Ujwal Kilaparti
Ingleburn,Australia
Summary
Experienced specialist with overall 7.5 years of industry experience with three years of dedicated experience in Vendor Management. Deep knowledge in supply management with hands-on experience in Data cleaning, Normalization and Trending. Insightful Master Data Analyst known for high productivity and efficiency in task completion. Specialize in data validation, process optimization, and analytics tool mastery. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and adaptability, ensuring seamless collaboration and innovative solutions in data management projects.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Subject Matter expert (VMD & CMD)
Carrier Technologies PVT LTD
02.2024 - 09.2024
- Develop and nurture positive relationships with vendors to ensure effective communication and collaboration
- Manage the Employee cycle of Contingent workforce
- Act as the primary point of contact for vendors, addressing inquiries, concerns, and fostering a collaborative business environment
- Raising Purchase Requests & Purchase orders using SAP (ARIBA), working with approvers to ensure POs are released in a timely manner and within the agreed timeframes
- Accurate maintenance of P2P Team records; produce regular reports on the demand/input through the Team and presenting at Team meetings
- Ensure that invoices are processed quickly and efficiently and working with Accounts payable/Finance to resolve any queries as required to ensure that the Credit Rating for business is not impacted by late payment of invoices
- Monitor and manage contract performance, ensuring vendors adhere to agreed-upon terms and conditions
- Maintain and support improvement of the 'Purchase to Pay' process, policies, and procedures in collaboration with key stakeholders (e.g., Finance, IT Asset Management)
- Ability to work independently delivering to tight deadlines
- Analyze data related to vendor performance, costs, and other relevant metrics
- Performs monthly and quarterly close processes independently
- Leads implementation of small to medium scale projects in order to improve functioning of the discipline
- Develops and documents credit & collections policies, procedures, and control processes to ensure smooth functioning of processes
- Prepares budget and forecast reports to identify deviations and enable corrective actions by relevant stakeholders
- Define and implement customer and vendor master data standards, policies and procedures
- This includes working closely with the business stakeholders to establish data ownership roles and responsibilities as well as data privacy team to ensure compliance with data privacy requirements
- Establish data quality rules and KPI metrics to measure and improve the accuracy and completeness of customer and vendor masters
- Provide regular reports on KPIs to data owners
- Conduct regular data quality assessments to identify and address data inconsistencies and anomalies
- Drive data quality initiatives, including data cleansing, deduplication, and enrichment, to improve the overall quality of customer and vendor masters’ data
- Oversee the creation, maintenance, and retirement of customer and vendor master data records
- Provide guidance and support to business users in managing customer and vendor master data and resolving data-related issues
Vendor Master Analyst for JCI
Johnson Controls
07.2021 - 12.2023
- Sending request of different approvals (budget approval, category approval etc.)
- Providing Delegation and category group Access to Business user
- Confirmation that vendor information is accurate as in the Supplier Information Management
- View, Add, Modify and Delete Suppliers
- Sending invitations to start a relationship with supplier or vendors, educating supplier of ASN and Establishing relationship with vendors/Suppliers on ASN
- Classifying catalog vendors
- Define /set catalog vendors in ERP systems
- Creating the weekly reports for the blocked vendor analysis
- Maintain the daily supplier reports to track the status of every individual supplier and requests received through SharePoint
- Perform quarterly vendor deactivation activity for the suppliers whose spend value has been nil for the previous quarter
- Make sure every request is sent to the business approver there by receiving the category manager’s approval
- Sending timely follows to the suppliers to get the required confirmations for the requests raised for amendment and new supplier creations
- Part of project on improving contract penetration, capturing the key contract metadata fields by going through the contract and other amendments
- Working for contract compliance project capturing key invoice information which is used for invoice audit against the agreed contract terms and conditions
- Performing quality check on the above project supported
- Performing risk assessment on suppliers and distributors
- Communicating to client on daily basis for new updates and progress
- Trained new resources joined in the project
- Given responsibility for maintaining process documentation
- Received appreciation from client for identifying and reducing the defects in the legacy systems and there by successfully mapping the suppliers from current SAP tool to the legacy Oracle tool
- Solving supplier queries by replying to their request regarding their accounts, changing account details if proper supporting documents are provided
- Currently working on spend analytics project (End to End process)
- Data Cleansing
- Data Normalization
- Data Classification
- (level 1-Level2)
Genpact India
05.2019 - 07.2021
- Part of project on improving contract penetration, capturing the key contract metadata fields by going through the contract and other amendments
- Working for contract compliance project capturing key invoice information which is used for invoice audit against the agreed contract terms and conditions
- Performing quality check on the above project supported
- Performing risk assessment on suppliers and distributors
- Communicating to client on daily basis for new updates and progress
- Trained new resources joined in the project
- Performing daily/ Weekly audits
- Sending Day end report to Manager
- Contacting business user, requestor on daily basis for better understanding and confirmation of the request
- Directly contacting onsite manager issues while processing
- Performed Audits for 03 team members in the process
- Given responsibility as an IT-SPOC for the process
Clarivate Analytics
03.2018 - 04.2019
- technical support associate
IBM PVT LTD
02.2015 - 07.2017
- Technical Support Analyst
Education
Graduation -
CMR College of Engineering
01.2014
Under graduation - Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Narayana junior college
01.2010
High School -
Bhashyam Public School
Vizag01.2008
Skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strategic Thinking
- Training and mentoring
- Research capabilities
- Project Planning
- Professionalism
- Analytical Thinking
- Conflict Resolution
- Multitasking
- Self Motivation
- Problem-Solving
- Goal Setting
Accomplishments
- Received Silver Award for 2 Times as Best Performer for the Quarter 2024.
- Received Spot Award for 3 Times as Best Performer for the month in Genpact.
Previousemployers
- Johnson Controls India, 07/01/21, 12/31/23
- Genpact India, 05/01/19, 07/31/21
- Clarivate Analytics, 03/01/18, 04/30/19
- IBM PVT LTD, 02/01/15, 07/31/17
Languages
English
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Timeline
Subject Matter expert (VMD & CMD)
Carrier Technologies PVT LTD
02.2024 - 09.2024
Vendor Master Analyst for JCI
Johnson Controls
07.2021 - 12.2023
Genpact India
05.2019 - 07.2021
Clarivate Analytics
03.2018 - 04.2019
IBM PVT LTD
02.2015 - 07.2017
Graduation -
CMR College of Engineering
Under graduation - Maths, Physics, Chemistry
Narayana junior college
High School -
Bhashyam Public School
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