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Giridharan S

Chennai,TN

Summary

9003067647 Buyer (Material Management & Procurement Operations & Sourcing) with overall 9+ Years of experience in Ariba SAP projects, Negotiation, Material Management, Cost savings initiatives, Spend Analysis, Procurement operation activity & Escalation Queue. Key strength is the knowledge of implementing contract lifecycle management and supplier lifecycle performance for vendor onboarding in Ariba to execute all related service agreement and SOW. Chennai | Jan- 2013 – Present

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Order Manager, DOA and Production Specialist

Wipro Ltd
  • Year 2 Month of experience in Supply Chain Coordinator on Order Booking and Procurement activity on Service level purchased UPFRONT | HP

Supply Chain Coordinator

Technology Solutions
  • On Non IT Sourcing , P2P, Procurement activity and handled Escalation Queue for customer support | Wipro Ltd |
  • 2 Year 4 Month of experience on P2P, procurement operation and hands on contract execution Ariba Projects (CLM and SLP) | Cognizant

Senior Officer

RESPONSIBILITIES INHP INC
04.2015 - 06.2017
  • Analyzing & Approving the Purchase Request with the reference of the quote, SOW, and agreement
  • Creating the Purchase order based on the Purchase request, stock availability with supplier and also based on the quotations in order to decide the quantity level, price, payment terms and delivery date
  • Timely Issuance of Purchase order to the Vendors and providing the routing guide which includes the correct shipping address and the carrier information
  • Coordinating with vendors for on time Delivery of the purchase order to warehouse and working with warehouse team to deliver the PO to right user or Requestor
  • Support Requestors as the First Point of Contact for resolution of all Process Queries
  • Coordinate with Internal Business Partner (requestor) and Supplier for Purchase Order modification, cancellation, quantity discrepancy, price discrepancy and involved in RMA process
  • On time completion of Open PO Report, shortage report and aged order report
  • PO closure and Co-ordinate for Payment with supplier as well as payment team and Internal Business Partner
  • Work with Vendors to address & resolve invoices on payment holds by prioritizing on aged holds and high value
  • Performs not only tangible products but also intangible products such as software, license, renewal, consulting, subscription and digital goods
  • Preparing Customized reports for analyzing and incorporating improvements in processes
  • ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • Successfully Completed Process Transition
  • Preparing Metrics and Reports for all sites
  • Preparing report for all aged invoices for all sites and distribute report to all sites in order avoid delay in processing overdue invoices
  • Generates OTD report for all sites, to avoid delay in delivery of goods or services to End user
  • INITIATIVE TAKEN, Project was to reduce the AP challenges i.e
  • Reduce time duration for processing the aged invoice
  • ACHIEVEMENTS:
  • Achieved a various award for timely issuing POs to supplier and extra mile award for handling multiple customer.

Officer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES INDIA (P) LTD, Wipro Ltd
01.2013 - 03.2015
  • Procurement, purchasing, PO Creation, tire 1, 2, 3, supplier commitments follow up, commit Delivery confirmation from supplier to warehouse and from ware house to customer, vendor relationship, Master data Management, Stock Analysis
  • Follow up with the Order Manager and Project Manager for a CSO correction, material Structure Correction, Price, Cancellation, Modification, and delivery invoice
  • CSO creation, OD, Shipment Invoices, quote and price analysis
  • Involved in preparing weekly report
  • Buyer’s KPI preparation
  • Involved in Analyzing and resolving the customer’s complaint (Site) and improve the team’s performance
  • Sales Order Creation, Change & Cancellation
  • Placing the purchase order and follow up the same and coordinating with vendors for actual delivery status of material
  • Coordinate with Internal Business Partner (requestor) and Supplier for Purchase Order Changes and Managing supplier's database
  • Check on PO cancellation and delivery push out POs with suppliers to avoid excess inventory
  • Ensure buyer fulfilling production floor shortage
  • Interact with accounts department to solve payment issues (blocked invoices) with suppliers to avoid delivery on hold.

Senior Officer

Wipro Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2018
  • Working under the team of CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, for the United States and Canada countries
  • We receive escalations from the Customers and Higher officials and obstacles faced by them
  • Handling both internal (front end) and external customers to resolve their queries, issues etc
  • Within the TAT
  • Demonstrate the customer issues and work pro-actively with groups, vendors, IT teams and with manager if required to resolve issues in timely manner
  • Working in invoice process, where we need to bill or issue credit to the customer within deadline
  • Participate On-call rotation, and able to resolve customer issue on time
  • We discuss through calls to explain the customers issue to our front-end team (US and CANADA) to satisfy the customer’s issues at the earliest
  • I act as a single point of contact by maintaining a profound knowledge of issues faced by the customers
  • Passion towards customer service is key for success in this role
  • ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • Team weekly deck report creation to provide correct volume proceed by the team for client view
  • Various Reports pulled for team to maintain the 100% accuracy level in production (E.g
  • Delivery date reports, MD ticket reports, PO creation report etc.…)
  • INITIATIVE TAKEN:
  • Supported various other teams, which is out of my scope.

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
12.2018 - Current
  • Managing contracts or agreements and relationship between entities by properly planning all the contract management stages resulting in reducing, eliminating or mitigating financial, legal and procurement risks
  • Liaise with Legal, Relationship managers, Suppliers, Project managers, Third party risk etc to process contracts in CLM and SLP
  • Act with the sense of urgency, quality control, risk/legal adherence
  • Utilize the standard statement of work (SOW) process & support infrastructure to manage each engagement
  • Provide support & escalation to LOB/Region in order to issues rising from the activities within the CLM process
  • Leverage support organizations such as Procurement, Legal, Finance, etc
  • To ensure compliance within the CLM process
  • Accountable for the initiation, management, processing, tracking & reporting for all contract documents
  • Led cross-functional 10-member teams comprising of Procurement contract operation and Vendor Management
  • Contract Management: New, Renewal & Amendment negotiated and defined key savings drivers for commodities across multiple levers - Cost, Quality, and Service Levels
  • Worked across multiple phases of a project, spanning business case definition, project initiation, scoping, requirements detailing, solution selection, and support to, planning and performing UAT, and end-user training
  • Complete S2P Cycle in Ariba: Process, Order Management, Procurement contract management (CLM), vendor management (SLP), Audit Support - Internal, and Client
  • ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
  • Provide weekly status report for both contract management &vendor management to business
  • Various Reports pulled for team to maintain the 100% accuracy level in production (Contract request, Metrics Dashboard, Stake-holder report and Legal report
  • INITIATIVE TAKEN:
  • Established process training for CLM and SLP implementation in Ariba all over the Globe
  • Engaged with SAP team to provide various input to implement CLM in our organization
  • Supported various team during pandemic situation to execute multiple contract.

Skills

  • Hands on experience in Performing Negotiation, Strategic & Tactical Buying, Inventory, Vendor Management & Procurement activity (CLM & SLP), by handling 200parts with suppliers like, 3W power solution, HPCPE ITALIA SPA, TE CONNECTIVITY, AMPHENOL, FLEXTRONICS etc
  • Have a strong Analytical skill in Analyzing price, proposal, quote, SOW, and agreements with the impact of changing trends
  • Have been a key resource and subject matter expert for Non IT sourcing(RFx, Proposal Analysis and vendor onboarding)
  • Have been a key resource to implement Ariba projects for global procurement contract execution
  • TECHNICALL SKILLS:
  • HandsonExperience on:
  • SAP SD (Sales and Distribution)
  • SAP MM (Material Management)
  • SAP Ariba (CLM & SLP)
  • ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:
  • Bachelor of Engineering (ECE) under Anna University with 66 CGPA
  • Personal Skills
  • Good communication skill
  • Fast learner and can adapt easily to any kind of environment
  • Good in team work and team leading
  • Personal profile
  • Gender:
  • MALE
  • Nationality : Indian
  • Date of birth: 10041991
  • Father name: D Srinivasan
  • Declaration
  • I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge
  • Place:
  • Chennai Signature:
  • (S Giridharan)

Education

BE - ECE

Agni College
Chennai
05.2012 - 05.2012

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

On-SiteHybridRemote

Important To Me

Career advancement

Timeline

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
12.2018 - Current

Senior Officer

Wipro Ltd
07.2017 - 07.2018

Senior Officer

RESPONSIBILITIES INHP INC
04.2015 - 06.2017

Officer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES INDIA (P) LTD, Wipro Ltd
01.2013 - 03.2015

BE - ECE

Agni College
05.2012 - 05.2012

Order Manager, DOA and Production Specialist

Wipro Ltd

Supply Chain Coordinator

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