Atul Shankar Gaikwad
Product Consultant
Sharjah
Summary of Career
1. Managed product implementation and support for various global clients using waterfall & agile methodology
2. Collaborated with solution architects and engineering teams to translate client requirements into system design.
3. Responsible for preliminary configuration of the Ivalua Buyer solution and work with the team to deliver advanced configurations and enhancements
4. Defined test plans, create test scripts, complete client specific quality assurance testing, collaborate with technical resources to provide data migration, integration, deployment and support.
5. Lead the Daily Scrum and helping team to reach consensus
6. Responsible for delivering technographics data to clients
7. Delivered the Presales and Customer deliveries using AWS S3 & Athena
8. Tracking of various SLAs and KPIs across supply chain processes and how to use them to benchmark using APQC, Hackett etc.
9. Streamlining the processes of Supply Chain Delivery Centres.
10. Performed Spend Analytics, Taxonomy Consultation and multi-dimensional Spend analysis across Suppliers, Commodities, Locations and Business Units and preparing reports & dashboards using tableau
Experience as Lead Consultant
IBM
25 October 2012
01 May 2022
Functional Consultant for SAP Ariba & IBM Emptoris Upstream (Sourcing, Contracts &
SIPM) Modules Implementation & Support.
• Formulated the templates for the various sourcing activities like RFQ, RFP as per the
client’s requirement.
• Prepared functional, technical design documents including data collection templates,
workbook configurations.
• Performed Spend Analytics, Taxonomy Consultation and multi-dimensional Spend
analysis across Suppliers, Commodities, Locations and Business Units and preparing
reports & dashboards using tableau
• Data Analytics – Extraction, Profiling and Segmentation of Client Data.
• Involved in E2E project deliveries of Procurement analytics for various clients & have
UNSPSC Expertise.
Master 21 June 2011
Pursued MBA in Operations from University of Mumbai,Management DepartmentBachelor 14 June 2006
Completed Bachelors of Computer Engineering