SUMMARY:

• SAP certified Procure to Pay Functional Consultant with about 10 years of experience in SAP Materials Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management, SAP Plant Maintenance and SAP Ariba Integration and in Implementation, Product Development, AMS (Annual Maintenance Support), Roll out, SP (Support Pack), EHP (Enhancement Pack) upgrades, Project Releases (Design and implementation Enhancements) and Transitions .
• Consummate professional with a total experience of 25 years in the industry.
• Graduate Mechanical engineer with excellent functional/industry experience.
• Demonstrated track record of 4 full life - cycle implementations of SAP projects, United Kingdom besides being part of product development and Managing Maintenance in Managed and Shared services Support models with a varied Clientele across the Globe
• Expertise in implementing SAP Materials Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Self Services, SRM MDM Catalogs and Punch out Catalogs, SAP Ariba Network and Ariba Procurement Content (on Cloud) and Integration with SRM and ECC.
• Excellent Understanding of the Business Processes in Procure to Pay, Logistics and Source to Procure Scenarios
• Migration of the Configuration and Business Processes from Lower release SAP R3 4.6B to a higher Release (ECC 6.0)
• Good Knowledge on Support Processes in Managed Services, Service Delivery Management, Maintenance Activities, Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management Project Management, Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Problem Management, Proactive Initiatives and Service improvement plan
• Have been a SPOC and SME/Functional consultant in leading major/minor enhancements in SAP Materials Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Self Services
• Have led the Transition activities on knowledge transfer of enhancements in releases, Post Go live Supports Acceptance criteria for Run Maintain finalization of Run Maintain estimates
• Global Monitoring of the Business Objects in the Landscape of all the systems and ensuring the service availability, delivery and Managing Support models on on Site and offshore basis front ending with the customer for complete and comprehensive Maintenance
• Excellent logical and analytical skills suitable for process design, development, Implementation on going support and Continuous Improvement.
• Excellent Collaborative, coordinative and Leadership skills besides being a good Team player
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and Customer Oriented attitude.
• 15 years of rich functional expertise in the domain of Process design, Operations in Procurement, IT solutions for the Procurement and Warehouse Management processes

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management, Planning & Scoping
• SAP Supplier Relationship Management
• SAP Materials Management
• SAP SRM MDM Catalogs
• SAP Plant Maintenance
• Process & Procedure Improvements & Innovation
• Supplier Self services
• Ariba Integration with SRM,ECC

ARIBA EXPERTISE:

• Master data updates to the Ariba Procurement content
• Handholding with Business for the Supplier Enablement
• Integration of the CXML with the Procurement processes for service and Material procurement
• Integration of the Accounts payable processes in Ariba for the P2P scenarios with the ERP system
• Integration with the Integrated suppliers’ EDI systems with the Ariba Network
• Default transaction rules,Supplier groups and Invoice rules
• Setting up the Punch out catalogs and Cif file uploads to the APC
• Product master and Vendor Master updates to the APC from the ERP system
• Cloud integration upgrade impact assessments
• Impact assessments for the Major and Monthly releases of Ariba hot fixes,enhancements
• Experience of business scenarios and Customization in Sub module of MM like Purchasing, PRs, RFQs, Quotations, Price Comparison, Contracts, Scheduling agreements and Purchase Order processing, Stock Transport orders, Partner functions, Output determination, and Release Procedures with Classification.
• Experience of Business scenarios and Configuration in Inventory management and Account Determination sub modules of MM. Managing with special stocks like Stock Transfer between two plants of one company code, Consignment stocks, subcontracting stocks.
• Experience in Localization of the CIN version for the India procurement and in configuration and mapping of the Localization of the India Service Procurement
• Experience in setting up the EDI messages outbound and inbound for the documents involved in the Logistics
• Sound understanding of the Integration with other Modules like the Plant Maintenance, FI
• Experience in Self-service procurement,Bidding ( RFX),Plan driven procurement,Contracts, with Extended classic scenario. Handled the creation, movement and Maintenance and Sound knowledge of Organizational structure. Local as well as HR Linked
• Work Flow Settings. BRF as well as standard workflow .Involved in configuration of RFC Destination settings, setting up the Distribution Model for the integration with the ERP systems.
• Handled the Master Data Replications like Product Category, Material/Services replication, Vendors & Locations.
• Involved in Understanding client’s current business process and mapping the same in to business Blue Print. Creation of End User Manual and providing training & post Implementation support to the end users.
• Configured the Supplier Enablement in Confidential as well as in R3 /ECC
• Confidential MDM Catalogs,SRM MDM User Interface,Punch out Catalogs
• Involved in various minor and major enhancements involving the BADIs and Screen control for User Interfaces
• Sound understanding of the configuration of the SRM MDM UI for the SRM MDM catalogs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Senior Procure to Pay Lead Consultant (Ariba/SRM/MM)

Environment: SRM 7.0, Confidential with ECC 6.0 and Ariba Network and APC ( on cloud)

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Incidents, Change Requests raised in Confidential SNOW (for MM, SRM, Confidential, SRM MDM,PM and FOI, Ariba)
• Preparation of the Potent Change Requests for the enhancements based on pain points from Customer
• Preparation of service improvement plans
• Was a team member in various enhancements in Shopping cart and Purchase orders recently which went live in Dec 2014 and May 2015
• Leading the works for special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant (MM/SRM)

Environment: SRM 5.0, Confidential with two back end systems ( ECC 6.0 .R3 4.70 )

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Tickets raised in Solution Manager tool (for MM, SRM, Confidential, EP and MDM)
• Preparation of the SOW for the enhancements
• Participating in the Bi-weekly calls with the Client
• Analysis and Review of the Metrics for the weekly Health check calls
• Leading the works for special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant

Environment: SRM 5.0, Confidential with four back end systems ( ECC 6.0 .R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B)

Responsibilities:

• Resolution of the Tickets raised in Remedy tool (MM, SRM, Confidential )
• Preparation of the Statement of Work and Functional Specifications for the enhancements basing on the Business requirement Document
• Participating in the Bi-weekly calls with the Client
• Analysis and Review of the Metrics for the weekly Health check calls
• Leading the works for special activities like System refresh and coordination with the SAP, Problem Management, Process Improvements and Pro Active Initiatives

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant

Environment: SRM 5.0, Confidential with five back end systems ( ECC 6.0 .R3 4.70 and R3 4.6B)

Responsibilities:

• Organize for the testing of the Business processes and scenarios
• Preparation of the SAP Note analysis and POA with Path forwards and resolutions
• Tracking the defects and according the resolutions
• Recording the Change Transport requests
• Fine-tuning the impact due to the support packs on some objects and business processes and managing them thro’ the implementation of the SAP notesadjustment of Technical Objects and in some cases some code changes
• Planning of the Cutover activities, Release and successful go live
• Smoke test at Go Live

Confidential

Global Lead Consultant

Environment: ECC 6.0 and R3 4.6B,4.70

Responsibilities:

• Comparison of the configuration for the Business scenarios RTP,STP and SRM
• Analysis of the comparison, recommendations to the Business and addition of the configuration/design of enhancements based on the Business decision
• Fine-tuning the Org Structure and the Configuration related to the Catalogs in the SRM and Confidential
• Maintenance of all the documents in the SOLMAN
• Issue tracking and Defect resolution in the SOLMAN for the Integration testing

Confidential

SRM Implementation Consultant

Environment: SRM 5.0, Confidential with five ERP systems

Responsibilities:

• Handling of the Global Data like Material Replication, Vendor replication in the Production and the QA Environments, handled the Org Structure including the attributes maintenance, Users and Buyers assignment
• Designed and developed an upload cockpit in the SRM for maintenance of all the Global data and Business enhanced mapping Tables
• Handled and guided the users in two cycles of the Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Collaborated with the SAP for various corrections involved in resolution of the defects raised during the Integration Testing
• Configured the SRM Client and the Confidential Client in the Production Build including Bidding,ROS,ensuring the tracking of the Transport requests
• Coordinated with the SAP in all cycles of the development till changes are moved to Production for the retrofit of the enhanced Confidential for their MM Confidential SRV

Confidential

SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Self Service Procurement
• Contract Management
• Bidding & Auctioning
• Plan driven Procurement

Confidential

SRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured different scenarios in various Test system Landscapes &Conducted smoke tests using the web interface as well as the GUI Interface for the newly customized Landscapes before these systems are released for Testing.
• Solved the Support tickets raised by the Internal Testing team with regard to the Internal messages & IT support messages
• Solved the issues as part of the acceptance of the Mini Scenarios in SRM 7.0 Development systems and got the acceptance of Special Taskforce
• Later Configured test systems in SRM 7.0 which was again smoke tested and released for the Module Integration Testing
• Participated in discussions & meetings with Development Experts from different functions & the officials of the Testing & Competency Center.
• Guided the testing team of the shared services’ users in execution of the test cases of various business objects in SRM 6.0 Testing
• Ensured the timely updating of the Configuration Guide & the Confidential Documents based on an analysis carried out on the Support tickets over a period of Time.