Vijay Talekar

About Vijay Talekar

Experienced in SAP consulting and keen to take challenges in SAP domain for various portfolio solutions for Business process consulting to solution design, development, and deployment and project management.Contribute to branding via thought leadership, Leading proposal developments, client training, and in-house capability building for Ariba COE in sourcing & procurement operations. Helping clients to conceptualize, visualize, and realize their strategic business and IT roadmap and guide them into measurable business cases in Source to Pay business processes. Coordinating for the design and development of solutions to system administration issues or network and integrations with SAP Managed Gateway (CIG) based on BTP.Participate in systems management and integration functions. Engage with customers to consult on business processes and analysis of business requirements, leading workshops, system demos and perform mapping of the process to enable optimum technology utilization. Proven experience in SAP portfolio solutions for project delivery, leading teams, Pre-sales activities. Worked for pre-sales, solution architecture and solution delivery lead roles in various engagements.Proven experience with multiple Implementations with successful go live & Leading the activities for large SAP Implementations and AMS / Support projects having global experience in India, Malaysia, Australia, Europe, and USA clients. Worked in Customer Relationship Management, Business Process Management, Supply Chain Processes in the following Industry Verticals: Retail, Manufacturing, Energy, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Life Sciences.SAP expertise includes and hands to Solution Architecting experience in Intelligent Spend Management (ISM)-ARIBA SCC (Supply Chain Collaboration) ARIBA Upstream and Downstream, SAP Fieldglass VMS, S4 HANA OP- MM, SAP ECC -MM, SAP SRM 7.0 to 7.3, WM, and integration with all other Modules.Mentor and Lead Ariba COE of a 200- consultant globally for SAP Ariba practice with substantial annual billing to Infosys and overseeing Ariba COE.Presently leading Ariba SCC project as Solution Architect/Ariba Lead for major multinational in Europe and CPG USA.SAP Certifications Refer to Certification section for additional certifications -• mySAP solution consultant-SCM-Procurement • SAP S/4 HANA- Sourcing & procurement 1709. • SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration• SAP Ariba Sourcing, • SAP Ariba Procurement, • SAP Ariba integrations, • SAP Ariba Catalogs• SAP Fieldglass certificate

Experience

1. Principal Consultant

   Infosys

   Jul 2017 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE Instrumentation, Control systems and microprocessors

• COEP - University of Pune.

  BE, Instrumentation

Skills

• Sap Srm
• Sap Warehouse Management
• Sap Functional Consultants
• Project Implementation
• Ecc
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Sap Materials Management (Sap Mm)
• Sap R/3
• Sap Configuration
• Business Process
• Requirements Analysis
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Materials Management
• Sap Erp
• Solution Architecture
• Sap Mm
• Certified Sap Consultant
• Sap Implementation
• Integration
• Business Analysis