SUMMARY:

Highly motivated, results - oriented professional with ~20 years of Procurement techno-functional design, business analysis and development experience. Have done multiple full lifecycle implementations & app rollouts domestic and international, managing both onsite and offshore teams. Strong functional knowledge of business processes in Procure to Pay and Contracts Management. Exceptional organizational skills and an excellent communicator using a balanced approach to consistently deliver successful complex multimillion-dollar projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Engage the customer at every stage to work solutions that help automate and standardize the processes in Ariba, both Downstream and Upstream, using Ariba best practices.
• Collaborate with different teams and stakeholders globally from start to finish ensuring the solution is deployed successfully
• Lead the development and support, with 24x5 support onsite/offshore, helping the customer define functional processes and working with team to implement it for entire Procure to Pay process: Requisition, Purchase Order, Invoicing, Receiving, Payment, along with Contracts management and reporting.
• Liaison between procurement, steering committee and the various cross functional & technical teams
• Collaborate with procurement, finance, manufacturing and corporate divisions in developing new functionality to streamline business processes and automate many approval transactions via Ariba
• Work on transition from On Premise to On Demand changing requirements and design as needed using Ariba KPIs
• Conduct weekly meetings with business, stakeholders to proactively discuss enhancements/issues, project status/updates and risk management and present technical solutions to bridge process gaps
• Regularly interface with DBA, Unix team, Network, Hardware, Operational, Web Access and Quality Assurance teams for end to end follow-through of resolution
• Invoicing: conduct requirements gathering and planning for US implementation including documentation of functional and technical specifications, project and resource planning. Also perform installation, configuration and customizations to Ariba Invoice Reconciliation Method, Ariba Invoice Reconciliation Engine and Invoice exception checking/validation
• Implemented approval rules for various divisions for optimum and transparent approval flow process
• Troubleshoot functionality issues reported by global user base with prompt and detailed responses
• Analyze and automate the nightly data interface jobs via UNIX/SQL scripts for better tracking and troubleshooting in case of errors
• Design & implement a global instance of Ariba, for use by 24 countries in Europe - involved major interface and functionality changes across back end ERPs
• Rollout Procure to Pay and enhanced Invoicing functionality catering to the different country requirements, working with country leads and procurement
• Design and implement data inbound and outbound Ariba data interfaces with applications via SQL/Unix scripts to massage/process the data before loading
• Creating a customized workflow to interface the Invoice Reconciliations with ERP. Defined rules for matching PO and non-PO invoices, and perform validations on the IRs, interface IR data to A/P and pull payment details back into Ariba and send status update to ASN.
• Implement business rules (simple, chain, filter, edit) for various divisions for optimum approval flow process including edit rules to retrigger the approval flow
• Design a requisition import process, for automatically generating requisitions in Ariba from external systems like MRO or conversion teams when retiring old systems
• Ensure Ariba, ERPs & enterprise apps are sync’d up via near real time and batch processes
• Troubleshoot functionality issues reported by global user base with prompt and detailed responses
• Analyze and automate the nightly data interface jobs via UNIX/SQL scripts for better tracking and troubleshooting in case of errors
• Implement a Buyer 8.1 and 7 instance and enhance the functionality of the current system with the back-end legacy for a 45% better performance
• Design Real-time integration with the back-end system using custom java hook called from order method, with better stability and robustness. Created new eForms and enhanced UI functionality
• Implement Ariba Invoicing: conduct requirements gathering and planning for US implementation including documentation of functional and technical specifications, project and resource planning. Also perform installation, configuration and customizations to Ariba Invoice Reconciliation Method, Ariba Invoice Reconciliation Engine and Invoice exception checking/validation
• Work with corporate compliance, procurement and business teams to detail the MAPP regulations and pharmaceutical compliance standards and address them for the company using Ariba ACM (Upstream)
• Deploy the solution globally for 70 markets in phases, with multiple ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JDE)
• Strategize project scoping and specifications documents to clearly communicate the project roadmap to project sponsors & stakeholders and ensure their participation throughout the project
• Work with customer to define business rules and Uptream Contract workspace configurations
• Provide training on FCPA policies and tools to the markets and use continuous improvement practices to improve controls and reduce the burden of compliance on the business
• Translate into specific requirements for the technical development team and follow through for implementation and deployment
• Manage the tasks and ensure various milestones are met in preparation for Day 1
• Develop Business Continuity Plan for the impacted departments to safeguard the business from interruptions

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented WebMethods integration at a partner vendor of a major telecommunications company, automating the RFQ process electronically via XML
• RFQ and other documents are sent over Internet from Confidential to the client webMethods partner server.
• Automated the form submission process using DSP/HTML pages interacting with webMethods server internally using a SQL database backend
• Documents are parsed and stored in Oracle database back-end. Legacy back-end system was integrated using staging tables
• Implemented Procurement and T&E modules at Confidential and Confidential in their Upgrade, Post-Upgrade (from v6 to v7), and go-live for CRP
• Reconfigured as well as created custom client code (AML, Java, and TIBCO) as per the new v7 object model and API standards.
• Created new eForms to enhance functionality
• Configured the T&E eForms, customized AML (classes, fields, triggers, constraints), Java classes & Order Methods, TIBCO events and JavaScript Rules to implement enhanced functionality
• Ensured that the client’s instance was upgraded to the v7 specs and functioning correctly (reflecting v6 instance), with all-round QA/testing and loads via TIBCO events

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical/Design lead and architect for JDE-Ariba and JDE-Siebel integration,
• Integrated Ariba ORMS 6.1 with JD Edwards’ One World and World Procurement module
• Primary technical developer and architect leading a team of 10, for the specifically engineered version of the Ariba ORMS application.
• Change Order, Receipt and PCard integration were major touchpoints