AZ Malik

In our supply chain operations group, we build close relationships with our component suppliers and collaborate consistently to drive innovation and productivity as well as optimizing customer satisfaction through value chain planning. As a New Product Introduction Program Manager, I’m responsible for leading initiatives that support program management requirements and ensure that our global supply chain meets its targets around quality, cost, schedule and product ramps. • Leading the Value Engineering team, essentially running an incubator within Cisco, aiming to find engineering methods to reduce production costs without affecting the form factor, or negatively affecting quality & performance. • Managing wireless networking products from conception to end of life, including 5 current product launches with projected revenue of $2B (.11ac Wave 2) aiming to deliver cost, speed, and agility of products within the lifecycle. • Saved the company $16M in FY19 through value engineering efforts, contract negotiation with CMs and material suppliers, and facilitating projects and teams to optimize our supply chain flexibility and increase asset velocity. • Successfully leveraged multiple data sources and reporting tools to monitor supplier delivery and enable decision making on process simplification, performance improvement, partner collaboration, and new business ventures.

I was responsible for managing NPI programs which included vendors & cost management, ramp planning, material pipelining, and working with CMs to ensure supply chain resilience and availability.

A leading technology integrator and solution provider, leveraging its expertise in software and hardware to integrate unique manufacturing systems and emerging technologies through building growth strategies to enable product success. As a New Product Introduction Program Manager, I was responsible for designing supply chain strategies that maximize fulfillment goals for Cisco products, as well as assessing BOM risks between prototypes throughout the lifecycle of NPI through to mass production.