Thanseer Abdul Salam

Led SAP S/4HANA implementation for a large-scale, Real Estate Holding company in Saudi Arabia, delivering SAP S/4HANA Finance (FICO), Materials Management (MM), and Enterprise Portfolio & Project Management (EPPM/PS) integrated with SAP SuccessFactors EC/ECP and SAP Ariba (Sourcing, Contract Management, SLP). Directed cross-functional and multi-vendor teams across Business, SAP Functional (FICO, MM, EPPM), Ariba, SuccessFactors, Basis, Integration, Security, and PMO, delivering milestones on time, within scope, and within budget. Governed SAP Ariba-SAP S/4HANA integrations using Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) and SAP CPI, ensuring stable Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Hire-to-Retire (H2R), and Project-to-Settle (P2S) processes and resolving integration and message-processing issues. Led and controlled the delivery of 40+ WRICEF objects (Workflows, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) during the Realization phase, managing scope functional/technical design reviews, testing cycles, quality gates, and controlled transports. Owned UAT planning and execution, coordinating business users, managing defect triage and resolution, securing business sign-offs, and ensuring readiness across Finance, Procurement, HR, and Project Management. Planned and executed cutover strategy, production transport management, and go-live activities, ensuring data integrity, system stability, and minimal business disruption. Acted as primary customer-facing SAP Project Manager, managing senior stakeholders, conducting steering committee meetings, and delivering executive dashboards, risk management, change control, and status reporting. Delivered end-user training, process documentation, Hypercare support, and transition to AMS, ensuring post-go-live stabilization and operational continuity.

Manage the project plan and work with the business team, third parties, onsite and offshore team to design the solution design document for Digital transformation. Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and quality delivery of project milestones. Lead project governance meetings, steering committees, and status reviews Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively. Identify and mitigate project risks and issues. Ensure compliance with local regulations and client standards throughout the project lifecycle

Responsible for S/4 HANA Implementation Project and SAP ECC to S/4 HANA Private Cloud Conversion Project. Handling multiple projects with a team size of 50+ including Project Managers, SAP ABAP, Basis, FI/FM, SD, MM, PM & TM. Successfully manage stakeholders to build strong business relationships and deliver highly complex and potentially programmatic systems and solutions. Design and manage the process/Project governance. Proactively advocate for business requirements and ensure appropriate delivery on time and within budget. Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including clients, project sponsors, and team members. Communicated project progress and issues to stakeholders, including presenting reports and status updates. Ensured that the SAP implementation meets quality standards and that deliverables meet client expectations. Conducted meetings to identify the scope and blueprint sessions for gathering requirements to identify all GAPS/RICEFWs needed by the business. Guided the organization through project prep, gap analysis, realization, training, and go-live. Managed unit testing, functional testing, test script preparation, integration testing, cutover preparation schedule, and go-live preparations. Developed training courses, materials, process flow diagrams, and change journeys for different types of users. Schedule assignments, monitor, review, and report project status regularly to manage project risks and ensure successful project delivery. Tracking and delivering projects on time. Evaluate (time / cost / quality) & change requests. Lead and facilitate as required in RFP, SOW, Project Plans, documentation as per Customer requirement.

▪ Managed end to end Roll-out of SAP solution across multiple countries.
▪ Lead the team for implementing the SAP related customizing and developments by understanding the integration framework to connect SAP with business partners, develop functional / technical specifications and partner system design to implement end to end solutions across extended enterprise.
▪ Proactively advocate for business requirements and ensure appropriate delivery on time and budget.
▪ Understanding the complete business process in Finance, Material Management, Sales & Distribution, Production Planning, Human Resource, DMS & QM.
▪ Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings, and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mock-ups.
▪ To provide support in Creation of RFP / RPQ / Statement of Work, SLA, Legal Terms, Contractual & Commercial terms.
▪ Driving kick off meetings, Business requirement gathering, Development and go-live as per the agreed timelines.
▪ Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
▪ Lead geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams, including collaborations with third-parties.
▪ Responsible for estimating the resource requirement and arriving at the budgeted cost; tracking the project commercials.
▪ Ensure change management, incident management and problem resolution are executed within ITSM framework and defined SLAs are met.
▪ Conduct performance appraisals of team members.
▪ SPOC for ITGC / SAP / Microsoft Audit by external auditors. (Big 4 Auditors).

• Developed project plans, defined timelines, and set milestones.
• Responsible for S/4 HANA 1809 Implementation Project
• Managed a team of SAP consultants and developers including assigning tasks, task completion and training.
• Developed and managed project budgets, tracked expenses, and ensured the project is completed within
the budget.
• Identify potential risks and develop plans to mitigate them.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including clients, project sponsors, and team members.
• Communicated project progress and issues to stakeholders, including presenting reports and status updates.
• Ensured that the SAP implementation meets quality standards and that deliverables meet client expectations.
• Provided training to end-users to ensure they can use the new system effectively.
• Identified opportunities for continuous improvement and made recommendations for future projects.

• Managed all Implementation and Migration projects from the blueprint to the realization phase using ASAP and
Activate methodologies.
• Responsible for implementation, rollout, and support for S/4 HANA 1909 & ECC 6.0 EHP7.
• Implementation and configuration experience in SAP interfaces (IDOC / ALE) with LFS 400 WMS system.
• Conducted meetings to identify the scope and blueprint sessions for gathering requirements to identify all
GAPS/RICEFWs needed by the business.
• Guided the organization through project prep, gap analysis, realization, training, and go-live.
• Managed unit testing, functional testing, test script preparation, integration testing, cutover preparation
schedule, and go-live preparations.
• Developed training courses, materials, process flow diagrams, and change journeys for different types of users.
• Data migration cockpit in S/4 HANA1909 LTMC & LSMW knowledge and expertise.

• Configured Plant and DC for retail operations based on business requirement.
• Configured the physical inventory settings and carried out physical inventory at storage location level.
• Configured Material Group Hierarchy.
• Configured quantity & value update parameters for all movement types for inventory.
• Legacy System migration through LSMW creation and execution for article creation, Vendor Creation, Info
record, listing and source list.
• Release Procedure Configuration based on document type, Order value and Site for Purchase Order.
• Merchandise Category Maintenance by reassigning MC of articles with the requirements of Clients.
• Working on the Logistics execution, goods receipt, and goods issue process.
• Worked on purchase pricing procedure and schema maintenance.
• Customizing and setting up Release Procedures with and without classification for all purchasing documents.
• Created functional specs according to the end users requirements and delivered them to the ABAP team.
• Imparted end-user training for the business users for effective use of the application.

• Install, Configure and Maintain network hardware and software, including routers, switches, firewalls and VPN.
• Install, Configure and maintain servers, including operation systems, applications and database.
• Monitor Server performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to ensure server uptime and stability.
• Troubleshoot server issues, diagnosis problems, and implement solutions to restore server services.
• Respond to user inquiries and resolve technical issues related to network and server infrastructure.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to resolve complex issues.