Supply Chain Project Manager

Sridhar Purra, PMP

Email: ad5dqx@r.postjobfree.com

Contact: 732-***-****

SUMMARY:

Overall 20+ Years of Experience in IT and 12+ years of Project Manager experience working in a complex cross matrix environment and Agile Teams. Proven track record of excellence in managing Projects Developments, Migration, Roll-out, upgrades and AMS (ABAP, App. Maintenance & Support, Rollout) accounts with team size of more than 40+consultants which had an annual revenue of 5 million USD.

12 years of relevant experience in Procurement / Purchase profile (Supply chain, Sourcing) / SAP and ARIBA as presales and techno-functional consultant (upstream and downstream).

Expertise in sourcing, Planning, logistics (Supply chain), procurement operations and vendor management process.

The key strengths are Strive for continued excellence, Strong communication skills, Self-starter, explore new areas of learning, effective Presentation Skills, Hardworking, Punctual, Sincerity. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Ability to do multi-task, prioritize and work in an extremely fast-paced, challenging, and collaborative environment. Executed on the developed category strategy for the aligned spend categories, with ownership of the strategic sourcing project portfolio (local, regional, and global). Contribute to new business initiatives and projects and review and communicate the impact on Lean activities General and Task Management. Experience with Agile methodologies and continuous delivery and enhance the process to increase automation and adoption. Extensive management experience on Configuration, Interfaces, Testing, strong Analytics, Documentation, Issue Resolution and Problem-Solving skills. Good Experience on MS office, Excel, PowerPoint, MS VISO, MS Projects and other Tools like JIRA, SNOW, SOLMAN, CONFLUENCE etc.

Drives the vision, strategy, and execution for capacity optimization across all the compliance programs and multi global locations. Be a thought leader, leading innovation and driving the establishment of processes for continuous improvements. Analyzing and solving business problems with focus on understanding data deviations, their root causes, and driving forward-looking opportunities.

Managing a complex stakeholder landscape, where stakeholders are engaged effectively to ensure understanding, buy in and a smooth path for project delivery; engagement requirements included third party vendors and business services hubs. Coach team members to ensure process adherence and effective project management utilizing best practice of project management skills. Expertise in creating and operating a continuous improvement plan for the various programs that oversee the process methodologies and tools in operations. Demonstrated leadership skills including ability to lead and collaborate with cross functional management to achieve the PMO Goals without formal reporting relationships. Excellent people management skills with an ability to partner with a dynamic leadership team. Flexible and able to multitask can work within an ambiguous fast-moving environment while also driving toward clarity and solutions. Complete understanding of project/program management techniques and methods and excellent experience of change management principles in context of IT and Systems Rollout. Partner with HR Business Partner, Market HR team, Recruitment and Global Technology People Strategy Team to support effective deployment of the Technology Talent Strategy to facilitate hiring the best talent and having them grow.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, PMP® Number: 3220085

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Ariba Procurement 2019.

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Procurement Implementation 2019.

SAP Certified Application Associate - Ariba Integration.

SAP Certified Application Associate - Production Planning & Manufacturing with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP7.

SAP Certified Application Professional - Financials in SAP S/4HANA for SAP ERP Finance Experts (SAP S/4HANA 1809).

EDUCATION:

Master of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in the year Aug 2000.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Skills - MS- Project, JIRA, Confluence, Service Now, SharePoint, Agile, Office 365, SAFe, Asana, Google Sheets or Smart Sheets.

SAP Core functional skills – SAP ABAP, Webdynpro, Smartforms, scripts, Reports,SAP MM, PM, SRM, Ariba and Order Management.

Data management – Material master, Vendor master, Purchase info record, Source list, etc.

Operating System – Windows NT, 2000, XP, Windows 7

MS office tools – MS word, MS excel, PowerPoint, MS-Project

DA Languages – R, SPSS, SAS Eminer, WEKA, R rattlRcmdr, Python, RStudio, Excel, Smartsheets, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: HPE Oct 2022 – till date.

Project Manager

Preparation of status reports for various leadership groups.

Co-ordination and collaboration between IT and Business on the requirements alignment.

Managing requirements traceability matrix.

Organizing and conducting design review calls between IT and cross functional teams.

Working on complex Sis.

Driving Change Requests.

Configured the workflow for supplier requests. SLP Made changes to supplier request as per business requirement. Added / modified existing questionnaire in supplier request template. Identifying requirement and existing solutions.

Working with multiple application teams to ensure releases are delivered on time, on-budget and on-quality while satisfying the product/delivery scope.

Managing complex project release estimates & forecasts.

Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports.

Leading team for SAP ARIBA implementation and coordinating with SAP ARIBA team for requirements gathering and various SRs.

Review the business roles and authorization with security champions and co-ordinate assigning those roles to the users.

Expertise in DATA replication framework (DRF).

Expertise in configuring CVI. Migrating vendor from ECC to SLP.

Coordinate and align with business and different IT Sis on the field mappings and data.

Reviewing of training documents like setup & schedule, invitations, feedback, tracking documents

Pfizer May 2021 – Feb 2022.

Data Migration Lead/ARIBA Consultant

Gathering of requirements and Analysis of requirements.

Identifying requirement and existing solutions,

Configuring tiles in guided buying

Configuration of validation policies in guided buying.

Preparation of pricing file. Co-ordinating between all stakeholders.

Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.

IDOC Monitoring for various business scenarios. Monitoring of messages in ARIBA CIG for inbound/outbound transactions. Configuration of SLP templates for Supplier request and Supplier Registration.

Transfer of vendor master data from S4 to SLP, Qualified supplier available for sourcing activities.

Working on cutover data file and Data validation.

Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders.

Handling the incidents in service now. Resolution of open defects and convert incidents into enhancements request. Provide detailed design for enhancement request. Present the design details to respective teams, if needed.

Working on the incidents as per agreed SLAs.

Loading of supplier group templates in SAP ARIBA.

Managed and coordinated successful key deliverables.

Working with multiple application teams to ensure releases are delivered on-time, on-budget and on-quality while satisfying the product scope.

Managing complex project release estimates & forecasts.

Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports.

Leading team for SAP ARIBA implementation and coordinating with SAP ARIBA team for requirements gathering and various SRs.

Preparation of training documents like setup & schedule, invitations, feedback, tracking documents

British Petroleum Aug 2019 – June 2020.

Project Manager

Work with subject matter experts to define scope, create estimates, develop budgets, and produce documentation needed for funding approvals. Interact confidently and collaborate with various stakeholders including Management, Product teams, developers, architects, operation and security teams. Participate in continuous improvement efforts by providing input into a framework for program management aligned with modern agile, lean and design thinking practices. Coordinate and facilitate program and project activities such as planning, analysis, execution, and post-implementation support. Develop integrated plans and schedules to track development progress and dependencies with other functions and external parties.

Led team for SAP ARIBA implementation and cross functional teams with multiple sub initiatives. Coordinated with SAP ARIBA team for requirements gathering and various SRs. Prioritize task or developments to be completed. Schedule of job for invoice status update.

Configuration to send purchase order to AN for indirect procure to pay process.

Worked with cross over teams like ELS support, Ticket handling and proposed solutions and KT.

Configuration of project, system connections, support and Transaction mapping in CIG. Mapping of various custom fields in CIG mapping tool for various procure to pay transactions.

Develop design documents, user guides, maintenance documents, project documentation, and release documents. Liaise between internal and external team members and customers

Managed comprehensive project coordination including all resource and task allocation while working in collaboration with technical project lead to keep project deliverables in sync.

Provided direction and guidance for the release and environments management team. Successfully coordinated various testing cycles including integration, performance and user acceptance testing.

Preparation of daily status reports. Weekly 7 Point key report. RO preparation. Effort estimation.

Consolidating inputs from involved parties in the project, including team members, SMEs, release management, and operations teams to ensure successful implementation of releases to the production environment with minimal disruption.

Preparation of daily status reports and Stakeholder & leadership communications. Assign the work to team member and getting the status from the team regularly. Support team in development of approved PBIs by helping remove impediments Responsible to track all impediments to closure.

Responsible for the delivery of solutions including SAP ARIBA Supply chain Collaboration functionalities along with commerce automation functionality.

Coordination with Development team and SAP shared services team in configuring field mappings for different cXML messages like ORDR, ASN, CONF, PROA2, PREM, SHIP and RCPT etc for Ariba SCC solution scenario for BP.

Responsible for tracking all actions identified in Retrospective meetings to closure.

Review sign-off / approval matrix containing business representatives involved in User Acceptance Test and eligible to approve tests.

Tracking and documentation of overall test progress (including test review before submittal for sign-off), report to stakeholders regularly.

Coordinated with various teams to provide KT to support team and planned for ELS and Transition activities.

Estee Lauder Oct 2018 – June 2019.

Project Manager

SAP S/4 HANA, CIG, AN, SLP, P2P.

Own day to day planning, tracking and management of tasks for client cloud application-level developments. Plan, track and manage non-standard functionality per BU requirements for application development. Manage project plan of activities to support success of each client applications.

Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports. Created project plans encompassing all phases of delivery, from requirements through completion. Supervised the efforts of international virtual team members to accomplish project objectives.

Interfaced with cross functional areas and managed projects with decisions often impacting several units. Ensured integrity and delivery of projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.

Facilitate and participate in the Scrum ceremonies. Encourage team members to attend and participate in all Scrum ceremonies and other meetings. Support team in management of the Sprint backlog. Generate required reports and metrics data. Engage other members of the organization in removal of impediments beyond control of Scrum Master. Support the team in conflict resolution and problem-solving.

Newcrest Oct 2017 – Sep 2018

Service Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

Led team for implementation and coordinated with various stakeholders for requirements gathering and various SRs. Worked with client functional and technical implementation teams, scoped the technical work, selected resources, and developed the Staffing, Master Data conversion, Regression testing, and Integration plans.

Gathered requirements and advised the business team regarding the solutions for the business. Worked with the system hosting partners to plan additional hardware for the rollouts and post go live maintenance. Tracking of test script preparation, custom developments, and tracking of Business scenarios.

Managing the development phase, early live support and transition phase of transferring the functional, technical and procedural knowledge to maintenance and support organization. Worked with multi-vendors to get the work done for their respective sprints and track the status.

Management of Defect Triage for various scenarios in HP ALM, defect management. Responsible for the deliverables. Working with management to update on status reports.

Managed business development and IT realization projects for a global mining company upgrading corporation level ERP. Used v-Fire tool for incidents / request handling / IT queries etc.

Coordination with crossover teams in analysis, design, configuration, testing and implementation of complete solution for this project. Identified and corrected crucial customized programs, which are running erratically for quite a long period. Problems from various sites are logged in central system and addressed round the clock.

Time and Cost estimation for the requirements, Share point to store all documents related to P2P area. Responsible for overall deliveries. Managing change management activities. Presentation of changes in CAB meetings to get approvals from stake holders.

British Petroleum, TX. Aug 2015 – Sep 2017

Project Manager/Presales Solution Lead

Consolidating inputs from involved parties in the project, including team members, SMEs, release management, and operations teams to ensure successful implementation of releases to the production environment with minimal disruption.

Defect Management in HP ALM. Testing of MI reports, Inventory Management, Spend Analysis. Presentation of defects to relevant stack holders in the project. Led the team for Regression testing on SRM / Ariba integration scenarios. Coordinated conducting Knowledge transfer workshop with support team.

Design and development of various aspects of Ariba like approval rules, scheduled tasks, Invoice exceptions, IR engine, Integration events. Supporting the team as and when required. Time and cost estimation, Planning based on weekly status report. Worked with crossover teams. Coordination between Deveopmen team and testing team to perform Unit testing, System testing, System integration testing, multiple IT testing cycles.

Configured Purchasing process including RFQ/Quotation, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders.

Worked with business and IT to finalize various data templates.

Responsible for preparing the RFP, solution architecture suitable for client’s business (How to integrate the system with ERP – SAP S4 HANA, SAP MM, SAP SRM and SAP ARIBA)

Extensively used data migration tools like LTMC, LTMOM and LSMW for various data objects.

Worked on configuration of Inventory Management: Number Assignment, Field Selection. (Goods receipts, Goods issue/Transfer postings)

Implemented, configured and maintained Materials Management and Classification modules. Configured Procurement, Inventory management, and Logistics Invoice Verification & Account determination incorporating special functions for approval processes using Workflow.

Used subsequent order processing viz. release, confirmation, and configured pricing procedures. Configured technical objects viz. controlling orders with classification & object dependencies using variant configuration.

Pricing elements like basic price, discounts, freight and taxes were defined for various grades of materials, and material groups and vendors.

Configuring Inventory Management Parameters for all Goods movements like Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Reservations, GR for blocked stock, Goods returns etc., Creating storage location automatically for different movement types with Goods issue/Transfer posting and Goods receipt.

Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials. Defined the various WM Organizational structure data such as Warehouse Number, Storage Type, Storage Section, and Picking Areas. Defined Put away and Picking strategies.

Developed and managed release strategies, processes, procedures, and production delivery schedules for multiple software applications.

Nissan, NSA. Nov 2013 – Feb 2015

Presales/Project Manager

Responsible for RFP evaluation and client demo’s as a part of presales activity.

Responsible for Ariba solution Architecture, project estimation and resource planning.

Engage in pre-sales activities, preparing and giving pre-sales Ariba presentation to clients. If required will take them through the Ariba system for demo.

Requirement Analysis, Evaluating the RFP and Preparation of Solution write up document.

Responsible for development and management of the proposal workflow to adhere to the work plan, schedules and milestones.

Responsible for preparation of project plan including resource allocation, project duration estimation etc., and Update the statement of work.

As a part of CoE (Centre of Excellence), training the employees on Ariba module and preparing them for Ariba Go-Live support activity.

Prepare Kick Off document and Give Kick-Off presentation to Client.

As a part of Ariba Delivery projects after pre-sales activities, deploy all the solutions procured by client.

Give training to client end user on Ariba modules (Spend Analysis / Sourcing / contracts / SIPM / P2P processing) after go-live.

Revise if any change in solution and write up the solution need (scope, assumptions, exclusions) and questions to be addressed.

Create architecture flow, user manuals and the data flow between SAP and Ariba.

Delivery Prospects – Responsible for the Solution, end to end implementation, UAT, Go-live support and AMS support.

Handling integrations between Basware, VIM, SARA and other legacy systems with SAP Ariba through PI

Handling Integration, implementation, post go live support along with new enhancements / change requests.

Assessment for change request requirements. Determine methods and technical procedures on current and new assignments. Prioritization of project delivery activities based on functional and technical inputs. Develop and review project status with cross functional teams by creating weekly plans and status reports. Support business on distribution of workload to various purchase groups.

Tracking of Test Scripts preparation, Testing of custom developments, Testing of Business scenarios. Managing the transition phase of transferring the functional, technical and procedural knowledge to our maintenance and support organization;

Time sheet approvals, Resource utilization and evaluation. Preparation of RFI, RFP and Vendor evaluation process. Manages large-small sized teams and or day to day support work efforts.

Determines methods and technical procedures on current and new assignments.

Prioritization of project delivery activities based on functional and technical inputs. Maintenance of User roles within the purchase department and users.

Develop and review project status with Functional teams by creating weekly status reports.

Support business on distribution of workload to various purchase groups. Prepare a summary template of all Strategic Acquisition contracts including key variables such as scope, contract value, schedule, milestone payments

Etisalat, UAE May 2013 – Nov 2013

Project Lead

Creation and Maintenance of SRM organization structure.

Maintenance of User roles within the purchase department and users

Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.

Replication of Material master data from backend system.

Replication of vendors into SRM7.0

Configuration of system for supplier registration process.

Configuration for buyer managed and vendor managed catalogs.

Customization of workflows as per business requirements.

Coordinate tasks with Business Partners to understand the business process needs and analyze requirements

Facilitate cross-functional, intra-department, and inter-department communications and cooperation in achieving project success.

Distribution of workload to various purchase groups.

Transfer of external requirements from various non legacy systems into SRM

Transfer of accepted bid to CLM for agreement/contract creation.

DRC, UAE. Oct 2012 – Apr 2013

MM/SRM Consultant

Role: Onsite Lead.

Environment: SAP ECC, SRM

Responsibilities:

Onsite offshore co-ordinator. Conducting workshops for Key users and end users.

Sign off of documents from end users on business process.

Providing detailed reports as per an agreed schedule (or on request), including management and account performance reports;

Effort estimation for various developments.

Ensuring that quality services are delivered with regard to the agreed SLA

Time and Expense approvals.

Support sales team in solution design as per customer requirements.

Creation and Maintenance of SRM organization structure.

Extensively worked in a full life cycle implementation.

Conducted Business discussions with core team and business process workshops for Blue print design.

Involved in set up of organization structure configured material types as per the requirements of the client.

Configuration of Message Types, Access Sequences, Message Determination Schema for Output Control of Purchasing Documents

End user training on how to handle IDOC error monitoring and preparing training materials and activities for training

DOC test tool for testing inbound scenarios using WE19

Hands on experience working on aspects related to variant configuration within Purchasing, sales and production.

Worked to create Object Dependencies, setting configuration profile for configurable objects within variant configuration.

Configured and executed shop floor activities including conversion of planned orders and carrying out goods movements and order confirmations.

Identified error causes and error recoveries for incorrect performance of some material movements.

Managed Receipts, Transfer Postings for Inspections, Stock movements, Stock Transfer Orders.

Lead project meetings including schedules, data requirements, and resource assignments.

Configured storage types, storage sections, storage bin types and storage bins structure.

Customized put away and picking strategies for fixed bin, open storage, addition to existing stock, and storage unit types (pallets).

Defined and configured field selections in Material Master, and Vendor Master.

Led workshops with users to understand the requirements.

Reviewed quality certificates for every inbound delivery and monitoring their receipt.

Configured Catalogs/Code groups through selected sets, also configured UD codes with relevant follow-up actions.

Created test scenario and performed unit and integration testing.

Provided training in SAP to end-users as required.

Shire Pharmaceuticals, USA. May 2012 – Sep 2012

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Implemented SAP Note 1088474 to get the search help values in delivery/performance e tab of shopping cart.

Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.

Migration of Org structure from SRM4.0 to SRM7.0

Separation of Vendor org structure from Purchase org structure.

Resolved different issues in SRM7.0 in post upgrade.

Unit test and cycle test for different objects.

Migration of workflow to process controlled workflows.

Kiewit, NE. Jun 2011 – Mar 2012

Project Lead

Validation of estimates from consultants.

Weekly development meeting with the team to monitor progress

Updating the status report to top management.

Owner for Application development technical processes. Provide process training to development team.

Provided team leadership within the team of Release coordinators and build managers to define and gain adoption of clean, well-designed components and best practices across the entire product line, and share those with partners, internal stakeholders and customers.

Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend.

Configured for vendor search.

Worked on configuration and tested for Contract.

Configured the system for buyer has authorization to change SC

Configured the system to map external product categories into internal product category while creating business documents..

Configured the system to exclude line items from RFx calculation.

Configured the system to get external requirements into SRM system.

Worked on configuration of RFI form.

Creation of shopping carts from excel sheet.

Coke Cce & Ccr/ Onsite Coordinator. Jun 2010 – Apr 2011

Role: MM/SRM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, SRM

Responsibilities:

Support and maintenance for SRM system

Managing the transition phase of transferring the functional, technical and procedural knowledge to our maintenance and support organization

Involved in IMS issue resolution.Change of old approver to new approver

Addition of all purchasing roles to particular users

Change of approval limits.

Report Invoice Error WF clean up: Users receiving frequently message 'Error when processing your request' when opening invoice in IMS

Handling of errors in IDOC for accounting

Invoice escalation handling.

Configuration for getting external requirements into SRM from backend(PDP).

Configuration for Contracts in SRM.

Worked on configuration and tested for Contract.

Change of data in the IDOC segments for sales orders by using exit ZXVEDU15

Testing of Procurement processes in EBP & integration with R/3 using Classic Scenario.

Enhancement for Interface from SAP MM to IGE for stock.

Interface SAP sales orders to BASIS by using exit ZXVEDU16

Development for Upload Promotion Quotas.

Developed a report to list shopping carts by status

Developed a report to download the attributes to file.

Eclipse Aviation and NEWCO Nov 2008 – Jun 2009

Role: Team Lead/MM/SRM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, SRM, PM

Responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirements

Preparation of Technical Specifications from Businessdocuments / Functional Specs.

Analyzing, monitoring and reviewing the Technical Specifications assigned for Offshore

Effort estimation, Time and Expense Reporting and schedule compliance

Re-branding for NEWCO

Modified existing program ZEAC_QUOT_REPORT to print Credit card payments and Net charge on Credit card.

Developed a report for Aircraft Service-Quotation History Report based on Revision number.

Worked on Effort estimation for NEWCO re-branding for different type of objects.

Done the changes for scripts, Adobe forms, smartforms, reports, Function modules in NEWCO re-branding.

Transfer of Category ID with respect to purchasing Org and update of part master data.

Transfer in Contract domain: Header transfer and price agreement transfer

Updated the vendor details in SRM

Implemented the BADI BBP_SC_MODIFY_UI to change the layout.

Handling master data configuration, processing and technical object structuring.

Billing of material related to equipment, functional location and material.

Overseeing preventive maintenance configuration & processing.

Administering Data Migration from Legacy to SAP.

Maintaining Plant Maintenance Information System (PMIS)

Integrating with other modules like PP and MM. Creating new enhancements and proposing transport requests. Handling new configuration changes as per business requirements.

Creation & updating of key master date like Task List, Maintenance Plans (Single Cycle, Strategy based & performance based)., BOM’s, Work center, Functional location, Equipment.

Monsanto Mar 2008 – Oct 2008

Role: Team lead / MM Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC, SRM

Responsibilities:

Receiving inquiries / work Order requisition from various departments.

Inviting quotation from various vendors.

Vendor Negotiations and price, delivery and payment terms.

Compiling quotation for Negotiation and preparation comparative Statements.

Configured purchasing document types.

Material replication from ECC to SRM.

Created a Module pool program to accommodate DPL US Cotton business request for having QM State Lab Form with fields to key in manually to generate desired (Smartform) output.

Created a Module Pool program to update the custom table with flat file values with validations

Created a Module Pool program to modify the exiting Database table values with details screen where the user will enter new data

Created report accommodate DPL’s requirement of Detailed Scheduling Report based on existing report.

Modified existing program Z_CHECK_PRODUCT_EXCLUSIONS to pass the new fields that make up the key combination of the new cotton exclusion type ZHB9 created for Branded

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