SUMMARY:

• An MBA in Operations and a Mechanical Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Sourcing & Procurement, Spend Management.
• Rich experience in implementing Ariba On - Demand covering Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Information and Performance Management (SIPM), Spend Visibility at US based utility organization
• Also implemented Procure to Pay (P2P) module of Ariba cloud at UK based pharmaceutical organization
• Experience in integrating Ariba with company’s ERP to have smother transaction between multiple systems via Confidential
• Skilled in integration of BasWare, another procurement tool with Kofax to achieve smoother e-invoicing process
• Anchored many Ariba related pursuit to gain the business at Confidential
• At Confidential, achieved significant savings through numerous spend analysis projects
• Expertise in Global Sourcing & Procurement, Supplier Enablement, Supplier Identification and Contract Negotiation
• Led a team of 12 resources at Confidential, generating $700K annual revenue and monitoring growth.
• At Emerson, handled demand planning for major product line i.e. Confidential and all its accessories

COMPUTER FORTE:

Languages: C Language, SQL

MS Office: MS-Excel, MS-Access, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Project, MS-Visio

ERP Package: Ariba On-Demand, BasWare, MFG-PRO

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Connecticut

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed and streamlined source to contract process, by involving right stakeholders during requirement gathering, validation and testing process
• Also put across a process of supplier onboarding and performance management through implementation of Supplier Information and Performance Management (SIPM).
• Ariba Spend Visibility was implemented to cater business reporting need
• Piloted requirement workshops with stakeholders, fit-gap analysis and recommended industry best practices
• Achieved faster implementation cycle for each module by filling enablement workbook, timely coordination with Ariba and business for build and approval respectively
• Realized higher user adaptability by configuring sourcing and contract template as per their need, defined tasks in template to make process smoother
• Accomplished acceptable defects through proper testing, covering all aspects in test scripts
• Designed a framework to import contracts into Ariba from multiple legacy applications
• Integrated Ariba Contract and Spend Visibility module with company’s ERP
• Involved in Business requirement gathering, feasibility study of change request and implementation of the change request through proper coordination with Ariba product and testing teams.
• Preparation of Servers, integration with SAP/PI and other external systems, establishing interfaces for both master data and transactional data, Set up SSO functionality
• Attained faster resolution of defect via proper testing and coordination with resolver group
• Designed an interface for User Access Management and Financial Approval workflow and integrated with tools like cyclone trace
• Managed another pharmaceutical client and responsible for streamlining enhancement and incident management process for indirect materials & services. Was stationed in Switzerland for 7 months.
• Led a team of 7 consultants, primary responsibility was to reduce recurring issues, handle enhancement projects through proper business requirements, effort estimation and resource planning.
• Accomplished solution delivery as per agreed SLAs, monitored operational KPIs.
• Organized known error database and many knowledge repository, reduced recurring incidents by 55% through effective Problem Management
• Saved $10K quarterly through analysis & optimal utilization of BasWare Licenses

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Carried out spend analysis for Direct & Indirect material for various industries and provide spend information by Geography, Supplier, Business Unit, Commodities.
• Classifying parts under various commodities by using Confidential taxonomy and bringing line item visibility to company purchasing spend data
• Vendor identification and assessment on parameters like Financial Ability, Capacity, Geography etc
• Processing RFP & RFQ, Managing and Analyzing RFQ, attaining NDAs.
• Negotiation with potential suppliers on price for various commodities like Fasteners, Gasket & Seals, MRO items
• Established the process for Supplier Performance Management & Contract Management, provide client service on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Recommending innovative solutions to improve procurement process and conduct risk assessment of critical supply chain elements. Analyzing industry & market conditions, prices & trends and suppliers
• Effectively managed a team and monitored annual revenue of USD700K and also ensuring no revenue leakage
• Phased transition of complete Purchasing cycle for goods & services from requisition creation to goods receiving
• Responsible for identification of lean and process improvement ideas, implemented through digitization projects
• Supervised Turn Around Time (TAT) & accuracy of the services / requests and ensuring optimal utilization of the resources
• Being the SPoC for the Client Organization to interact on day-to-day operational queries
• Developed transaction based pricing model for existing clients
• To prepare business proposals for clients, giving them a snapshot of the proposed solution with expected savings, project time-lines & commercials
• Carried out ABC analysis, designed replenishment strategy thus reducing inventory carrying cost. Implemented suitable forecasting model.

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• To prepare production plan for Confidential and its accessories based on market demand & planning horizon
• Allocation of workstation and scheduling processes to each project according to material availability & customer due date
• To verify customer requirement for engineering specification and thus initiating engineering changes
• To carry out Forecasting and Sales & Operational Planning, established the entire business process
• Effective coordination with production & quality department to ensure delivery & quality commitments respectively. Worked with tier2 supplier for quality & delivery improvement
• Achieved accurate and speedy process through reconciliation of production plan with ERP system (MFG-PRO)
• To release master production schedule (MPS) to suppliers and purchaser to ensure on time availability of raw material.
• Continuous monitoring of “on time delivery” of the products and managing inventory of finished goods
• To carry out Confidential test-run and scheduling customer visit on request
• Analysis of vendor performance on the account of quality & supply issues
• Setting up the standards to measure the supplier performance to ensure quality and delivery of raw material
• Measurement of First Pass Yield, reducing defects and implementing preventive measures
• Analysis of product demand, Co-ordination with all sales people across the country
• Monitoring dispatches of finished goods, Order Line fill-rate, solving logistics problems