# Manufacturing Operations Supply Project Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Shenzhen
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's dynamic team as a Manufacturing Operations Supply Project Manager, working with great people from marketing, operations, supplier management, and finance to create the most efficient supply chain for the Catalyst Switching Product Families.

The Product Supply Lead (PSL) role is a key part of the end-to-end supply chain within Cisco Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO), working closely with the Product Fulfillment Lead (PFL). The PSL collaborates with Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners, regional teams, business planning, product operations, and sales to balance supply and demand, protect customer lead times, and drive fulfillment outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Material Shortage Gap Reduction: drives down the gap of material shortages by collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and improve material availability for fulfillment.

- Inventory: leads Inventory Commit process across Orgs. Provide updates in OPT on Inventory Turns, WOS, explains drivers/trends to drive action plan.

- LCA Optimization: runs LCA to determine if current supply chain is at optimum for freight modes, network footprint, transformation costs.

- Materials Buffers: provides analytical support to BPM in on mtls. buffer decisions, tracking and adjustments.

- FY/Quarter OPT Strategic Plans: provides analytical support to BPM in creating and tracking OPT/BU Strategic Plans.

- Risk Buy Analytics: provides analytic support for risk buy decisions (e.g. AP Hub).

- LT Heatmap/Hotspots: develops/maintains Heatmap- performs weekly reporting of Extended LT PIDs and recovery date

- Delivery Metric Divergence Root Cause: reduces gap between LAS/LTA performance through root cause analysis and corrective action.

**Measures of Success:**

- Lead Time Attainment (LTA) goal: 90%

- Lead Time As Scheduled (LAS) goal: 82%

- Lead Time Integrity (LTI) goal: 90%

- Aged Backlog goal: 1.5%

- Multiple Recommit (MRC) goal: 0.75%

**Tools Used:**

- Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

- Business Object New (GPBI)

- BT Shortage Waterfall (BTSWF)

- Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW)

- Demantra

- Global Sourcing Workbench

- Integrated Fulfillment Workbench (IFW)

- Kinaxis

- Oracle (CG1)

- Order Scheduling Result Tool (OSR)

- Universal Fulfillment Orchestration (UFO)

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- BA/BS or experience of a minimum of 10 years

- Strong analytical skills (Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning)

- Deep supply chain knowledge.

- Expert level with MS Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Sharepoint)

- English language proficient

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures

- Excellent communication and business planning skills, while being self-motivated with a focus on execution.

- Understanding of Supply Planning processes & tools

- Experience with MRP/ERP systems, including material planning-specific software such as Kinaxis or Oracle.

- Experience in materials planning, and fulfillment skills

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain
- Demand Planning
- Sales & Operations Planning
- MS Office
- English

### Nice to have
- Manufacturing Processes
- Communication
- Business Planning
- MRP/ERP systems
- Materials Planning
- Fulfillment skills

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