Strategic Sourcing and Business Analysis Manager
Harsco
Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months
Overall Experience Summary
Prepared the Business case followed up and Initiated the Legal Process offshoring process to save $ 7 million over the period of time.
Researched, Collated Inventory Data from the multiple ERPs to showcase the Inventory Value over $100 million and provided the approach to unlock the capital investment and introduced the Material Management function in the Organization
Established Commodity Information and Resource Centre for providing actionable Market Intelligence to leverage on pricing by monitoring of the most traded commodities.
Guiding Aftermarket project to capture more component sales for Harsco’s Rail division
Established the innovation Framework to capture the potential ideas for commercialization, cost savings, continuous improvements.
Identified and established the cross divisional synergies for product and Services.
Experienced in analyzing and streamlining systems and operations to increase productivity, quality and efficiency. Proven ability to manage projects from initiation to execution adhering to PMP practices.
Proficient in Oracle Purchasing, INV, I-Procurement in 11i and R12, and have working knowledge on oracle e sourcing and contracts
Expertise in services management focusing competitive intelligence. An ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
Dynamic, achievement-focused with strong analytical skills coupled with commitment to excellence and an ability to drive.
Conducted Workshops for requirements gatherings, UATs, User trainings at various stages of the Projects.
Experience Details
Strategic Sourcing and Business Analysis Manager
Harsco India Services Pvt. Ltd from 1st May 2013 till Date
Description: HARSCO is a Fortune 1000 company in core engineering catering services in Steel mills, Infrastructure, rail and industrial verticals
Leading Teams responsible for Spend Analysis, Market Intelligence, Inventory/Materials Management and Master Data Management of $3bn organization. Contributing to fact finding and scoping process improvements on strategic sourcing. Enabling organization with Market Intelligence to make better decisions on sourcing front. Leading technology project for data integrity across the multiple divisions for inventory optimization, supplier risk assessment. Leading the organization collaboration efforts with case studies including the financial improvements.
Description: Played various roles of analyzing current infrastructure, business processes, and recommended best practices to implement R12.1.3. Conducted requirement gathering workshops, UATs and Trainings in United Kingdom in process of Harsco Metals Holland’s successful implementation along with below tasks
Lead the Implementation for Purchasing, i-procurement and inventory Modules for Harsco in UK, NL, UAE and Overseeing USA Implementation in Oracle R12
Supplier Catalogue creation and maintenance within and out of application with help from Master Data Management Team adhering to standards of UNSPSC Categorization
Suggested the Process of Supplier initiation to approval with referral to supplier credit ratings from DNB Database, Performed the DNB Integration which provides the Supplier/Customer credit ratings on the fly in oracle and suggested to have common DNB account to save monies for Harsco.
Development of the Inventory Standings report with including the minimum and maximum inventory baselines a tool to review and optimize the inventory TCO.
Excellent understanding on VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory)
Suggested collaborative purchasing concept to Harsco Global Sourcing Team in order to save the time from supplier negotiations and take the advantage of the group purchasing with increased networking to know best practices in the Procurement Arena
Initiated a project for Electronic invoices entry which will reduce the AP Invoices lifecycles transaction time and savings for Harsco
Supplier Data Validation and Coordinated with D & B for the correct supplier information
Have in depth understanding of UNSPSC Categorization
Instrumental in Setup of the Master Data management Team at GIP Hyderabad and provided the trainings on Supplier setups
Coordinated with Caterpillar Finning’s for parts store seamless integration with Oracle
Applications Expertise
R12 Oracle (Procurement, Inventory, Contracts), Business Intelligence, MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
1) Project Name : R12.1.3 Implementation for Harsco Metals GmbH Austria and Harsco Minerals Slovenia.
Role : Senior Functional Analyst (Purchasing, Inventory and iProcurement)
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite R12.1.3
Duration : Jun 12 and Continuing
2) Project Name : R12.1.3 Implementation for Harsco Netherlands B.V.
Role : Senior Functional Analyst (Purchasing and iProcurement)
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite R12.1.3
Duration : Dec 11 and May 2012
3) Project Name : R12.1.3 Implementation for Harsco Metals Group UK
Role : Senior Functional Analyst (Purchasing and iProcurement)
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite R12.1.3
Duration : Feb 2011 to Nov 11.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
3) Project Name : Oracle Erp Upg 2010_Cap, PO OPTIO Conversion to XML
Role : Application Architect and Analyst1 (Project Lead)
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite R12
Duration : July 2010 to Till Date.
Tools Used : Rational CQSR, MS Project 2003, Mercury Project and Portfolio Management Centre, SharePoint
Description: Unisys is a Fortune 500, IT organization provides Services in areas of IT Security
Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing, End User Outsourcing and Support Services,
Application Modernization and Outsourcing. Our operations are focused on providing support to Unisys Order Management and Procurement activities.
Responsibilities:
Liaison with Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts at different point of project phases.
Coordinating in Requirements management, Solution Design, Execution, Control and Closure of the Project
Coordinating with Change Management, Configuration Management and DBA teams to deployment of work packages
Preparation of flow charts for communication required for the support of the tasks involved.
Organizing meeting to collect the work status twice in week, Preparing Minutes of meetings to follow up action items
Collecting status on Tests, QA, Instance readiness checks
Tracking the status of deliverables in Development, Ts, Qs and to Production.
Maintaining Project Management Library for the Project
Manage deliverable to meet the agreed SLAs based on priorities and severity, and reviewing them monthly
Coordination with QA team for testing for ensuring completion of testing after various releases.
Coordinating for Functional user testing after various releases
Status Reporting to PMO, Program Manager and stakeholders
Prioritization of the work requests with business owners/ SMEs
Performing Risk Management by Identification, prioritizing by discussing with module owners and contributing for resolutions.
Project Name : Unisys Oracle Procurement
Role : Application Architect and Analyst1 (Project Lead)
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite PO INV OM istore
Duration : Jan 2008 to Till Date.
Tools Used : Rational Clear Quest (Defect Tracking Tool), TOAD,
Description: Unisys is a Fortune 500, IT organization provides Services in areas of IT Security
Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing, End User Outsourcing and Support Services,
Application Modernization and Outsourcing. Our operations are focused on providing support to Unisys Order Management and Procurement activities.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Interacting with Unisys Global Procurement Department (supports operations in 75+ countries worldwide)
Coordinating with Shared service centre leads and country accounting managers smoother transaction processing
Ensuring compliance with SLAs, Maintaining SOW, Issue Register and Risk Register for the project.
Leading and mentoring teams of system Administrators for Database, Order Fulfillment and Procurement operations
Preparing Weekly Performance Team Report, Project Management Review Reports
Coordinating in Requirement management, Solution Design, Execution, Preparing Test plans for New Enhancements to Applications and Problem resolution.
Coordinating with Configuration Management and DBA teams for operations, resolution of Service Requests and performance issues of the E-Business Suite
Reviewing procurement Setups and Approving to be introduced to production
Project Name : GPW ( Maintenance and Enhancement of 15 standalone Procurement Application)
Role : Application Architect and Analyst1 (Project Lead)
Environment : ASP, SQL Server2005
Duration : Jun 2008 till Date.
Tools Used : Rational Clear Quest
Description: A global Procurement and Workplaces service caters the procurement application support services within Unisys. There are more than 15 applications which are built in ASP .NET and SQL Server.
Role and responsibilities:
Interacting with Unisys Global Procurement Department (supports operations in 75+ countries worldwide)
Coordinating with Shared service centre leads and country accounting managers smoother transaction processing
Ensuring compliance with SLAs, Maintaining SOW, Issue Register and Risk Register for the project.
Preparing Weekly Performance Team Report, Project Management Review Reports
Reviewing, Analyzing Approving, Coordinating in Requirement management, Solution Design, Execution, Preparing Test plans for New Enhancements to Applications and Problem resolution.
Reviewing of understanding Documents for SR resolutions
Project : Silicon Valley Software Solutions ERP
Environment : Oracle E Business Suite Accounts Payable, Assets
Software :
Role : Team Member
Duration : Jun 2005 to May 2006
Description: Maintenance and Support services of SVSS ERP
Role and Responsibilities:
Modification of custom components according to business process.
Preparing the Unit and Integration test design document and testing the component in different environment.
Support and Implementation of FA, GL, AP, AR Modules.
Registration of Concurrent Programs.
Scheduling the programs, interfaces using Custom applications.
Preparing and Verifying Oracle Applications AIM Documentation with Setups made
Training and Placement Officer Jul '04 to Jul '05
KC College of Engineering, Thane (E)
Reporting To: Principal, KC College of Engineering
Key Responsibilities:
➢ Imparting soft skills necessary to students for campus interview.
➢ Conduction and analysis of aptitude tests, group discussions and interviews.
➢ Communicating with organizational human resource departments and arranging campus interviews.
➢ Placed Students with TCS, Infosys, Financial Technologies, Hexaware Tech., GTL, TCS, SISL and with many companies.
Degree Institute Year Bachelors of Electrical Engg SSGMCoE Shegaon Amaravati University 2002
