Aug 2022 – Jun 2023 · 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Handling Product Life Cycle Management with focus on solid engineering practices, innovation and people empowerment to build scalable and robust products.
• Specialised in Continuous Delivery using DevOps techniques and trends.

Feb 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Primarily focused on Payments, Working Capital Service, Blockchain and Expanding Supply Chain Landscape on BSM space.

Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Primarily Focused for Expanding Coupa Technical Integration Landscape and Capabilities across the globe. Specialized in SAP,Oracle,JDE,Peoplesoft,Netsuite integrations. A Middleware independent individual who drives customer specific integrations with his vision and technical versatility.

Aug 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Primarily focused on technical implementation and integration services for Coupa’s customers.
• Endowed with a profound customer centric approach to devise business solutions; lead implementation for developing new business solutions.
• Experience in functional, technical, and project management roles across a wide variety of customers and industries with a deep understanding of how to achieve success for business and IT functions of our customers.
• Domain experience across the entire Source-to-Pay spectrum with experience designing and implementing software solutions for Sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement, Invoicing, Supplier Management, and Analytics.
• Spent more then 15 years providing both functional and technical consulting services for large organisations implementing and integrating Source to Pay system within their ERP Landscape.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2016 · 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

•  Endowed with a profound customer centric approach to devise business solutions; leading implementation from onsite/offsite for developing new business solutions
•  Proficient in establishing & nurturing strong rapport with the onsite team comprising of Account Managers/Sales Team & Client Partners for business excellence in IT & Financial Services; providing leadership, direction, strategy and vision for smooth execution of programs
•  Resourceful in evaluating, interpreting & modeling business data to identify patterns & solutions while drawing relevant conclusions from the reports and providing the same to senior management & customer for critical decision making

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015 · 3 mos · Pune

• A Domain expert - Experienced in different domains help understand business criticality across different clients and suggest them functionality to improve on reliability and scalability of the product use
• An Implementation expert - In-depth understanding of business challenges and requirements that enables delivery commitment in terms of ‘Schedule’, ‘Quality’ and ‘Cost’
• A Value creator - created flexible business process that can be leveraged by all procurement groups

Jul 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Sankalp has an expertise in Supply Chain Management with strong implementation & support experience, gathering user requirements, systems analysis and design, excellent leadership, strong Project & Program management, Software Development and testing, Data Analysis, Software sizing & Estimation and Quality Assurance.

Oct 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Managing complex projects with global roll outs and rapidly evolving requirements.
• Engage effectively with clients and staff in pressure situations.
• Confirmed ability to manage a large multi location team with diverse technology skill sets
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Skills of translating complex client requirements into executable solutions.
• Training Resources on Ariba and other cloud products like SAP Byd, Netsuite.
• Able to organize people and work with proper scheduling and coordinating skills in limited time.
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal skills.
• A versatile team member with proven problem solving skills.
• Ariba implementation for various clients.
• End user training involvement for different domain clients.
• Interacting with business and understanding their business needs to enhance system in a manner to help them by creating user requirement specification and making functional specifications out of it to implement them using my technical abilities.
• Performing Unit, System and Integration testing for various Ariba assignments. Assisting end user in UAT.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Lead a team of 10+ people for Managing work between offshore on site teams, organizing people and work with proper scheduling and coordinating skills in limited time.

Oct 2009 – Aug 2010 · 10 mos

• My assignment was with one of the US biggest food venture which is based out of Chicago, USA. Its a Support and Maintenance project. I have been working on this assignment since June 2008.My current role involved Handling all the user tickets and following the SLA, Coordinating the work with offshore team and managing a team of 5 as well.Interacting with business and understanding their business needs to enhance system in a manner to help them by creating functional specifications and then implementing them using my technical abilities.Growing the demand for Ariba by carrying out continuous Change Requests by proposing changes to the system to meet the business need.

Mar 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

• My Role Involved In depth knowledge of Ariba e Procurement suite, I have been working on downstream module of Ariba and I have sound knowledge on upstream module of Ariba too. I have worked on enhancing Requisition Import functionality on Ariba Buyer and created a reusable excel template which can create import csv files based on the data supplied in excel.
• Played a Lead Role from Offshore for Implementing Requisition Import for Excel and CAD. Created several reusable components to streamline the process Interfacing of external web interface with Ariba Buyer which gives ability to create catalogs items directly.
• I deployed and maintained the Ariba Local vanilla Instance which we used for training new joiners as well as developing new customization using Vanilla instance.

Jul 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• My Role involved Technical Understanding of Implementation and Customization of Ariba e Procurement suite. My Assignment involves implementation of Ariba Spend Management Suite of products for both upstream and downstream processes for one of the leading US based retailer. The various modules involved are Ariba Contract Management, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Analysis and Ariba Buyer which are integrated with each other and there are around 32 odd interfaces with various systems.

Oct 2004 – Jun 2005 · 8 mos

• Real Time Terrain Viewer Program using ROAM (Real Time Optimally Adopting Mesh Generation) algorithm using C++ and Opengl which will be used in CNS (Car Navigation System) and a EVENT HANDLER UTILITY for the CNS (Car Navigation System) using QT Designer in Linux. This System was Implemented using C language and We were working to migrate it to Object Oriented Methodology using C++.