quality issues and minimize production interruptions.
- Supplier Development &
- Continuous Improvement –
- Lead supplier improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and defect-prevention techniques to improve quality, delivery, and process consistency.
- Quality Documentation &
- Compliance –
- Maintain supplier audit reports, inspection standards, control plans, FMEA, material certificates, deviation approvals, and quality records to meet applicable ISO, IATF, and customer requirements.
- Supplier Risk &
- Escalation Management –
- Identify critical supplier risks, single-source dependencies, repeated quality failures, and material obsolescence; implement mitigation plans with SCM and Engineering.
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) Reduction –
- Track supplier-related scrap, rework, sorting, line stoppages, and customer complaints; drive corrective actions to reduce quality costs.

📌 Lead - Supplier Quality (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Larsen u0026 Toubro
📍 Tamil Nadu