SUMMARY

• Have over 11+ years of consulting Experience in Spend Management suite - SAP Ariba, P2P, Ariba Network, Ariba CIG., Ariba Buying & Invoicing, Supplier Lifecycle Performance, Supplier Network and SAP BI Techno Functional Consultant with SAP S4/HANA and Business objects.
• Extensively worked on understanding business requirements in manufacturing industry, pharma, retailing, communications industry, converting to functional requirements, proposed and implemented best-in class solutions using multi-ERP systems like SAP ECC, Ariba and other ERP tools
• Experience in SAP Ariba Buyer, Invoicing, Contracts and Sourcing, configuring SAP Ariba business rules and configuration
• Strong background in the implementation of SAP Ariba Source to pay module & S/4HANA Simple Finance demonstrated knowledge, experience in understanding and providing solutions with respect to Financial Management requirements.
• Worked with End Users to understand the SAP Ariba Networking, On-Demand Invoice process, Paper Invoices, Electronic Invoices, Service Invoices,Contract-based, Non-PO Invoices, Credit Memos, Invoice Approval, Invoice Reconciliation, OK2Pay and Remittance Searching and Reporting Invoice Conversion Service
• Worked in SAP Ariba Buying related to the creation of requisitions, purchase orders, receiving against purchase orders, Catalogs, Requisitions, Accounting, Approval, Managing POs, Receiving Collaboration, Demand Aggregation
• Key player in the project related to SAP (ETL, EDW, BEX, BO) across functional tracks like Demand planning, Sales Planning Sales Forecasting Reports, SD, Inventory Reports, Invoice Detail Report, Manufacturing Productivity Reports
• Heping to the R&A team in critical issues in BEX, SAP BO reporting
• Experience with several QA tools like Quality Center, HP-ALM and JIRA.
• Worked on end-to-end ECC procurement and invoice process orchestration and implantion of special procurement processes like direct and in-direct procurement, stock transport order, subcontracting and advanced vendor returns
• Worked on master data migration and initial load of material masters, purchase info records, contracts purchase requisitions and open purchase orders using LSMW, SLT, ETL tools and custom built tools
• Strong knowledge in cross functional integration with manufacturing, sales and delivery processes and other modules, master data management using MDG, integration of SAP S4 HANA & SAP ARIBA integration solutions
• Well versed with project development life cycle, System Business Process Analysis, Requirements Study, Fit-Gap Analysis and Post-Implementation support.
• Good hands on experience in trouble shooting the problems and improving the performance of application processes by Debugging, tuning and tracking.
• Knowledge in SAP Ariba Direct (Supply Chain Collaboration) processes: Forecast, Purchase Order, Quality, Manufacturing visibility
• Achieved twice SPOT Award from Confidential Global solutions for the outstanding performance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Ariba Functional consultant

Environment: Ariba Buying & Invoicing, Supplier Lifecycle Performance, Supplier Network

Responsibilities:

• Lead client team to develop implementation strategy and roadmap for a global procure-to-pay technology solution for indirect procurement.
• Worked design workshops to gain a clear understanding of our client’s industry and business requirements, and to design and implement appropriate best practice solutions in Source-to-Pay (S2P) space using SAP-Ariba
• Conduct workshops to drive Key Design Decisions with clear recommendations and leading practices, SAP Ariba (Upstream and/or Downstream) Modules
• Worked in Ariba deployment - Purchase order, Goods receipt, invoice and master data using Cloud Integration (CI), Business Add-On or CIG.
• Worked on Material Master, Vendor Master, Purchase Info Records, Source List, Outline Agreements, and Contracts.
• Worked on SAP Ariba / Sourcing / Contracts / SLP / P2P / Invoicing,implementations and configuration, production support and business user support
• Working with End Users to understand the SAP Ariba On Demand Invoice process like Paper Invoices, Electronic Invoices, Service Invoices,Contract-based Non-PO Invoices, Credit Memos, Invoice Approval, Invoice Reconciliation, OK2Pay and Remittance Searching and Reporting Invoice Conversion Service.
• Should be worked in troubleshooting data issues within the Ariba solution
• Worked in SAP Ariba Buying related to the creation of requisitions, purchase orders, receiving against purchase orders, Catalogs, Requisitions, Accounting, Approval, Managing POs, Receiving Collaboration, Demand Aggregation
• Actively involved on Ariba Supplier Enablement process and guided client with selection of vendors.
• Responsible for conducting walkthrough discussions of business process flows, requirements and drive decisions on Ariba Commerce, Sourcing, Contract Management and Procurement Content.
• Responsible for determining Change Management needs, unit testing and integration testing and developing training materials.
• Worked end-to-end SAP Ariba implementation, including hands-on design and configuration
• Gained experience in CR, project support, Incident, Service Request, Change Request and Problem Management processes.
• Understood the business requirements and provided solutions to meet the same, supported customization, development, testing the of the business process
• Gathered the questionnaire for Supplier Request, Registration, Qualification and Preferred status in Supplier Lifecycle Performance & Management (SLP).
• Developed custom public reports for business on Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, Invoices, Payments & contract workspaces.
• Implemented Contract Management and Sourcing modules, prepared questions and clarifications for bidders during bid process.
• Dealed with supplier enablement team for setting up the supplier profile & helped them to load the catalogs from Supplier network with different file formats.
• Good working knowledge in built-in reporting capabilities in SAP Ariba’s solutions, Prepackaged Reports,Prepackaged Reports,Investigate Data,Custom Reports,Multi-fact Reports,Exporting Reports,Compound Reports
• Worked on SAP Ariba End to end implementation of cloud procurement projects including design, configuration, testing, post go-live support with SAP Ariba S2C (SLP, Sourcing, Contract Manageemnt), SAP Ariba P2P / Downstream (Procure to Pay / Order to Invoice)
• Implemented SAP Ariba platform to support sourcing and contracting processes, Ariba Sourcing Request Module, Ariba Contract Request Procurement Module for Contract intake, Ariba Savings Forms for Sourcing Projects
• Strong understanding of the SAP Ariba Standard Support model and navigating submission and follow up of Service Requests (SRs) through completion
• Helping customers to focus on their goals by driving the implementation towards a successful, on-time implementation.
• Responsible for S2P production support and enhancement activities and a liaison with business process owners to validate requirements for changes to processes and recommend best practices across S2P process
• Worked on SAP Ariba Modules SAP Ariba S2C SLP, Sourcing, Contract Management SAP Ariba P2P Downstream Procure to Pay Order to Invoice End to end implementation of cloud procurement projects including design, configuration, testing, post go live support, reporting, training Helping customers to focus on their goals by driving the implementation towards a successful, on time implementation.
• Provide Internal and external support or first level system support in SAP Ariba that proactively monitors, trouble shoots, analyzes and initiates corrective actions to promptly resolve issues, restore service, implement changes
• Extensively worked on SAP Ariba Buyer, Invoicing, Contracts and Sourcing, configuring SAP Ariba business rules and configuration
• Strong background in the implementation of SAP Ariba Source to pay module & S/4HANA Simple Finance demonstrated

Confidential

Sap Ariba Consultant

Environment: Ariba P2P, Ariba Network, Ariba CIG.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting walkthrough discussions of business process flows, requirements and drive decisions on Contract Management and Buying & Invocing.
• Lead the catalog design discussions and presented the approach to client to load the same from supplier Network and Ariba Spend Management.
• Lead the functional solution in both Upstream and Downstream modules of Ariba Spend Management suite deployed in cloud environment.
• Configured Approval flows for downstream based on business requirement for PR, PO, RC, Catalogs, Invoice Reconcilations.
• Approved the design and configuration of Ariba Network integration with SAP ECC for Procure to Order process.
• Analyzed the issue and coordinate with Business Analysts to resolve issues by adding them in to the next change management window.
• Knowledge on Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) ie, configuring CIG in Ariba Spend Management & Ariba Network and monitoring transaction tracker on daily basis.
• Establishing Trading Relationship Request(TRR) in Ariba Network & mapping the vendor ID with ANID for the transactions to flow from Ariba Network to Supplier Network & vice versa.
• As per the business requirement I have set up validations for catalogs in Ariba Network.
• Worked on setting up Default Transaction rules in Ariba Network for different suppliers via Supplier groups.

Confidential

SAP Ariba Specialist

Environment: Ariba Buying & Invocing

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of the cloud-based ERP system .
• Experience in using ITK Integration Tool kit for File Transfers between Ariba and ERP systems.
• Experience in customising Invoice reconciliation Engine to handle invoice exceptions and approval workflows.
• Experience in Master and Transaction Data set up (Cost center data, Accounting Information, Supplier Data, ERP commodity codes, Remittance) and continuous monitoring of daily feed files.
• Provide Internal and external support or first level system support in SAP Ariba that proactively monitors, trouble shoots, analyzes and initiates corrective actions to promptly resolve issues, restore service, implement changes
• Work closely with various teams to identify improvement opportunities, improve efficiency, quality and reduce risk.
• Have worked with Implementation team to help with Business Scenarios, Data migration, Policies, Approval Rules, Line item and Request Form Setup and Configuration in Ariba GB and Testing.
• Hands on Experience on Guided Buying which includes creation of Landing pages in different formats(.json, Excel, UI), Request for Quotation(RFQ) forms, Policies .
• Experience in loading commodity code master data in Ariba Spend Management & importing Adhoc classifiers in guided buying for the same.

Confidential

SAP Business Analyst

Environment: SAP CRM ( Confidential Rental CRM Services, CRM Sales) SAP SD ( Confidential Rental SAP IP Vistex, Deep Clean, SAP BW IP, Sales Planning Sales Forecasting Reports, Billing, Confidential Rental WOR, Confidential Rental COPA.SD Sales Planning

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting walkthrough discussions of business process flows, requirements and drive decisions on Sourcing, Contract Management and Procurement Content.
• Involved in full cycle of implementation of SAP BW on HANA, SAP HANA on BO, which includes Analysis, requirements gathering, development,reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support
• SAP HANA Troubleshooting and Performance Analysis
• Lead the interaction between Infrastructure and BI development teams
• Define and maintain design guidelines related to HANA and BI systems
• Developed custom DSO’s, InfoCubes and MultiProvider for BI and IP reports.
• Extensively worked on SAP HANA Modeling - attribute views, analytic views, calculation views, analytical Privileges, Column store views and performed SQL, Creating Function using PL/SQL the Function Editor coding to push data into data base intensively
• Involved data replication from SAP ECC to SAP HANA via SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT)
• Involved in SAP HANA Security including User Management, Roles, and Privilege
• Universe Design - UDT, Web intelligence - Webi Information Design Tool - IDT, Crystal Reports, CMC
• Interacted with Business in getting requirements in OTC(Order To Cash), PTP (Plan To Produce), STP (Source To Pay), LTT(Logistics To Transportation) translated to HANA live reports .
• Extensively worked on SAP BW and HANA Live for SAP TM (Transportation Management), SAP QM (Quality Management), LTT (Logistics To Transportation) and OTC BO Operational reports.
• Worked on OTC PTP area to Create Planning Reports such as OEM Planning, Supplier Planner and Critical components .
• Lead the interaction between Infrastructure and BI development teams
• Define and maintain design guidelines related to HANA and BI systems
• Develop Custom Reports in BEX Query Designer and SAP Business Objects’ Web Intelligence
• Experienced in reporting with SAP modules: MM, SD, FI, QM, PP.
• Major Responsibilities include Data loading Monitoring /Issue resolution
• Key player in the project related to SAP (ETL, EDW, and BEX) across functional tracks SD, FI, CRM, and FI-GL
• Involved SAP CRM BW Production support with BW Go-Live support activates (Global Orders, Global revenue, Global Cost, Open Service order)
• Reconciliation of data from interfaces Analysis of Dockets and Solving Month/Year End activities, Compression, PSA deletion and maintaining aggregates as a part of performance tuning, Maintained Process to automate and schedule data loads
• Attending client meetings and taking care of these requirements
• Handling any new CR’s
• Support activity such as Process chain monitoring, Performance tuning on data load jobs, Query performance optimization in BW, Extensively worked Bex Analyzer, Analysis Office, WEBI.
• Involved in Information Design Tool Creation of Data Foundation, Universe for HANA reporting
• Broadcast data via SAP BW Open Hub APD Destinations like Data Warehouse, MDG, CRM, SD IP: Vistex Sales teams
• Report development on SAP BO 4.0 WBBI & IDT tools, Sales Planning, Inventory reports by the agreed improvements
• Experience in designing and developing the Universe & IDT and updating the existing Universes to CMC, Scheduling the processes and administering the BO activities. Scheduled the reports in info view