· Responsible for the end-to-end order life cycle for medium to complex customer accounts.
· Single-point-of-contact for the account across regions and plants to resolve any order processing, scheduling, and shipping queries.
· Identify & analyze process gaps and completely own quality checks of the global order management process.
· Focused on customer satisfaction by ensuring on time delivery of goods & information.
· Liaises with internal production, planning, and materials teams to ensure prompt, accurate, and timely order throughput including achievement of financial targets.
· Resolves order exceptions and customer inquiries on product availability, prices, delivery times, and the status of orders so that inquiries are dealt with promptly and accurately.
· Responsible for parts availability by having weekly meetings with Sourcing & MDM Team.
· Analyzing and resolving complex customer issues with minimal supervision, knowing when to escalate Leadership.
· Ensuring operational alignment with production plan and KPIs along with Optimize inventory and process improvements.
· Ensuring all necessary documentation is in place to enable transit from origin to destination without delays and in accordance with customer need and foreign trade regulations with support from the sales and finance teams where relevant.
· Identifying ideas and develops proactive communications for assigned customer base, regarding processes, policy and/or best practices Mentors and trains new team members and provide back-up coverage across multiple accounts.
· Identify reason for gap & support RCA & deep dive Developing conceptual knowledge of professional discipline.
· Analyzing open orders/customer queries & take up with Procurement/sourcing team to expedite & meet the customer expectations.
· Analyzing customer inquiries to identify recurring user problems, recommend solutions, and to identify where customer service can be improved. Ensures internal and external customers' expectations and requirements are met
· Coordinating with Regional Sales, Engineering, Logistics, Materials, Production Planning, and other teams to facilitate the order life cycle and to meet critical customer deliveries.
· Enhancing standard administrative practices as they pertain to customer communication, and order throughput processes.
· Ensuring backlog (orders outstanding) is managed efficiently with no past due status and compliance to audit requirement.
· Lead the weekly/Pulse meeting with regional team members to address & track the payment status.
· Partner with Global Strategic Accounts team and regional customers to provide consultative, order life cycle support (e.g. Lead time, availability, order entry, order modification, minor technical support, logistics, and policy), making recommendations and providing guidance.
· Monitoring demand forecast for assigned accounts for effective account planning and tracking. Complies with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders’ needs are met
· Reporting- Responsible for monthly reporting – Indent Cuspen, Parts availability, OI and OR records, order aging analysis, Lead time correction, Variance WH Data, COO Correction Data, Weekly report to Customer centers on Open orders
· Interface with customers to address order-related inquiries and provide prompt resolution.