Payal Sharma

• Evaluated supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness in quality, price and delivery.
• Negotiated complex corporate procurement contracts by working closely with internal and external contacts.
• Developed and maintained relationships with key suppliers for smooth communication and to meet required expectations.
• Maintained documentation for all purchases.
• Maintained effective and lasting vendor relationships through dynamic communication, collaboration and intelligent questioning skills.
• Accepted and processed supply requests from staff, and placed orders per procedures.
• Worked with departments to find new and better items to fulfill diverse needs.
• Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
• Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.

• Developed requests for proposal and issued requests for quotes to support sourcing efforts.
• Calculated and reported actual and projected sourcing savings by spend categories.
• Administered agreements by negotiating change orders, executing contract extensions and resolving administrative issues.
• Liaised with internal and external stakeholders to identify and leverage contract value opportunities.
• Delivered procurement impact savings in accordance with [Type] objectives.
• Participated in [Type] business meetings to collect and relay sourcing assignment details.
• Analyzed spend data to identify and execute cost-savings, cost-avoidance and value analysis opportunities.
• Developed and implemented strategic purchasing procedures and control systems to reduce direct costs and carrying costs.
• Managed and developed relationships with suppliers to attain maximum cost efficiency and leverage buying power.
• Collaborated with strategic partners to develop and manage key performance indicators and quality assurance processes.
• Supported recovery activities to prevent supply disruptions caused by business closures and accounting delays.

• Owning and Supporting end to end business cycle of HMEL’s procurement through SAP SRM/MM.
• Monitoring and support of day to day reported issues raised for End to end business functionality runs under SAP SRM portal and material management process.
• Bug analysis/root cause analysis, configuration, bug fixing and delivery of incidents,problems and performing UT, UAT and bug fixing of Change Requests
• Requirement discussion for existing and upcoming requirements, carrying over requirements through incident or CR through implementation
• Test cases preparation, executions and verification and validation of test results.
• Designed solution for enhancing the Vendor Survey Creation and evaluation as per business requirements,
• Worked on Enhancement for RFX POWL Search and Second Time Price Opening for backend Purchase Requisition (PR).
• Responsible for Creation of contact person for bidders, vendors in SRM system.
• Involved in vendor support by helping vendors in tendering process.
• Providing quarterly user training to end users.

b. GST Implementation Support within SRM:

• Supported GST implementation project for SRM portals.
• Prepared functional specifications, test scenarios, test cases for the implementation of GST tax modules for SRM.
• Changed price procedure (Tax condition from Excise, VAT to GST and mapped with SRM portal) and validating test results during project executions.
• Worked on change request as before after functional impacts of GST on SRM.
• Solution support for RFx, price comparison, Tax calculations, pricing procedure, tendering process.

c. HANA Upgrade Support:

• Participation in End to end activity for HANA upgrade.
• Owned functional and technical testing for end to end cycle for procurement for SRM modules.
• Bug fixing and support after HANA upgrade.

• Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing,
• Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
• Worked closely with different departments to develop innovative solutions to functionality issues.
• Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
• Managed Vendor support and co-ordination.