SUMMARY:

• Experience with enterprise architecture, end to end Enterprise Spend Management Solution including Ariba Buyer, Ariba Sourcing, ACM(Category Management), ACW(Ariba Contract Workbench), Ariba Analysis, SAP and Supply Chain.
• Experience with Supplier Information Management (SIM), Supplier Scorecards, Supplier Enablement & KPIs.
• SME/Project Lead for Ariba Buyer P2P processes - Requisition, PO, Receipts, Invoice, Invoice Exception, ASN, ok2Pay and P-card.
• Thorough understanding of complete SDLC(Software Development Life-Cycle) which involves requirement analysis (functional design), data collection, systems design, development, testing to deployment, production support and administration. Taking ideas from concept to implementation.
• Help align IT solutions with broader strategic objectives including cost efficiencies, productivity improvements, improved service deliverables, leaner operations and bottom-line profitability.
• Project Lead/SME/Sr. Business Analyst for Global rollout of P2P(Ariba Buyer, Invoicing) for Corporate and Capex Project (Indirect spend ~500 mil). Implemented global standardized system for procuring capital and capital expense requests in the eProcure Indirect Application. Increased compliance and controls aligned with ERP to monitor and prevent over spending.
• Technical Lead for global technical initiatives that have resulted in accomplishments including 100% reduction in manual invoice processing, 80% reduction in asset physical cycle time, applications to track and monitor $280 million in capital funding requests, $500 million in productivity savings.
• Project Manage Freight Pay project - Better/Improved visibility and analytics by bringing invoice Accrued Freight Pay data in house from Vendor. Implemented Metastorm process to support creation of new cost centers in support of eProcure program.
• Led Gap Analysis and Implementation for Sourcing Analytics Ariba Project - Projected savings are derived by getting visibility into Indirect Spend across CDIY ( Integrated spend of $100 Million)
• Knowledge and hands on experience in using & deploying various tools like Star team for source code control, Caliber for requirement gathering and Quality Center and Microsoft Team foundation server (TFS) for unit, system integration and User acceptance testing.
• Excellent communication, business analysis, team co-ordination skills and strong analytical and problem solving ability.
• Experience with Global Supply Chain Management processes and applications including strategic sourcing, indirect procurement and Contracting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Packages: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Crystal Reports, Caliber, StarTeam, ALM, Tidal, HP Quality center

Project Management Specialties: Project Planning, Project Management, Project Implementations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Britian, CT

Sr IT Business Analyst/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead Analysis, design implementation of enterprise procurement application, Ariba P2P, implementation and integration with global SAP and JDE systems, using ITK Toolkit.
• Technical Project Lead/SME for Global rollout of P2P(Ariba Buyer, Invoicing) for Corporate and Capex Project. Implemented global standardized system for procuring capital and capital expense requests in the eProcure Indirect Application. Increased compliance and controls aligned with ERP to monitor and prevent over spending.
• Part of team for Vendor selection (Coupa, E2open, Ariba) and implementation for replacement of Direct Procurement Tool (X’ign).
• Partner with business units and align IT solutions with their strategic objectives.
• Act as SME for Integrated Spend analytics solution to provide visibility & leverage Confidential and Decker’s total spend to negotiate for improved cost.
• Act as Client partner for Supplier enablement, P-card rollout and e-Invoicing for rollout of Ariba P2P processes.
• Partnered with the business and responsible for defining, designing and configuring Tax solution with Ariba.
• For Global Ariba roll out to Europe gathered requirements, led the Ariba application design and delivery, prepared functional, as well as technical specification documents for the project.
• Consult with end users to identify project objectives, business requirements, business sponsors, managers, and process experts
• Document detailed requirements and justification, including process flows, cost/benefit, and system alternatives
• Led Gap Analysis and Implementation for Sourcing Analytics Ariba Project - Projected savings are derived by getting visibility into Indirect Spend across CDIY
• Project Manage Freight Pay project - Better/Improved visibility and analytics by bringing invoice Accrued Freight Pay data in house from Vendor. Implemented Metastorm process to support creation of new cost centers in support of eProcure program.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Supply Chain IT - Lead Ariba Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in enabling enterprise wide Spend visibility tool, solution for historical & forecasted Spend for Procurement and Sourcing using Ariba Analysis. Ability to analyze 60+B of unclassified spend
• Source, report & analyze spend & savings from all internal source systems like SAP R/3, SAP BW & HP’s external partners (20 source systems).
• Implementation team member for Ariba Upstream procurement solution for Global Supply Chain Management Services. Functionality implemented included Ariba Contract Workbench, Contract Requests, Supplier Performance Management, Scorecard, Surveys and Sourcing Projects with backend as SAP system.
• Effective performance within rapidly changing and fast-paced environments, flexibility and adaptability.
• Ariba Upstream SME to help business with requirement, converting the same into technical specification and designing/developing the solution for the same.
• Involved in design and development for Ariba Upstream requirements mainly choosers, controllers, Message definition, Message configuration and Integration mapping.
• Member of team to rollout Ariba Upstream modules globally for direct spend of the organization.
• Coordinating development and production support activities with business and offshore resources on Ariba Sourcing, Contracts and Analysis.
• Experience with HP service center tool for execution of test cases and test scripts.
• Reporting & analysis of spend & savings data across multiple dimensions like Commodity, supplier, business Unit, Geography, Time, Product Line & Plant.
• Build & maintain historical & forecasted spend based on Invoice Receipt & payment & Purchase Order details including Goods Receipts.
• Provide various canned reports in Ariba like Payment terms report for analyzing, negotiating payment terms, Spend reports like Spend by Supplier by Commodity, Spend by Supplier by Business Unit, Material procured by turnkey, InterCompany, Trade, DirectBuy

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

System Analyst/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Supplier Enablement solution from Aravo to enable 25,000 vendors and automate the Vendor Data collection process and pre qualification process.
• Experience with configuration, customization of Aravo Supplier enablement solution.
• Support and Resolve user issues for enablement of SIM. Reporting weekly client on Vendor status, Approval status of vendor, Commodity reviewer, Sourcing reviewer and Accounts Payable Group.
• Experience with the implementation of Ariba Contract Workspace (ACM/ACW), creating standard templates for different contract groups and mapping new tasks(review/negotiation), new question and answer and surfacing the template based on condition. Experience testing different modules within Ariba including Ariba Buyer, ACM, ACW, ACC and e-Invoicing.
• Worked with end user to gather requirement (functional document) and convert those requirements into technical specification.
• ACW Implementation for different groups included analysis of contracts and creation new Templates, Tasks, clause library, conditions, Questions & Answers.
• Experience writing conditions (Java), approval rules (business rules), triggers, and creating new fields(AML) and eForms within Ariba.