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Shashank Haritsa

Oshawa,ON

Summary

Dynamic, energetic, and results-driven professional executive with over 10.5 years of progressive work experience in Procurement and SAP (ECC and ARIBA) in a multicultural environment with a diverse commercial background and unique complimentary procurement management skills gained across a range of industries from Melbourne, Australia.


A subject matter expert with deep knowledge of Procurement functions, and diversified experience in a competitive business environment, a dedicated individual with experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry, a quick and eager learner who rises to new challenges with enthusiasm.


Detail-oriented strategic sourcing specialist with excellent track record of improving relationships with vendors, increasing supply chain efficiency, and reducing overall materials budget. Strong leadership skills to encourage team members, implement new policies, and improve performance and morale. Strong communication and executive presentation skills, adaptable management style to work in a variety of corporate cultures and matrix team structures

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Application Analyst SAP ARIBA

TD Bank Group
04.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for managing a team of 3 with all aspects of Supplier Enablement onto the SAP Business Network to enable Suppliers to transact with TD to meet SE enablement targets and Strategic Sourcing Group (SSG) Value Realization metrics for leading supplier integration setup and testing
  • Oversee the entire supplier management process, including compliance, contract management and performance management
  • Provide day-to-day subject matter expertise support for the Ariba e-Sourcing and Ariba Contract Management System
  • Develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure compliance with company policies and regulations
  • Configuration for Ariba Buying & Invoicing, Catalog management, Invoice Against Contract, SAP AN rule configuration, Approval Workflow configuration, and Invoice Exception setup & Tax configuration
  • Subject matter expert for supplier enablement, vendor management, contract administration, e-invoicing, buying channel analysis, SLP and Ariba sourcing
  • Support Change Management activities including the review and development of training material, jobs aids, and procedures for new products and/or processes
  • Subject matter expert for the Contracts team with execution of various contracts across different categories and business
  • Responsible for Implementing category management strategies and the strategic sourcing process.

SAP ARIBA SUPPLIER ENABLEMENT LEAD

Tech Mahindra Limited
12.2021 - 11.2022
  • Responsible for implementing strategy and process of enabling suppliers to Ariba P2P and e-invoicing platform
  • Developed and managed supplier on-boarding projects and wave roll-outs on global scale (across 3 regions North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific)
  • Partnering with Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team to identify new suppliers, keep supplier contact information current and manage relationships with existing suppliers on the Ariba Network
  • Own the process of on-boarding strategic suppliers to the Ariba Network and manage the lifecycle of migrating suppliers from legacy systems and processes to the new platform and will track compliance to the new process
  • Responsible for helping to socialize e-invoicing to the organization wide users and troubleshoot issues that may arise during the PO transmission and e-invoicing process
  • Monitor and ensure all Supplier Enablement planned activities are carried out according to project timeline
  • Liaise with procurement partners to review, report on, and revise contractual agreements, supplier and category strategies as necessary
  • SPOC for Ariba Supplier Enablement in Singtel liaising with SAP and Internal Stakeholders and potentially participate in the supplier relationship management (SRM) program managing top tier strategic suppliers critical to Singtel
  • Experience in implementing the Buying and Invoicing process, Spend analytics and Sourcing and Contract Workspace
  • Responsible for creation / maintenance of sourcing and contracts template
  • Conduct regular spend analysis inclusive of catalog and non-catalog spend to determine catalog recommendations
  • Work closely with Global Sourcing and Procurement Operations team members to execute catalog buying and supplier enablement strategy.

Senior Sourcing Analyst - Indirect

Opal Packaging AU & NZ
04.2020 - 08.2021
  • Developing and deploying comprehensive category and commodity strategies to drive cost savings and working capital improvements for categories of threshold of AU $1.5M
  • Timely management and strategic coordination of Tactical and Strategic sourcing requests (RFI, RFP, RFQ) for INDIRECT categories like MRO Spares, Equipment Hire, Labour Hire, Chemicals, Health and Safety and Site Services, Travel and Facilities
  • Responsible to manage non-strategic spend on goods and services, designing the process, Sourcing requests via ARIBA
  • Liaise with procurement partners to review, report on, and revise contractual agreements, supplier and category strategies as necessary
  • Responsible for managing the Procure to Pay process which includes sourcing and tendering, through to liaising with AP and Finance Business Partners for vendor creation and payment
  • Managing contract spending from contract workspaces and providing thorough training to contract owners to drive contract performance via Ariba by overseeing and directing contract development and management activities for assigned category
  • Responsible for Integrations of Ariba PTP to SAP Systems, Ariba CIG for all downstream transactions
  • Technical integration of purchase orders (direct and indirect), Confirmation/GR, Invoices, Credit/Debit memos, Web-service (punchout catalogues) using Ariba CIG for Ariba Buying; Invoicing
  • Suit integrations for Contract Compliance
  • Work closely with Global Sourcing and Procurement Operations team members to execute catalog buying and supplier enablement strategy.

Senior Procurement Analyst - Directs

SAPUTO Dairy Australia
03.2019 - 04.2020
  • Support development of category-specific (DIRECT – Packaging & Ingredients) strategic sourcing strategies
  • Analyzing market, segment and SKU data to generate category opportunities in DIRECT category
  • Worked independently to provide PACKAGING procurement consulting to PACKAGING Procurement Manager, but not limited to: Data and RFP development, market assessment, risk management, strategy development, contract negotiation, contract management in ARIBA
  • Responsible for executing global sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories in scope
  • Manage RFP/RFQ process from creation to completion and provide supplier selection recommendations
  • Support development / implementation of negotiation strategies based on MOQ
  • Creating and maintaining supplier catalogues in ARIBA
  • Developing Spend reports and assisting Category Managers in developing category strategies and accountable to provide accurate budget for Category spend
  • Supported all data requirements for project HARMONY for a centralised ERP migration
  • Lead end to end sourcing process, and recommend opportunities to continuously improve and enhance the strategic value of Procurement to the organization
  • Responsible for leading supplier selection and sources of supply process across multiple subsets of the Indirect category, with various scope across stakeholder groups
  • Responsible for analyzing data such as financial, statistical, and quantitative both internal and external (economic, industry, capacity, e.g
  • ICIS Index) and perform total cost of ownership (TCO) models, and providing economically sound recommendations to respective category managers
  • Configuration of Templates for Contract Workspace and Sourcing projects and Self Service, Low Touch and High Touch in Guided Buying
  • Conduct regular spend analysis inclusive of catalog and non-catalog spend to determine catalog recommendations.

Sourcing Specialist

Siemens Mobility Australia Ltd
04.2018 - 03.2019
  • Responsible for managing Electrical Installation Material and MRO (like Stampings, Fasteners, Sleeves, Aluminum Extrusions and Aluminum Castings) category for AU & NZ region
  • Responsible for on-time-delivery performance and operational supplier quality
  • Responsible for processing orders, following up with suppliers, monitoring deliveries and processing of order deviations and complaints
  • Procurement of components and assemblies and review quotations
  • Collaboration with internal stakeholders such as Engineering, Project Management and Production as well as external suppliers
  • Define and implement Procurement & Commodity strategies based on conducted demand, market and supplier analysis to ensure long-term, cost-efficient and reliable on-time supply in the required quality for Electrical Installation Materials.

Procurement Coordinator

Asahi Beverages Pty Ltd
10.2016 - 04.2018
  • Maintain Purchase Price Variance (PPV) through monthly financial routines and assist with yearly budget preparation for cost centres within Procurement organization
  • Hands on experience in implementing the Buying and Invoicing process, Spend analytics and Sourcing and Contract Workspace
  • Support and maintain an effective central Purchase-to-pay process
  • Analytical support for Procurement Mangers of different catalogue items
  • Monthly / weekly / quarterly reporting to group standards
  • Monitoring of supplier metrics to achieve agreed savings targets
  • Category spend reporting (Direct & Indirect costing) by interrogating systems to extract and interpret data including metrics such as, number of invoices, number of suppliers, spend analysis, negotiations, tender management & support
  • Analyse business data and support the interpretation of findings to identify opportunities, trends and risks for management to make strategic decisions
  • Managed and implemented Contract workspace from S2C to analyse spend in P2O across various Procurement Categories
  • Strong financial modelling skills using analytical tools, such as Excel and Tableau
  • Assist the Sourcing Managers to source vendors and negotiate favourable terms and/or pricing required to supply goods or services to the specifications of internal and external stakeholders.

SAP Specialist

Apotex Research Pvt. Ltd
05.2013 - 10.2014
  • Creating SAP codes for materials in Pharmaceutical industry
  • Material code include raw materials, finished goods, Semi- finished goods, trading goods, packaging components & for other materials
  • Creating inspection plan for finished, semi-finished, shipping materials
  • Master Data Validation, Consolidation, Harmonization
  • Creating Vendors as per the company Standard Operating Procedures
  • Handling Master Data functionality in Quality (QM), Finance (FI) & Warehouse management (WM)
  • Creation of Master Recipe
  • Recipe includes creation of Packaging material & Production Material.

Support Consultant

Hewlett Packard Global Soft
09.2010 - 04.2013
  • Customer and SAP Support
  • Master data: Material Master, Vendor Master
  • Purchasing Master Data: Info Record, Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order
  • Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems.

Education

Master of Supply Chain & Logistics Management -

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Karnataka, India

Skills

  • SAP Ariba and SAP ECC
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Strategic/Tactical Sourcing (RFX's)
  • Category Management
  • Spend Analysis

Accomplishments

  • Planned and conducted sourcing projects on Indirects Category, engaging stakeholders and the required cross-functional stakeholders
  • Successfully executed sourcing project for Waste Management/Disposal Services across NZ plants covering 22 Scopes of Work for a period of 5 years with an annual spend of NZ $0.65M and analysed savings of $12,000 per year
  • Negotiated long term rebate programs for cartons recycling for a period of 3 years, which ultimately will net up to 4% savings with contracted supplier
  • Conducted a number of sourcing inquiry projects across Indirect Category(Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Site Services and Corporate Uniforms) that yielded billable RFP events in ARIBA with projected total savings of AU$1M
  • Conducted RFP and Negotiated procurement agreement for AU in the equipment hire category (SCISSOR & BOOM LIFTS), with a panel of 3 suppliers resulting in a 2% cost savings, and $1.2 million annually.
  • Analyzed and presented cost savings of $2.5M in the packaging category over a 2-year interval for corrugated boards

Timeline

Business Application Analyst SAP ARIBA

TD Bank Group
04.2023 - Current

SAP ARIBA SUPPLIER ENABLEMENT LEAD

Tech Mahindra Limited
12.2021 - 11.2022

Senior Sourcing Analyst - Indirect

Opal Packaging AU & NZ
04.2020 - 08.2021

Senior Procurement Analyst - Directs

SAPUTO Dairy Australia
03.2019 - 04.2020

Sourcing Specialist

Siemens Mobility Australia Ltd
04.2018 - 03.2019

Procurement Coordinator

Asahi Beverages Pty Ltd
10.2016 - 04.2018

SAP Specialist

Apotex Research Pvt. Ltd
05.2013 - 10.2014

Support Consultant

Hewlett Packard Global Soft
09.2010 - 04.2013

Master of Supply Chain & Logistics Management -

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)

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