SAP Functional Analyst ARIBA

Qualification, Experience & Critical Capabilities

• University degree (Bachelors) in a commercial/ business or technical/IT subject
• Preferred with Professional Certification or Post graduation (MBA, Six Sigma etc. )
• Working knowledge Materials Management, Sourcing, Contract Management, Spend Analysis, Supply Chain Collaboration
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle

Relevant Experience

• Total experience of 6 to 10 years as a SAP MM & Ariba Consultant with minimum 1 end to end Implementation of SAP solutions in a global context
• Experience in handling Steady State Support in the forms of Incidence and Small Changes

• Should have experience in SAP Materials Management module and SAP Ariba with exposure to Ariba Catalog, Ariba SLP , Ariba sourcing, Ariba Contract Management , Ariba Spend analysis, Guided Buying, Ariba supply chain collaboration and Integration between MM-FI, MM-PP and MM-SD etc
• Experience in writing Business Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications for ABAP objects (Reports, Interfaces, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows)

General Experience and Prerequisites

• Excellent written and verbal communication around issues, managing escalations, opportunities
• Experience in client facing and managing outsourced partners
• A Team player with a collaborative attitude, proactive and ability to work under pressure

Key skills -

• SAP ARIBA Modules: ARIBA Spend Management, ARIBA Strategic Sourcing/RFx Events, ARIBA Contract Management, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP), ARIBA Guided Buying, Business Network Administration (AN).
• Integration Troubleshoot : Integration support (with IT) of ARIBA P2P/Guided Buying with ECC (Integration Suite, CIG).
• Providing support by delivering small change in the area of ECC and VIM to address country-based requirement.
• Knowledge of CI9 to ARIBA CIG upgradation, to streamline vendor master process between ARIBA and MDM systems.
• Knowledge of SAP ARIBA Guided Sourcing (A streamline process for ARIBA Sourcing).
• Independent contributor to assess Business Partner harmonization and S4 HANA migration project facilitating designing approach, script preparation and migration strategies for ARIBA Indirect Procurement.
• ARIBA Preferred Care support as DSC (Designated Support Contact) along with exploration of ARIBA quarterly feature releases.
• Simplified Business Operations (Striving for continuous improvements by introducing APIs, Process Improvements, introducing RPA BOT through webservices).
• Training on key business process, and issue resolution towards key stake holders, indirect business partner and procurement operations team.
• RPA BOT automation - Web service enablement to integrate BOT with ARIBA for PR creation.
• ARIBA Disaster Recovery assessment and GCC audit fulfillment.
• Handling of ARIBA Website Certificate Renewal and ARIBA quarterly feature configuration

Responsibilities and requirements:

• Ensured E2E Delivery and ownership with agile mindset for superior customer experience.
• Lead SAP Ariba Steady State Squad and work towards reducing the Incident count in Ariba.
• Typically supervises non-professionals who perform routine tasks or provides informal and/or formal guidance, training, and support to other team members
• Requires developed specialized skills, or a breadth of skills, through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience
• Often inputs to development of new procedures / standards subject to approval from manager
• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience to respond to non-routine situations, with consideration of short term consequences
• Completes work with a limited degree of supervision or works autonomously
• Has developed breadth and/or depth of skills in a range of processes procedures and systems, or acts as the technical expert in an area
• Skills are typically developed through a combination of vocational training and considerable on the job training or a college / university degree with limited work experience
• May propose and/or contribute towards improvements to processes (with validation of supervisor/manager)
• Typically coordinates and supervises the daily activities of a small support, production or operations team of non-professionals (at lower Work levels), may allocate work, sets priorities to ensure task completion, coordinates work activities with other supervisors; provides subject matter guidance to other team members.
• Typically does not spend more than 20% of time performing supervision.
• May be responsible for performance evaluation and pay review.
• Spends a majority of working time performing the same work processes and activities as employees on team
• Mainly uses existing procedures to solve standard problems; analyses information and standard practices to make judgments with consideration of consequences