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VIJAY VEDULA

VIJAY VEDULA

Senior Techno Functional Consultant
South Plainfield

Summary

Results-driven consultant with a proven track record of success across various industries. Exceptional interpersonal, problem-solving, and analytical skills to offer valuable insights and guidance to client organizations, improving business performance. Skilled in operations, strategy, and finance, focusing on delivering impactful solutions for growth and efficiency. Proficient in SAP Ariba and SAP Techno Functional Consulting, bridging technical and functional requirements for seamless SAP implementations. Experienced in streamlining processes and driving efficiency through a deep understanding of SAP modules. Resourceful Solution Architect with 18 years of experience in customer relationship management and implementation support. Highly skilled in managing database performance and upgrades to achieve corporate objectives.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
4004
4004
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

Wipro
12.2019 - Current
  • SAP Certified Professional with over 18 years of experience in SAP Source to Pay solutions in SAP MM and SAP Ariba across different roles and functions. Techno-functional professional, gained project management expertise handling complex landscapes and processes


  • Project: US Foods


  • Solution Architect for implementing SAP Ariba Procure to Pay solution
  • Lead the design and implementation of SAP Ariba Procure to Pay aligned with business requirements
  • Ensure seamless integration of SAP Ariba with backend ERP(Peoplesoft)
  • Provide guidance on procurement of the best practices, compliance and process optimization
  • Oversee solution testing, deployment and end-user training to ensure successful system adoption


  • Project: CN Rail


  • Onshore Functional Lead for SAP Ariba
  • Conducted workshops to gather client’s business processes
  • Analyze clients’ requirements to determine best configuration of the software to meet their needs.
  • Participated in meetings to provide specific expertise in SAP Ariba


  • Project: Cenovus Energy


  • Onshore functional test lead for SAP Source to Pay (STP) implementation.
  • Created functional and system Integration test scenarios and test scripts for all the modules of SAP Source to Pay
  • Scheduled detailed sessions on Material Master, Sourcing and Contracting, Supplier Management, Procure to Pay and Materials Management with business SMEs on test variations
  • Coordinated with process SMEs on understanding of business processes around RFQ, Outline Agreements, Purchasing Inventory and non-Inventory Material, Intra and Inter Company Stock Transfers.
  • Walkthrough on SAP Signavio process maps
  • Attended design sessions and workshops to provide inputs from testing perspective.
  • Provide inputs on BDDs (business design documents) for L3, L4 and L5 testing steps for the business processes
  • Work with dev teams to ensure build trackers are in sync with test trackers
  • Worked with different connected applications as Open Invoice, MDG, Ariba, Fieldglass
  • Work with related application owners as RTR, ATR and HRT for data dependencies on source to pay (STP)
  • Develop test strategies as test planning, test documents checklists, tools as QTest and coordination with tech team on test automation using TOSCA
  • Project: Johnson & Johnson
  • Onsite Ariba Developer working on Ariba customizations for Procure to Pay
  • Developed scheduled tasks and cron jobs required as part of new implementations and rollouts
  • Fixed bugs related to code changes on interfaces
  • Developed APIs to export and import data from SAP Ariba to external systems
  • Updated database tables for Ariba
  • Worked on creating new custom forms in Guided Buying
  • Created and updated database procedures
  • Exposure to tools like ECLIPSE for SAP code development, TOAD for database connectivity, JIRA for ticketing, and SVN/GIT for code repository management
  • Worked on requirements gathering workshops towards implementing SAP Central Finance as a single global realm solution replacing the existing landscape
  • Project: Georgia Pacific
  • Onsite technical lead for integrating SAP Ariba to Infor M3 ERP system
  • Overall lead for SAP Ariba projects and support teams
  • Single point of contact for GP account from Wipro
  • Conducting requirements, gathering workshops with business process heads to identify business requirements for implementing Invoicing and Payments modules of SAP-Designing architecture and solution
  • Performing architecture and solution designing with respect to architecture governance models underlying tools
  • Supporting processes including architecture approvals and architecture changes
  • Integrating new ERP system to existing SAP Ariba landscape
  • Building middleware mapping structures on IBM Sterling middleware to connect SAP Ariba to new system
  • Designing and building custom fields in SAP Ariba required to maintain transactional data flow
  • Implemented with successful go-live for SAP Ariba Invoicing and SAP Ariba Guided Buying Modules
  • Project Management Activities
  • Managed dependencies across 15-16 order management systems
  • Coordinated go-live activities for SAP and InforM3 implementation
  • Directed detailed cutover planning with step-by-step processes to ensure data consistency and dependency alignment during go-live
  • Facilitated regular meetings to align stakeholders to ensure seamless execution
  • Addressed and resolved escalations related to data migration and system integration

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
03.2016 - 10.2019
  • Project: Georgia Pacific (Onsite Integration Lead for Invoice Management)


  • Technical lead for P2P Integration with five backend ERP systems and legacy systems
  • Coordinate with middleware teams on updating maps to convert flat file->cXML or xml->cXML
  • Update the mappings elements with custom fields
  • Create technical architecture diagram and tech design documents
  • Creating technical specifications documents and publishing them along with functional specs of the project
  • Implementing Invoice Conversion Services module which scan paper invoices and convert them into electronic formats
  • Conducting cutover activities and aligning all the tasks sequentially required for go-live
  • Managing offshore team who are responsible for handling support tickets.
  • Facilitating knowledge transfers sessions and resource planning as required for extending support activities
  • Working with onshore team on developing design documents, FDS, gap analysis
  • Drive defect meetings


  • Project: Dell/EMC (On-Demand P2P and Sourcing implementation)


  • Offshore consultant for P2P implementation with Guided Buying
  • Responsible for all activities for Europe region
  • Responsible for overall progress of P2P Europe region
  • Work with Ariba on building Approval flows in the system
  • Work with Ariba on building exceptions in the system
  • Conducted UAT and cutover activities
  • Project Management Activities
  • Planned daily activities for offshore team of 7 members
  • Sprint planning to track development and testing milestones
  • Organize and schedule testing cycles, ensuring coverage across all modules
  • Status meetings to monitor progress and address blockers
  • Project: Motiva Enterprises (On-Demand P2P and Sourcing implementation)
  • Offshore consultant for Sourcing and Contracts Management
  • Responsible to receive business requirements and build templates within system
  • Build contract clauses and update “DFS” documents
  • Work with onshore team on developing design documents, FDS, gap analysis
  • Follow up with offshore team on writing test cases
  • Building the team and responsibilities to be defined

Team Lead

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
07.2010 - 02.2016
  • Project: Lupin Pharmaceuticals (On-Demand P2O and Sourcing implementation)


  • Technical lead for P2O and Sourcing implementation
  • Build interfaces for Master and Transactional Data for Ariba and SAP-EC
  • Provided SME support towards RFP requirements and resource staffing
  • Project: Coca-Cola (On-Demand Sourcing and Spend Visibility Implementation)
  • Technical consultant for Ariba On-Demand implementation
  • Map functional requirements into Ariba eSourcing platform
  • Create interface to download transactional data from ERPs into Ariba Spend Visibility
  • Coordinate with SAP-Ariba towards data enrichment of transactional data
  • Drive global adoption for Ariba eSourcing
  • Project: SAB Miller (On-Demand Upstream Transition)
  • Transition support from onshore to offshore
  • Prepare KT plant and resource planning
  • Establish and stabilize support team on Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management


  • Project: United Spirits Ltd (On-Premise Buyer Development)


  • Lead technical consultant at USL for Ariba P2P
  • Transition from an existing vendor to Accenture
  • Develop customizations in java for Ariba-SAP interface. This included writing new schedule tasks, UI fields and tax computations.
  • Develop cron jobs in Unix script to automate certain processes
  • Form and establish support team of Accenture.
  • Project: CAIRN Energy (On Demand Upstream Implementation)
  • Functional Consultant for Cairn Energy eSourcing
  • Implement Ariba Sourcing at Cairn
  • Understand business processes and map them to Ariba
  • Provide training to Cairn SPOCs
  • Create interface between SAP to Ariba Quadrem. This involves reading the flat file and sending it to Quadrem via https using SOAP.
  • Implementation of Ariba Contract Management
  • Project: Pfizer (On Premise Support and Customization)
  • Provide Level3 support to Pfizer customized Ariba product
  • Bug fixes which involved backend updates
  • Create Scheduled Tasks and Integrated events.
  • Create Triggers, conditions and actions.
  • Involved in CR activities to fix defects in the customized code
  • Involved in enhancement activities as a continuous improvement
  • Monitor the feeds to and from Ariba to other interfaces.
  • Involved in weekly and monthly ‘Ariba Super User’ meetings
  • Participate in Upstream related design sessions and CR discussions
  • Involved in Post-Release activities
  • Work with Optimization and DBA teams for query tunings
  • Co-ordinate with Ariba, Inc for all SRs logged by Pfizer

Technical Resolution Engineer

SAP (formerly Ariba Inc.)
05.2007 - 07.2010
  • Project: On-Demand and CD customers of Ariba Product
  • Provide level 3 technical support to Ariba's customers for Ariba's enterprise software products.
  • Resolve technical problems, develop solutions/workarounds for show stoppers
  • Keep a track and adhere to committed SLA’s with customers
  • Work with engineering and product management teams to ensure defect fixes are delivered timely
  • Indentify customizations by studying the AML and AQL queries.
  • Provide product feedback, inputs for continuous improvement of product to product management team

Senior Process Associate

CapGemini (formerly iGATE Global Solutions)
08.2004 - 05.2007
  • Process mortgage loans of a US based mortgage company “GreenPoint Mortgage (GPM)”
  • Functional testing of latest versions and releases of the tool used by GPM
  • Identify defects and work with engineering to have them fixed before releases.
  • Interact and coordinate with client branches in US.

Education

Masters in Science - Physics

University Bhopal
India
04-2004

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Andhra University
India
04-1999

Skills

Analytical problem-solving

Problem-solving

Efficient time management

Collaborative teamwork

Client engagement

Time management

Team collaboration

Client relationships

Certification

Certified SAP Ariba Procurement Application Associate

Timeline

Consultant

Wipro
12.2019 - Current

Senior Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
03.2016 - 10.2019

Team Lead

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
07.2010 - 02.2016

Technical Resolution Engineer

SAP (formerly Ariba Inc.)
05.2007 - 07.2010

Senior Process Associate

CapGemini (formerly iGATE Global Solutions)
08.2004 - 05.2007

Masters in Science - Physics

University Bhopal

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Andhra University

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