SUMMARY:

• Proven track record in providing Ariba Cloud & Premise solution via a “blockchain” solutions as part of deployment and pre - sales that provides supply chain business benefits to organizations spreading across multiple industry and global locations. Business and Technical expertise in understanding, designing, integrating and deployment of multi facet ERP systems which include: Finance, Procurement, Account Payable, HR, Supply Chain & Logistics.
• Successfully executed over 40 Ariba, SAP, Oracle, .Net, PeopleSoft, NetSuite and Coupa projects
• Global Financial and SAP HRM Implemented adhering to countries local governance and tax laws
• Project Manager Integration Architect with several Enterprise Systems
• Procurement and SAP Ariba Solution Architect
• SAP & Ariba Methods
• SAP ECC, FICO, MDM - master data
• Vendor/Supplier
• Ariba Network/SAP Transaction Integration
• Expert in knowing the Ariba Cloud Integration solution
• S4 Hana Fiori
• Workday integration

ARIBA CLOUD & PREMISE:

• SAP Ariba Commerce Automation
• SAP Ariba Sourcing
• SAP Ariba Contracts
• SAP Ariba Buying advanced edition
• Integration with the supplier on Ariba Network and transmission to an Ariba solution. Or by enabling the manually fulfillment by a user using a paper invoice sent by a supplier.
• Manually by a supplier punching into site from their Ariba Network account to create a contract-based invoice.
• Invoice conversion service (ICS) provider that converts paper invoices to electronic format and sends them through Ariba Network.
• Automatically by the Ariba Procurement and Invoicing Solutions for procurement transactions from supplier locations that are enabled for Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) and automatic invoicing. This would include creating approval invoice document with proper exceptions.

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS HIGHLIGHT:

• Previous issues and concerns include: inability for Ariba to provide functionality for
• P2P requirements (e.g. limit POs, workflow routing logic)
• Reoccurring need to add customizations to handle workflow requirements;
• Designing security/access roles
• How to handled regression issues associated with changes to the approval flow
• Accelerate cycle time, processing invoices within days, or even hours
• Automate exception-handling, relying on more than 80 built-in business rules
• Strengthen compliance and prevent savings leakage, matching invoices to contracts, POs, and service entry sheets
• Mitigate supply risk, helping suppliers improve their cash flow
• Empower suppliers to monitor payment status themselves
• Provide assessment to issues and concerns include maximizing Ariba to provide functionality.
• Analyze "typical" P2P requirements (e.g. limit POs, workflow routing logic)
• Understanding reoccurring need to add customizations to handle workflow requirements;
• Understand of security/access roles required for exceptions handling
• Understand regression issues associated with changes to the approval flow
• Assess the engagement in terms of solution-fit, best practices, deployment approach and solution approach
• Recommended an optimal way to integrate Ariba with SAP rather than leveraging Ariba ITK
• Recommended to look at procurement transformation engagement from a holistic view rather than as a mere tool deployment. The holistic view would entail leveraging industry best practices, business process re-engineering, leverage analytics for visibility & compliance, etc.
• Worked with on-shore and off-shore development teams for BAPI, RFC etc. (code review)
• Solution Manager in managing all RICEW, technical documents and transports
• Ariba modules - Downstream for P2O and SIPM
• Led Ariba and SAP Testing and Change Management
• Led projects with following systems: Rational\HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Ariba & SAP Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Business Financial Compliance
• Global Procurement Compliance
• Global Human Resource Compliance
• Cloud Enterprise Platform Integration
• Global SAP & SAP HANA ERP/Cloud integration Ariba On-Demand and Premise for the following:
• Ariba Upstream and downstream SAP and Oracle integration
• Integration via various technologies for both transactions and master data.
• Global Data hub such as Informatica, Workday Integration via various technologies for
• Both transactions and master data.
• Competence in understanding the Global or Domestic company compliance recommending the best in class “Procurement Roadmap” transformation engagement from a holistic view rather than as a mere tool deployment. The holistic leveraging industry best practices, business process re-engineering, leverage analytic for visibility, compliance and measurement.
• Ariba Buyer (Requisition-to-Payment) by designing out of the box and required customization by fully integration with Master Data Rationalization and integration from various ERP systems.
• Competence in providing business benefits to organizations spread across multiple industry verticals. Proficient in designing, configuration, customization, development, integration, implementation and ongoing support.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supply Chain Data Source Integration
• Ariba and SAP Ariba modules - Contract Management, P2O, SIPM
• Improvement areas in Ariba Contracts Management to leverage the solution which would maximize ROI
• Optimal way to integrate Ariba with SAP rather than leveraging Ariba ITK
• Procurement transformation engagement from a holistic view rather than as a mere tool deployment.
• Provided industry best practices, business process re-engineering, leverage analytics for visibility compliance.

Confidential

Ariba & Program Manager, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Global transformation for Human Resource where they converted from SAP HR to Workday. Worked as an Independent Consultant (scorp) onsite with Accenture in designing and developing a Global Baseline for Human Resource for Workday, Accounts Payable (Ariba) and “new” Global Informatica Data Hub.
• Worked with each country business leads and develop their Global Requirements based on operational and government needs.
• Worked with all integration leads to define Informatica “Data hub” Global Master data elements as per the Global HR Baseline (Workday, ADP, Payroll and Account Payable)

Confidential

Global Project Manager, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Led Ariba On-Demand and Premise Global SAP Finance Compliance Reporting Project for APAC LaTaM (Brazil and Mexico) Ariba Procure to Pay and Vendor Master Integration
• Established PTP (Procure to Pay) for each country to adhere to local country tax and government controls to include upstream downstream processes and compliance reporting.
• .Net programming experience and also managed project timelines, requirements, change management, training and resources from inception through implementation.

Confidential

IT Supply Chain Deployment Senior Manager, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Integration Ariba On - Demand for P2P to SAP
• Web Methods asynchronous Integration to SAP and Ariba
• PI Integration via CSV and XML to SAP
• SSO with Okidata
• Managed a team of offshore and onshore SAP ABAP developers for both Ariba master data and transactional and via several File Channels (IDOC, Files, ABAP).

Confidential

Global Project Manager, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managed project, budgets over $1 million, identified resources, led Business System solution for upstream and downstream enterprise data integration for Supply Chain/Logistics, (Finance, HR, and Procurement) shared services requirements for master data integration to drive global standard to drive compliance. As part of the "new" Ariba On-Demand process led "Change Management" with Argentina's "Shared Services" Center
• Led System solution design to include system integration to P2P, B2B, B2C via SOA/.Net/EDI/API Java/Web Services via SAAS model to enterprise system Finance, Procurements (Oracle/SAP)
• Led solution for several DHL (4) companies with various business requirements to include Ariba On Demand and IBX as Catalogs via "OCI" and "EDI within the Ariba Network for Invoice, PO, Credit memo, supplier enablement and Contracts Compliant/RFQ standards and consolidate processes and customization or configuration of Ariba Buyer 9r1.
• Led Change Management process and standards to adhere to future state for LAC America, Canada, and US for system implementation for all Enterprise business system integration to a "SaaS" Model in "Agile" environments. Managed Technical/Business/Integration requirements