Ankur Dighe
McKinney,TX
Summary
Results-driven project professional, well-versed in managing high-stakes initiatives across various sectors. Known for fostering collaborative team environments and consistently achieving project milestones. Valued for adaptability and reliability, with strong focus on critical thinking and effective communication.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP Project Functional SME/Administrator for Ariba, S4HANA, Sourcing & Procurement
Amdigon LLC
08.2020 - Current
- Provide strategic leadership in driving continuous improvement of the overall sourcing & procurement end to end lifecycle by implementing industry best practices to reduce spend, reduce risk, and increase process efficiency and effectiveness for our internal business partners and strategic relationships
- As a Project Director, my role is to help client PMO team manage project delivery by translating the strategic vision as laid out by client leadership into actionable and measurable milestones
- As an SME/Administrator, my role is to help client implementation teams execute leadership vision by providing expertise on the capabilities of the Ariba and SAP toolset
- Identified potential project risks with thorough analysis and developed mitigation strategies.
Consulting Roles: Delivery Lead, Supply Chain Architect, Senior Project Manager- IT & Process, Administrator
Accenture
06.2006 - 06.2020
- A typical consulting project, depending on the scope complexity, could last from a few months to a couple of years
- A full-scale system implementation starts with Blueprint/Requirement gathering phase followed by Design, Build, Test and ends with Deployment
- I have done at least 7 full lifecycle Source to Pay implementations with multiple short advisory roles
- Key deliverables include creating a Strategic transformation plan, Project delivery, Financial Analysis, Resource management, Change Management, Leadership status reporting, Escalation/Risk management and ensuring MSA/SOW compliance
- Implemented an Ariba on Demand cloud solution with a new backend SAP S4HANA system
- Build high performing teams of Category Spend Managers and Contract specialists through internal and external training and exposure to industry associations for exposure to leading practices to strengthen the team’s procurement acumen
- Lead implementation and project strategy for SAP Ariba Sourcing (S2C) & Procurement (PTP)., Spend Analysis, & Invoice Conversion and Integration with S4HANA and other native systems using AGILE/SCRUM/Waterfall methodology
- Facilitated stakeholder blueprinting, requirements gathering, developing business requirements documents, creating functional specifications with data mappings
- Lead an end-to-end assessment of the procurement process and supporting applications to deliver the most effective, efficient and compliant program for the organization
- Project management execution of data enablement Supply Chain and Logistics & Manufacturing module tasks, risks, issues, facilitation of stand-up meetings, reporting to senior leadership, executive dashboards, and conducting meeting with bottling clients and technical team
- Successfully executed multiple implementations using AGILE/SCRUM/Waterfall to implement SAP for Supply Chain and Manufacturing
- Covering the following domains – Finance, Controlling, Pricing, Customer, Equipment, Fleet, HR, Order Mgmt., Vendor, PTP, MRO, & Materials
- Successful project management experience with an emphasis on infrastructure deployment in a cross-functional, cross geography, high visibility with tight deadlines and budget
- Assess the current state of the Procurement program and the organizational readiness for change and develop the strategic plan that is scalable, can be implemented at pace and ensure the company can adapt to it
- Act as a liaison between client and project teams to translate business requirements into system design, application requirements and project components to solution design, Gap Analysis, Functional, Technical specifications/Testing plan and deployment/hyper care process to adhere to future state
- Engaged stakeholders in project discussions to align expectations and gather feedback.
- Clients: HP, Pitney Bowes, Dow, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Southwest Airlines, DuPont, Google, Harman Electronics etc
Sr. Buyer/Planner
Celestica
03.2003 - 06.2006
- Review the daily inventory levels on the shop floor and order items as required based on the upcoming demand to meet the monthly targets
- Used Kanban system to order parts from suppliers with special emphasis on managing low inventory levels
- Served as a liaison between the corporate digital cockpit team and the quality department to digitize the metric reporting system
- This resulted in an overall receiving time reduction and provided a real-time snap shot of the metrics
- Manage data setup in SAP and run daily MRP reports to generate requisitions
Education
Master of Science - Logistics
University of Texas
Arlington, TX01.2001
Skills
- Project/Program Management
- Sourcing & Procurement
- Ariba
- S4HANA
- Agile Methodologies
- Process Improvement
- Business Strategy
- Data Migration & Analytics
- System Integration
- Digital Transformation
- IT landscape re-design
- Change Management
- Deployment Methodology
- Project scope development
- Schedule management
- Training and mentoring
Accomplishments
- Managed a team of 50+ resources in the development of BuyNow program to optimize $4.7B of addressable spend across 47 countries.
- Saved the company up to $ 3M over 2 years by implementing S4HANA and Ariba systems.
Certification
- Project Management & Solution Architect, Accenture Inc, SAP, 01/01/06 - 12/31/20
- Green Belt, GE
- Project Management & Solution Architect, Accenture
- Procurement consultant, SAP Ariba P2P
Linkedinprofile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-dighe-278a743/
Timeline
SAP Project Functional SME/Administrator for Ariba, S4HANA, Sourcing & Procurement
Amdigon LLC
08.2020 - Current
Consulting Roles: Delivery Lead, Supply Chain Architect, Senior Project Manager- IT & Process, Administrator
Accenture
06.2006 - 06.2020
Sr. Buyer/Planner
Celestica
03.2003 - 06.2006
Master of Science - Logistics
University of Texas
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