SAP Ariba consultant Location: Minneapolis, MN or Charlotte, NC Job Description This position is a supporting role in defining, implementing, and supporting SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, Buying/Invoicing, and Supplier Lifecycle Performance solutions. This position requires knowledge and understanding of Ariba best practices, multiple tools, technologies, and methodologies to support the core SAP Ariba solution and integrations to multiple systems.
Responsibilities include: - Works on ongoing product and technical improvements in SAP Ariba Suite.
- Ensures completion of technical deliverables for Ariba Upstream and Downstream as outlined by Product Owner/Application Owner.
- Acts as contact for business units for application support and production issue analysis.
- Maintains understanding of end-to-end data flows for applications including business logic and controls.
- Understands and enforces policies in place to protect information and system stability.
- Works with other technology teams within the organization to deliver results efficiently.
- Tracks application and batch performance and develops plans for remediation of issues.
- Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met.
- Strengthens the team's knowledge of key software products and features through mentoring.
- Removing impediments by finding the right personnel or internal partners.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency.
- Complete administrative/documentation requirements per WF policies and compliance.
Required Qualifications - 5+ years of application development and/or implementation experience
- 5+ years of application production support experience
- 3+ years of SAP Ariba Solutions (SLP, Sourcing, Contract Management, P2P, Guided Buying and Ariba Network) experience.
- 3+ years of Ariba P2P master data and transactional data interface experience.
- 3+ years of Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Performance experience and usage of Ariba open APIs.
- 3+ years of common Ariba practices like manual file upload/download, integration monitoring, Approval flow setup, Integration setup.
- 3+ years of integration of SAP Ariba Solutions with ERP including Master Data Integration, Transfer of documents, Cross system reporting.
- 3+ years of Ariba On demand Implementation experience.
Desired Qualifications - 2+ years of RESTful or SOAP web services experience.
- 2+ years of ITK and SAP ARIBA Adapter experience.
- 2+ years of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Internet security protocol experience.
- 2+ years of Autosys experience.
- 2+ years of NDM experience.
