SUMMARY:

• To secure challenging and responsible position and to utilize my knowledge and skills for overall growth of the organization and all - round personality development and career growth for myself.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Received client appreciation, cash rewards and client signature
• Worked as upstream lead for implementation of various upstream features and managed upstream team
• Implementation of tactical sourcing
• Implementation of contract compliance
• Sync commodity code in upstream and downstream for live system
• Enhancement of Supplier Risk module
• Enhancement of SLP module
• Support of SLP and Supplier Risk module
• Implementation of Guided buying forms and tiles
• Template configuration for SLP, SR, Contract and Sourcing
• System admin management, role management, user management, Project management.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acted as functional lead for upstream managing for implementation of Sourcing, Contract and SLP including performance and qualification along with integration with four SAP systems.
• Implementation of sourcing with twenty plus templates, and integration with downstream and S4 HANA system
• Implementation of SLP with performance and qualification along with integration with S4 HANA system.
• CIG integration to connect Ariba with S4 Hana System.
• Implementation of Contract and contract compliance with S4 HANA integration.
• Template configuration and creation
• System administration
• Requirement gathering with client and development with team members.
• Performed Supplier Migration
• Performed Contract Migration

Confidential

Functional Consultant & Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created project plan, timeline and execution plan for implementation of ARIBA modules and assigned tasks to various team members.
• Involved in Business requirement gathering, feasibility study of client requirements and understanding the As - Is process.
• Slicing requirements to create an Epics, User stories, Tasks and Sub-tasks in prime for the team to work.
• Working with internal teams to understand problem areas and suggest improvements.
• Implementation and system Testing:
• Successfully completed end to end implementation also implementing features like SAP ARIBA like Light Account migration for suppliers
• RFP templates for different businesses. Successful implementations of E-auctions and Upload of Legacy Contracts
• Process Design and alignment with teams Demo of implemented functionality and improvement based on feedback.
• Responsible to deliver reports to monitor the Service levels and service quality also involving regular contacts with SAP ARIBA company
• Incident management, Problem management and managing requests
• Implementing new ARIBA features to improve the system functionality.
• Initiative taken to identify customer pain points called Ariba Customer journey.
• Provided s to different departments on upstream Sourcing and SLP process
• Currently in process of planning Roadshows and events to achieve target of improving user engagement.
• Supported live Ariba Events (Auction)
• Ariba User Group/Community Events

Confidential

Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Part of AribaCloudtechno - functional support team for one of the clients covering multiple locations. Each location had different customizations done.
• Business Requirement Gathering, Process improvement & System Design
• Unit and System Testing & Defect resolution
• Change management process and supporting system readiness for go-live
• Actively involved in weekly and/or daily reporting activities of Incident management, change requests and other important updates
• Worked on CIF as well as ASP Catalogs, Punch out catalog
• Managed onshore-offshore co-ordination, stakeholder management, team management, time management and matrix managed cross functional stakeholders.
• Involved in Ariba Procure to Pay testing and coordinating with resolver group for defect resolution
• Implementation of change management process and supporting system readiness for go-live
• Acquired basic knowledge of interaction of Ariba with SAP PI, SAP FICO, SAP MM
• Actively involved in weekly and/or daily reporting activities of Incident management, change requests and other important updates

Confidential

Procurement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Periodic reporting activities pertaining to purchase of IT assets, determining TCO(total cost of ownership ),scenario analysis like lease vs buy, team performance dashboards, business summaries, delivery reports, SLA/KPI dashboard and moving the reports to OLAP tools like OBIEE, CONGOS and SAP HANA.
• OPEX budget planning - Successfully coordinated with multiple teams to gather cost requirement, assess the business needs, preparing the organization wide annual budget and presenting the same to senior management for approval.
• Weekly, monthly cost forecasting, cost amortization and tracking actual spend against budget and analyzing cause of variance and taking corrective actions.
• Finding gaps in system and gathering requirements for improving business processes, converting the requirement to BRD and use case for system development and conducting UAT. Vendor performance evaluation:
• Annually evaluated vendors on various parameters by collating inputs from multiple teams and presented the same to senior management to be shared with vendors to further improve services.
• Audit and compliance management:
• Facilitated IT procurement group through various audits by managing the required artifacts like risk register, BCP, SLA and closing NC.
• Worked on creating delivery tracking dashboard to provide real time information of requested asset to requester which will streamline the delivery process over time. Also, worked on creating mobile delivery tracker that further enhances digitization process in delivery