Digital Supply Chain Procurement Transformation Leader – Ariba Cloud, SAP S/4H Procurement, Business Networks & Design Thinking

As an experienced Supply Chain Procurement and digital transformation professional, have been delivering ‘Value’ to clients continuously

Worked on Supply Chain transformation projects across the countries such as USA, Germany, Japan, China and India

Project Management

Have knowledge and experience in Agile project methodologies including Scrum and Sprint in SAFe environment

Have knowledge in SAP Activate project management

Have Full Life Cycle implementation like project prep., requirements gathering, design, build, test, Go Live and support

Have implementation experience in Global Rollout with localization requirements

Have strong communication and presentation skills to interact with Business, Executive and ‘C’ level leadership ad build strong relationship

Technology Skills

Domain

Skills

Level

SAP S/4HANA

SAP/S4HANA Sourcing & Procurement

Core

Cloud Ariba

Ariba P2P, Ariba Invoicing, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management, Ariba Supplier Management, Ariba Network, Supply chain Collaboration,

Core

Web Service

CIG, PI

Intermediate

Cloud Platform Integration

SAP CPI, API Management

Basic

Ariba Practice Development

As a key member of SAP Ariba Practice, involved in several business development activities such as assessments, RFx response, and Orals

Led the team for building private SAP Ariba demo environment

Education

Master in Technology-Chemical Engineering, Indian Institution of Technology (IIT), Mumbai 1989

Bachelor of Technology – Chemical Engineering, Andhra University, India 1987

Certified in BPR – Japanese Management Association, Japan 1998

MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking – MIT Executive Education 2017

Digital Strategies for Business: Leading the Next- Generation Enterprise – Columbia Business School Executive Education 2017

Professional Summary

Employer: HCL Technologies, USA

Subject Matter Expert - SAP Procurement & SAP Ariba

Novartis Inc July ’20 to October ‘20

SAP Ariba, HCL Intelligent Procurement Engine, Fairmarkit

Project Manager -Pilot

Led the virtual team of around 9 from India and the Europe

Led scoping and integration sessions with the leads of all the application

Led the design of the end to end process and got it signed off

Closely worked with the business to define the commodity code structure and mapping to UNSPSC

Designed and implemented

-Catalogs

-Approval process

-Commodity code mapping

-Guided Buying (GB) based procurement

-Qualified and preferred Suppliers

-Worked with the developers to integrate the applications using APIs

Nokia Corp, TX

Program Lead – SAP P2P & Ariba Cloud

Lead the SAP P2P &Ariba Cloud Global Support team to resolve the incidents

Boeing Inc November ’19 To April ‘20

Led the team to present roadmap for NWP (Net Work Procurement) replacement with S/4HANA and presented to the leadership

Built Site engagement model and

Created a detailed roadmap for Global rollout of S4HANA for Boeing Defense Solution

Led the design workshops for capturing current processes

Led the deign sessions, led the demos in P2P Scrum meetings and helped the client in defining Sprints and PI Planning

Led the team in designing RICEFW objects

Advised the Accounting in defining organizational and master data elements

Worked with the Finance to design Defense related Contract Finance processes

CNX Inc, Pittsburg, USA March ‘19 To November ‘19

SAP Ariba & ECC6.5

Project Manager -SAP Ariba

CNX is a Global Oil and Gas exploration and production company, which embarked on SAP Ariba cloud implementation

Scope: Upstream and Downstream which includes Sourcing, Contracts, P2P with Invoicing, Conversion of SAP POs and SRM/Hubwoo contracts

Project Management

Streamlined the project with revised planning

Led he offshore/onsite team of size 14

Re-worked the project plan to estimate the new project Go Live

Formulated and led meetings at different levels such as onshore- offshore, weekly program status, daily core issue log and jointly led daily/weekly cutover plan

Weekly updated the project status to the senior management

Provided the functional and technical leadership for the CNX, HCL and Ariba teams

Successfully led the SIT (System Integration Test) and supported UAT

Led the change management and training phase to ensure successful delivery of training to the business and Admin group

Design and implementation

Quickly conducted ‘quality review’ and revised the design

Led successful design of approval process for Contracts, PRs (Purchase Requisitions) and Invoice reconciliation process

Led the design of transactional business rules on AN Buyer side

Led the design and implementation of sourcing & Contract processes as per Oil &Gas Industry best practices

Led the design the process for ‘Supplier enablement’ for light and fully enabled suppliers

AN Suppliers are identified and made them to participate in the Go Live process to receive the POs and send Invoices

Ensured all the configuration tasks are tested successfully and migrated from Test system to Prod system – Ariba and SAP systems

Master Data

Ensured all the master data elements are identified and specific customization and configuration are executed in Ariba and the corresponding SAP systems

Ensured successful loadings of all types of master data

SAP -Ariba integration was established through CIG (Cloud Integration Gateway

SAP PO & SRM Contract Conversion

Led the team successfully ‘legacy Requisition and PO conversion’ task which includes around 15000 POs

Successfully led the contract migration from SRM/ Hubwoo which includes around 1000 contracts

Training docs are delivered, and Ariba Admin Training was delivered successfully to the CNX admins

Recommended Ariba Best practices

Bombardier Inc (BAES, BT & BIS) Germany Sept ’18 To Jan’19

SAP ECC, SupplyOn, Ariba &Design Thinking

Source to Pay & Inventory Management Lead

Led a team of 9 consultants to accomplish the summary of tasks as mentioned below.

As a part of the Polestar program across the Enterprise, build a Business Case for a process and technology change across the Enterprise, to eliminate systemic issues, pain points, and functional silos and recommend usage of cloud-based applications for effective collaboration and automation

Methodology

Empathy-based interviews of executives and business leaders and Webex, telephonic and personal meetings and persona-based Global Blueprint Workshops

Business Case

Implement Master Data Governance to avoid duplicity of data and maintain data integrity (Material Master, Vendor master etc)

Define a process for Supplier registration and performance and quick and regional RFx bidding process

Template driven Contract management and integration to the ERP to create an operational contract and enforce contract compliance

Purchase Order and Invoice, Demand Planning and Scheduling Agreement collaboration through Supplier Network

Ensure Integration between SAP and other non-SAP systems such as Primavera, Maximo etc for seamless process integration

Client: Edgewell Personal Care Inc, St. Louis, MO July ’19 to Sept ‘19

Lead – SAP P2P & SCM

Provided the leadership to SAP Procure to Pay and Supply Chain team (onsite and offshore)

Leading the Rollout of the Global Template with localizations to the regions ASIA, ANZ and LATAM for ‘Procurement and Supply Chain

Designed To-Be Processes for different countries per region and got them signed off

Language specific and local statutory regulations are included in the process design

Collected WRICEF objects and have been working closely with developers

Prepared a project plan with scheduled dates for milestones

Designed and implemented onshore-offshore model which includes daily calls, presentations and process design and implementation discussions

Purdue University. West Lafayette Feb ’18 to July’ 18

Project Lead – Cloud Ariba & S/4HANA -Procurement & Sourcing

Designed and implemented Ariba P2P Ariba is the system of truth for Purchase Orders

Designed and implemented automatic transfer of SAP Purchase requisitions to Ariba to create Purchase orders

Items are received in SAP and Ariba PO are updated

Approval Process is implemented for Ariba PO approval process

Ariba Invoice management is implemented for supplier invoices

Multi-level fiscal approval process is implemented for all Ariba invoices

Employer: CenturyLink Inc Aug ’16 to Feb ‘18

ITS &NMD - Principal Architect

Client: MARS Inc, NJ Dec ’17 to Feb ‘18

Senior Technical Architect –Ariba Cloud

Responsible for the Global Technical Architecture of the complex and diverse landscape.

Have been working on the diverse architectural options for Federated Process Control (FPC) with multi ERP backbends

Explain different options of the Architecture and recommend the optimal one

Help the client in the estimation of the cost of the subscription to the Ariba cloud application

Lead the efforts to document ‘Integration Approach’ with alternate plans and finally help the client with an optimal solution which involve

Client: Snohomish County Public Utility District, Seattle, WA Jul ‘17 to Nov ’17

Project Lead - Ariba Cloud & ECC MM

Have done major Assessment of Ariba Design and Implementation for the business processes which include Supplier Information Management, Strategic Sourcing, and Contract Management.

Recommended optimal design for issues related to

-SPQ, SIM Integration to SAP Vendor and business partners

-Optimize the SPQ process and eliminate the need to create an event

-Integrated RFx process with SAP ERP

-Test and Production systems are not on the same page

-Maintained boiler contract templates in the Ariba Contract Management

Client: Entegris Inc, MN Jun ’16 to July ’17

Project Lead –Ariba (SIM, SOU, CON &P2O)

Lead the project of team size 16 and responsible for the implementation of time, cost, and quality controls.

Led the design workshops for the business scenarios such as ‘Supplier Registration’ and integration SAP Vendor master

Sourcing and Contract Management and Procure To Order(P2O) and Approval process for different business processes

Led the integration of Ariba to SAP using Ariba ITK and Direct Connect

Collaboratively worked with the client to build ‘AN Supplier Onboarding’ strategy

Worked closely with the project team and senior management on the process design, best practices, and the issues

Worked with Ariba team across Shared Resources, Customer services and Ariba Integration

Led the successful delivery of the training manuals and also workshops to the client

Led the daily meeting of issue tracking and resolution

Employer: Kolluri Consulting LLC April 2010 – May 2016

GE Power, Atlanta, GA Jan 2016 – May2016

Ariba Architect

SAP S2P

Conducted workshops to capture the As Is processes for Order and Invoice Automation

Translated the requirements from the legacy system – Clear Orbit to Ariba

Designed ‘To Be’ processes and resolved ‘key design’ issues

Worked on Ariba supplier enablement strategy

SAP ERP is the ‘buyer’ system and designed for Purchase Order confirmations which includes, Order Ack., ASN and GRs and also integration to Oracle TPM

Ariba Invoice Management

Invoice business rules are set in Ariba Network for supplier groups

Invoices are entered in electronic form in Ariba Network

Invoices are subject automatic to 2-way /3- way match

Invoices are automatically reconciled in InvoicePro

Invoice approval process is implemented

Invoice exception types with respect to user is implemented

Reconciled invoice is automatically sent to SAP for payment processing

Accenture/ Xcel Energy, MN & CO Aug 2015 to Dec 2015

Project Manager - SAP Sourcing & Procurement

Conducted Designed workshops for Procurement and Sourcing Processes as described below

Designed Vendor Master setup and business partner functions

Designed Purchasing master data such as Purchase Info Record, Source List, and Vendor Evaluation

Designed MM Pricing procedure for Contracts, PO and Services

Release strategy and custom workflow approval routing for Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order and Contract

Designed External Services Procurement including Service master and service entry sheet

Integration of Valuation class, Account category Reference to Procurement

Designed automatic PO process

Vendor qualification and approval process in SAP SLC for Corp and Nuclear Vendors

SAP America/Newmont Mining Corp, Den, CO Aug ‘14 – Jul ‘15

Solution Architect - Ariba & SAP Procurement

Conducted design workshops to understand the P2P processes and the ‘Ariba Integration’ points

Designed the ‘To be’ processes for Ariba –P2P, Sourcing, Contract and Supplier management

Designed and implemented the functionality ‘Contract Compliance’

Defined Purchasing Units for integration to ECC Purchasing Organization

Designed and implemented the data import plan between ECC and Ariba

Designed and implemented Sourcing and Contract processes and implemented template management

Imported legacy contracts into Ariba

Conducted design workshops to understand the P2P processes and the ‘Ariba Integration’ points

Designed and implemented AribaP2P using web services

Fujitsu/ Mead Johnson Nutrition, Evansville, IN Mar ‘14 – Jun’14

Team Lead - SAP SRM 7.02 SUS & ECC6.05 Upgrade

Built detailed plan with ‘prerequisites’ and dependencies’

Carried out ‘system check, correct and System readiness for SAP Procurement including SAP SRM, ECC MM, SAP SUS and SAP PI

Thorough system testing for stability including Unit Testing and IT testing and UAT support

Accenture, Germany/ Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc, St. Joseph, MO Sep ‘13 – Aug ‘14

Team Lead - SAP PTP & SRM Lead - US Business Template

Conducted Global Fit to Standard workshops as SAP PTP & SRM

Designed and implemented Direct Procurement Processes in ECC, Destruction Process for toxic ingredients, External Contract Process, Automatic bundling of items during auto creation of POs from PURs, Automatic reconciliation of Pcard transactions in ECC and Vendor Return Process for rejected goods

Indirect Procurement Processes are designed in SRM

Lead Data Migration strategy for SAP P2P data migration from MAPICS for Vendor Masters

Master data Integration design for filtration of SRM vendors from ECC vendors

Custom mapping of eClass harmonized codes to UNSPSC during punch-out catalog in SRM

Designed special stock in ECC for direct materials such as Sub-contracting, Vendor Consignment and Third-party Processing

SAP America/ Newmont Mining, Denver, CO Jun ‘13 to Aug ‘13

SAP Sourcing9.0/CLM 9.0/SRM 7.0/ECC 6.0 EhP 5.0

Assessed the current SAP E-Sourcing/CLM2.0 implementation, assessed the delta functionality from SAP CLM 2.0 to SAP CLM 9.0 and recommended optimal approach between ‘upgrade’ versus ‘Rebuild’. CLM 9.0 was re-implemented due to broken business processes and serious bugs

Conducted Global Workshops to capture the current processes, pain points and recommended To Be processes

Reimplementation of SAP CLM 9.0

SAP CLM 9.0 Re-Implementation

Assessed and made recommendations on the following points for the key themes ‘Project Leadership’, Solution & Deliverables, Project Planning, Resource Planning, Monitor & Controls and Approach

Conducted Workshops in Australia, Malaysia, Ghana and Peru and Nevada to understand the pain points in the current processes and presented ‘To Be Processes’

Project Management

Prepared detailed project plan capturing the diverse project tasks such as infrastructure (HW& SW) in terms of requirement analysis, readiness and check compatibility and readiness Prepared detailed project plan for SAP CLM 9.0 upgrade

Led the CLM project, resolved the issues and ensured timely implementation

DGN Technologies/ eBay Inc., San Jose, CA Dec ‘12 – May ‘13

SAP Sourcing7.0/CLM 7.0, Web Methods &SharePoint and DocuSign

Designed automating creation of a Self Service Contract (SSC) and CRF(Contract Request Form) in CLM by submission of contract requests in SharePoint

Prepared detailed project plan capturing the diverse project tasks such as infrastructure (HW& SW) in terms of requirement analysis, readiness and check compatibility and readiness Prepared detailed project plan for SAP CLM 9.0 implementation

Led the CLM project, resolved the issues and ensured timely implementation and Go Live

Tranzeal / EPRI, Palo Alto, CA Nov ‘11- Nov ‘12

Lead - SAP Sourcing 7.0/ECC MM 6.02

Have successfully completed the blueprint phase which includes several types of legal contracts i.e. Trade Marks, Copy rights, MoUs, NDAs, Patents, Licensing, Funding, Procurement and Sales

Leading the realization phase which includes RICEFW objects, functional specifications and testing

SSG Inc/ Coca Cola Inc. Jan ‘11 – Oct ‘11

Project Lead: SAP E-Sourcing5.1 & ECC MM Consultant

Project Leadership & Business Engagement

Trusted advisor to the client for procurement processes in ECC and sourcing and contract management in CLM.

Successfully led ‘Business Sign Off’ with the client Global Business Leadership and Client engagement

Designed Material and Vendor Master Data Integration based on SAP Classification system which was later adopted by Coca Cola Globally

Dell Services Inc/ SeaWorld Inc, Orlando, FL Jan ‘10 – Dec’ 10

Project Lead: SRM 7.0 Upgrade & SUS

Trusted Advisor to Client on SAP Procurement business transformation

Led the project as Team Leading onshore and offshore resources

Lead Blueprint Design phase successfully signed off Design

Implemented Direct Procurement scenario with Supplier Integration using SUS and ECC with Led testing phase for the landscape which include ECC MM, SAP SRM and SUS

Lead a team of 8 including off-shore resources and overall a team of 14

Employer: Gwinnett County, Atlanta Jul 2009 - Jan 2010

Lead - SRM 5.0, CCM2.0& SAP MM

Provide day to day support to Business users and Purchasing department

Lead SRM Support Pack upgrade & Advised on value analysis of new functionality

Design and Implementation of SAP SRM integration with SAP HR & Resolved issued related to SRM integration to Funds Management

SAP SRM Practice Development

Employer: BearingPoint Inc Aug ‘08 – Jul ‘09

Manager, SAP

SAP SRM Practice Development

Have developed training and demo systems for SAP SRM

Evolved strategy for SRM Practice Development

Have worked on a several RFPs for SRM Projects

Client: Honeywell Inc, Phenix, AZ

Global Lead – SAP SRM

Process optimization

Design and implementation of enhancements

Employer: Probys, Inc, IL Dec ‘04 – Aug ‘08

Minneapolis Public Schools, MN Jan ‘08 – Jul ‘08

Project Manager- SAP SRM &MM

Conducted workshops to design indirect procurement and bidding processes.

Written Functional specifications & BPPs (Business Process Procedures)

Conducted regular workshops to train the SAP team and business user community

Lenovo, Raleigh, NC Feb ‘07 - Dec ‘07

Lead SAP Consultant – SRM, SUS &MM

Worked on SRM implementation for Canada for Indirect Procurement

Work as a Trusted Advisor on SRM& MM

Traveled to China to train and provide knowledge transfer to Lenovo and IBM personnel

Developed Global Template for SRM and Catalog Content Management

Prepared Configuration and User Training Manuals and conducted knowledge transfer

SAPSUS – MM Scenario is implemented

Verizon Communications Inc, Dallas, TX Sep ‘05 – Jan2 ‘07 & Sep ‘06– Oct ‘06

Team Lead – SAP Procurement (SRM 4.0 & MM)

Led a team of around 15 which includes consulting business teams

Built the project plan from the phase ‘Realization to Go Live’ and advised the PMO

Computer Associates, Long Island, NY Nov 04 – Sep 05

Team Lead – SAP SRM

Design & Implementation

Employer: Intelligroup Inc Mar ‘04– Dec ‘04

Principal Consultant- SAP SRM

The Coca Cola Inc., GA May ‘04 – Apr ‘05

Team Lead – SAP SRM

Led two releases for SRM implementation which includes all phases of a project such as Cutover and Go Live. Coordination with Offshore team

Employer: Tata Consultancy Services July ‘02 – Mar ‘04

Senior Consultant – SAP EBP/MM

Pitney Bowes Inc., CT May ‘03 –Dec ‘03

Lead Consultant SAP SRM/MM

GE Toshiba Silicones, Japan Jul ‘02 - May ‘03

Employer: Sierra Atlantic Inc., CA Dec ‘00 - Jun ‘02

Principal Consultant -SAP

SAP MM & SAP EBP (1.0) and Middleware Integration

Client: Sun Microsystems, CA

January 2000 – May’01, SAP 4.5B

Senior SAP Consultant – MM & EAI Architect

Elin Power Systems, India

April 1998 - May 1999

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