SUMMARY

• SAP Ariba P2P Certified consultant with 12 plus years of experience in desiging, implementation and Support projects in SAP Ariba/S4Hana/Fieldglass/MM/SRM and 6 years of Functional Industry experience in manufacturing industry.
• Experienced in implementation Agile Methodology, ASAP Methodology and Extensive experience in pre and post assessment, Functional Analysis, blueprinting, Configuration, Gap Analysis, Testing, Training, Cut over, Implementation Go Live and Post Go - live support activities.
• Ariba Downstream capabilities including Ariba Procure to Pay, Ariba Guided Buying, Ariba Procurement Content, Ariba Catalog Managment, Ariba Invoice Management and Ariba Network.
• Ariba Upstream capabilities including Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management and Ariba Supplier Performance Management (SIPM).
• Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for direct procurment with SAP ECC.
• Ariba Integrations designing and implementing SAP Ariba On Demand / Ariba Network/ SAP PI/PO, ITK, Direct connectivity, CI9 SP2 experience with Ariba Network Adapter for NetWeaver.
• SAP S4 Hana capabilties including Vendor Master and Material Master.
• SRM: Configured Self Service Procurement, Service Procurement(Planned and Unplanned), PO Processing, Master Data Replication, Plan Driven Procurement, Strategic Sourcing like Bidding, Live Auctions, RFx (Bid Invitation), RFx response (Bid), Central Contracts, Catalog Content Management and Supplier Qualification and Registration of Suppliers (ROS).
• MM: Organizational unit, Master data for Material master, Vendor master and Purchasing Info Records, InventoryManagement, contracts, Forecasting, Price Determination Process, Stock Transport Orders, Release Procedures for PR and PO, Third Party, Subcontracting, Material Requirements Planning, Logistics Invoice Verification, Consignment Settlement, Account Determination, Outline Agreement, Pipeline Settlement and complete P2P process.
• Designed Functional and Techinical Specification Documents based on the business requirements
• Extensive experience in Functional Analysis, Configuration, Gap Analysis, Testing, Training, Cutover,Implementation (Go Live) and Post Go-live support activities.
• Proficient in understanding and mapping the business process with the SAP system, facilitating the conversion process of legacy data into SAP and documenting the business processes.
• Cross Functional integration skills of SRM/PS/FI/HR/MM
• Worked as Inventory Manger in Manufacturing Industry
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel, ensuring business continuity and optimal application functionality.
• Self-motivated, good analytic skill, appetite for learning & result oriented.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Ariba Lead (Implementation and Production Support)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of SAP Ariba Implementation for Ariba SIPM, Sourcing & Contract, Purchase to Order, Supply chain collaboration for Commerce Automation and integration with Backend SAP ECC system for SPQ, Master data/transactional data integration with SAP PI/PO and ITK.
• Leading meetings for gathering business requirements and documentation design
• Designed and implemented SIPM template-based process for questionnaire and performance management to evaluate suppliers based on surveys and scorecards.
• Configured the S2C that includes templates, tasks, and clauses.
• Designed and implemented legacy contract migration process.
• Prepared test case for Supplier Relationship Management, Sourcing to contract and P2O performed Unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing and coordinated with business for UAT.
• Deploying cut over activity in Ariba production system for SIPM, S2C, P2O and including business support activities for any change request and defect fix.
• Conducted training session for L1 and L2 support team for preparing training documentation, KB articles for daily support activities.
• Deploying change requests for new business requirements and for defect fixes for all modules SIPM, S2C, P2O and SAP Fieldglass.
• Performed SAP Ariba monthly and quarterly release impact assessment and verification assessment for all the new features that includes automatic enabled features, and customer admin enabled features for all modules SIPM, S2C, P2O, API’s and SAP Fieldglass.
• Working closely with SAP Ariba support for business support activities like defect fixes and for new business requirements.

Confidential

Technical Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of SAP Ariba Implementation for Ariba Network and ECC Integration.
• Leading workshops for gathering business requirements and documentation design.
• Conduct workshops for business requirements and design Ariba Network for interacting with supplier with SAP PI.
• Mapping Business requirements into application to exchange data between SAP Ariba Network and SAP R3 system.
• Diagnosed the solution design configured in the Ariba Network and suggested improvements, enhancements to address business issues and supported SIT and UAT testing.

Confidential

Functional Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for implementing Ariba Spend Visibility and Ariba Contract Management
• Responsible for the design processes and Leading workshops for business requirements
• Managing offshore team for daily updates on deliverables and identifying risk and mitigating risk by communicating with project manager.
• Develop process documents for Contract Management and Spend Visibility Business Requirements Document (BRD), Specification Requirements Document (SRD), Solutions Design and RTM.
• Involved in Testing Activities SIT and coordinating User Acceptance Testing

Confidential

Functional Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading Workshops for requirements and mapping business requirements into Ariba application. Primary point of contact for complete P2P business process, Guided Buying, Spend Visibility and SPQ
• Conducted impact analyses of business requirements and Analyze, determine and documented system requirements by ensuring SAP Ariba supports business requirements.
• Performed a quality review of all relevant project artifacts (Business Process Design documents, Functional Specs, Configuration documents and RTM’s) to align with SAP best practices, data standards and overall client expectations are met.
• Managing offshore team for daily updates on deliverables and identifying risk and mitigating risk by communicating with project manager
• Created Project Documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Specification Requirements Document (SRD), Solutions Design, RTM, Functional and Technical Specifications documents.
• Working closely with Ariba support to enhance business requirements and apply to client’s management requirements.
• Support, documenting and coordinate User Acceptance testing including issue tracking, resolution, and follow up and defect resolution.
• Prepared test case and performed Unit testing, SIT and to coordinate with business for UAT.

Confidential

SAP Ariba/MM/Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understand client business, Build, Testing, Implementation and Support of Ariba downstream
• Experienced in Preparing Functional Design Documents for SAP & SAP Ariba Integration
• Coordinating with SAP Ariba deployment team on technical issues and with internal teams on integration/collaboration issues.
• Responsibilities include downstream documenting requirements & gap solutions, Ariba P2P and Ariba network configuration, build coordination with Ariba and managing testing of Ariba requisition to invoice functionality.
• Experienced in Prototyping Invoice Workflow Configuration for 3-Way Match (Invoice Block/Tolerance Limits).
• Provide functional solutions for processing Invoices Orders, Reconcile and Payments invoices between Ariba system and SAP MM and FI modules.
• Managed Service Delivery with Incident Change and Problem Management tickets in SAP ARIBA and SAP ECC for complete P2P.

Confidential

SRM/MM Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing, configuring and implementing the entire Procure-to-Pay functionality in the Extended Classic scenario for indirect material/services
• Involved in requirements gathering and finalizing the requirements with end user.
• Middleware setup for Master data replication from ECC to SRM and Configured Workflow Changes for the approval process
• IDOC replication of Org structure from ECC HR system to SRM. Configuring the SRM organization structure, linking it with the backend organization structure and replicating the plants and storage locations from ECC system.
• Configured Business Rules Framework(BRF)for Shopping cart with Account Assignment category.
• Worked on Integration of EBP system to other Backend Systems Deal with day-to-day user issues and incidents coordinating with the procurement operations team for any workarounds and fixes to the PO creation process.
• PO Conversion Process for the Service Based Quantity and Limit PO’s.
• Analyzing the incidents raised from the business, Process re-engineering and efficiency modeling in consultation with global business teams.
• Developing, implementing and documenting the change requirements from the business (for business process enhancement), in compliance with the change management policies.
• Regression, functional testing and UAT for the new change requests.