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Dhannanjay Kumar

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished SAP Ariba Integration Lead at SAP Labs with extensive 12 years of experience in integrating Ariba modules with S/4HANA public and private cloud solutions. Expertise in SAP Integration Suite, SAP Business Technology Platform, and API management. Achievements include directing AI capabilities development in SAP Ariba and S/4HANA, along with architecting global experience center projects. Proven ability to lead complex integrations across platforms such as Sales Cloud and Service Cloud within S/4HANA environments.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SAP Ariba integration lead

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 04.2026
  • Next-Gen AI Leadership: led the AI orchestration of Unified Joule and next-gen AI capabilities across SAP Ariba and S/4HANA, positioning AI as a central pillar of cross-application navigation.
  • Global Architecture: Architected and delivered high-visibility Experience Centre projects in Paris, New York, and Berlin, creating world-class environments for showcasing SAP’s integrated portfolio.
  • Full-suite Ariba expertise: Spearheaded integration for the complete SAP Ariba suite (sourcing, procurement, business network) with S/4HANA Public and Private Cloud using CIG (Managed Gateway), mediated connectivity, and advanced APIs.
  • Worked on all Ariba integration modules with S/4HANA, including sourcing, and procurement.
  • Developed quality landscapes for presales, enhancing customer demonstrations.
  • Led the creation of AI capabilities in SAP Ariba and integrated them with S/4HANA.
  • Architected global experience centre projects in multiple regions, focusing on client needs.
  • Collaborated with teams to integrate various cloud solutions, ensuring seamless operations.
  • Strategic Demo Assets: Developed and maintained mission-critical quality landscapes and 'Private Demo Realms' used globally by Presales and Partners to drive customer conversions.
  • Cross-Solution Integration: Engineered a comprehensive Value Asset integrating SAP Workzone, SuccessFactors, Ariba, S/4HANA, Concur, and Fieldglass, demonstrating a truly "Intelligent Enterprise" for the global learning team.
  • Partner Ecosystem Leadership: Served as Integration Lead for Intelligent Enterprise S2P, establishing integration guidelines for 100+ partners across S/4HANA, Fieldglass, and Concur, using BTP, CPI, and SAP PI/PO.
  • Cloud & Hybrid Connectivity: Successfully integrated Sales Cloud and Service Cloud with S/4HANA environments; specialized in IAS and SSO enablement to ensure secure, seamless cross-solution access.
  • Innovation & Prototyping: Led "Value Prototyping" and custom integration projects for Ariba, creating bespoke solutions for complex procurement and sourcing scenarios.
  • Supply Chain & Sustainability: Orchestrated the setup for the Logistics Business Network (LBN) and collaborated on enabling the Sustainability Control Tower (SCT) and Catena-X within global customer contexts.
  • Advanced API Implementation: Led the deployment of high-end Ariba APIs for external event management, enabling automated sourcing project creation from non-SAP systems.
  • Master Data & Technical Governance: Masterminded complex Master Data Integrations via MDGS and MDNI, ensuring high-integrity synchronization across ERP and Ariba realms.
  • End-to-End Development: Directed full-lifecycle development for ERP-to-Ariba scenarios (ECC/S4), including custom CIG mapping, OData APIs, OAuth security configurations, and SPROXY-based interfaces.
  • Business Transformation: Designed and implemented approval flows and templates for SLP, Sourcing, and Contracts, while managing critical cutover activities across multiple procurement modules.
  • Technical Troubleshooting: Resolved complex integration bottlenecks involving Cloud Connector, client certificates, and SAP transport customizations to ensure system stability.

Consultant

Bristlecone India Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 07.2019
  • Worked as Integration Lead in the offshore-onshore model.
  • End-to-end design and configuration of Ariba Master Data Interfaces and transactional interfaces using Ariba-provided standard .tpz files and WSDL.
  • Requirement gathering and creation of the BBP and integration design documents based on the customer landscape.
  • Interfaced with client leads and became trusted advisor or confidant to client.
  • Configuration of End points in Ariba Test and Production Realm.
  • Creation of Project and setting up Ariba CIG and cloud connector to establish connectivity.
  • Carried out data analysis and assessment and presented results to management.
  • Configuration and customisation of SAP transports in the ERP/S4 HANA system.
  • Configuration of client certificate in SAP ERP/S4.
  • End-to-end testing of the interfaces by triggering messages from SAP ECC (proxy), generating the ECC proxy from SPROXY, and checking the end-to-end configuration.
  • Creation of the custom interfaces using the existing web services in SAP PI.
  • Implemented innovative methodologies for process improvement, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity.
  • Bristlecone is a Mahindra & Mahindra company.

Business Technology Analyst

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2017 - 01.2018
  • Worked as Ariba Integration consultant for BOSE CORPORATION – Sourcing and P2P integration including Invoice Management.
  • End to end design and configuration of Ariba Master Data Interfaces and transactional interfaces using Ariba provided standard .tpz files and WSDL.
  • Configuration of ESR, ID and SLD objects.
  • Configuration of End points in Ariba Test and Production Realm.
  • Understanding of the complete requirement and configuration of Adapter in PI.
  • Configuration of ID object by importing models from ES repository.
  • Configuration of Client certificate in PI.
  • Creation of PI TS.
  • End to End testing of the interfaces by triggering messages from SAP ECC (proxy), generation of ECC proxy from SPROXY and checking end to end configuration.

PA (Programmer Analyst)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2014 - 02.2017
  • Worked as Integration Consultant for integration of Different B2B solutions.
  • Was responsible for developing customizations in SAP PI and SAP ERP, developing and configuring integration scenarios in SAP PI and ERP.
  • Extensively used IDOC, RFC, SOAP, FILE, JDBC, JMS, Mail and HTTP Adapters, for both inbound and outbound processing, ABAP proxies and various BPM patterns.
  • Development Experience in PI Interface scenarios, Integration Processes, Message Interfaces, Inbound & Outbound Interfaces, Data Types, Message Types, Imported IDOCs/RFCs into PI, Context objects and Mappings programs/objects using XSLT, Java and ABAP in IR.
  • Monitoring critical Interfaces.
  • Designing and configuration of PI/PO interfaces.
  • Configuration of Master and transaction data interfaces.
  • Creation of TS related to master and transactional data.
  • Preparing monitoring reports.
  • Handling user incidents and providing solutions.
  • Responsible for coordinating with other SAP teams for issue resolutions.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B. TECH) - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CV Raman college of Engineering
Bhubaneswar

Skills

  • Certified SAP integration suite
  • Cloud solutions with SAP S/4HANA
  • Sourcing expertise in SAP Ariba
  • API management with SAP technologies
  • Business technology platform proficiency
  • AI technologies in SAP applications
  • Integration using SAP PI/PO
  • ABAP programming skills in SAP environments
  • Java development for enterprise applications
  • Architectural design for integrations
  • Strategies for cloud integration
  • Management of master data systems
  • Reporting and data analysis skills
  • Relationship management with clients
  • Methodologies for process improvement
  • Collaboration across functional teams
  • Development of custom mappings for integrations
  • Expertise in sourcing and procurement processes

Languages

English
Hindi
Maithili
Sanskrit

Additional Activities

  • Integration suite classroom training
  • Provide training to SAP Ariab cloud integration gateway to new joiner
  • SAP PO/PI Development, Trained new team member on SAP PI/PO
  • SAP Ariba CIG, Design and configuration of Ariba integration using CIG as mediated connectivity
  • Worked on the custom integration scenario

Acknowledgement

The above career information, academic information, Bio data furnished above is correct to the best of my knowledge.

Personal Information

Father's Name: Kumar Kant Jha

Certification

  • SAP Integration suite Certification
  • SAP ARIBA CIG Certification

Awards

  • Hat’s OFF award for immense contribution toward project
  • Associate of the Quarter
  • SAP Achievement award for successful implementation of Commerce automation with multi-ERP backend system with CIG
  • Co-ordinated Demos of SAP Ariba solution for Partner and customer in SAP teched 2019

Hobbies and Interests

  • Playing cricket
  • Cooking
  • Reading books on Indian History

Hobbies and Interests

  • Reading Books
  • Hitting gyms

Timeline

SAP Ariba integration lead

SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 04.2026

Consultant

Bristlecone India Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 07.2019

Business Technology Analyst

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2017 - 01.2018

PA (Programmer Analyst)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2014 - 02.2017

Bachelor of Engineering (B. TECH) - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CV Raman college of Engineering

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