ABHIJEET SAXENA

Project: ARIBA & S4 implementation HANA

Client Zydus Cadila

• Managing large scale SAP migration project to S4 from ECC along with CIG Migration for ARIBA
• Driving business discovery workshops in finalizing the end-to-end business process for implementation
• Creating project plan with steering committee
• Working with the strategy team on finalizing the MVPs
• Working with the implementation team to get each user story delivered well within each sprint
• Mapping of different SAP system with single ARIBA system using MDNI
• Delivery oversight for successful implementation of the project

Project: ARIBA & S4 implementation HANA

Client: DBAG

• Implementation of S4 and ARIBA guided buying implementation
• Responsibilities:
• Successfully migrated S4 HANA sourcing and procurement solution for the client
• Attended workshops with business to understand the requirement and provided expert guidance on mapping them to SAP
• Worked with client on finalizing MVPs and release plan
• Worked on areas of lean procurement and flexible workflows
• Conferred with customers regarding capabilities, performance, and requirements of databases and supported applications
• Worked on preparing project deliverables and documents for eac
• Facilitated communication upward and across teams and served as a point of contact for other departments on project status and other project information
• Completed SIT and coordinated with user to get the UAT done within time
• Registered, managed, and performed cutover tasks and activities for smooth go live
• Helping users during hyper care support.

Project: S4 implementation HANA

Client: KDB Beverages

• Leading a team of 10 team members in SAP procurement module support
• SAP ARIBA:
• Providing support to ARIBA users in downstream modules
• Creation of new reports in ARIBA as per business needs
• Helping users in troubleshooting guided buying and collaborative requisitioning
• Helping buyers understanding the demand aggregation functionality
• Helping suppliers rectifying errors while uploading catalogs
• Helping buyers in errors related to posting PO based invoices in ARIBA
• SAP S/4 HANA
• Providing support to users for procurement module
• Working on incidents for PR/PO/GR/IR troubleshooting
• Providing supports in master data issues, inventory management related issues
• Developing custom reports and FM for mapping various user needs
• Working on complex custom requirements in MM to map the user needs in SAP
• Project: OS DB Upgrade
• Duration:

Project: SPS Upgrade

Client: KDB Beverages

• Managing a team of 20 resources to get the system SPS upgrade
• Worked as manager to get the requirement mapped and creation of SOWs
• Worked as a SRM and MM Senior functional consultant in the DB upgrade of ECC system
• Gathered all the information and requirement from the client and also understood their expectations
• Identified all the changes that have been done in the system to analyze the impact and provided the testing estimate based on the scope of the work
• Identified the critical change objects and the enhancements that have been done in the past
• Tested the functionalities of each object to make sure not bug or defect occurs
• Performed negative testing to make sure that the system is working fine
• Provided hyper care support as well
• Grant of Authority (Workflow implementation)
• Duration:

Project: AMS

Client: KDB Beverages

• Managing a team of 10 resources
• Customer facing role to understand the requirement and expectations
• Worked as manager to get the requirement mapped and creation of SOWs
• Worked as senior functional consultant in changing the PR workflow
• Understood the requirement and developed a new workflow
• Creation of logic and thereby mapping it in functional specification document
• Coordinating with technical team to get the requirements mapped
• Completing FUT and SIT and getting the UAT done from users within time
• Performing cutover activities (Creation of variant and batch jobs)
• Supervising UAT phase and making sure that UAT is done in specified time
• Taking care of UAT defects on time
• Provided complete analysis of UAT defects to client to measure the performance of team
• Supervising smoke testing, interface testing and performance testing during the go live bridge
• Supervising hyper care phase with keeping the data of hyper care period
• Providing complete analysis of incidents occurred during hyper care
• Project: ARIBA implementation/maintenance
• Duration:

Project: ARIBA implementation

Client: KDB Beverages

• Leading a team of 10 resources for ARIBA implementation
• Project manager role in deciding responsibilities of HCL in implementation of ARIBA
• Discussions with client in understanding the requirement and finalizing the scope of HCL
• Creation of blueprints, SOWs and User stories for each phase
• Supervising the implementation phase with concentrating on user stories
• Supervising UAT phase and making sure that UAT is done in specified time
• Taking care of UAT defects on time
• Provided complete analysis of UAT defects to client to measure the performance of team
• Supervising smoke testing, interface testing and performance testing during the go live bridge
• Supervising hyper care phase with keeping the data of hyper care period
• Providing complete analysis of incidents occurred during hyper care
• ARIBA CIG documentation and prosed the steps to connect ARIBA and ECC system
• Importing/exporting data in/from ARIBA and ECC
• Maintaining CIG configurations to connect ECC and ARIBA
• Project: S4 HANA Greenfield implementation
• Duration:, Leading a team of 35 resources for S4 HANA implementation
• Project manager role in implementation of new S4 HANA system for Ireland location
• Implemented using ASAP methodology
• Responsible for deciding the scope for HCL after negotiation with client
• Building team from scratch to start the blueprint phase
• Creation of blueprints, SOWs and User stories for each phase
• Creating risk register to mitigate/delegate risks
• Identifying GAPS and resolving them
• Supervising the implementation phase with concentrating on user stories
• Supervising UAT phase and making sure that UAT is done in specified time
• Taking care of UAT defects on time
• Provided complete analysis of UAT defects to client to measure the performance of team
• Supervising smoke testing, interface testing and performance testing during the go live bridge
• Supervising hyper care phase with keeping the data of hyper care period
• Providing complete analysis of incidents occurred during hyper care.

Project: AMS

Client: Honda Motors

• MM -SRM
• Providing Production support in SAP SRM and MM (S4 HANA)
• Taking care of tickets
• Configuration and customization of SAP SRM module as per business requirement
• Supplier identification and creation using e- sourcing
• Providing support for central contracts and SAP CLM
• Creating Functional Specification document
• Co-ordination with ABAP team for the timely development
• Review and correct master data on monthly basis
• Worked on grooming junior resources and training them in SRM
• Worked on SLA monitoring
• Worked on grooming the junior resources and was a back-up lead
• Project: Upgrade

• Worked as a SRM functional consultant (process lead) of a team to provide support solutions for SRM users working across the globe
• (Extended Classic Scenario of SRM.)
• Worked as a senior resource while handling a team of 3 resources with being a L3 resource, grooming them, providing them KT and supervising their work
• Worked as L3 resource of the team and was responsible of shadow and reverse shadow sessions at onsite
• Responsible for Shopping cart commitments and bridging reports
• Project: Shadow

• Managing a team of 20 resources for system upgrade
• Worked as a project manager assistant and SRM and MM Senior functional consultant to upgrade the SRM system
• (Classic Scenario of SRM)Responsible for mapping business policies in system
• Gathered all the information and requirement from the client and also understood their expectations
• Identified all the changes that have been done in the system to analyze the impact and provided the testing estimate based on the scope of the work
• Identified the critical change objects and the enhancements that have been done in the past
• Tested the functionalities of each object to make sure not bug or defect occurs
• Supervising UAT phase and making sure that UAT is done in specified time
• Taking care of UAT defects on time
• Provided complete analysis of UAT defects to client to measure the performance of team
• Supervising smoke testing, interface testing and performance testing during the go live bridge
• Supervising hyper care phase with keeping the data of hyper care period
• Providing complete analysis of incidents occurred during hyper care
• Performed negative testing to make sure that the system is working fine
• Provided hyper care support as well.

• Worked as a consultant in comparing the incident dump provided by the old vendor (Accenture) to understand the nature of the project
• Worked as a SRM functional consultant to gather SAP SRM client specific documents for KT purpose
• Provided reverse KT sessions to client with old vendor to make sure that there is no gap in understanding.

• Worked as SRM and MM functional consultant (back up lead) to provide support and deployment
• Solutions for SRM users working across the globe
• Manage all the SRM related issues at the time of Go Live
• Creation of company code and plants and SRM organization structure at the time of go live
• Creation of purchase groups in SRM and MM systems
• Maintaining workflow substitution in SRM as well as ECC
• Used to be a fresher and got training in SRM and MM and once ample experience was gained, trained fresh associates as well.

• Was raising new ideas for process improvement and dollar saving for the client
• Focus was to reduce cycle time of multiple SAP processes
• In weekly calls, presented the ideas to customer to get their approval
• Once approval was done, started working on the enhancement as per regular SAP process (FS creation and implementation)