SUMMARY:

• SAP Ariba functional and technical
• Project Lead
• SAP - Vendor Master data Management
• SAP- P2P Indirect Process SME
• SAP Functional Consultant - SAP MM Consultant
• SAP Functional Consultant- Junior SAP MM Consultant
• Procurement Manager (P2P)
• Junior Procurement Specialist
• Fourteen years of IT working experience in the procurement Industry working on P2P, P2O processes.
• Six years of functional experience in the areas Consulting - SAP Materials Management (MM).
• Experience in SAP Ariba Consulting - Upstream and Downstream - Ariba Sourcing, Contract Management, P2P & P2O Ariba Network, Ariba Spend Analysis, Reporting, Ariba Catalogs and Ariba Integration - ERP to ERP. Experience with analysis, functional, design, development, customizations and implementation in Ariba modules.
• Ariba experience in Pharmaceutical & finance domains across multiple projects from Ariba Buyer Global Rollout, ERP System Integration, Eforms implementation, Ariba Contracts Workbench & Ariba Category Management.
• Knowledge of SRM, SQL, SAP PI.
• Good Microsoft excel skills, Word, PowerPoint.
• Ariba Consultant with 6 years of Configuration, Customization and testing in SAP MM and 2 years of SAP Ariba Consulting and software implementation expertise.
• Good knowledge in P2P, P2O business processes and supply chain.
• Experience of working in a project environment and supporting clients/suppliers with excellent management and organizational Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Catalog Implementation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implemented multiple end to end Ariba projects - Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Ariba P2P, P2O, ERP Integration, Ariba Catalogs’ global rollout across EMEA, APAC regions.
• Captured the business process, prepared functional design document, workbook presentation for Ariba implementation kick off workshops.
• Scheduled meeting with business, executed Blue printing sessions, gathered business requirements, identified change management issues.
• Designed templates for legacy data migration and performed the Master data load in Ariba P2P realm.
• Configuration and customization of Sourcing project templates, RFP/RFI event templates, Auction template. Configured team, tasks, rules (timing, bidding, currency).
• Prepared questions and clarifications for bidders during bid process.
• Configured the Contract workspace,Contract template identified the team players and approval workflows.
• Configured users in the Ariba system, worked on master data upload into the production realm.
• Coordinated with SAP developers to Interface and help in Master data Integration based on scheduled jobs.
• Configured on approval rules for approval tasks.
• Provided downstream PDD, workshops and worked on the P2P/P2O process in Ariba for multiple countries implementation/rollout project.
• Configured and implemented the P2O process for commodity buying in Ariba Network, presented the various processes to implement ariba P2O process.
• Designed and configuration of Ariba Network integration with SAP ECC for Procure to Pay/Order process.
• Worked on Ariba Requisition/Contract module for Ariba CI9.
• Designed a scheduled task to extract report of invoices generated against a contract.Designed & implemented scheduled tasks for payment file exports.
• Lead the pilot phase of automation of Service entry sheets pilot project in Ariba Network. Provided requestor training, analyzed the possible drawbacks and got the required customization done. Configured and customized the of the overall P2P business process for Ariba System.
• Worked on the XML mappings project - from SAP to EDI to Ariba Network, identified areas for process improvements and requested improvement changes.
• Lead the User Acceptance testing, and testing On-demand Instance- testing all the different customer specific business scenarios for Ariba Implementation.
• Developed test scripts for Integration, conducted testing, logged issues, recorded changes and developed communication to disseminate to end users denoting extent of changes when applicable.
• Created Project Documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Specification Requirements Document (SRD), Solutions Design, Functional and Technical Specifications documents.
• Working closely with Ariba support to enhance business requirements and apply to clients management requirements.

Environment: Ariba CI9, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PI,SRM

Data and systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project of i ntegrating the Defacto system with various customer systems through XML mappings.
• Reviewed and uploaded the pricing data into the Defacto system.
• Deriving various KPI reports for the business by writing codes to extract the required results from Defcato.System.

Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the supplier contracts, uploading into the system as an extract.
• Managing the suppliers for any discrepancies and proposing changes.

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing the migration of legacy Sourcing and Accounts Payables processes and systems to business partner.
• Deeply evaluated all the areas involved in the Project, studied the scope, process, change impacts and business roles and calculated the various risks involved and the proposed the actions which can be taken to manage and minimize the risk factors involved.
• Managed project initiatives working with cross functional teams - specifically managed project activities, milestones, and dependencies along timelines.
• Carried out weekly analysis of the finance data (Invoicing data- rejection rate, causes, and ways of improvement), drew inferences from the analysis, in keeping the objectives of the project.
• Looked through the fit gaps in Vendor master data, and proposed feasible solutions to overcome the same. Aided in the cleaning up, checking for accuracy and taking steps to modify master data quality.
• Conducted training workshops for Commercial associated on the tool DFM (document flow manager) used by Confidential for the invoicing process.
• Prepared different ad hoc reports, working in SAP - the spend reports, the purchase groups report to find the commercial buyer names, vendor address full
• Worked in MS Excel, SAP-ECC 6, DFM, Lotus notes, Access. MS Word, MS office.

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert in Vendor master data tools.
• Worked on configuration of vendor master data in SAP and making the required changes for the vendor master data in SAP.
• Manipulating, cleansing & processing vendor data using Excel, Access, and SAP.
• Authenticated and syndicated the changes to vendor master data in approval by business, reviewed the process including the requests to create, change, extend, block / unblock, activate / deactivate, or otherwise modify the configuration of vendor master data, ensuring that the appropriate standards and governance rules are maintained.
• Improving the master data maintenance process & increasing the Corporation’s master data knowledge base & understanding.
• Coordinate with purchasing, customer service, as well as Finance, Sales and Development to ensure that all information is timely, accurate and complete.
• Provided day to day training (for 3-4 months) to the new CVT staff when the transition to Poland occurred. Also managed the workload and SLAs at this point of time.

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on plants configuration and cross module functions.
• Creation of the enterprise structure and the respective assignments.
• Worked in master data (vendor+ material) configuration and training end users.
• Configured the number ranges and number assignment for purchasing documents.
• Configured field selection for different material types and vendor accounts.
• Responding to the Daily Issues raised by user on specific to SAP MM and resolving them in specified SLA.
• Interact with Project team for requirement gathering and finalization of technical specifications.
• Worked in areas of Material management - Procure to pay, identified the business requirements and configured accordingly in SAP.
• Good experience in different aspects of testing- unit testing, etc
• Trained the end users for usage of sap in procurement.
• Worked in rollout and upgrade projects.
• Responsible for all IMG configuration and testing in the MM module
• Configured and integrated Plant, Purchase Org, Storage Locations, Material Types and Views, Material Masters, MRP Groups, Vendor Masters and Partner Functions, Purch. Info Records, Purchase Reqs., Purchase Orders, Invoices, all Inventory Movements and Adjustments.

SAP Junior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set up organization structure related to MM like creating plant, storage locations and Purchasing Organizations & their respective assignments.
• Configured the Material Master Data (material groups, material types, field selection groups) and Vendor Master Data (Account groups, field status for vendor account groups, partner determination schema, partner functions) as one time activity in template build.
• Configured the Inventory Management of goods at the points of receipt and issue for all stock categories and special stocks such as, consignment, stock transfers, and sub-contracting
• Defining number ranges for various documents like Purchase order, Purchase requisition etc.
• Customized the conversion of purchase requisitions to purchase orders
• Configured Inter and Intra company stock transfer
• Verified Materials Management module configuration with populating data for complete business cycle by generating PR, RFQ/Quotation, vendor evaluation, contracts, scheduling agreements, PO, GR/GI, invoice verification and purchase info records
• Carried out unit testing and integration testing with all possible business scenarios
• Post Go-Live support, prepared training documents and trained end users.