SAP Ariba Consultant Experience: 10 years to 20 years Work location: Chennai / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Mumbai / Pune / Noida / Gurugram / Kolkata Work mode: Hybrid Skill Matrix: Key Responsibilities: Gather Requirement, perform fit-gap analysis and develop robust design. • Deliver workshop and prepare required documentations as per project guidelines. • Lead the design and manage the stakeholders to get the timely sign off on the best practices processes design for SAP Ariba full suite applications. • Configure contract workspaces, clause libraries, templates, playbooks and term variants; set up meta-data taxonomy. • Design approval flows (legal, finance) with thresholds; implement e-signature and versioning; define archive/retention. • Map ERP integrations: vendor/GL/CC, contract reference on PO, price/term visibility; data migration for legacy contracts. • Set up obligation tracking, alerts and renewals; define KPIs for contract compliance and cycle time. • Collaborate with Supplier Risk to embed risk scores and mitigations within contracting checkpoints. • Design registration and qualification workflows; build modular questionnaires (tax, bank, ESG, InfoSec, sanctions). • Integrate Workday org data for request/approval routing; align vendor master with S/4 (BP model). • Configure risk rules/thresholds and continuous monitoring; set up periodic review cadence and remediation playbooks. • Define GDPR-compliant consent, data retention and right-to-be-forgotten processes. • Establish supplier performance scorecards and corrective action plans linked to category strategies. • Create buying channels (punchout/hosted), smart forms,



rules and help content; enable preferred content surfacing. • Ariba buying configurations, including approval flows, ICM configurations, parameters • Well-versed with Ariba master data and related configuration. • Should be able to support mappings for the Ariba interfaces. • Should be able to drive the discussions on Ariba spend control tower and category management. Knowledge & Skills Expected Functional/Domain: • Ariba full suite process knowledge including Risk, Category Management, spend control tower, Intake management, Next-Gen Ariba • Integrations with SAP S/4HANA and HR data with workday • Source to Pay process expertise, including category, supplier and catalog management. Technical/Tools: • Ariba Sourcing & Contracts configuration, e-Sign (DocuSign/Adobe), integration mapping to S/4 via CIG. • Data migration (extract/classify/load) for legacy contracts. • CIG • Ariba APIs Soft: • Detail orientation, documentation rigor, and stakeholder education. Key Deliverables • Business Requirement documents, Functional design, best-in-class best practice system integrated to S/4HANA. Expectations • Methodology: SAP Activate; iterative builds with Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retros) and quality gates. • Compliance & Security: GDPR, SoD/ICFR controls, audit trails, data minimization & retention policies; Country specific localization (VAT, eInvoicing where applicable). • Tooling: Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint/Teams; ALM/test mgmt; basic MS Office/Google Workspace. • Ways of Working: Cross-stream collaboration (S2C, P2P, CIG, Data, OCM, Training); transparent RAID & decisions log. Interested candidates can share your resume to Refer your friends as well.

📌 SAP Ariba consultant (Karnataka)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Karnataka