S.L. AHMED HUMAIZ
Dubai,UAE
Summary
SAP Ariba Functional Consultant with 4+ years of consulting experience delivering SAP Ariba implementations, enhancements, and support projects across UAE and KSA. Certified in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP) with expertise in Strategic Sourcing, SLP, Commerce Automation, SAP Business Network, and procurement process optimization. Experienced in business requirement gathering, solution design, template configuration, change request implementation, supplier onboarding, workflow configuration, production support, and post-go-live activities. Proficient in configuring and maintaining Sourcing and SLP templates, supporting integrations, resolving production issues, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable, business-focused SAP Ariba solutions.
Overview
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
SAP Ariba funtional Consultant
Apsolut Information Technology
2024.09 - Current
Roles & Responsibilities
- Configured and maintained SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing and SLP templates to align with business requirements and change requests, approval workflows, team member rules, document, event rules, and supplier registration templates.
- Analyse procurement business processes and translate business requirements into scalable SAP Ariba solutions.
- Design and implement enhancements for sourcing events, RFx processes, technical and commercial envelope settings, supplier visibility, and scoring configurations.
- Perform ongoing maintenance, upgrades, and optimization of Sourcing and SLP templates while ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Closely monitor SLP integrations, supplier synchronization, template behaviour, and overall system performance to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Conduct requirement analysis sessions with procurement stakeholders and recommend SAP Ariba best practices.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, production deployments, and hypercare activities
- Conducted end-user and supplier training sessions, enhancing adoption of systems and improving procurement efficiency.
- Generate procurement reports and supplier analytics for business users
SAP Ariba functional consultant
WMS MIDDLEEAST LLC
2022.06 - 2024.08
- E-Auction and sourcing specialist organising auctions for 400+ categories for direct and indirect procurement process.
- Automated some of the manual activities as part of process improvement.
- Successfully completed 700+ online e-auctions for various clients in the GCC & Africa regio
- Worked closely with the client and other vendors in our client location to improve the process of interface.
- Documented various processing steps required for the day-to-day activity.
- Collaborated with customers and cross-functional teams to resolve functional issues.
SAP Ariba functional consultant
Star B2B Consulting service
2022.01 - 2022.05
- Assisted customers throughout SAP Ariba implementation lifecycle.
- Conducted supplier onboarding and vendor enablement.
- Trained more than 100 suppliers and 20 procurement users.
- Coordinated with SAP Product Support, Shared Services, and Customer Success teams.
Operations Assistant (logistics)
UNIC Trading Pvt. Ltd
2020.11 - 2021.10
- Collect Transport Quotations & negotiations.
- Verify stocks, yard, cargo & movements.
- Follow up for client payments.
- Work closely with shipping department for plan & schedule.
- Analyzing all operations & forwarding suggestion for improvement to the manage
Education
Master of Business Administration - Logistics & Marketing
MEASI Institute of Management, Madras University
Madras, India 06/2018 - 04/2020
Bachelor of Commerce - General
The New College, University of Madras
Madras, India 06/2015 - 05/2018
Skills
- SAP Ariba: SLP (CERTIFIED), SOURCING (CERTIFIED), Commerce automation
- SAP MM exposure
- MS – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Access
- ITIL® 4 Foundation Certified – IT Service Management Best Practices
Languages
English
Tamil
Certification
- SAP Ariba Sourcing Certified Application Associate 2023
- Implementation Consultant - SAP Ariba Supplier Management Certified Associate
- ITIL® 4 Foundation Certified – IT Service Management Best Practices
Project Highlights (UAE & KSA)
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (UAE)
- Supported SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP), and Commerce Automation modules for procurement operations.
- Configured sourcing templates, technical/commercial envelopes, scoring mechanisms, and sourcing event settings based on business requirements.
- Resolved supplier ANID integration issues, supported SAP Business Network collaboration, and provided functional support to 50+ buyers and international suppliers.
- Supported supplier registration, qualification, onboarding, and sourcing activities using SAP Ariba SLP and Strategic Sourcing.
- Configured supplier registration questionnaires, SLP templates, and assisted users with sourcing project creation and troubleshooting.
- Resolved supplier onboarding issues and provided day-to-day functional support to procurement users.
- Led the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing support engagement, gathering business requirements and implementing sourcing enhancements aligned with procurement processes.
- Configured sourcing project templates, condition-based templates, event rules, technical/commercial envelopes, questionnaires, and document settings to meet evolving business requirements.
- Implemented supplier rank visibility, supplier-specific rebate logic, and role-based access controls aligned with the client’s Delegation of Authority (DOA).
- Supported testing, deployment, post-go-live activities, and continuous process improvements while providing functional support to procurement users and resolving production issues.
- Configured SLP registration templates, approval workflows, and sourcing enhancements to support evolving business requirements.
- Supported supplier qualification, onboarding, and RFx configuration while resolving functional issues.
- Delivered supplier enablement and user training to improve adoption of SAP Ariba solutions.
- Conducted supplier onboarding and enablement workshops for SAP Ariba registration, RFx participation, and reverse auctions.
- Supported procurement teams with sourcing activities and supplier engagement throughout the sourcing lifecycle.
- Assisted suppliers and business users by resolving functional issues and providing post-training support.
- Supported the implementation of SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing by configuring RFx templates and sourcing event settings.
- Assisted buyers and suppliers with sourcing event execution, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to deliver functional enhancements and ensure successful sourcing operations.
Timeline
SAP Ariba funtional Consultant
Apsolut Information Technology
2024.09 - Current
SAP Ariba functional consultant
WMS MIDDLEEAST LLC
2022.06 - 2024.08
SAP Ariba functional consultant
Star B2B Consulting service
2022.01 - 2022.05
Operations Assistant (logistics)
UNIC Trading Pvt. Ltd
2020.11 - 2021.10
Bachelor of Commerce - General
The New College, University of Madras
06/2015 - 05/2018
Master of Business Administration - Logistics & Marketing
MEASI Institute of Management, Madras University
06/2018 - 04/2020