EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Manager within IBM SAP practice, Montreal. Specialized in design and deploy Business & Technology Solutions in Procurement & Supply Chain domain in Telecommunications, Financial services, Healthcare Utility and Mining Sectors.
• Has over 16 years of SAP experience with ECC, S4 HANA, Ariba, and SRM.
• Worked on all phases of the projects including business case development, requirement gathering, scope definition, technology selection, business process design, solution design, ERP integrations, solution deployment
• Solution expert for optimizing business process with the best use of Ariba S4, ECC, SRM, EDI/IDOC and Interfaces.
• Very good experience as Project Manager to handle complete end - end implementations of SAP S4 and Ariba projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Supply Chain Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business workshop and understand key business requirement for procurement, Ariba and Inventory management.
• Performed detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions.
• Designed process flows, finalized business process documents, and getting signoff from the business.
• Identify gaps, issues, and work around solutions and complete RICFEW list
• Complete E2E configuration, preparing functional specifications, running test scripts, and capturing steps required for cutover
• Coordinating with offshore to complete the Configurations, functional specifications, and test scripts as per project timelines
• Attending weekly and daily status calls with stakeholders and update the status for supply chain stream. Also highlighting if any risk or concerns identified in the stream will all the stake holders.
• Driving the integration topics with other streams FI, CIS, EAM and HR

Confidential

Ariba Strategic sourcing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the Strategic procurement Implementation project from End-End.
• Understanding and analyzing the requirements in Strategic procurement area by coordinating with multiple stakeholder organizations of procurement, supply operations, Legal and finance.
• Providing best practice recommendations in defining Cenovus Strategic procurement business processes.
• Conducted functional Fit-Gap assessment of procurement operation, providing a structured assessment of people, process, and technology challenges faced by the organization

Confidential

Supply Chain Assessment Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed business case collaboratively with stakeholders with go-forward recommendations and implementation road map, leading to supply chain transformation project.
• Conducted workshop to show the functionalities of S4 HANA and Ariba.
• Completed QUAD- A assessment based on the requirement and analysis.
• Analyze and estimate RCIFEW’s required for Procurement and Inventory Management when the system is migrated to S4 HANA

Confidential

Delivery Lead and Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the Strategic procurement Implementation project from End-End as Delivery and Functional Lead
• Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis
• Understanding and analysing the requirements in Strategic procurement area by coordinating with multiple stakeholder organizations of procurement, supply operations, Legal and finance.
• Providing best practice recommendations in defining ArcelorMittal Strategic procurement business processes.
• Understanding and Analysing ArcelorMittal Source to pay business process and providing areas of Improvement with new initiatives like EWM and Scanning functionalities in Logistics process
• Driving S4 and Ariba procurement Integration with new Ariba cloud Integration gateway
• Engaged with key business stakeholders in determining the Master data cleansing strategy.
• Established holistic "Source to Pay" strategy and technology road map, providing direction for future implementation

Confidential

Procurement Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed complete Integration solution between S4, Ariba Network and Ariba Invoice Management
• Leading the implementation team and coordinating with offshore to meet client expectations.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals
• Analyzing Ariba and S4 system limitations and providing best solutions to meet business requirements.
• Coordinating with business, understanding key issues, and driving towards to successfully providing solutions.

Confidential

Ariba P2P Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business workshop for Ariba Buying & Invoicing and understand key business requirement for procurement and receiving and Invoicing.
• Weekly and daily status call with SAP Ariba and getting updates the status for issue and going through the action items.
• Completed designing of business process documents and configuration of Ariba Buying & Invoicing Module
• Coordinating with offshore to complete the Configurations, functional specifications, and test scripts as per project timelines
• Details analysis and discussion of ok2pay file to legacy system
• Defining Ariba groups by coordinating with different departments in the

Confidential

PTP Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand change requirement, attend kick off meetings.
• Set proper expectation about the delivery of change request and timelines.
• Perform feasibility analysis, provide estimations and efforts required to complete the change request
• Complete Business process, configuration, Interface, and master data documents.
• Prepare functional specifications for the change request
• Conduct and walk through design and build review meetings
• Coordinate with functional and technical team to complete the development and configuration in time.
• Conduct test scope review meeting with business and get the sign off
• Conduct Unit testing, Retrofit testing, Regression testing, Integration Testing, BRUT and BRIT
• Plan cut over strategy for major developments which involves other system like PI, Field glass, Process Infosys supplier portal, Master data team.
• Updated work cycles and work practice prepare knowledge transfer documents and conduct TOMS Session

Confidential

SAP MM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Organization model analysis and configuring the Organization structure according to the business model.
• User Management and consistency checking in organizational structure.
• Understanding the functional requirements, identifying key issues, and preparing functional specs for the identified developments.
• Prepared detailed test plans for scenarios covered in the scope, conducted unit testing, integration testing and co- ordinate the user testing and closed the GAPS along with the technical team.
• Reporting on high severity incidents on a Weekly/Fortnight basis and providing the root cause analysis on the incident.
• Fixing handheld terminal issues during receiving and issuing.
• Resolving issues in ECC like PR-PO conversion issues, three-way matching issues.
• Writing LSMW? s and SAP queries per business requests.
• Responsible for monitoring the queues, Application logs, schedule jobs, system dumps, application monitors on daily basis to ensure that the system is working fine as expected.
• Responsible for resolving all kinds of issues encountered in the system on daily basis.
• Rectifying the problems that occur in Shopping Carts like Error with Shopping Cart, awaiting approval, for no workflow started and errors in Transmission.

Confidential

SAP MM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and providing solutions to Level 3 support issues.
• Coordinating with SAP for fixing key issues.
• Conducted due diligence on existing SRM system and provided best practice solutions to optimize the procurement cycle in SAP SRM.
• Managing the incidents and providing weekly status to the Business.

Confidential

SAP MM/SRM Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted walk through of Procure - to - pay cycle in SRM and ECC
• Gathering the business process which is not in line with the standard business process and provided solutions to Gaps analyzed.
• Preparation of QA Data Base & Finalizing and Preparation of Business Process Procedures
• Configuration of SAP Material Management as per BPP
• Configuration of Master Data management to built catalog for SRM
• Preparation of functional specifications and designing the Hand-held terminals screen for receiving, issuing, Transfer posting and Physical Inventory count
• Designed mapping specs, finalization of fields between SAP and third-party system like BizTalk and TELUS for sending Material master and PO data
• Preparation of Unit testing, Integration testing and UAT test scripts
• Preparation of Master Data Template (Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Purchase Info Record & Collection of Required Data.
• Preparation of System & End User Manual
• Master data uploaded in Production systems before Go Live.
• Providing Post Go Live support.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Checking the feasibility for the functionality and reports to be developed as per new requirements raised by Business users.
• Discussing and understanding about the new requirement raised by Business users and providing timelines to develop.
• Preparing FS and coordinating with Development team.
• Testing, Preparing user manuals and test documents for the developments.
• Giving End User Training.
• Resolving the tickets as per SLA (Service Level Agreement).
• Master data maintenance (Material Master and storage Location)

Confidential

SAP SRM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Configured the SRM 5.0 Classic standard functionality with integration to the ECC 6.0 backend system.
• Implemented Catalogue Content Management prototype
• Design and Configured the Supplier Self Service with Materials Management.
• Design and configured the standard SRM workflows
• Prepared test documents for classic procurement scenarios.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Business Blueprint as per discussions and information gathered from client.
• Configured material management module in ECC 6.0 as per Business Blueprint.
• Designed and prepared all test documents for procurement scenario’s
• Configuration of Serial Number Management for recharge vouchers
• Given end user trainings for TTSL users
• Post Implementation Support and actively involved in the troubleshooting of the Problems in MM Module.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Based on the information provided by the client in the module-wise Archiving Objects performed the customization of Archiving Objects.
• Archiving object - specific customizing and Basic customizing
• Created info-structures for Archiving Objects wherever necessary and done the necessary customizing.
• Creation of variants used for the archiving runs.
• Initial archival runs performed with Preparation/Write programs running in the test mode. Based on the residence times set.
• Developed PR print out, Stock reports and Revenue reports.

Confidential

SAP MM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of QA Data Base & Finalizing and Preparation of Business blueprint
• Setting up organization structure of material management and relevant configuration like Purchase organization, plants, storage location.
• Finalization of various numbers ranges for material types, vendor master and all purchasing and inventory documents.
• Configuration of release procedure for purchasing document like Purchase requisition and purchase order
• Completed Unit Testing & Integrated Testing as per Business Blueprint (Standard Purchase Order, Subcontracting, &Stock Transport Order)
• Preparation of Master Data Template (Material Master, Vendor Master, Source List, Purchase Info Record & Collection of Required Data.
• Preparation of System & End User Manual
• Go Live Support

Confidential

Procurement Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Improved relations with good vendors through effective communications and signing long-term supply contracts and eliminated sub-standard vendors after a detailed evaluation of all vendors.
• Enhanced regular business orders from long-term sincere vendors, through personalized pricing agreements, regular quantity supply contracts.
• Follow up with the Finance Department for the Payments of the Vendors and Coordinating with the Vendors for their Payment in Critical Cases.
• Receiving of Material Indents from User Departments &Customers
• Analysis of Possible Sources for Procurement of Materials.
• Inviting quotations from Various Vendors.
• Sending enquiries to the Vendor for the Quotations.
• Compiling received Quotations for Negotiation & Preparation of Comparative statements.