How important is the role of supply chain in suggesting and improving productivity and quality?

well supply chain is a very important focal point in any company, its connect the supplier with company having the needed materials till it reach the end client. so from the above an efficient supply chain system mean an efficient use of resources (materials needed to be purchased with best quality along with best price) and that can happen by many important factors as: * using ERP software system * make an annual survey by the best suppliers to identify who are reliable * study and foreseen customer demand

 Manage strategic suppliers towards competitive supply chain performance and all logistics aspects in the Supplier Account Team together with the Procurement Account Manager (commercial aspects) and the Supply Chain Engineer (quality and technical aspects) , Drive Cycle Time Reduction projects at suppliers ,Plan, align and control the required capacity, buffers and flexibility at our strategic suppliers ,Optimize output of the supply chain (n-tier) to meet ASML demand and demand changes ,Continuously monitor supply chain risks & action plans to mitigate/improve ,Implementation of the ASML supply chain planning roadmap at suppliers,Escalation management to solve structural bottlenecks in the supply chain & Execute logistic audits at new, strategic or critical suppliers.