SUMMARY:

• 11 plus years of techno - functional experience in Supply Chain Management with expertise in Ariba On-Demand(2 year), 9r1 (3 years),Buyer 8.x(7 years), Contract Workbench 2.0 (2 years) and Analysis 3.1(10 years) primarily in Banking, Retail & Life sciences.
• 11 plus years of spend management experience that includes Ariba installation, development and support, Project Management, Pre-Sales consulting and Quality Management.
• Solutions-driven professional with extensive experience in requirement gathering, designing and implementing technical/functional solutions.
• Resourceful, creative problem-solver with proven aptitude to analyse complex customer requirements and business problems in order to Design/implement innovative customised solutions.
• Articulate communicator who masters fluency in both the languages of business users and technology. Blending technical expertise with exceptional interpersonal skills for effective interaction with customers and technical/engineering teams; adept at delivering presentations and demos.
• Willing to travel extensively.
• Project Management
• Requirement Engineering
• Solution Architect
• Test Management
• Consulting
• Presentations
• Configuration Management
• Procurement
• Invoicing
• Spend Management Reporting
• Ariba Buyer 8.x,9r1, On-Demand
• Ariba Analysis
• Ariba Category Management
• Java, Java script
• Unix, Windows
• AQL/SQL
• AML/XML, HTML
• MS office suite
• TIBCO MB sheets
• Oracle
• DB2
• WebLogic Workshop 8.1
• Websphere
• Control Versioning System
• SVN
• VSS
• HP Quality Center
• Requisite Pro
• Eclipse
• CITRIX
• Remedy
• Ant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the current landscape of Novartis.
• Prioritize the defects based on the severity, analyse the problem and fix the issues by coordinating with offshore team.
• Streamline support process by enforcing users for tickets instead of ad-hoc request.

Confidential, Wilmington, DELAWARE

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Procurement of different environments and follow up with Ariba, Integration, Supplier enablement and data team to set up the environment.
• Perform smoke test in the newly built environment for data integrity before handing over to testing team.
• Preparation of environment usage plan and weekly status report and present to higher management.
• Create and improve on release policy and deployment management process
• Co-ordinate with country specific application/business service managers for controlled release management.

Confidential, Bentonville, ARKANSAS

Responsibilities:

• Making sure the transition is managed smoothly from the old operation team.
• Prioritize the defects based on the severity, analyze the problem and fix the issues by coordinating with offshore team.
• Propose operational strategies in order to reduce tickets and following it up till closure.
• Mentoring offshore and onsite resources on Confidential Ariba application landscape and processes.
• Sharing monthly reports with management, conducting Weekly status meeting and one on one meeting with team members.
• Coordination with different integration/hardware teams for speedy resolution of issues.
• Reducing the ticket mean time resolution.
• Service packs analysis and upgrade.

Confidential, Wilmington, DELAWARE

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prioritize the defects based on the severity, analyze the problem and fix the issues.
• Coordination with different teams for speedy resolution of issues.
• Analyse new enhancements and follow them up till implementation.

Confidential, Bentonville, ARKANSAS

Ariba Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SPOC for Ariba Downstream Migration from 8.2.2 to 9r1. This includes responsibilities like
• Upgrade of Downstream system in different environments by running IVT, coordinating for code conversion and running task harness.
• Communicate with DBA team and web/application server team for configuration or issue resolution.
• Resource allocation for various work packages involved in upgrade.
• Issue and risk tracking & management.
• Defect management with in Wipro.
• Co-ordination with functional team for test plan/test script preparation and review.
• Configuration management for defect fixes and enhancements.
• business users through presentations and live meetings.
• Co-ordination between business and technical resources for issue identification and resolution.
• Integration for Supplier Data sync between JDE and Ariba for 9r1. Conversion from MQ Series to staging migration through Java utility. Integration with EDI system through XML mapper utility for PO/Invoices. Integration with HOST system for Receipts and Payments.
• Business requirement gathering and coordination with offshore for test scenario preparation.
• Mentoring offshore for resolving any identified issues.
• Issue resolution of upstream/downstream issues.
• SPOC and SME for Ariba application for fieldglass integration team.
• The responsibility includes requirement gathering, solution design and implementation and post installation support.
• vendor management office in report creation.

Confidential

Technical Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defining WBS through Microsoft project plan by taking the estimation from the team.
• Resource allocation, follow up and co-ordination with team.
• Risk and Issue tracking in co-ordination with Business project lead.
• business users.
• Providing higher management with the analysis of changes necessary to existing procurement application when the S2P project was put on hold.
• Helping customer in selecting the appropriate catalogue management provider.
• Contributed in the business process definition for catalogue management provider.
• Carried out upgrade assessment along with IT project leader for new version of Ariba.
• Assisted in PROCURE TO PAY (PeopleSoft) project as a subject matter expert for existing procurement application.
• Earlier to above, SPOC for Swiss based interface analysis, data archiving and data migration in a global source to pay (PeopleSoft) project. This involved
• Requirement gathering from multiple stakeholders.
• Prioritization, follow up and timely escalation for issue resolution.
• Presenting the complete interface analysis of Swiss based S2P interface in global workshop.
• Providing Fit Gap analysis between new PeopleSoft and old Ariba based system for VENDOR (Supplier) data along with my US counterpart.
• Presented a white paper on “Invoicing and Accounts Payable”.
• Setting up first-of - kind procurement COE in Singapore without affecting the enhancement project scope through timely escalations, ticket tracking, timely reporting, advance issue notification, effective communication with all service providers as well as within the team for fresh installation of Ariba Suite.
• Arranging continuous feedback meetings with customer, in order to take proactive measures on the prepared action plans.
• Providing value adds to customer through process improvement, quality enhancement of existing java codes and documents.
• Providing technical consulting and solution design for multiple complex business requirements in the area of Procurement, Invoicing, Payment and Spend Analysis. Few major enhancements performed are
• 3rd Party Catalog Management Provider
• Logging And Archiving
• Contract Request e-Form
• DOM/Toner Automation
• Automated Approval engine
• Handling operations post upgrade engagement.
• Appling Migration Related Customization to Java and AML files.
• Complete migration of the existing procurement system from Ariba 8.1 to the latest version 8.2.2 at offshore.
• Understanding the existing 8.1 system and helping other team members in migrating it to Ariba Buyer 8.2.2 at on site.
• Testing the system after migration and fixing any defects encountered or reported by the business users during UT, SIT and UAT.

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Ariba Category Management, Ariba Contract Workbench, Ariba Enterprise Sourcing in a Windows XP environment.
• Configuration and customization of the above ASM modules according to the COE business requirements. For example - Development of Sourcing and Contract process templates with overlay conditions, e-Form and approval rules.
• and mentoring of new hires.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on customizing and configuring Ariba suite of products. E.g. Scheduled tasks, conditions & actions, catalog filter etc.
• Application development using AMLs, Java and AQL.
• Involved in different stages of development - analysis, design, build and testing of specific Ariba modules like e-Form and Ariba Buyer.
• Involved in implementation of Advertise and Procurement e-Form in Canada Market.