PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Total experience of 7+ years of professional experience. 4+ years as an SAP Ariba consulting within SAP Ariba Sourcing Professional, Contract, Supply Chain Collaboration, On - Demand P2P solutions. And 3 years experienced in Database Designing, Implementation and System Administration using Microsoft SQL Server as well as Windows Servers /2008 R /2017.
• An accomplished facilitator between Business System Stakeholders and Information Technology Stewards with over 5 years of extensive experience in SAP Ariba and other best of breed ERP Applications.
• Ariba - upgradation/support and maintenance with expertise in Buyer, Sourcing, Contracts and Analysis modules with real-time experience of troubleshooting.
• Expertise in Vendor Sourcing and Evaluation, Catalog Enablement, Negotiation and Contract Enablement, Vendor Payment ARIBA Spend Management Suite, Buyer, Contracts, AQL, Sourcing, Analysis and inspector tool.
• Good experience with business process re - engineering and excellent Analytical skills.
• Excellent communicator, capable of interfacing with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven experience in requirements gathering and translation into functional specifications.
• Skillful in working with global teams including managing distributed teams across different geographies and maintaining overall excellent work relationships with different business units.
• Dynamic and Assertive team player with strong commitment and sound technical judgment with adherence to Process and Audit compliance.
• Experience in working with multiple cross functional teams under strict deadlines. Efficient in creating joins and sub-queries for complex queries involving multiple tables.
• Knowledge in Normalizing and De-normalizing the tables and maintaining Referential Integrity by using Triggers and Foreign Keys.
• Experienced in Extracting, Transforming and Loading data from various data sources like excel, flat file and Oracle to SQL Server databases using SSIS SQL Server Integration services.
• Strong experience in assigning permissions to the valid users for executing the reports & deploying reports to report servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

RDBMS: SQL Server, SAP HANA, MS-Excel and MS-Access

Languages: SQL, SAP SQL Anywhere

Enterprise tools: SAP-Ariba, SAP AP, SAP PP, SAP PP-PI, SAP APO (DP, SNP, PPDS), SAP SCM, SAP ERP

Domain knowledge: Road-map Consulting, Migration planning, Transform linear Supply Chains to Digital Supply Networks, Vendor Relationship Management, Change Management, Operations and Inventory Management, Six Sigma, Value Analysis & Value Engineering, Contract Negotiation & Sourcing, Procure-2-Pay, Business Analytics and Processing, Contract Lifecycle Management

Optimization tools: iGrafx, Intalio, GAP Analysis, Spend Analysis, Fishbone Analysis, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

SAP Ariba Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering, project planning and management, solution design, configuration and customization of SAP products.
• Technical analysis and documentation of integrated systems.
• Provide expert advice on SAP functionality, change management and other advisory services.
• Suggest solutions to customer based on best practice.
• Provide guidance on test plans and end-user documentation.
• Ariba Upstream capabilities including Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management, Ariba Supplier Information & Performance Management.
• Ariba Downstream capabilities including Ariba Procure to Pay, Ariba Procurement Content, Ariba Invoice Management, Payment Management and Discount Management.
• Adapt existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
• Providing support for deployment and sustainment as necessary.
• Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Develop a global community of SAP Supply Chain practitioners across Accenture.
• Driving the development of functional and system specifications.

Confidential, Westborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Schedule, prepare and conduct general design workshops to review current As-Is processes and identify gaps pertinent with SAP Ariba sourcing and contracting modules capabilities.
• Review Process gaps with business SME's to validate recommended re-engineering opportunities.
• Led design and configuration workshops for Ariba sourcing professional for events management (RFx), Post management to SAP Ariba network and sourcing lifecycle workflow configurations via task management.
• Completed Ariba enablement workbook with Ariba shared services lead, business SME's and participated in Architectural discussions on integrating Ariba Upstream modules with Oracle ERP.
• Managed configuration of the test site and deployment to production.
• Led configuration workshops on migrating sourcing contents/documents to the sourcing library in Ariba Sourcing.
• Ensured all commodity codes where defined for the enablement workbook
• Led the migration of all existing contracts and associated documents to the contract management module.
• Led sessions on contract creation, collaborative redlining and Approval for newly sourced suppliers.
• Managed integration points tasks for Ariba network to Oracle ERP leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware adapter with Ariba shared services lead, Project manager and lead Architect.

Environment: Windows OS, SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Professional Suite, Oracle SOA Suite 12c, Ariba Cloud

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Supply Chain Solutions Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Deeply understand Ariba On Demand P2P, Integration Toolkit, and Cloud Integration solutions.
• Analyze Ariba On Demand's new features, Enhancements and Innovations.
• Interact with the Business Users to educate them about the Ariba OnDemand solutions features and functionalities. Educate impacts / Improvements that this solution will bring to their daily procurement activities.
• Design and develop high quality interfaces using Ariba Integration Toolkit to integrate master data from SAP to Ariba On Demand.
• Design and develop high quality interfaces using Ariba Integration Toolkit and Ariba Cloud Integration to integrate Ariba On Demand with on premise PS for Inbound Master Data and Outbound Transactional Data.
• Coordinate between the Client Business Teams and the Product vendor, translating the business requirements into Technical documents.
• Provide technical and functional guidance for the on-premise instance.
• Work on enhancement request customizing Buyer and e-forms.
• Preparing Test Cases, Test Scripts and Design Documents as a part of change release documentation.
• Rolling out Ariba to new regions.
• Maintaining the Ariba application end to end.
• Create and maintain Catalogs.
• Daily Production support activities.

Environment: Windows OS, Ariba Cloud P2P, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP NetWeaver

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SAP Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing the complete Architecture between Ariba to SAP XI and then from SAP XI to SAP both Master data and Transactional data.
• Business Blue Print preparation, Global Template for all Indirect Procurement, Catalog Management, Contract Compliance and SIM solution.
• Conducting Workshops for different sites to gather the business requirement.
• Configure workflow for Shopping cart, Contract Management, Invoice, and SIM solution.
• Configure the Invoice tolerance for PO based, Non-PO based and Contract Invoice process.
• Mapping out of box integration with SAP and custom fields requirement from Ariba to SAP through XI.
• Responsible to design a solution integration for MRP requisition and Planned Order requisition import to Ariba has a requisition import solution.
• Responsible to build an integration for Buyer item master and cross buyer file for CIF catalog look up for buyer item master.
• Responsible for all Master data harmonization in SAP system for P2P process and Contract process, which includes Commodity code and Suppliers.
• Responsible for standardization of business process with PSE.
• Responsible for Quality assurance for Ariba solution, which includes Testing scenario's, preparing test scripts and testing the end to end solution.
• Responsible for Cutover activities and hyper care support after live.

Environment: Windows OS, SAP Contract Management, SIM, SAP NetWeaver

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Solutions Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the whole eSourcing process using Ariba and acting as intermediate between our Client and Suppliers.
• Contract Management like drafting contracts and uploading documents.
• Conduct RFxs (RFI, RFP, e-Auctions i.e. Forward Auction & Reverse Auction), Review Bids.
• Provides an expert solution & suggest on the type of auction to be used for various scenarios.
• Helps in selecting the right E-Sourcing Strategy, lot structure, bidding rules & disclosure.
• Used agreed standard framework or tender documents for short listed suppliers as appropriate.
• Issued RFx (Request for Information / Proposal / Quotation) documents to short listed suppliers.
• Collect and analyze responses and populate decision matrix to allow supplier selection. Scoring & Grading supplier's responses via Ariba.
• Suppliers and Internal user on e-sourcing tool specifics. And resolving supplier issue regarding Ariba.
• Generate weekly/monthly Fidelity Report from Ariba Sourcing Tool and Productivity Deck.
• Execution of mock/live e-auctions for the business.
• Facilitate the closure of the e-auction project/supplier on-boarding.
• Help with data analysis as per the client requirement.

Environment: Windows, Ariba CI9 SP1, SAP NetWeaver, Ariba Could Integration

Confidential

Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led IT hardware and software sourcing team and achieved average requisition closure turnaround time of 2 weeks.
• Developed SQL scripts to verify the data load process
• Create and manage Logins, users, roles and add groups to windows and SQL server
• Tune slow running queries using SQL Server Profiler
• Managed Procure-to-Pay cycle for entire organization with over 1,000 annual transactions.
• Performed Vendor Registration of 980 vendors for entire organization and average turnaround time of 4 business days.
• Negotiated all IT vendor contracts achieving annual savings worth $3.4 million.
• Automated vendor registration, contract management and purchase requisition process.
• Collaborated via travel and web conferences the subcontracting of IT services to vendors in Thailand & Philippines.
• Forecasted Invoice load, cash-flow and expected purchase requisitions which improved resource utilization by 5%.
• Conducted ABC Analysis for the annual invoice payments and purchase requisitions fulfilled to identify.
• Scheduled weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly review for supplier and internal team performance.
• Supervised department Key Performance Indicators and reported to the corporate team for review monthly.

Environment: Windows, UNIX, .Net Framework