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Naresh Jayakumar

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Last update: 23.02.2023

SAP Ariba Lead Consultant, SAP Ariba Consultant, Sourcing Manager

Graduation: MSc Supply Chain and Operations Management
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Full Professional)

Keywords

SAP Ariba Recruitment Accounts Receivable Contract Management Procurement Management Testing

Attachments

naresh-jayakumar-resume_sap-ariba-lead-consultant.docx

Skills

I am an enthusiastic SAP Ariba Lead Consultant with more than 12 years of experience, with the last six years dedicated to SAP Ariba implementations. Expertise in solution, designing, customizing, configuring, testing and documenting process in upstream modules Ariba Sourcing, contract management, SIPM, SLP and downstream modules Procurement, invoice and Ariba network modules of SAP Ariba.

Project history

03/2020 - Present
SAP Ariba Lead Consultant
Contractor


06/2019 - 02/2020
SAP Ariba Lead Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services

* Gathering requirements and identify gaps to standard Ariba solution for upstream and downstream
modules
* Deploying Ariba upstream and downstream system according to the business requirement.
* Developing test scripts for upstream and downstream modules for UAT testing
* Providing functional support on CIG implementation, working closely with integration consultant.

04/2012 - 06/2019
SAP Ariba Consultant
Cummins Turbo Technologies

* Conducted scoping meeting sessions for gathering requirements to identify all gaps pertaining to
support business process and systems in line with Cummins standard
* Supported the development and end to end implementation of SAP Ariba on-demand upstream (Ariba
Sourcing, contract management, SLP) and downstream modules for various Cummins locations.
* Design and configuring sourcing templates, task, conditions, rules to business requirements in
sourcing modules
* Configuring approval flow, enumeration and Ariba user and group mapping in SAP Ariba.
* Data load in Ariba sourcing and procurement/P2P modules
* Configuring rules in Ariba buyer network to business requirements

04/2012 - 03/2015
Sourcing Manager
Cummins Turbo Technologies

* Developing sourcing strategies for new components, negotiate and sign-off contracts with new
suppliers.
* Remedy supply challenges with logical thinking, strong analytics, and work plan development in
order to improve efficiencies and cost savings.
* Analysed purchasing spend data in purchasing spend reporting system and identified the
inaccuracies in spend data and develop processes to improve the accuracies of reporting system.

08/2007 - 09/2010
Senior Analyst
Visteon Technical & Service Center

* Created, monitored and analysed request for proposals (RFPs), request for quotations (RFQs), and
request for information (RFIs) events in Ariba eSourcing tool.
* Provided business requirements and liaised with IT team on the development and implementation of
QAD ERP and Supplier Information Management (SIM) applications.

Certifications

SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP
2022
SAP Ariba Supplier Management
SAP
2022

Local Availability

Only available for remote work
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