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Subrato Das

Subrato Das

Melbourne

Summary

SAP certified Lead Ariba consultant with 17 years of global IT experience involving Solution Architecture, Design and Implementation of procurement solutions in both upstream and downstream SAP Ariba on Demand modules, Sourcing, Contracts Management, Supplier Lifecycle & Performance, Buying and Invoicing and Supply Chain Collaboration and SAP Business Network.


Currently playing the role of a Functional Design Lead for a large Ariba Implementation and delivers a mix of hands configuration expertise, leading Functional Design Activities and end to end solution architecture

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Functional Design Lead

Fonterra Co-operative Group
01.2025 - Current

Lead Functional Design Activities and design end to end solution architecture

Facilitate workshops, design reviews and solution walkthroughs

Collaborate with Integration teams for technical designs

Support change management and oversee delivery and adoption

Lead Managing Consultant

Fonterra Co-operative Group
12.2022 - 12.2024

Guided Buying Implementation

  • Collaborate with Strategic Sourcing Team to define Buying Channels for different categories of spend
  • Design and Configure Intuitive Guided Buying Tiles, Forms, Tactical Sourcing
  • Configure Buying Policies, compliance rules, Preferred Qualified Suppliers and Catalogs within Ariba


SLP Implementation

  • Lead business workshops to gather requirements and drive functional design
  • Support data integration between Ariba SLP and ECC/ MDG
  • Hands on configuration experience of SLP templates and questionnaires
  • Provide functional support and testing for CI9 - CIG (ISMG) migration


Supply Chain Collaboration

  • Lead the design, configuration and deployment of SAP SCC process
  • Gather analyze and document business requirements for PO collaboration scenarios (Order Confirmation, Advanced Shipping notification)
  • Support Integration requirements in CIG and ECC to deploy business specifications


E-Commerce Implementation

  • Run workshops with supplier enablement team to help define operating procedures for vendor enablement, catalog enablement and electronic document exchange
  • Support set up and testing of hosted and punchout catalogs and transactional flows


Guided Sourcing Implementation

  • Configure sourcing templates, tasks and RFX processes
  • Collaborate with Procurement and Sourcing mangers for alignment


SAP Ariba - Lead Consultant

  • Leading and managing the BAU Support Team, delivering all BAU, enhancement requests and procurement projects

SAP Ariba - Lead Consultant

Fonterra Co-operative Group
10.2021 - 11.2022

Leading and managing the BAU Support Team, delivering all BAU, enhancement requests and procurement projects for Fonterra

Procure to Pay Consultant

National Australia Bank
06.2018 - 09.2021


Source-line Enhancements

  • Streamlining Buying Channels, Enhancing Guided Buying Tiles and Forms, approval workflows
  • Support Contract Operationalization
  • Rolling out Invoice to Contract, e-Invoices, and Blanket Purchase Orders


Source to Pay implementation (Ariba Business Suite)

  • Facilitating Requirement Gathering, Fit-Gap Analysis, Design workshops with the stakeholders on the end-to-end business process
  • Build business process flow and process mapping for current and future state
  • Facilitating data extraction from various legacy systems and mapping to the desired format required for Ariba to load
  • Helping business and Sourcing consultants in Ariba adoption, Supplier Enablement and Contract Operationalization


Functional Consultant – Financial Delegation Management System

  • The project was to migrate the legacy financial authority management system to a self-service Financial Delegation Management System
  • Worked as a functional consultant in requirement gathering, testing the solution and end to end delivery of the application
  • Mapping and validating integrations with Fiori front end, SAP cost center hierarchy and all downstream procurement systems
  • Managing and implementing the HR and Finance framework changes with the new delegation management system

Implementation Manager

Infosys Ltd.
01.2018 - 06.2018
  • Worked as Implementation Lead for major Payment Platform program in Australia
  • Conducted workshops and planning sessions with asset teams to define the implementation strategy
  • Coordination and Stakeholder management for implementation
  • Worked on Once Off Data Load for migration
  • Worked as a Control Room Lead for managing overall Control Room activities in managing Runsheet, Communications and Logistics.
  • Worked with Enterprise Release for stage gate requirements and Environment Services for Batch planning

Test Manager

Infosys Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2018
  • Test Manager managing functional and Non-Functional Testing and responsible for overall Test Delivery across all Phases
  • Worked on Test Strategies, Scoping, Estimation
  • Managed and facilitated testing across integration teams acting as a single point of testing contact for developers, management stakeholders, and vendors
  • Daily and Weekly Status Reporting
  • Chaired Defect Management meetings
  • Managed resourcing requirements and finances across the different phases of Testing

Level 3 Support Lead - SAP ECC - SRM

Infosys Ltd.
06.2011 - 05.2016

BAU Support for SAP Procurement

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2006 - 04.2009

Develop Software Applications

Education

MBA - Operations Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development
India
05-2011

B-Tech - Computer Science

Heritage Institute of Technology
India
05-2006

Skills

  • SAP Ariba Buying and Invoiving
  • Supply Chain Collaboration
  • SAP Business Network
  • Guided Buying
  • Supplier Life Cycle Performance
  • Contracts Management
  • Sourcing
  • Test Management
  • Implementation Management
  • Stakeholder Management

Certification

Certified Scrum Master – Scrum.org

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Ariba Procurement 2020

SAP Certified Application Associate - Ariba Integration

SAP Certified Application Associate – Supply Chain Collaboration

Timeline

Functional Design Lead

Fonterra Co-operative Group
01.2025 - Current

Lead Managing Consultant

Fonterra Co-operative Group
12.2022 - 12.2024

SAP Ariba - Lead Consultant

Fonterra Co-operative Group
10.2021 - 11.2022

Procure to Pay Consultant

National Australia Bank
06.2018 - 09.2021

Implementation Manager

Infosys Ltd.
01.2018 - 06.2018

Test Manager

Infosys Ltd.
08.2016 - 01.2018

Level 3 Support Lead - SAP ECC - SRM

Infosys Ltd.
06.2011 - 05.2016

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2006 - 04.2009

MBA - Operations Management

Welingkar Institute of Management Development

B-Tech - Computer Science

Heritage Institute of Technology
Subrato Das