Sap Ariba Material Management

Consultant’s Profile

Kashif Ehsan

SAP S/* MM, LE, EWM & ARIBA

Current Location : Houston, TX

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Availability : 1 week

Location : Open to relocate

SUMMARY:

15 years of expertise in SAP Procurement, specializing in SAP Ariba Sourcing, Procure-to-Pay

(P2P) Commerce Automation, SAP Materials Management (MM), LE and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) for both S4HANA & ECC platforms. I have hands-on experience on SAP MM, EWM, Ariba Buying & Invoice, S4 - Ariba CIG Integration, Ariba Commerce Automation & Ariba Network. Proven track record of leading global projects across diverse industries. I am skilled in Master Data harmonization, migration, and managing teams of over 12 consultants.

SKILLS SUMMERY No of Years

SAP Material Management (MM) 15 Years

SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), LE 05 Years SAP Warehouse Management (WM), LE 05 Years

SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite 08 Years

SAP Ariba Commerce Automation 02 Years

SAP Ariba Guided buying 01 Year

SAP Ariba S4 Integration through Managed Gateway (CIG) 08 Years SAP Project Manager for Ariba, MM, LE & EWM 06 Years SAP Material Management (MM) Integration with 3rd Party warehouse 02 Years SAP ECC to S4HANA Upgrade 02 Years

EDUCATION

• Master’s in Computer Science: Information Technology, 1999 - Preston University, Pakistan

• Diploma in Computer Science, from Islamabad, Pakistan. CERTIFICATION

• SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing.

• SAP Ariba Procure to Pay

• Procurement (Material Management).

• Managed Gateway for Spend & Network 2023 (CIG)

• Project Management Training (PMP)

SAP Ariba, Material Management & EWM Consultant Sep 2023 – March 2025 Company: Aramco Services

Location: Houston, TX

Environment: SAP Ariba, Material Management (MM), LE, EWM Implementation Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Performed testing for Client scenarios like Supplier registration, Sourcing, requisition, Contract, purchase order, goods receipt creation.

• Contract Management like drafting contracts and uploading documents.

• Conduct RFxs (RFI, RFP, e-Auctions i.e. Forward Auction & Reverse Auction), Review Bids.

• Provides an expert solution & suggest on the type of auction to be used for various scenarios.

• Used agreed standard framework or tender documents for short listed suppliers as appropriate.

• Training Suppliers and Internal user on e-sourcing tool specifics. And resolving supplier Consultant’s Profile

issue regarding Ariba.

• Help with data analysis as per the client requirement

• Worked as CoE Lead to support for SAP MM & IM (Master Data, Purchasing, Inventory Management and MRP) & SAP EWM, LE (Master Data, Goods Receipt Process, Goods Issue Process and Internal Warehouse Processes) module.

• Hand on configuration experience with EWM Master Data, Goods Receipt Process Strategies, Goods Issue Process Strategies and Physical Inventory Process & LE.

• Lead team of 3 to 4 resources in onshore – offshore model. Mentor junior resources.

• Involved in development & testing of new Enhancement, Interface, BI Report and work with SAP ABAP, SAP PI, SAP BI & SAP Security Team providing them requirement.

• Expert in design, build, and monitoring of SAP Interface across multiple systems (IDoc, XML) in high-volume muliti-landscape environment.

• Hands on experience in working with Serialized & Split valuated Materials in ECC, LE & EWM environment. And Material Classification in ECC environment.

• Monitor IDoc and Queue errors in ECC, LE & EWM environment and partner with business and technical team to resolve the issue for failed IDoc / Queue errors. SAP MM, Ariba P2O /P2P- EWM Solution Architect / SME Feb 2022 – Sep 2023 Company: T-Mobile

Location: Frisco, TX

Environment: SAP S4HANA, EWM, LE, Ariba and MM Integration Graham Packaging, Evergreen Packaging, Closure Systems International, Pactiv, Reynolds Consumer Products, Presto and Fram Group are under one group named as RANK. Positioned as a Solution Architect cum Functional Lead Analyst for SAP ECC- Ariba P2O/P2P-APC Implementation project. The project replaced the Coupa/ID-Buy and Perfect Commerce eProcurement system to Ariba eProcurement

Responsibilities as Architect:

• Responsible for overall Design and Architecture which includes design, implementation and deployment of SAP Ariba Cloud solutions on Downstream (Procure to Pay, Invoicing, Ariba Procurement Content, etc.).

• Responsible for overall Design and Architecture for GEC on Integration with SAP MM – Ariba related new Implementation and Enhancements.

• Overall Architecture on Ariba P2O /P2P- APC Configuration (ECC), Ariba Settings for Buyer

& Ariba Supplier Portal.

• Evaluate GEC Indirect Procurement Department future state processes and procedures to ensure project objectives are met, including implementing best practices for effective segregation of duties and governance.

• Provide expert knowledge on Ariba solutions Supplier Lifecycle Performance Buying and Invoicing Ariba Network collaboration integration with SAP ERP.

• Assist GEC with completion of SAP Ariba business requirement workbooks and other data collection documents

• Provided High Level Design on Procurement Connectivity-Cross-Organizational for Solution Area(s)/Component(s):

• Supplier Enablement both Supplier (incidents) and non-customer (LE) reported

• Multiplication of solution knowledge across entire organization (how things work and why)

• Driving visibility and knowledge of new product Enhancements and roadmap

• Product “Supportability” and Customer (Supplier Integration) Adoption

• Develop strong partnership with GEC Internal Teams and other P&I leaders to make key decisions

• Produce written deliverables in the form of presentations to Project Leadership, Process Flow Diagrams, Functional Solution Documentation, and Formal Recommendations

• Drive product direction to reduce incident volume and participated in relevant projects aimed at prevention/deflection

Consultant’s Profile

SAP Material Management & WM Consultant Sep 2007 – Dec 2021 Company: Accenture Technology Solution

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Environment: SAP ECC, Material Management (MM), LE WM Implementation Clients: BASF Construction Chemical, MEA & North America Al-Dhafra Al-Yasat

Department of Finance (DoF)

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)

Coty Consumer & Beauty Co

Government HR Organization Project (HRDF)

Leading Oil Refinery, YASREF.

Healthcare & Agriculture Group, Alfaisaliah Group

Jordan Rollout, Alfaisaliah Group – Jordan

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

• Lead and responsible to rolled out P2P and Inventory management process to middle east

(8 countries).

• Follow the Agile methodology to implement the project.

• Support the analysis and design of new function business processes. Identify and define detailed requirements. Responsible for design and delivery of the PTP setup as per the template, with focus on integration to external systems Warehouse.

• Involved in project preparation & Business blue print preparation

• Attended Kick-off meetings.

• Involved in identification of the business requirements and preparation of TO-BE Documents.

• Configuration of MM, LE organizational elements as per business requirement.

• Configuration of purchasing documents, pricing procedure assignment, batch management, Release Strategy, Output Determination.

• Configured EDI Master Data, Process codes and mapped EDI 850 for PO and 856 ASN to generate inbound delivery.

• Worked closely with technical consultants to configure to generate BDC and other data conversion programs to upload data. Testing data consistency with users.

• Customization of Master Records.

• Apart from the Standard Material types, configured New Material Types as per the requirements of the Client and created several valuation classes and account category references, changed the field status of the material master records as per the user’s requirements.

• Configured vendor master records, created account groups based on the type of control required, defined usage of partner functions and vendor sub-range functions.

• Defining partner schemas and assigning to account groups.

• Characteristics and classes were reviewed and created for release procedures to RFQ/Quotation, requisition, purchase orders, contract and scheduling agreements

• 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

• Worked on Consumption based planning and Regular MRP

• Configured master data including material master, BOMS, work centers, & routings as per the client business process

• Configuration of work center, including creation of new parameters, standard value keys, work center formula, activity types and rates

• Configured MRP planning strategies for MTS and MTO business scenarios

• Configured Material Requirement Planning & CBP including reorder point planning

• Configured MRP types, controllers, lot-sizing procedure, schedule margin key & control keys for routings.

Consultant’s Profile

• Configured repetitive manufacturing application including work center, rate routing, REM profile, product cost collectors and back

• Configuring special stocks in Inventory management for Subcontracting, and Consignment materials

• Created Statistical Conditions for price comparison without altering the Material

• Procurement Prices and Inventory valuation

• Customization of Access sequence, condition records and business rules understanding client’s business process

• Customized Invoice Verification with Vendor-wise tolerance limits as per the business requirements.

• Produced most of the new business forms with SAP script

• Unit testing and Integration testing using CATT / other tools like Win runner

• Prepared Configuration documents, test scenarios for further testing.

• Complete Unit testing is done for implemented scenarios & Functional UAT.

• Identification of roles and Authorizations and provided to user’s based on requirement.

• Prepared user manuals and conducted training programs to end user’s.

• Supporting help desk with user training

• Successful completion followed by post go-live support

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