SUMMARY

• SAP Ariba Functional Analyst with over 7+ years of experience implementing supporting business solution software and analyzing business operations.
• 6 - years extensive recent work experience on SAP ARIBA On-Demand/Cloud platform in SLP, Buying and invoicing, Sourcing and Contract process.
• Experience in conducting workshops, reviewing and preparing implementation documents, building test strategy and execution of test plans.
• Implemented variety Contract Workspace documents and Contract Terms including Contract clauses.
• As a Business Analyst / Team member, I have worked on various aspects of application, design and development cycle with both functional and technical expertise in Ariba Buying, Invoicing, SLP (Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Management), Ariba Sourcing, SPM (Supplier Performance Management), Ariba Analysis and On-demand application
• Expert in Design, development and supporting Ariba application modules.
• Worked closely with IT Data Migration team to document data migration requirements, on project planning and load scheduling, testing, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
• Participated in Master Data Governance Blue Printing Workshops/Gap Analysis for Material Master, Vendor, Equipment, And Functional Location Objects.
• Gain in-depth experience in IT specialization and remain current on emerging service offerings, tools, and methodologies
• Experience and understanding of different SDLC methodologies like Agile, RUP and Waterfall.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional specification, use cases, user stories, work flow diagrams.
• Experience in managing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracking and managing changes based on project's evolving needs.
• Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align them with functional and technical requirements.
• Expert in Excel in maintaining and organizing data. Skilled in Vlookup formula development, pivot table generation and pivot reporting.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication, presentation skills and customer facing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Ariba SAP: SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Procurement, Contracts, Sourcing, P2P, B&I

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.

Databases: MS-Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle

Business Skills: Business Definition Requirements, Business Process Analysis, Gap Analysis, Use Case Modelling & Analysis and Business Environment

SDLC design methodologies: Unified modeling language (UML), RUP, OOAD, Agile, & Waterfall

Modeling & Design tools: Microsoft VISIO

Tool: Share Point, Jira, Quality Center, Toad, SQL Server Management Studio

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Integration Tools: CIG, SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP Ariba Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As part of implementing Supplier Management module, involved in designing the Supplier Registration & Qualification process. Designed Questionnaire as needed by the Business, Configured Registration Approval, Qualification Review and Approval process involving both Strategic Purchasing and Finance Teams.
• Created Supplier Request Form to allow Buyers to request for a Supplier Registration and Qualification.
• Effectively C o-ordinated between offshore tech team and business users. Conducted business process walk through with business users.
• Numerus forms such as USA Vendor Profile, Mexico Vendor profile, Vendor extension to new company codes, Bank Details Update form, etc, were built to make this implementation successful.
• Replication model setup for supplier creation and changes.
• Setup validation of vendor creation from MDG in SLP.
• Performed end to end Supplier creation and management with SM/SLP, including supplier enhancement with AN-ID and Light Enablement, set up communication, Dispatch type and Preferred Ordering method, Partner Profiles, Company Code and POrg mapping, Tested functionality as Ariba Network Test Supplier. As Ariba Network Buyer Admin set Supplier Order and Invoice rules on the AN.
• Maintained Enterprise Users, 3rd Party Users & Contractor profiles along with their Groups, DOA, Approval Queues, Work Groups, Approval limits, Org and Reporting Structure, Dashboard, Notifications, Purchase Groups and Set-up Executive Approval Delegation process and Trained Executive Admins.
• Worked on defining roles and assigning users.
• Conduct Workshops, Prepare Business blueprint and Functional Specifications, Conducting UAT.

Confidential

SAP Ariba Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Was working as Global Procurement Owner responsible for on-boarding new suppliers into ARIBA SAP. Main Point of Contact for managing and update data changes for all the existing supplier.
• Work closely with Director of Procurement operations on overall process improvement and changes.
• Was one and only approver for all the suppliers globally with spend amount less than 25k
• Worked on SLP inbox management, involving issues/status tracking, provide weekly updates and escalate critical issues.
• Support the review of the invoice triage queues to help solve the problem for blocked invoice issue resolution. Work alongside end users to clear exceptions, complete goods receipts, and process the invoice for payment.
• Coordinate with AP team to determine additional follow-up needs, and report to leadership on aged invoices that require escalation and review
• Responding to end-user inquiries from different time zone (Europe, Asia, Australia, South America) queries related to supplier on-boarding, PO’s and Invoices in ARIBA and providing direct support to help end-users accomplish tasks.
• Act as a point of escalation for the help desk and spot buy team, coordinating with the S2P technology team when issues arrive including tracking and resolution of items.
• Investigate PO roundtrip issues and push orders to ordered status if they are stuck.
• Run P2P reports as for open PO and or unpaid invoices.
• Work closely with cross functional and technical teams in event of issues and rollouts.
• Troubleshoot payment processing and setting payment parameters for payment run.
• Assist in AP reporting on unpaid invoices by running custom report.
• Recognize and share opportunities for integration, continuous improvement, and change management based on observations and operational experience
• Worked on generating failed reports and sending them to corresponding team to fix the issues.
• Analyze and upload contracts into ARIBA
• Perform ad-hoc tasks like deletion of duplicate suppliers, manual adjustment of invoices, checking compliance of supplier bank and tax information.

Confidential

Ariba Functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analyzing and designing an Ariba Procure to Pay solution, Contract Management (Contract Repository and Contract Compliance)
• The main responsibilities in this project includes Business Blue Print preparation, Global Template for all Indirect Procurement, Catalog Management, Contact Compliance.
• Conducting Workshops for different sites to gather the business requirement
• Responsible for gathering requirements for workflow for Shopping cart, Contract Management and Invoices.
• Responsible for all Master data harmonization in SAP system for P2P process and Contract process, which includes Commodity code and Suppliers.
• Align communications strategy to keep business partners informed of progress / benefits relating to strategic projects and initiatives
• Responsible for Quality assurance for Ariba solution, which includes Testing scenario’s, preparing test scripts and testing the end to end solution
• Responsible for Cutover activities and hyper care support after live.

Confidential

Ariba Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing documentation for the business pain area and come up with solution to address it by analyzing the system
• As a solution consultant, I was front end consultant for resolving each and every module of Ariba On-Demand to bring organization processes in to Ariba predefined process with simple to moderate modifications.
• Collecting business requirement and addressing them as part of go-live support.
• Resolving master data related issues.
• Configuring P2P application by coordinating with different interfaces teams.
• Supported Cutover activities and provided hyper care support

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated various JAD sessions with development architects and business leads to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet business needs
• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Analyzed and collected business requirements to create BRD, identified system interfaces and created the requirements specification document.
• Facilitated Online Personal banking as liaison between cross-functional departments and vendors
• Handled tacking of complete end-to-end project life cycle, using Jira, from creating new requirement in Jira, coordinating with developers in getting it developed as per requirement, co-ordinate with QA to make sure complete functionality is tested effectively. Prepare for production release, make sure all release documents, with proper instructions are provided to production team.
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Responsible for scheduling meetings with users, SMEs and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Worked collaboratively with the User Group, User Experience Analysts, and System Analysts to help document custom and system modifications.
• Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining/updating current and new system requirements using MS Excel.
• Produced and managed documentation on release activities to support problem resolution and post-release analysis.