Chaithra A A
Bengaluru
Summary
- A competent professional with 9 years as SAP Ariba & SAP MM Consultant.
- Worked with Accenture and IBM.
- Skilled professional with an analytical and flexible approach to solving problems.
- Significant experience in leading team, handling critical situations, consistent ability to meet deadlines.
- Quick to establish rapport with client that encourages trust and aids in repeat business
- Have extensive experience in Ariba implementation and Support projects, worked on Ariba Up stream and Down Stream Modules.
- Achieved seamless integration of Ariba with SAP ECC, enhancing procurement efficiency. Specialized in contract management and user acceptance testing, driving significant improvements in supplier onboarding processes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Package consultant
IBM
Bangalore
03.2025 - 02.2026
- Facilitated stakeholder workshops to identify business processes, requirements, and pain points, documenting findings for cross-team alignment.
- Mapped their current vs future- state processes for supplier onboarding, Sourcing and Procurement processes.
- Owned the SAP Ariba Sourcing blueprint phase to achieve timely signoff.
- Designed and configured sourcing templates, RFx events (RFI, RFP) and auction formats tailored to category-specific needs.
- Configured approval workflows, event rules, and supplier response formats.
- Designed and configured SLP templates - supplier request and supplier registration templates.
- Integrated Ariba with SAP ECC for seamless data flow between Purchase requisitions to sourcing events and purchase order.
- Managed user acceptance testing (UAT) with cross-functional teams to validate sourcing scenarios and ensure system functionality.
- Developed training materials and conducted hands-on workshops for users across sourcing teams.
Team Lead
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
11.2016 - 02.2025
- Led the supply chain Ariba team of 5 efficiently - by being an individual key contributor as well as team contributor by managing work within team, having regular connects with team and Clients on status updates and delivering as expected within timeframe.
- Independently led Ariba upstream module by handling Ariba Contracts post implementation which involved Legacy contract migrations and Root cause analysis and solutioning of successful Contract integrations with ERP system.
- Handled various template related enhancement request for Sourcing template / Contract template and SLP template as per business requirements and delivered successfully.
- Contributed towards implementation of Guided sourcing functionality and its efficiency for Newmont business and worked with SAP actively.
- Actively involved in system stabilisation tasks - in regular document flow monitoring / listing down key issues and solutioning / improving process flow.
- Key contributor in building CLID utility tool for enhanced user experience which generates ready made CLID file from ERP and loaded to contracts in Ariba upstream.
- Actively involved in legacy Contract migrations process from SAP to Ariba using CyberArk.
- Handled complete Invoicing activities in downstream.
- Worked on Master data Loads to Ariba - ex. User loads / supplier loads. Effectively managing concerns around user access in Ariba Spend Management, Buyer Network.
- Worked on SES, Invoices, PO, GR error monitoring reports, identifying the root cause and fixing them.
- S/4 HANA roll out testing, CI8 to CIG migration. Carried out end to end testings before upgrades (SITs).
- Handled various critical tasks in downstream related to integration issue, related to process and closely working with business users on Ariba requirement and respective testing.
- Have been part of Automation team for Test data creation and script development for various supply chain process scenario's.
- Successfully have handled HPALM very efficiently - from creation, assigning new scripts to completing UT, UAT's along with defect management to status report creations.
- Providing extensive User training /support to users globally by having regular connects with regions resolving their wide range issues.
- Handled sourcing related issues and enhancement request.
- Supplier enablement activities. (Quick enablement Process).
- Setting up Dev and Quality systems for the flow of documents from S/4 to Ariba and Ariba to S/4 after every refresh of the systems.
- Led and efficiently handled HRSP project twice - right from gathering UT / UAT scenarios / setting up HPALM / Identifying testers globally / training them / having regular connects on status / working on defects and its resolution to its final implementation in production.
- Sharing knowledge and training fellow team mates on the Ariba process flow and SAP MM. Also supporting junior resources to match client expectations.
- Handled various complex enhancements requests which involved code corrections / report development related to PR - PO process in SAP MM. Received several appreciation for the same.
- Incidents Management on Service Now, change requests, RITMs.
- Run and monitor P2P reports for issue PO / errored GR's /SES / Order confirmation / ASN andor unpaid invoices. Regularly monitoring and actioning items in CIG / Ariba network to enable zero disruption to business flow.
- Managing the escalations and having daily status connects with client management and discussing on issues and key solution.
Associate Software engineer (ASE) to Software engineer (SE) and to Senior Software Engineer (SSE)
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 08.2020
- Handled multiple projects parallely. Extensively worked on SAP MM - handled and accomplished critical enhancement tasks.
- Worked on SRM - user creation / vendor portal. Worked on Ariba CI9 Integration.
- Worked on Ariba Buyer and Supplier Network.
- Accomplished major enhancement by automating the Ariba monitoring process which reduced manual efforts greatly and aided in massive cost saving to Clients by decreasing tickets created and received huge appreciation from clients.
- Buyer end- creation of Purchase Requisitions (related to Catalog and non-Catalog items) and Receipts. Supplier end- confirmation of Purchase Orders, Advance Shipping Notifications and Invoices.
- Trained users on Confirmation of Purchase Orders, ASN and Receipts in Ariba.
- Extensive testing for the data flow from Ariba to SAP and vice versa.
- Handled client calls on daily basis to discuss on the requirements and effective solutioning within deadlines.
- Test scripts for the complete P2P cycle and supporting developers on the daily issues of testing for successful dry runs for other processes.
- Worked on SNOW Tool, picking up tickets and resolving.
- Maintaining Master data records of Material, Vendor and Service (like creation, changes, deletion, setting up new plant, extension from one plant to another plant, UOM updating, material description changes, warehouse, storage location extensions).
- Setting up variants / monitoring Batch Jobs on SAP and Redwood tool.
- Resolving/educating users on raising PR and PO, root cause analysis on integration issues, Contract / Purchase info record / missing condition record updates.
- Making of Process Presentations.
- Created master data for testing - Material mater, Vendor master, Info record and Source list.
- Handled Priority 1 / Priority 2 issues efficiently without causing much hindrance to business process.
- Extended support round the clock in times of business criticality.
Education
B.E - Industrial engineering and management (IEM)
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of technology
Bengaluru01-2016
Airforce School
Hebbal, Bengaluru03-2012
Army public school
BengaluruSkills
- Ariba sourcing and contract management
- Ariba buying and invoicing
- SAP MM expertise
- Ariba SLP proficiency
- HP ALM experience
- Team collaboration
- Microsoft Office suite
- Supplier onboarding
- User acceptance testing
- Training material development
- Business process mapping
- Client relationship management
Accomplishments
Received many awards related to productivity for achieving significant automation and impactful delivery.
Languages
- English
- Kannada
- Kodava
- Hindi
Past Times
- Crochet
- Reading
- Volunteer at Isha Foundation
Personal Information
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Indian
Certification
SAP Ariba procurement certification
Timeline
Package consultant
IBM
03.2025 - 02.2026
Associate Software engineer (ASE) to Software engineer (SE) and to Senior Software Engineer (SSE)
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 08.2020
Team Lead
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
11.2016 - 02.2025
B.E - Industrial engineering and management (IEM)
Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of technology
Airforce School
Army public school