Senior Consultant, SAP Ariba at HRoad India Pvt Ltd (2024-08 – Present)
Key Clients: Fujifilm, Fairfax Water, Wells, AHF, Pacira Biosciences, Nexus Water Group, Eisai, Perdoceo, Net Jets, University of Nebraska. Provide functional and technical consulting support to 8+ global SAP Ariba clients across SLP, Sourcing, Contracts, and B&I modules. Manage and resolve high-priority production incidents with 99%+ uptime SLA compliance.
- Enabled and configured SAP Joule AI capabilities for 2 clients using SAP BTP, SSO, IAS, and SAP Build Work Zone.
- Design and deploy complex approval workflows integrating client governance and compliance requirements. Configure 50+ workflow variants across SLP, Sourcing, and Contracts modules leveraging functionality.
- Worked on Master data enhancements like Supplier, User, and Organization data from ECC / S4 to Ariba.
- Rollout for New department for Sourcing Auction – Create Sourcing Auction templates, Configured Rules and Strategy for Auction, approval flow.
- Worked on Contract template change for New contract, Amendment or Renewal, Complex conditions for Visibility, Derived Approval condition based on Template questions.
- Led SIT & UAT for Supplier Lifecycle Performance (SLP) across 350+ scenarios integrated with 4 ERP systems (SAP & Oracle via BTP); raised and tracked defects through resolution.
- Architect and implement Single Sign-On (SSO) integration using SAP Cloud Identity Services (CIS) BTP, enhancing authentication security and user access management.
- Integrated Third party application (One source Tax calculation) with Ariba B&I module.
- Lead cross-functional troubleshooting and resolution of complex integration issues between SAP Ariba and external systems. Diagnose root causes and implement solutions within 24–48-hour SLAs.
- Led a team of 6–7 members, managed escalation calls, supported resolution of complex issues, prepared change effort estimations, and facilitated requirement discussions with business stakeholders.
- Drive adoption initiatives in partnership with Change, Learning, and Adoption (CLA) teams. Conduct stakeholder meetings, gather feedback, and implement strategies to increase platform utilization and user satisfaction.
- Participated in SAP Next-Gen Beta Testing, identifying, reporting defects across Sourcing, SLP, and Contracts modules; actively involved in Next-Gen planning calls with SAP.
- Mentor junior consultants on CIG integrations, SLP, Sourcing, Contract and B&I workflow configuration, and incident management. Build internal knowledge repository with best practices and troubleshooting guides.
- Worked on SLP, Sourcing and Contract Template changes, Admin and Core Admin Configuration, DocuSign integration, Implemented Auction templates and rollout to new departments, Modular Questionnaires, Discovery postings, SLP integration issues in BTP, Custom development.
- Developed functional specifications, FSD and TSD, IT Test Script, Business Test script, integration requirements with SAP, Oracle, and third-party system.
- Delivered Central Invoice Management (CIM) integration with S/4HANA Public Cloud using 2NV (BTP, CIG, and Business Network); received client appreciation for successful go live.
- Proficient in project and service management tools including SolMan, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Jira, Kantata, and Smartsheet.
- Closely worked SAP Ariba shared service team for enabling custom functionality and adding custom field using CRD process based on the business requirement.
- Responsible for Ariba transaction routing setup and Ariba end point configuration.
- Engage with global stakeholders (Legal, Procurement, Finance, CX, Commercial, BT Sourced, Product, Engineering).
Senior Consultant, SAP Ariba at ONEOK, Inc. (2024-08 – 2025-10)
Led 18-month end-to-end SLP and Category Management implementation. Orchestrated requirements gathering, design workshops, and business process mapping across procurement and finance teams.
- Architected SLP templates (Request, Registration, Qualification) with modular questionnaires and custom approval workflows meeting regional compliance and governance requirements.
- Designed and deployed Category Management solution leveraging SAP BTP extensions. Configured PDW integration to surface spend data in CatMan tool, enabling data-driven sourcing decisions.
- Worked on Spend data loader with Spend data files.
- Identify gaps, issues, and work around solutions.
- Document functional designs, test cases and results.
- Prepare user guides, process documentation, SOPs, and supporting materials.
- Implemented Identity Authentication (IAS) and Identity Provisioning (IPS) integration via SAP BTP. Automated 200+ user replications and SSO provisioning, eliminating manual access provisioning tasks.
- Managed Client custom Field configuration under CDET program, completed CDET training.
- Executed comprehensive testing lifecycle: Unit Testing (UT), System Integration Testing (SIT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Achieved 95%+ test case pass rate at UAT cutover.
- Managed cutover activities and go-live stabilization phase. Resolved critical issues during first 30 days with zero impact to supplier transactions or system availability.
- Collaborated with Icertis integration team to synchronize contract lifecycle data between Ariba Contracts and third-party contract management system.
- Trained 50+ super-users and process stakeholders. Achieved 92% user adoption within 60 days of go-live.
Associate Consultant, SAP Ariba Implementation at Infrabeat Technologies Pvt Ltd (2023-02 – 2024-06)
Associate Consultant, SAP Ariba Implementation at VADILAL GROUP (2023-12 – 2024-05)
Delivered end-to-end SAP Ariba SLP and Commerce Automation implementation across 3 business units. Managed full lifecycle from AS-IS process mapping through post-go-live optimization.
- Played role as Ariba Integration/techno functional which Involves customization of ARIBA, MM system and Technical Design, Coding of interfaces, enhancements using CIG, IDOC ABAP, BADIs.
- Designed SLP workflows (supplier request, registration, qualification) with custom field logic for payment method and GST vendor classification.
- SOAMANGER configuration for web services, closely worked with C4C team to ensure the configuration between SAP and ARIBA integration through web services.
- Experience in debugging the DRFOUT, closely worked with cross-functional team to resolve the technical issues.
- Configured procure-to-pay Commerce Automation scenarios: Purchase Requisition (PR), Purchase Order (PO), Goods Receipt (GR), Advanced Ship Notice (ASN), Order Confirmation, Invoice, and Remittance Advice.
- Developed custom interface to load FMD files, Workflow lookup file and Relation entry files into Ariba system through CIG.
- Managed technical setup including S/4HANA SPRO, CIG, and Cloud Connector configurations across four major projects.
- Architected CIG custom mappings using XSLT transformations. Deployed cloud connector, SSL certificates, and RFC connections enabling real-time data synchronization between Ariba and SAP S/4HANA.
- Built enhancement logic for UTR number transmission in remittance advice from SAP S/4HANA to Ariba portal. Automated 500+ monthly invoices, reducing manual reconciliation effort.
- Implementation of SAP Notes, customer exist, ALE/EDI IDoc's, etc. Good exposure to Scheduling jobs, maintain variants etc.
- Knowledge of Ariba/MM/FI integration with other modules like C4S, MDG, FI and QM.
- Debugging skills of BRF+, ALE/Idocs, SLG1 logs.
- Good exposure to Batch job Scheduling and monitoring the logs.
- Experience in SAP developments like reports, interfaces, forms and enhancements.
- Developed invoice parking logic preventing duplicate processing when suppliers submit Order Confirmation, ASN, and Invoice simultaneously.
- Performed error monitoring and resolution using SLG1 logs, SRT_UTIL, and SRT_MONI tools.
