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Manikumar SVS

Bangalore

Summary

SAP Ariba Expert with 15 years of experience in consulting, delivery leadership, and solution architecture across SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Guided Buying, Supplier Performance Management, Supplier Network, and Ariba Upstream capabilities. Extensive experience in SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay, BAU operations, Integration with CIG and ITK, Stakeholder management, and Change Management for S2C.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Ariba Solution Architect

Merck Group
11.2023 - Current
  • Led implementation of Ariba Guided Sourcing, achieving 30% improvement in sourcing efficiency
  • Configured catalogs and workflows to reduce maverick spend
  • Conducted UAT and training with 90%+ adoption rate
  • Managed change management for Source-to-Contract (S2C) processes
  • Worked in Configuration of entire Guided Buying for different PU’s.
  • Contract migration to LEDOX
  • Working on new entity adoption projects and entity decommissioning projects

Senior Manager – SAP Ariba

Capgemini
08.2022 - 06.2023
  • Worked on enablement of tactical sourcing and activating required parameters for the same.
  • Configured Template for self-service, Low touch and High touch policies.
  • Created policies for the smooth and controlled working of Tactical sourcing.
  • Worked on Guided Sourcing Implementation.
  • Delivered Ariba BAU support with 95% SLA adherence

Delivery Manager / SAP Consulting

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
10.2021 - 05.2022
  • Worked on the end-to-end implementation of Ariba Guided Buying.
  • Involved in maintaining of Guided Buying screens using Json, Excel and UI.
  • Maintain translation and modify the landing pages for the Purchasing Units.
  • Created Validation policies and Forms.
  • Enabled tactical sourcing.
  • Defined End points for GB and AN.
  • Created forms and handled field mapping.
  • Defined entire touch policy for tactical sourcing.

SAP ARIBA Delivery Lead / Enhancement Consultant

Standard Chartered Global Business Services
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • Delivered SLP, Contracts, Sourcing implementations
  • Created custom sourcing templates to improve efficiency by 25%
  • Worked on setting up entire approval flow for Sourcing Events
  • Acted as escalation point for sourcing issues
  • Template and workflow design

SAP Ariba Technical Lead

Mindtree Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 09.2019
  • S2P Implementation
  • Requirements gathering, solution design
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing & Contracts configuration
  • Contract migration, master data mapping
  • Testing, deployment, and stakeholder communication

SAP Ariba Functional Consultant

Capgemini
12.2013 - 10.2017
  • Worked on the end-to-end implementation of Ariba Guided Buying.
  • Involved in maintaining of Guided Buying screens using Json, Excel and UI.
  • Maintain translation and modify the landing pages for the Purchasing Units.
  • Created Validation policies and Forms.
  • Worked in the implementation of CIG.
  • Involved in Creating FDD and FSD documents in discovery phase.
  • Involved in enabling of CIG, creation of Integration Projects, Maintaining of custom mappings and also maintaining the configurations in SAP system.
  • Involved in testing phase on testing the end-to-end cycle of transactional documents.
  • Creation of supplier Request.
  • Marking supplier for Registration, Qualification and maintaining supplier as Preferred.
  • Maintaining trading relationship and transactional rules along with creation of Supplier groups.
  • Worked in 2 support projects for P2O support.
  • Also involved in daily monitoring activity for B&I system and CIG.
  • Worked in Maintaining Transactional rules for supplier.
  • Configuring and modifying Endpoints for enhancement requests.
  • Managing trading relationships for the supplier transaction rules.
  • Maintaining notification settings.

SAP SRM Functional Consultant

IBM
01.2014 - 12.2014
  • SAP SRM support for Ericsson, Stockholm
  • Incident resolution within SLA
  • Organizational management, catalog setup
  • Vendor replication, PO issues
  • User replication and problem analysis
  • Test execution and reporting

SAP SRM/MM Functional Associate

IBM
07.2009 - 12.2013
  • SAP SRM support for British Petroleum – Castellon, Spain
  • Classic scenario incident support
  • Testing, user management, organizational attributes
  • SAP standard issue resolution
  • Knowledge documentation and reporting

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

GIET College
2011

Bachelor of Science -

Rajiv Gandhi Degree & P.G College
2007

Skills

  • SAP Ariba
  • Sourcing & Contracts
  • Guided Sourcing & Guided Buying
  • SAP SRM
  • CIG
  • ECC & S/4 HANA
  • Stakeholder Management & Key User Training
  • Testing
  • Quality Assurance
  • Change Management
  • Issue Resolution
  • JIRA ,BMC Remedy & ServiceNow
  • Solution Design
  • BRD &TDD ,Test Cases
  • Knowledge Transfer

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information provided is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Timeline

SAP Ariba Solution Architect

Merck Group
11.2023 - Current

Senior Manager – SAP Ariba

Capgemini
08.2022 - 06.2023

Delivery Manager / SAP Consulting

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
10.2021 - 05.2022

SAP ARIBA Delivery Lead / Enhancement Consultant

Standard Chartered Global Business Services
09.2019 - 09.2021

SAP Ariba Technical Lead

Mindtree Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 09.2019

SAP SRM Functional Consultant

IBM
01.2014 - 12.2014

SAP Ariba Functional Consultant

Capgemini
12.2013 - 10.2017

SAP SRM/MM Functional Associate

IBM
07.2009 - 12.2013

Master of Computer Applications -

GIET College

Bachelor of Science -

Rajiv Gandhi Degree & P.G College

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