Sap ariba consultant

SAP Ariba Consultant

Experience: 10 years to 20 years

Work location: Chennai / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Mumbai / Pune / Noida / Gurugram / Kolkata

Work mode: Hybrid

Skill Matrix:

Key Responsibilities:

Gather Requirement, perform fit-gap analysis and develop robust design.

Deliver workshop and prepare required documentations as per project guidelines. Lead the design and manage the stakeholders to get the timely sign off on the best practices processes design for SAP Ariba full suite applications. Configure contract workspaces, clause libraries, templates, playbooks and term variants; set up meta-data taxonomy. Design approval flows (legal, finance) with thresholds; implement e-signature and versioning; define archive/retention. Map ERP integrations: vendor/GL/CC, contract reference on PO, price/term visibility; data migration for legacy contracts. Set up obligation tracking, alerts and renewals; define KPIs for contract compliance and cycle time. Collaborate with Supplier Risk to embed risk scores and mitigations within contracting checkpoints. Design registration and qualification workflows; build modular questionnaires (tax, bank, ESG, Info Sec, sanctions). Integrate Workday org data for request/approval routing; align vendor master with S/4 (BP model). Configure risk rules/thresholds and continuous monitoring; set up periodic review cadence and remediation playbooks. Define GDPR-compliant consent, data retention and right-to-be-forgotten processes. Establish supplier performance scorecards and corrective action plans linked to category strategies. Create buying channels (punchout/hosted), smart forms, rules and help content; enable preferred content surfacing. Ariba buying configurations, including approval flows, ICM configurations, parameters Well-versed with Ariba master data and related configuration. Should be able to support mappings for the Ariba interfaces. Should be able to drive the discussions on Ariba spend control tower and category management.

Knowledge & Skills Expected Functional/Domain:

Ariba full suite process knowledge including Risk, Category Management, spend control tower, Intake management, Next-Gen Ariba Integrations with SAP S/4 HANA and HR data with workday Source to Pay process expertise, including category, supplier and catalog management.

Technical/Tools:

Ariba Sourcing & Contracts configuration, e-Sign (Docu Sign/Adobe), integration mapping to S/4 via CIG. Data migration (extract/classify/load) for legacy contracts. CIG Ariba APIs

Soft:

• Detail orientation, documentation rigor, and stakeholder education.

Key Deliverables

• Business Requirement documents, Functional design, best-in-class best practice system integrated to S/4 HANA.

Expectations

Methodology: SAP Activate; iterative builds with Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retros) and quality gates. Compliance & Security: GDPR, So D/ICFR controls, audit trails, data minimization & retention policies; Country specific localization (VAT, e Invoicing where applicable). Tooling: Jira/Azure Dev Ops, Confluence, Share Point/Teams; ALM/test mgmt; basic MS Office/Google Workspace. Ways of Working: Cross-stream collaboration (S2 C, P2 P, CIG, Data, OCM, Training); transparent RAID & decisions log.

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