Ahmad Al-jamal, Procure to pay, Supply chain Business Process Manager

Ahmad Al-jamal

Procure to pay, Supply chain Business Process Manager

Schlumberger

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
20 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 3 Months

Procure to pay, Supply chain Business Process Manager at Schlumberger
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2014

- Lead a diverse team of 24 Business Analysts globally.
- Manage all Procure to Pay systems with 40K users in 120 countries and >20B dollars transactions.
- The team support day to day operation and analyze the processes for new requirements or enhancement
- Coordination with other functions and support business stakeholders.
- Put the strategy for business continuity, monitor and process improvement.
- Work with Service desk, IT project managers to ensure systems are up and running, also monitor through agreed KPI's. The systems are ProcureCAT (Jcatalog), Schlumberger Web Procurement System (Commerce one), Lawson, Oracle, SAP, eTravel, Ariba integration, etc.
- Manage the projects and budget within the portfolio and ensure the service transition completed to support.
- Manage the relationship with the vendors within manage service/resources contracts basis.

Global eBusiness Support lead and Development analyst at Schlumberger
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2010 to December 2013

Job Summary:
Managing all the eCommerce B2B and B2G services in operation with over 8B USD billing transactions. Identifying opportunities for improvement, strategy development for sustainable growth in the Sales and billing processes through multiple business systems (Comcat, FTL, Siebel CRM/Invoicer, eZview, Lawson), and measurement of operational performance for the organization. Reporting to the Global eCommerce IT Manager, working with the Business Process Managers, global internal and clients management worldwide, suppliers and end users.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
- Analyzes trends, statistics to create action plans for process improvement and Implements tools that execute processes more efficiently.
- Define, implements and tracks Metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) in line with company and management goals to measure adoption of applications and processes
- Works with Process Support to improve user processes and process adherence
- Develops and maintains process documentation
- Drives the change management process
- Initiates, develops, and shares best practices, policies, and procedures across their organization
- Translates high level requirements into function specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to the specifications
- Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business units and the IT organization
- Validates new deliveries from Level 3 support and coordinates testing and move to production.

Main Projects:
- eInvoice and PO integrations for Saudi Aramco, Devon, Nobel and Oxy, Qatar RasGas and BP Egypt, Norway Statoil, Chevron in 12 countries through Ariba SAP (all continents), India Carin,
- MI/SMITH to Statoil integrations using Lawson eCommerce Middleware JCAPS.
- Lawson ERP upgrade and Middleware migration.

Mexico Tax reporting IT Project Manager at Schlumberger
  • Mexico
  • August 2011 to February 2013

- As a business analyst and IT manager, I gather tax and internal as well as external business requirements; provide guidance of data mapping and digital signature generation; and conduct change management.
SAT, Mexico tax authority, requires that any transaction Issued by the Mexico legal entities of Schlumberger, MI-Swaco and Smith through Lawson or Oracle will comply with the new electronic tax reporting standard, Comprobante Fiscal Digital a través de Internet (CFDI) by April, 2012.
The project yields to the process realignment of the entire Geomarket from operations, marketing and sales and finance functions. In addition, the efficiency and centralized processes will ease the burden of audits and tax return reporting which reduces attrition and achieves multi-million dollar savings

Software Engineer Executive at Air Miles Middle East – Groupe Aeroplan
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2008 to July 2010

Job Summary:
Manage and support of all the systems in operation and new internal and 140 partners systems managed by the company in line with business requirements. Reporting to the Loyalty Services Director, working with the internal users and management, as well as the customers and suppliers.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
- Investigate new partners infrastructure and recommend implementation scenarios with insuring reaching the quality of implementation and testing procedures.
- Development of new automation processes and enhancing/optimizing the existing processes.
- Advice the business on the improvement, results, competition and new direction in technology to assist with improving the company’s operations.
- Work closely with the other departments to ensure the best design of systems.
- Ensure the systems high availability, stability, reliability and integrity.
- Keep up to date documentation with the standards for the different systems.
- Training the employees to make sense of processes. Also building their capability to develop sufficient skills with the business applications.

Main Projects:
- Campaign management system, Loyalty system upgrade, Airmiles SMS system, Complain management system, Redemption Center implemented for the partners, Travel booking and reservation integration.
- Data capture systems for more than 140 partners.

Projects Manager at Smart Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2007 to July 2008

Job Summary:
Managing the entire software development cycle and the technical team for E-Government systems. Reporting to the Chief information officer.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
- System Design and managing entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Writing proposals for new projects, feasibility study and requirements analysis.
- Requirements engineering and system analysis. Presentations and train the clients.
- Research and development for web development, low level languages, E-POS programming and Standard Documentations as well as standard coding.

Main Projects:
- Payment solution (E-Purse) for Dubai Industrial City.
- Mailing and appointment system to deliver the national ID cards for Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA).
- Visitor management system for Ministry of interior,
- Terminals tracking system and service desk for internal use.
- Workflow system for the Department Of Public Work in Sharjah.
- Patients Registration system for Daman insurance company for health.
- E-Marketing for banks (E-Dirham) for the ministry of finance, UAE. Upgrading the solution from the old machine on X Checker terminals to EXADIGM.

Sr. Web Developer and trainer at New Vision
  • United Arab Emirates - Al Ain
  • March 2006 to July 2007

Job Summary:
Web Developer and trainer for medium and small business and train the University students as well as the intermediate level for different subjects. Reporting to the CEO.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
- Requirements gathering and system analysis.
- Web developer and designer
- Trainer for ASP.NET 2.0, JAVA Programming, SQL Server, Requirements Engineering, quality assurance and Decision Support Systems.

Main Projects:
- Real Estate Management System, E-School applied in 60 schools in UAE. E-Commerce B2C sites.

Freelance ASP.Net C# Developer at Self employed
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2003 to March 2007

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at University Of Petra
  • February 2006

Understanding Software engineering life cycle Object Orianted programming Data Base design E-commerce Logic and math UML and Methdologies Knowledge E-Commerce & CRM

High school or equivalent, Science High School
  • at Khaled Bin Al Waleed High School Al Ain, Abu Dhabi,
  • June 2000

Specialties & Skills

Leadership
ERP Systems
Process Management
IT Project Management
Software Engineering
Office & Windows
JAVA/ ASP.net /SQL
XML/ UML
Requirements Engineering
MS Project
Payment Solution
Oracle business intelligence reporter 11G
Management Certificate in Quality Assurance
Leadership
Opportunity to Cash process (O2C) / CRM
Loyalty programm
Integration
Process Improvement

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Loyalty programm and retail marketing strategy (Training)
Training Institute:
Air Miles
Date Attended:
December 2008
Fixed training Management program, GFE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013
IT Product lifecycle management process using Six Sigma (Training)
Training Institute:
Schlumberger
Date Attended:
March 2012
Payment Systems design and security (Training)
Training Institute:
Smart Systems
Date Attended:
November 2007
Java 2 Enterprise Edition - J2EE, JSP and MS.SQL Server 7 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2006
Leadership training (Training)
Training Institute:
Management Central Europe
Date Attended:
November 2012
ITIL V3 Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
June 2015
Duration:
35 hours
Finance training for managers (Training)
Training Institute:
Management Central Europe
Date Attended:
September 2015
Duration:
35 hours
Management Certificate in Quality Assurance (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2009
MCAD, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000 and Pocket PC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2005
Opportunity to Cash process (O2C) (Training)
Training Institute:
Schlumberger
Date Attended:
March 2011

Hobbies

  • reading business articles