Profile:

• Nikoletta is a skilled and self motivated P2P procurement technology and functional consultant for SAP PTP SAP MM, SRM and SAP Sourcing / CLM implementations with over 4 years of full lifecycle implementation project-based consulting and 7 years of procurement business IT sourcing management, SAP system maintenance team lead and buyer roles experience.
• Nikoletta's full lifecycle project experiences new implementation and upgrades exposed her to leadership experience for on-site and off-shore teams simultaneously.

Nikoletta holds permanent residency status in the United States and does not require any level of visa support.

Key skills:

Systems:

Techno-functional expertise in SAP ECC MM- Materials Management SRM 5 and 7 , SAP Sourcing / CLM w7 - and w9 SRM MDM SAP Solution Manager, Remedy, HPQC

Processes / Purchasing:

Process Knowledge and Improvements e- and P2P and e-Procurement Procurement Process Cycles direct, indirect RFx, eAuctions End to end implementation project experience from requirement gathering till knowledge transfer to support team at the end of the project System developments definition Testing and Documentation Leadership experience on-, and offshore teams Excellent Communication ITIL concepts for Production Support International work experience 3 countries

Training:

System SRM 7 and SAP Sourcing / CLM and process training material writing and functional training externally and internally Training development tools usage Articulate, Resite

Career History:

Senior SAP Consultant SAP Sourcing/CLM and SRM

Confidential

Assignments:

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Workshop preparation creating ppt slides
• Leading workshops for Requirement Gathering
• Writing Functional Design Documentations
• Agile methodology Parallel system build SAP SRM7

Confidential

Responsibilities and achievements

• Leadership role: Enabling Functions Stream Lead
• A role within Application Support, that combines delivery management, functional and business process expertise to support the client's integrated Application Landscape.
• Participating in setting up ITIL for first Go-live
• Managing a combined onsite/offshore teams
• Writing self-learning material for new joiners to ITIL support function SRM only

Functional role:

• Level 2 and 3 technical and functional support for the UAT and Level 2 support for Post Go-live period SRM7 Classic scenario
• SRM MDM3 catalogue setup and maintenance lead
• Building two SRM production support environments
• Leading cutover activities for phased Go-lives
• Documentation

Testing role:

• SAP SRM7 Integration testing in multiple E2E scenarios
• Test case recording in SAP Solution Manager
• UAT test script definition, preparation and Support
• Training material identification
• Training key users for UAT

Technology Consultant

Confidential

Projects / Assignments:

Bid work procurement SME for multiple bids

Confidential

• SAP Sourcing / CLM integration consultant
• Responsibilities and achievements
• 2 Full lifecycle implementation project for a multi-system SAP and non-SAP system's integration in 2 individual phases:
• o Blueprinting, design, setup, configuration, testing and support:
• SAP MM integration for RFQ, PO and for contracts with SAP Sourcing / CLM
• UDOs
• Enterprise Sourcing RFXs and Auctions multi system integration

Contract Management:

• Contract authoring tool Clauses, sections and Contract templates with custom tokens
• Master and Sub-Agreements multi-system integration SAP MM and BaaN
• Supplier Management multi system integration with SAP Sourcing being the master.

Other customisations:

• Query definitions
• Email templates and tokens
• Users and User group working logic setup for substitution and grouping for authorisations
• Security profiles
• Master Data setup
• Knowledge transfer to Support team
• Training the Trainer

Confidential

• Responsibilities and achievements
• Responsible for developing training material in support of the SAP P2P Project SAP MM and SAP SRM
• Support the definition of the training data set and compliance with the SAP P2P Project Design
• Responsible for defining / populating the required data in the system to support training courses required
• Provide SAP MM and SRM functional understanding/experience/good practice to the Project and Programme Training teams

Confidential

• Responsibilities and achievements
• Configure Contract management business scenario independently
• Configure MDM business scenario independently
• Write SRM configuration documents
• SRM Roles and authorization technical specification with SRM 7 and portal integration

Confidential

Responsibilities and achievements

• Monitor the multiple systems being used for e-Auctioning PeopleSoft, Idealoutcome, Scanmarket, and other internally developed web-based systems
• Monitor these systems pre- and post-activities and give a proposal for an optimized solution.
• Define internal process of purchasing system related issue escalating on specific scenarios in collaboration with IT.
• Help GROUP users' daily system usage and to provide trainings where necessary.

Confidential

Responsibilities and achievements:

• Team Leadership: coordinating the Portals and SRM system maintenance assuring consistency process compliance, single point of contact, escalation point
• Procurement side driven project management in both project and systems implementation
• eProcurement systems usage monitoring, latest available trends application Emptoris usage for eRFxs and eAuctions, SRM MDM upgrade initiation see Key achievements below
• System administration and setting SRM EBP, CCM and MDM Extended Classic scenario
• SRM / SAP - Netweaver portal pre-, and pro Go-live support, E2E and UAT full cycle test script writing and testing, training material providing and teaching key users
• External hosted Supplier Portal implementation procurement side drive process assurance, full cycle E2E testing, Go-lives leadership
• Reporting PR/PO zone level creation monthly SAP MM, MS Access Portal usage activity
• Creating an up-to-date catalogue content storage structure on an existing internal web-based net surface
• eProcurement systems usage monitoring, latest available trends application Emptoris usage for eRFxs and eAuctions, SRM MDM upgrade initiation

Key achievements:

• Initiating and successfully delivering an SRM MDM upgrade as business solution lead: Full lifecycle - Shadowing Senior SRM consultants from SAP
• Implementation time-scale planning

Design

• Configuration
• Blueprint and project charter writing,
• E2E and UA testing
• Training material writing and training key users
• System improvement definition challenging the systems in use Emptoris, Quadrem to SRM SUS
• Process improvements definition
• Key Business Point of Contact for Supplier Portal project on Procurement Centre Side process and tolerance key definition with requirement gathering, testing
• Writing administrator and end user manuals for deeper Netweaver portal administration, SRM user administration, user problem solving methods Library - for the team.

Confidential

Sourcing - IT Software licence and support contracts

• Also occasionally for other services Maintenance Goods all import purchasing
• Responsibilities and achievements:
• Running tender procedures with domestic and foreign bidders
• Market research, collect -, and coordinate evaluation of bids
• Running RFxs and eAuctions
• Negotiation
• Supplier pre-, and post-qualifications
• Key user: As IFS ERP system key user, helping the daily use
• Coordinating the development requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities and achievements:

• Direct operational purchasing
• MRP ordering setup project role
• Assigned procurement responsibility of a group of mechanical components.
• Generate shortage lists and purchase orders using a Baan 5 ERP system to procure materials from European and Far Eastern suppliers.
• Reporting also by filling CTB lists