Rahat Saleem

SAP Program Manager - MM/P2P, EWM & Ariba As part of the Digital Transformation Team for one of the largest S/4HANA transformation programs across manufacturing entities, I am working in streamlining data models, optimizing business processes, and enabling strategic decision-making. Focused on business analysis, process improvement, and solution implementation, I ensured alignment with organizational goals and stakeholder requirements. Configured and optimized service procurement processes in SAP, including the creation and management of service contracts and vendor agreements. Requirement Gathering and Analysis: ▪ Collaborated with Supply Chain, Procurement, and IT teams to understand business requirements, identify operational gaps, and propose innovative solutions in MM (Material Management) module. • Conducted workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather technical and functional requirements for SAP Ariba integration, sourcing, and contract management. • Documented functional business requirements, process flow diagrams, and business cases to ensure clarity and alignment with business objectives. Stakeholder Collaboration and Business Process Improvement: • Designed and implemented integration models in the ERP system for transferring plants, shipping points, and Business Partner (BP) data, ensuring seamless data flow across systems. • Drove process improvements, such as implementing batch management in SAP S/4HANA for precise material tracking and optimizing warehouse operations through SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management). Testing, Training, and Change Management: • Led User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for SAP Ariba deployment and S/4HANA EWM implementation, ensuring solutions met business requirements and obtaining signoffs. • Prepared user documentation and training manuals and conducted training sessions across multiple locations, enabling end-users to execute S2P (Source-to-Pay) and P2P (Procure-to-Pay) processes effectively.

Led multiple projects and worked as Program Manager for Walmart-Canada, Walmart-USA, Walmart-Mexico, Walmart-Chile as Program Manager and handling the portfolio projects, working on SAP Projects ECC 6.0 e.g. Central Fill Pharmacy, SAP Cash Recycler, Wall-in-One and Support Manager to month end closing of all Walmart International markets. Built a Transformation Journey Strategy with SAP Best Practices and SAP Model Company from ECC 6.0 to S/4 HANA Finance vis-à-vis New GL functionalities as well New Assets Accounting functionalities. Importing Vendor Master data and Customer Master data and converting and cleansing the data model into Business Partners. Responsible for managing and leading the implementation SAP Finance Projects and providing support to Consultants. Reviewed all OTC related processes to ensure all workflows continue to fit for purpose and best practices. Develop and maintain deep productive relationships with all business partners. Maintained all relevant policy and governance documentation, ensuring they are updated as define Experienced in Project Management Planning, Time Schedule Management, Budget planning and estimation, Project Leadership, Performance Management, Quality control Management, Risk Assessment and Risk Management. Follow-up on delinquent accounts through continuous follow-up with customers, Sales or Customer Service to obtain timely payment and/or timely dispute resolution. Partner with internal and external customers to identify trends, perform root cause analyses, and provide solutions to resolve issues causing deductions. Project Management and Rollout Support: Actively participated in rollout activities to other entities, ensuring consistent adoption of best practices and standardized processes. Provided ongoing support for daily S2P activities and ticket resolution within Service Level Agreement (SLA) time limits, ensuring business continuity.

• Responsible for managing and leading the FileNet P8 Upgrade project of Content Management project ending on June 30, 2020. NNG is a well renowned world class energy company. Created Project Charter and project management plan including cost and budget. Successfully implemented the project and nearing the completion of the project on budget and time. Managing a team of 15 people from all disciplines including daily monitoring and updated the tasks and activities and monitoring the milestone completion and project associate’s performance for successful completion of the project.

• Responsible for managing SAP Ariba Spend Management, Supplier Onboarding (SLP) project. Held workshops and brainstorming session with the key stakeholders to collect the business and functional requirements for the implementation of SLP Ariba project. Closely worked with Accenture to develop the system as per requirements. • Abbvie Pharma is a well renowned pharmaceutical company and is in the process of implementation SAP SLP, Ariba Networking and Outsourcing. • Managing a team of 6 for the integration of their existing system DSP to SLP/Ariba and ECC6.0

• Requirements gathering from end users, Requirement analysis. • Worked on the entire Financials business process. • Define Pick Release, Pick Release rules, Shipping Parameters • Vigorously worked with the SD team for creation of OTC (Order to Cash cycle) cycle including the following business processes: • Worked on day to day support issues and implementation related issues which comprise • Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Cost center accounting, internal orders and Profitability analysis. • Extensively worked on Revenue Recognition, Real time revenue generation on posting periods. • Supported day to day issues like creating new payment terms, creating new banks, investigating payment program issues on weekly basis. Also worked on interfaces for printing checks from third party application and developed functional specs to create interface to provide check status to external legacy system. • In Account Receivable, worked on various support issues like investigating blocked billing document from SD and identifying the root cause of it. • Full life cycle implementation using SAP ECC 6.0. • Responsible for gathering requirements, participating in system design. • Maintained required settings in Accounts payable i.e. Configuration for payment program, payment terms, Vendor Master • Created and maintained Customer master data along with customer groups, payment terms, Dunning, Reporting. • Configuration of Tax Procedure, Complete configuration of Withholding Tax. • Cash and Bank accounting – House Bank Masters, Cash Journal Configuration and lock box. • FI-MM, FI-SD and FI-PP Integration. • Configured controlling - Cost Centre Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Allocation of cost to various cost centers, versions, number range, standard hierarchy, cost center groups, Assessment and distribution cycle, Profit Centre Accounting and BPC. • Asset Accounting Module set up and configuration. • New GL Configuration.

• XCEL Resources is one of the premier SAP Partner Solution Consultants • Service Providers in USA. • Got a comprehensive experience on the domain of SAP ECC6.0 live system and Defined company, configured Company Codes and their global settings and assigned Company to Company Code. • Worked on New GL, Configured Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Field Status Group and GL account Master Record. • Maintained and configured the various Special G/L Transaction and Statistical Posting, like Down Payment, Down Payment Request, Bills Receivable, Bills Payables, Bank Bills, Guarantees and Reserve for Bad Debt for Vendors & Customers. • Designed and configured Asset Management to carry out business transactions like Acquisition, Retirement and Transfers. Made settings for GL accounts for AUC, Loss/Gain on asset disposal/retirement for posting depreciation. Defined setting for Depreciation Run. • Customized and Configured the Bank Accounts with their House bank for Automatic Payment Posting and Maintained Check Management, Cash Management, Treasury, Payment Differences and Payment Terms. • Integrated Sales and Distribution, Material Management and Production Planning with FICO module. • Created Customer Master Data, Vendor Master Data, and House Banks and configured the Cash Management Groups.

• Earned initiatives designed to advance continuous improvement, competitive advantage and profitable growth. Lead business process and workflow mapping/analysis using data capture and modeling technologies, methods and tools. Analyze business, user and technical requirements for proposed SAS, web-based and system solutions. • Completed in-depth analyses for business-optimization projects, reporting tools, back-office programs and payment-processing apps. Measurable outcomes: 9.2% revenue growth (2016) Up to 45% in efficiency gains, $575K capital-expense reduction, $1.1M labor-cost savings, 97% account-retention rates, 10% increase in referrals • Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies. • Partnered with developers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors. Credited as a primary driving force behind a 5% increase in margins this fiscal year. • Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs. • Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations for up to 12,000 global users. • Worked as Financial Advisor and was responsible for all the banking products including: Day to Day Banking, Credit Cards, Mortgages, Mutual Funds, Investments, etc. and services meeting sales targets. • To establish and maintain high level relationships with key clients across multiple business units. • This includes supporting the business units by managing any potential issues and ensuring key client satisfaction is maintained at the highest possible level. The role is also responsible for owning the organic growth figure for each key account and ensuring delivery against this.

• The work involved understanding the forum's business requirements for various processes, analyzing the GAP, freezing of user requirements, implementation in SAP, testing, user training, documentation and post implementation support. • Worked on procurement cycle - Purchase requisition, RFQ, Maintenance of quotations, vendor selection, purchase orders, goods receipt and invoice verification. • Responsible for Creation of Material Master Record for different Material Types, Purchasing Organization, Purchasing Groups, Purchasing Info Record and Source List. • To Interact with the Business team of the client understand the business process and re-engineer the existing business processes to follow the best practices as prescribed by Guidewire. • Gathered requirements to integrate external systems to meet the Client needs including, but not limited to, a new Rating Engine to be used with the Guidewire Policy Center. • Supported PMO by mentoring specific projects in application of the new SDLC based on the Agile Unified Process, especially from the project management, requirements and architecture perspectives. • Worked on an application that took care of online account services which included Bill paying, checking the bill history, changing customer profile, ordering auto insurance ID cards Worked on Commercial lines Property and Casualty Insurance including both policy and claim processing and reinsurance. • Performed in depth gap analysis with different business groups to ensure that the system initiatives are met.

• Worked on multiple projects of moderate to high complexity by working with business partners within multiple business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies; eliciting, documenting, and refining business requirements for the IT organization. • Served as a liaison across multiple facets of the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs; leveraging an informed knowledge of business areas to identify and/or resolve problems on an ongoing basis. • Evaluated financial risks, prepared financial forecasts based on financial analysis. Preparation of business proposals for seeking approvals from the Credit Review Committee and the Board of Directors of the Bank. • Provided advice on potential financial solutions based on identified needs. • Analyzed financial requirements of customer and match with bank's product offerings. • Established new Business development opportunities with new clientage as well as existing clients secured annual business targets worth Rs.6 billion in FY-2008. • Collection and recovery of monthly and quarterly lease rentals/installments and settlements of bad and doubtful debts of accounts. Also dealt with litigation accounts of the Bank.

• Led a project of new formation of a financial institution in Pakistan and closely worked with stakeholders, sponsors and the project team right from creating the Project charter, Project planning and Scope Definition. • Successfully completed the project to form a new financial institution for leasing portfolio and other Islamic banking products, like Morabaha, Musharika and Ijarah, including all the operations of the credit division. Also communicated with Securities and Exchange Commission for business license, floatation, underwriting and public issue as well as listing on stock exchanges. Gained extensive experience of launching a new financial projects while working with highly experienced stakeholders in the field of financial world. • Performed Data mapping, logical data modeling, created class diagrams and ER diagrams and used SQL queries to filter data • Identify business rules for data migration and Perform data administration through data models and metadata. • Documented detail Business Process Design and created Use Cases. • Extensively used MS SharePoint for version control. Uploaded files and maintained folders in Share Point. • Created Business Rules Spread Sheet (BRS) as needed and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track the requirements and link it to the test cases. • Responsible to determine the GAP Analysis between the As-Is / To-Be Business Process Flows.