Lakshmi Jain

Experience

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  Infosys

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2009

  Technology Analyst

  Implemented Ariba Spend Management Suite of Applications as Technology Lead: Involved in designing, coding and unit, system testing and Implementation. Developed following customizationso Ariba Spend Visibility – Delivery of customized facts and data loads based on business needs inphase by phase roll outs.o Sourcing to Analysis Project: Customizations across facts, dimensions and data loads to createnew facts and data loads which pull data from multiple source systems (internal and external). This enables business to have data in Ariba Analysis (in place of manual reports) from Sourcing projects, Recap eForm and RFX events. Helped business understand the capabilities of various facts and dimensions and what the customizations can help them achieve.o Ariba Procure 2 Pay – Customizations in Scheduled tasks, Integration events submit hooks, Approval flow, Buyer Reporting, Requisition Screens, custom eForm creation and customization.o Ariba Category Procurement – Customizations and change requests in Ariba Roll-out implementation of ACP (Buyer).o Ariba Contract Management – Experienced in contract workspace and the functional aspects of Contracts, Sourcing Projects, customized the contract workspace screens along with modifying the Pricing Term file attributes.o Ariba Source 2 Pay –Functional understanding of sourcing events (reverse/forward/RFIs/RFQs/RFPs) and various templates for the RFX events. Evolved as a Ariba S2P and Ariba P2P Subject matter expert and Single point of contact for Ariba analysis at offshore. I was also posted to a client site to provide training to client IT resources as a part of transition process from Infosys to the Client IT Corporation. Provided various Knowledge management sessions to share Ariba Knowledge within Infosys and helped build sound Ariba Center of Excellence (Ariba –CoE) in Infosys Show less

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  Infosys

  Nov 2010 - Jun 2015

  Evolve as an Onsite Project Manager during the course of the project and now leading a team of 15. Technical lead to development team at onshore and offshore for Ariba P2P project. As a Techno functional lead, gather requirements, perform fit-gap analysis and translate technicalchallenges to business in functional terms and translate business demands into functional requirements. Performed techno functional lead activities in Ariba 9r1 Upgrade from Ariba Buyer 8.2.2 and ServicePack upgrades, customizations in Approval Flow, eForms and bForms. Currently working on 9r2 upgrade. Performed extensive Integration test planning and execution when Ariba integrated Oracle Applicationwas upgraded. Primary Anchor for conducting Knowledge transfer /training sessions for client and client support groupswith an elaborate and comprehensive training material which was used as an important artifact and was included in the Business Repository. Performing Project Managerial activities for Infosys Managed Services Project. Responsible for prioritization of production issues and mentor team to act in a direction needed to resolve critical issues. Worked along with senior management on pitching proposals to increase Infosys’s foot print in client procurement space. Interact with Client Senior management to showcase Ariba capabilities and what Ariba can achieve for their organization. Created BVA (Business value articulation) framework for Client’s Ariba upgrade project which states cost benefit analysis, reduction on operational cost, Cost savings due to usage of tools and accelerator in upgrade, any reduction in ticket volume or annual maintenance cost. Prepared ‘How to’/Training Documents on Ariba 9r1 for Business users. Show less As a Technical Project Lead, did extensive fit gap analysis, designing and coding. Worked on providing estimations, design, coding and unit and system testing of Enabling Credit Memo ornegative invoicing. Worked on Ariba integrated with SAP. Negative invoice processing over ASN was out of scope and suppliers were asked to submit Credit Memoson paper prior to this project. To support process improvement and Cash Flow initiatives, the RTP organization wished to streamline processing for ASN suppliers so that they could have a single point for transmitting invoices and credits. The desired benefit is two-fold, firstly to reduce the volume of paper credit memos and manual keying and secondly to streamline the process for suppliers thus improving cycle time to feed credit memos into the financial system. Key activities involved -o Enabling Credit Memos - Utilize existing Ariba ASN interface to allow vendors to enter negativeinvoices.o Customizations in Ariba Invoicing - Build validation rules for credit memos and customize Invoicereconciliation engine.o Build Invoice Exceptions for invoices when Invoices do not adhere to validation rules.o Create a Credit Memo dispute role and add it to Approval flow when Negative Invoice hasexceptions.o Also send out notifications to supplier in case of adjusted amounts and negative invoices shouldbe sent to SAP interface. Show less As a Techno-Functional Project Lead was involved in designing and coding of the below:• Customizations in Ariba Invoicing - Built validation rules for credit memos and customize Invoice reconciliation engine. Built Invoice Exceptions for invoices when Invoices do not adhere to validation rules. Created Credit Memo dispute role for Negative Invoice exceptions resolution.• Send out automatic notifications to supplier in case of adjusted amounts and negative invoices are sent to SAP interface.Played a senior developer role and performed below activities:• Implemented Ariba Spend Management Suite of Applications as Developer: Involved in designing, coding and unit, system testing and Implementation. Developed following customizations:o Ariba Analysis- Customizations of facts, dimensions and data loads to create new facts and data loads.o Ariba Procure 2 Pay – Customizations in Scheduled tasks, Integration events, submit hooks, Approval flow, Buyer Reporting, Requisition Screens, custom eForm creation and customization.o Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management – Experienced in contract workspace and the functional aspects of Contracts, Sourcing Projects, customized the contract workspace screens along with customizing the Pricing Term file attributes.• Primary Anchor for conducting Knowledge transfer /training sessions for client and client support groups with an elaborate and comprehensive training material, which was used as an important artifact and was included in the Business Repository. Show less Client - Novartis• Onsite Functional and Technology Lead for customizing Ariba invoicing for a leading pharmaceutical company at US. • Interact with the various stake holders and gather user requirements. Was involved in elaborating the user requirements into system requirements.• Worked on providing estimations, design, unit and system testing.• Onsite/offshore co-ordination.• High level and detailed level Design documentation. Bridge the gap between the functional and technical specification documents. Show less

  • Onsite Techno Functional Lead and Project Manager

    Jan 2011 - Jun 2015

  • Technical Project Lead

    Sept 2009 - Jan 2011

  • Lead

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  • Onsite Techno Funcational Lead

    Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
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  Wipro Limited

  Jul 2015 - now

  Bachelors of Engineering with 12 years of experience across various geographies and domains as SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing functional and technical consultant. I am working as a Lead Ariba functional and technical Consultant for P2P Implementation and responsible to:• Implement global design template to standardize the procurement process to reduce ad-hoc buying and drive savings across all regions allowing localization only to address legal requirements. • Lead process workshops for SAP Ariba Contract compliance, Ariba Buying and invoicing processes and understand customer’s requirements and map the customer’s ‘To Be’ process with standard Ariba process.• Lead workshop on legacy contract upload to map legacy contract data to Ariba standard upload format to be able achieve the goal of having a single repository system for contract storage and operationalization • Work on suite integration and FPC design considerations to be able to implement a future safe SAP Ariba application so customer can be ready for any upcoming acquisitions involving different ERP systems.• Introduce User persona approach for mapping Ariba groups to customer roles/departments so customer can easily relate to the User group structure in Ariba and be able to adapt.• Strategize supplier management approach for direct/indirect supplier to achieve clean supplier data and identify possible opportunities for payment term negotiation.• Provide solution for non-standard processes such as accrual posting and re-invoicing in ERP systems.• Design and configure approval flow in Ariba OnDemand to be process compliant and control maverick spend. • Work closely with Supplier Enablement Lead to align the Catalog enablement plan.• Formulating and communicating Project Plan to team, track project deliverables, resourcing, budgeting and project billing.• Collaborate with external and internal teams at customer site to achieve required outcome for the client. Show less This project implements a globally scalable standardized and effective Procure-to-Pay process that will realize significant spend benefits. The project implemented a global procurement process within Johnson & Johnson followed by rollouts to different affiliates of Johnson & Johnson in different countries. Target was to achieve 1 million dollar savings by de-commissioning the existing Sourcing application and 2 Million from existing on premise applications.I was working as a Lead Ariba Consultant in P2P Implementation for North America and APAC region and my responsibilities were to:• Seamlessly rollout from Ariba on-Premise to On-Demand while keeping the hybrid working model and utilizing on premise P2O application as a transactional platform• Deploy Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in 5 months with Strategic roadmap rolling out solution to different geographies, business units while moving new features into the On-Demand deployment.• Conceptualize and develop interfaces between Ariba OnPremise and Ariba OnDemand Solution in a hybrid model implementation using ITK/WS API. • Designing of custom Flex Master data to incorporate existing business/technical process. • Designing approval flow in Ariba OnDemand to be process compliant. • Implement Guided buying to provide a platform for buying needs within organization framework and policies with enhanced user experience in a Multi-Touch Strategy (No, Low and High Touch) using guided buying.• Implement Sourcing touch policies, Category based landing pages and Dynamic forms to achieve Policy driven buying.• Lead the design of exhaustive SIT test scripting.• Hyper care Lead for phase wise On-demand implementation.• Identify bugs and propose solutions to reduce production support activities. Show less

  • Lead Consultant

    May 2017 - now

  • Lead Consultant

    Jul 2015 - May 2017
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  SAP

  Dec 2018 - now

  Senior Ariba Consultant