SUMMARY:

• He has more than 14+ years of experience in SAP consulting with multiple procurement Implementation experience with SAP S4 HANA (1709,1809 & Cloud), Ariba, MM/WM, C/4 HANA (Cloud) for manufacturing industries and pharmaceutical, retail, energy utility, oil & gas, telecom,, shipping & Food, information technology & Beverage industries.
• He worked for clients from more than 40 different countries including North America, Europe & Asia.
• He has had very strong client & project management recommendations for his quality & hard work in past.
• He worked with multiple teams who are working from different locations as a managing consultant. He has successfully completed multiple assignments as a team leader (management role). Some of his other strengths are excellent client handling, working closely with business & IT leads to make it true tower experience as per agile methodology.
• Prior experience of developing & implementing Confidential proprietary tool iCaptivate & DDF. New project (mid - size or small) proposal, client presentation, and pursuit project proposal.
• He played vital roles during different client audits & SAP audits from a technical standpoint.
• Project Management, Team Building, Project Management, Team Leader, Strategic/Tactical Planning, Business Analysis and Development, Excellent Communication and Interpretation skills.
• Implementing SAP procurement solution for pharmaceutical company using Ariba procurement solution & SAP ECC (MM/WM).
• In depth understanding of all procurement process along with all integration point between procurement manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, where house management & financial accounting.
• Business process understanding of subcontracting, manufacturing, consistent, advance management, quota arrangement, MRO purchasing, contracts, Evaluation receipt settlement & indirect procurement payment process scenarios.
• Detail understanding of manufacturing process & integration points with SAP. Business process & SAP understanding of Repetitive & Discrete manufacturing.
• Understanding of Capacity planning, Material Requirement Planning (MRP), Stock Transport Requisition (STR), Stock Transport Order (STO), Post goods issue (PIG) & inventory management.
• Project workshop handling, BPML design & Fit-gap analysis.
• Conducting conference room pilots (CRP) for cross tower & standalone scenarios.
• Conduction different types of testing cycles including user acceptance test.
• Cutover activities & Go-live support along with hyper-care.
• Customizing standard or out of the box SAP procurement solution for client specific customization & new development to meet client need.
• Understanding client’s business process & developing blue print document.
• Developing all necessary interface to connect SAP Ariba with SAP ECC as per clients need.
• Global SAP template implementation for US operations.
• Performing fit gap analysis to identify gaps to fit US processes into global template.
• Converting any gaps to US specific development need & generating functional documentation for new configuration or development.
• Preparing functional specification document, conducting testing.
• Preparing design for any integration point, customizing SAP standard interfaces.
• Performing testing & coordination with global testing team.
• Defect management handling.
• Loading the procurement related data from legacy system to new system.
• Analyzing & identifying data that need to be migrated to new system.
• Preparing design & logic for data extraction program like open direct & indirect purchase orders.
• Planning & load the data in new global system manually, programmatically or through 3rd party tool.
• Identifying any gap for tax rules & tax calculation. Implementing US tax in global template.
• Vendor management & migrating old vendors to global template using SAP MDG & SAP SLP.
• Extending global approval template to US region as per US business process & guidelines.
• Configuration & redesign for US specific procurement documents like purchase requisition, purchasing info records, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and service orders for direct & indirect procurement.
• Master data management like material master data, plants, company, UOM etc.
• All interface development & modification with external systems for Ariba integration.
• Defect handling during hyper care support.
• Coordination between finance, APO, SCM, MDG, SLP & Ariba team to execute end to end process flows.
• Industry specific interface design for special business process support. E.g. Chemical requisitioning system development & integration with Ariba & ECC with barcode functionality for inventory management.
• Helping management team in client revenue, reporting to higher management, expansion plan preparation in AM account, recruiting consultants for various modules, cost negotiation with client management.
• Ample experience in man-management and appraisal review process. He was involved with senior management regarding staffing related activity.
• Leveraging Confidential methodologies, tools and accelerators to help management to meet company goals effectively.
• Responsible allocating, tracking, reporting and managing work of reports within the team.
• Actively participated in the hire and oversee performance appraisal, promotions and leave authorization for direct and indirect reports with the supervision of senior management.
• Involved in project financial and budgetary and contractual discussion without decision-making authority (mostly for a mentoring purpose).
• Expertise in handling Ariba, SRM, MM, MDM Project Implementation (roll-out projects, support, and maintenance, Data Migration, Test Management, Change Requests and Enhancements etc.)
• Expertise Ariba invoicing, Ariba contract management, guided buying system and Ariba spend reporting including SAP configurations and workflow implementation.
• Ariba Catalog management, worked with Ariba team to update Catalog subscription.
• Working experience to work with SAP (Ariba/SRM/MM) support team.
• Ariba Network configuration & purchase order submission through Ariba network.
• Ariba spend reporting.
• Ariba integration with SAP & non-SAP ERP systems.
• Excellent technical and interface designing skill enabling Ariba integration with MM, FICO and other (non-SAP) systems.
• Experience in pre-sales, training and POC activities.
• Participated in multiple pursuit projects and client demonstrations.
• Strong experience in Requirement gathering, Blue Printing, Analysis, conceptualizing, configuration, implementation, Testing (Solution Manager), Data Migration (LSMW), ABAP debugging, Query building and Post Go-Live Support with Super User training.

CORE SKILLS:

• SAP Ariba (Cloud)
• SAP Ariba: Procurement Buying Processes
• SAP Ariba: Managing Contract Process
• SAP Ariba: Procurement: Invoice Process
• SAP Ariba: Procurement Administration
• SAP Ariba: Enhancements
• SAP Ariba: Data Load & Related Processes
• SAP Ariba: Interface & Enhancements
• SAP Ariba: Workflow Configuration
• SAP Ariba: SLP (Elementary knowledge)
• SAP S/4 HANA (1709,1809 & Cloud)
• SAP S/4 HANA: Purchase Order Process
• SAP S/4 HANA: Goods Receipt Process
• SAP S/4 HANA: Invoice Process
• SAP S/4 HANA: PP - PIR: Manage Material Requirement
• SAP S/4 HANA: Advance Payment Process
• SAP S/4 HANA: Workflow Configuration
• SAP S/4 HANA: Create/Modify GL Account Data
• SAP C/4HANA Business Processes: Lead-to-Cash (Cloud)
• SAP C/4HANA: Lead to Opportunity Process (Deal Finder, Data Hug)
• SAP C/4HANA: Opportunity to Quote Process
• SAP C/4HANA: Quote to Order
• SAP C/4HANA: Quote to Fulfilment/ Invoicing Process (Sales Order fulfilment)
• SAP C/4HANA: Field Service Process
• SAP C/4HANA: X-Data & SAP Leonardo (Elementary Knowledge)
• Authentication and Data Connectivity
• SAML SSO (Live & Import Connection)
• Custom SAML SSO to SAP Analytics Cloud
• Seamless SSO & Social SSO

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical: Procurement specialist, SAP Ariba/SRM, SAP MM, S/4 HANA, Fiori, SAP FICO, SAP HR, SAP SCM,SAP PI/PO, SAP BI/BO, SAP SRM, RLM & SAP ABAP, Taulia, Vertex etc.

WORK HISTORY:

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Procurement Team leader

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Procurement Team leader.

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Procurement Team Leader

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Procurement Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Identifying any gap for tax rules & tax calculation. Implementing US tax in global template.
• Vendor management & migrating old vendors to global template using SAP MDG & SAP SLP.
• Extending global approval template to US region as per US business process & guidelines.
• Configuration & redesign for US specific procurement documents like purchase requisition, purchasing info records, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and service orders for direct & indirect procurement.
• Master data management like material master data, plants, company, UOM etc.
• All interface development & modification with external systems for Ariba integration.
• Defect handling during hyper care support.
• Coordination between finance, APO, SCM, MDG, SLP & Ariba team to execute end to end process flows.
• Industry specific interface design for special business process support. E.g. Chemical requisitioning system development & integration with Ariba & ECC with barcode functionality for inventory management.
• Helping management team in client revenue, reporting to higher management, expansion plan preparation in AM account, recruiting consultants for various modules, cost negotiation with client management.
• Ample experience in man-management and appraisal review process. He was involved with senior management regarding staffing related activity.
• Leveraging Confidential methodologies, tools and accelerators to help management to meet company goals effectively.
• Responsible allocating, tracking, reporting and managing work of reports within the team.
• Actively participated in the hire and oversee performance appraisal, promotions and leave authorization for direct and indirect reports with the supervision of senior management.
• Involved in project financial and budgetary and contractual discussion without decision-making authority (mostly for a mentoring purpose).
• Expertise in handling Ariba, SRM, MM, MDM Project Implementation (roll-out projects, support, and maintenance, Data Migration, Test Management, Change Requests and Enhancements etc.)
• Expertise Ariba invoicing, Ariba contract management, guided buying system and Ariba spend reporting including SAP configurations and workflow implementation.
• Ariba Catalog management, worked with Ariba team to update Catalog subscription.
• Working experience to work with SAP (Ariba/SRM/MM) support team.
• Ariba Network configuration & purchase order submission through Ariba network.