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Sap Ariba Integration Specialist Resume

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Sammamish, WA

SUMMARY

  • Over 12 years of Proven consulting skills in designing integrated solutions comprising various SAP systems SAP ARIBA, MM, SRM, SAP ECC, SAP XI/PI with critical Industry exposure in Energy and Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Oil&Gas and Manufacturing.
  • Over 9 years of functional expertise in Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)/Supply Chain management (SCM) solution with primary focus in ARIBA SRM and MM, IM, SD & AP, BW modules.
  • Ariba On - Demand Implementation & Enhancement with SAP for Utilities company
  • Worked on On-Demand Version of Ariba carrying out roles as a Business Analyst and providing solution to the client P2P end to end Solution.
  • Formulated the templates for the various sourcing activities like RFQ, RFP as per the client’s requirement.
  • Implemented Ariba SLP with customization around templates for supplier request, registration and Qualification.
  • Configured the ERP system for the Supplier integration with Ariba SLP.
  • Well versed in the SAP ACTIVATE implementation methodology for cloud projects.
  • Extensive and Varied experience in SAP SRM areas of Procurement process, Product catalogs, Organization plan, External Web services, Indirect and Direct Procurement process, workflow process, Contract Management.
  • Proven experience in Organization model analysis and configuring the Organization structure according to the business model and Vendor Organization structure.
  • Hands-on in niche areas like SAP SRM UI Add-on functionality for Amazon like shopping experience, Supplier Self Service (SUS).
  • Establish high value connections with business owners for HR and purchasing organizational plan and help in scenario selection for SRM standard, classis and extended classic scenario.
  • Have extensive experiences with the process controlled and application controlled Workflows. Have configured custom approval design in BRF according to the business process for Shopping Carts, Purchase Orders, Contracts and Confirmation.
  • Configured different procurement processes like, Stock Transport Orders, Consignment and Third Party.
  • Full life-cycle implementation projects, as well as extensive experience in many other roll out projects of SAP SRM 7.0 & MM.
  • Managed QA testing using HPQC, Remedy, Service Now and HSM9 tools to log evidences and test cases during the QA testing
  • Provide training for both Master Users and End Users and prepare Training Manuals.
  • Co-ordinate with process owners, end users and offshore team.
  • Experience with SAP RICEFW objects like ABAP/Smart Forms/SAP Script, BDC, LSMW, BAPI, BADI, User exits, Data dictionary, and SAP-IDoc/ALE interface, Workflows.
  • Well-versed in ASAP methodology, Confidential Industry Print and EY Models of project implementations and solution delivery
  • Implementing best practices and improving existing business processes in accordance with SOX requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process Focus: SAP ARIBA, SAP S4/HANA SAP SRM, MM, AP, SD,BW

Languages: ABAP/4

ERP Skills: ABAP Debug, Process Controlled Workflow(PCF), Application Controlled Workflow, WebDynpro, BAPI and BADI

Tools: / Applications: Visio, Ms-Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Interface: Experience ALE IDOCS, Understanding in PI.

Domain Knowledge: Procurement Process (Direct & Indirect), Energy&Utilities & Pharma.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sammamish, WA

Service Engineer/ SAP ARIBA INTEGRATION specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Gathering and analyzing system requirements, devising a Project Plan in Microsoft Visio and Microsoft PowerPoint for the Co-Innovation project of implementation of Direct Material Sourcing and Collaborative Supply Chain and obtaining approval of the same from the Program/ Project Management Group.
  • Reviewing the current supply chain process on the SAP Landscape with the various sub-Process like Sourcing, Purchasing, COGP, and planning of materials.
  • Present the gaps in the existing processes with the estimate dollar value loss and identifying other logistical challenges and solutions with benefits and limitations to the program management team.
  • Preparing a report on the analysis with the proposal of improvement on the upstream (Planning using the SAP APO module, and Sourcing which was done offline) and downstream process (Procurement and Invoicing) of supply chain.
  • Preparing a roadmap of the future process and architecture of the upstream and downstream process with the new cloud application SAP ARIBA being implemented.
  • Being responsible for the projects Collaborative Supply Chain and Direct Material System on the SAP ARIBA cloud using SAP ECC (Enterprise Central Component), SAP MDG (Master Data Governance), and on SAP ARIBA using Waterfall model initially and then Agile Methodology for the incremental deployments involving new features and improvements.
  • Designing software solutions and preparing the functional specification and technical design documents around the interfaces, reports and workflows to be developed in SAP ECC component.
  • Design the BOMs and configure the system to consume the BOMs from the PLM system, these include Production BOMs, Consigned BOMs etc.
  • Creating extensive documentation on the functional and technical side, outlining the design and development roadmap of Collaborative Supply Chain and Direct Material System on SAP ARIBA cloud.
  • Work with Business to design the template in Supplier Lifecycle Performance module in Ariba for Creation, registration and Qualification.
  • Build the integration set up for the Supplier integration between ERP and ARIBA SM.
  • Completing the Build and reviewing the code assuring that the industry standards are met and best coding standards are adhered.
  • Preparing the test scenarios, testing in the UAT environment with various quality tools like Microsoft Visual Studio, and once the test results were approved, preparing to deploy in production.
  • Supporting functional tickets/issues in detection, reporting and resolving problems, and maintaining Service Level Agreement as defined by customer.
  • Being involved in project go live, by reviewing the transports to the production which contain all the changes and objects that have the functionality encapsulated and suggest changes to the dev team.

Confidential, Shelton, CT

SAP Logistics Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Formulated the templates for the various sourcing events like RFP and RFQ.
  • Configure the Event business workflows and business rules for various tasks in Ariba sourcing and also liaison with the PI team to work on the integration part with ERP.
  • Leading the offshore team for transition for the global roll out.
  • Configure the ERP system for the Master data and Transactional data exchange.
  • Implement design for the accommodation of the custom fields functionality with the integration.
  • Liaison with business stakeholders for process improvement and BAU health.
  • Managing the offshore procurement team with their activities.
  • Leverage my procurement knowledge to bring in the industry best practices to the solution.
  • Configure the process of Software fulfillment and License generation application.

Confidential

SAP Transition Coordinator /SRM TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL/SRM-ARIBA Integration consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Led the team to ensure smooth transition for the Home grown dashboard.
  • Worked with the team to ensure the coding standards, documentation for project involving SAP BW, SAP DS, and SFDC.
  • Led the team in the transition process to understand the design and the architecture.
  • Reviewed the data flow design and the technical logic involved in BW and BODS.
  • Co-ordinated with the stakeholders of disparate technologies understand the integration of multiple systems like Teradata, SAP BW, SFDC, SAP DS.
  • Complete documentation of the build including the SMTD of the various components and reviewed to ensure all the technical details are captured.
  • Conducted weekly team meetings with all parties to understand the current issues/bottlenecks, and prepared the plan to resolve issues.
  • SAP-ARIBA integration, implementing ASN for SRM and ECC systems.
  • Formulate and build the functional mapping for the Purchase order document routing to PI.
  • Build the BADIs in the ERP system to control the custom fields transfer to ASN.
  • Integrate the ARIBA PROCUREMENT CONTENT from SRM for the catalog procurement.
  • Address the queries from the new business users on the SRM and MM systems.

Tools: & Skill: SAP BW 7.4, BODS, SAP SRM 7.02, ASN, PUNCH OUT CATALOGS.

Confidential

SRM TECHNO-FUNCTIONAL Analyst/MM

Responsibilities:

  • To address the queries from the new business users on the freshly implemented SRM application.
  • Resolve the remedy tickets pertaining to user and training issues.
  • Analyze and formulate process improvement in procurement.
  • For upgrade to 7.3 conduct meetings to check the feasibility of the new business functions.
  • To check and realize how to leverage the new functionality to the existing business process.
  • Did Intensive impact analysis for the EHP upgrade on the existing enhancements and the impact of the new Business functions on the current design.
  • Participate in the regression and integration testing and resolved the defects in the testing phases.
  • Design the solution for interaction with a third party systems for the IM and WM with SAP.
  • Configure the system for the third party Purchase orders, initiated from the Sales Order.

Tools: & Skill: SAP SRM 7.01, 7.0 Ehp 3, MM, PUNCH OUT CATALOGS,, REMEDY.

Confidential

SRM/MM FUNCTIONAL CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

  • Implemented the ARIBA NETWORK integration for supplier document exchange
  • Assisted the SAP and ARIBA team with the master data set up in ARIBA system for integration
  • Worked with PI for design the documents exchange with ARIBA.
  • Supporting end-to-end of Plan driven and Self Service procurement with decoupled MM-SRM scenario, Supplier Self-registration.
  • Configured the SRM system in Procure to Pay process and implemented successfully.
  • Providing the training for the super Users and post implementation Hyper Support, and Application maintenance support.
  • Worked and led a team of 5 members in offshore to coordinate to resolve issues.
  • Performed GAP analysis, designed and implemented SRM-SUS system.
  • Maintained SRM Org Structure and Vendor Org structure.
  • Replication of Material, vendor and product categories from ECC to SRM .
  • Organization model analysis and configure the org structure according to the clients org model.
  • Enhancement done while replicating the org date from ECC to SRM to incorporate attributes not supported by Standard.
  • Auto assign role to suppliers for self registration.
  • Worked with SAP to bridge the gap between SUS-SRM for extended classic scenario.
  • Expertise in handling OSS messages
  • Being the foremost contact point for the business resolver group for any issue in P2P.
  • Involved in Development of Technical Specifications for Functional specifications.
  • Reviewing ABAP programs to ensure efficiency and fine-tuning.
  • Designed and developed the BRF for Shopping Cart, Purchase Order and Contract according to the Business requirement
  • Designed the approval process and mapped to the system for Invoices including PO and NON-PO invoices.
  • Designed a totally new screen for Invoice approval in ECC .
  • Provide expert consulting for multiple issues and major of them being.
  • SRM-SUS integration scenario, SUS confirmation cancellation done in SUS does not create backend document. Implemented the solution for the client.
  • SRM-SUS integration SUS confirmation does not send document to backend, worked in tandem with SAP to implement the solution.
  • Implemented the cross company purchasing scenario where the PO is charged to multiple accounts across company codes.
  • Implemented archiving solution for PO and NON-PO Invoices from SAP end.
  • Application monitoring and incident management to make sure the issues are handled in stipulated time .
  • Liaison with the business to understand the process bottlenecks and identify a solution to implement it.
  • Configure the Condition records for the PO output in ECC and SRM.

Tools: & Skill: SAP SRM 7.0, MM, SUS, SAP- MDM, SAP SOLUTION MANAGER, PUNCH OUT CATALOGS, HPSM, HPQC.

Confidential

SAP SRM Techno-Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Played a key role in the upgrade project where we the client upgraded from SRM 5.0 to SRM 7.0.
  • Did the SPAU, SPDD and SPAU ENH analysis to check on the impact of the Upgrade and analyzed the objects that need to be changed.
  • Analyzed the security roles to incorporate the additional authorization objects in the employee and buyer roles for the seamless conduct of their business.
  • Analyzed and implemented the Webdynpro interface as the new UI, as we migrated from BSP to Webdynpro.
  • Implemented the new process controlled workflows and replaced the old application control workflows in the new upgraded SRM 7.0.
  • Did the configuration for the newly introduced Central Contract Management in the upgraded SRM system to leverage the feature in distributing to the connected ECC system.
  • Implemented the new BADIs for the Webdynpro screen enhancements.
  • Implemented the offline approval for SRM documents by enabling to approve the documents through Outlook.
  • Implemented the new POWL feature in the upgraded SRM for the Webdynpro screen.
  • Worked with the Portal team to configure the UWL which was a central task list for the ECC and SRM tasks.
  • Using the new extensibility feature of the WD ABAP technology added custom fields in the Webdynpro and handled the visibility features as well.
  • Leveraging the enhanced functionality of SUS to handle the service PO, enabled to create the confirmation and replicate as SES in ECC.

Tools: & Skill: SAP SRM 5.0, SRM 7.0 MM, SUS, HPQC.

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