Stefano Salatini

- Assist department in developing and implementing purchasing strategies for products. - Build and develop relationships with key suppliers and customers. - Manage vendor relationships and assist in building effective partnerships. - Review quotations. Help to lower the cost and secure agreements. - Review purchase requests and ensure authorization to facilitate the timely purchase of supplies. - Approve and issue purchase orders in accordance with company policy and negotiated terms. - Order materials and services as per negotiated and appropriately approved. - Track Purchasing activity and measurements. - Liaise with Accounts Payable Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices.

- Coordinate foreign subsidiaries material management plans. - Setup procedures for sales/operations planning in foreign subsidiaries. - Match demand requirements with master capacity plan. - Support Sales-to-Operations Planning (SOP) activities. - Define and manage KPIs for on-time delivery and SOP accuracy.

- Accountable for final process design and KPIs - Accountable for successful implementation of the process across the enterprise - Accountable for achieving process business benefits - Final decisions point on when local processes are appropriate - Coordinates the team of Key Users for the process

- Accounting for OEM key customers in the American continent - Coordination of sales activity of Berco of America company branch - Sales budget definition and achievement - Pricing strategy proposal and implementation - Analysis of competitors, benchmarking - Coordination of the after-sales technical support - Management of new product development projects with OEM customers

Organizing and managing product support sub-structures: - Claims & Returns labs and workshop - Aftermarket dealers claim management network - Company knowledge base rationalisation - Making of the internal intercompany training system

- Examine and report field product behavior in specific applications - Determine compliance to product specifications - Assess technical aspects of warranty complaints - Test new products and prototypes on field - Benchmark competitors products - Propose solutions for customers technical issues