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Prabakaran S

Chennai

Summary

Certified Coupa application consultant with a strong track record of driving digital transformation initiatives for multiple high-profile clients, successfully implementing Coupa as a procure-to-pay solution. Proven results in optimizing procurement processes, resulting in substantial cost savings and efficiency improvements. Possesses an in-depth understanding of Coupa's capabilities and excels at tailoring solutions to meet the unique needs of clients. Focused on enabling clients to leverage Coupa as a comprehensive Source-to-Pay (S2P) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solution while building seamless integrations around their business processes.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Consulting Analyst

Clearsulting
01.2025 - Current
  • Implemented Coupa to multiple mid market clients through Coupa independent delivery model
  • Implemented Expenses, Coupa Pay, SIM, InvoiceSmash and P2P modules as a techno functional consultant

Lead E2E Coupa Implementations as a Coupa Techno Functional consultant to multiple clients
Led functional design workshops for Coupa P2P & SIM modules, delivering tailored configurations that streamlined processes and improved adoption
Prepared Functional Business Process Designs, conducted fit-gap analysis, developed SIT scripts, MTP, and defect trackers, while identifying and addressing product/process gaps
Worked on E2E Integration design, build, test, and deployment and delivered Coupa complex functional requirements with API solutions
Led technical workshops with MW and ERP teams, delivering 35+ integration designs to integrate Coupa with Oracle and SAP
Played a key role in migrating the master data from ERP to Coupa and automated SIM record creation via Postman which saved around 100 hours of manual effort
Delivered product demos to diverse audiences, supporting high- and low-level designs. Provided internal training, mentored new joiners for practice development
Performed spend analysis to identify the right buying channel and worked with suppliers & category managers to create catalogue, punchouts & requisition line forms in Coupa
Practice Development
Conducted multiple trainings to internal colleagues to increase the cross trained resources and participated in recruitment drives
Created integration accelerators which has reduced the timeline for integration development

Senior Consultant - Digital Transformation

Deloitte USI
08.2020 - 01.2025
  • Lead E2E Coupa Implementations as a Coupa Techno Functional consultant to multiple clients
  • Led functional design workshops for Coupa P2P & SIM modules, delivering tailored configurations that streamlined processes and improved adoption
  • Prepared Functional Business Process Designs, conducted fit-gap analysis, developed SIT scripts, MTP, and defect trackers, while identifying and addressing product/process gaps
  • Worked on E2E Integration design, build, test, and deployment and delivered Coupa complex functional requirements with API solutions
  • Led technical workshops with MW and ERP teams, delivering 35+ integration designs to integrate Coupa with Oracle and SAP
  • Played a key role in migrating the master data from ERP to Coupa and automated SIM record creation via Postman which saved around 100 hours of manual effort
  • Delivered product demos to diverse audiences, supporting high- and low-level designs. Provided internal training, mentored new joiners for practice development
  • Performed spend analysis to identify the right buying channel and worked with suppliers & category managers to create catalogue, punchouts & requisition line forms in Coupa

Practice Development

  • Conducted multiple trainings to internal colleagues to increase the cross trained resources and participated in recruitment drives
  • Created integration accelerators which has reduced the timeline for integration development

Coupa SME

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2018 - 08.2020
  • Lead Coupa offshore AMS team for a leading education sector company and provided support across USA, UK, and Canada for Coupa S2P, CLM, Analytics modules
  • Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Training the end user and solving the customer Queries
  • Conducted Integration review sessions with ERP team and reduced the integration failures by 70 % using Coupa best practices which helped to reduce Incidents & Problem ticket volume by 60 % YoY
  • Contributed to practice development by training campus hires and participating in recruitment drives

Coupa Application Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
01.2015 - 10.2018
  • Implemented Coupa as procure to pay solution and Implemented Purchasing, Inventory, analytics modules to a leading reinsurance client
  • Rolling out Coupa to new countries and Configured Readsoft (OCR tool) to process paper/pdf invoice into Coupa
  • Configured Punch out, catalogues in Coupa and Worked on setting up currencies, exchange rates and Inventory setup
  • Configuring COA Setup, Tax codes, Approval chain, commodity, Tolerances and customized the liquid PO template

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Sathyabama University
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Coupa

  • Procurement

  • Transformation

  • Integrations

  • CLMS

  • Business Process

Timeline

Senior Consulting Analyst

Clearsulting
01.2025 - Current

Senior Consultant - Digital Transformation

Deloitte USI
08.2020 - 01.2025

Coupa SME

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2018 - 08.2020

Coupa Application Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
01.2015 - 10.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Sathyabama University
04.2001 -
Prabakaran S