SAP Practice Director
Wipro Limited - Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months
I am leading and shaping our organization's SAP practice. With a strong focus on strategic leadership, I have steered the direction of the practice, set clear goals and ensuring alignment with our overall business objectives. Client engagement has been central to my responsibilities, where I've worked closely with clients to understand their needs and translate them into innovative SAP solutions that drive business growth and transformation. Nurturing our SAP team's development has been a top priority, encompassing talent acquisition, training, and fostering career progression to maintain a highly skilled and motivated workforce. I've overseen the delivery of SAP projects, ensuring they are executed with the utmost quality within stipulated timelines and budget constraints. My role has also involved.
• identifying new business opportunities,
• building strong client relationships and
• collaborating with our sales teams to drive revenue growth.
Additionally, I've contributed to SAP thought leadership, staying abreast of industry trends, sharing insights, and guiding clients toward best practices and emerging technologies while championing innovation and continuous improvement within our SAP practice. My leadership has played a critical role in achieving the success and growth of our SAP practice, fostering excellence in service delivery and client satisfaction.
Key Accounts: ARAMCO, SABIC, SIPCHEM, ELM, and Ooredoo.
As SAP Program Manager, I am well-versed in leading various SAP digital transformation programs, such as IT environment transformation by SAP technologies upgrade/implementation and deployment of SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, SAC, FIORI, and SLcM. I steer efforts toward stakeholder management, from top-level to business super-user level, identifying program issues and coordinating with PMO and sponsors. I hold accountability for P&L budgeting and confirm practice holds the right balance of people, skills, and availability to surpass the current and future demand pipeline. I managed technology partners: SAP, OpenText, Microsoft, MicroFocus, and IBM.
Key Projects in this tenure include:
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology - KAUST Digital Transformation Program: Exhibited expertise in migrating to Azure cloud platform, S/4HANA blue field conversion, and implementing SuccessFactors and Ariba.
Saudi Technology and Security Comprehensive Control - Tahakom: S/4HANA and SuccessFactors implementation, including FI, CO, MM, SD, SF-Core HR, and SF-Talent management.
GMC - Gulf Medical Company: S/4HANA conversion, Fiori implementation, customization removal, and CRM decommissioning modules covered FI, CO, MM, EWM, SD, PS, HCM/Payroll, ESS/MSS, PO, BW/BO & C4C.
Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority - Digital Transformation Program: Smoothly executed the following strategic initiatives; S/4HANA conversion, S/4HANA upgrade, SAP Fiori Implementation, SAP BPC implementation, OpenText & S/4HANA integration, Preparation for SF and Ariba implementation, ITIL implementation, and ISO20000 accreditation.
Saudi Electricity - Tactical Billing Solution, including SAP-ISU modules (FI-CA - Contract Accounting), Device Management, Billing, and Invoicing. Covering four geographical regions (Eastern, 1.5M customers, Central, 2.5M customers, Western, 2.5M customers, and Southern, 1M customers).
As SAP Project Manager, I administered processes associated with the execution of numerous SAP projects for diverse clients and confirmed the achievement of project objectives within time constraints and funding parameters. I headed functions related to resource estimation for the project team, allocating duties, delegating authority, and motivating team members to work collaboratively on the project. I liaised with cross-functional project teams, delivered updates/adjustments to the project plan as required, and ensured the project met key deliverables. I projected expert-level skills in establishing and deploying project management tools and development processes while contributing to pre-sales support by developing proposals in response to RFP/RFI.
Key Projects in this tenure include:
AL Wataniya Industries Holding: implementation of FI, CO, HCM/Payroll, ESS/MSS, WF, DMS, GRC, WFB for eight companies; National factory for Foodstuff Preparation, Wataniya Paper Products (Riyadh/Jeddah), Wataniya for Containers Manufacturing (Riyadh/Jeddah), Wataniya Building Materials Factory, and Can Manufacturing Company.
Health Water Bottling Company \[NOVA water\]: Implementation of FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, HCM/Payroll, BI, and CRM (Marketing & Sales) modules.
Nawah Healthcare: implementation following modules - FI, CO, MM, WM, SD, CS, PM, PS, HCM/Payroll, ESS/MSS, PI, BI, CRM (Marketing, Sales & Services), and Mobility.
Ahmad Abed Factory for Food Powders & Yeast: Implementing FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, HCM/Payroll modules.
Furthermore, As SAP Project Manager, I demonstrated distinguished performance as a technology consultant for the Egyptian Ministry of Transport to evaluate technical proposals and bidders during the due-diligence phase and provide inputs for estimating the assigned project. I headed the overall activities of SAP consultants and confirmed the seamless execution of all tasks associated with plant maintenance, materials management, and warehouse management.
Key Contributions in this tenure include:
• Tender for selecting ERP implementer for Egyptian National Railway (ENR).
• SAP implementation for Egyptian National Railway (ENR) for - FI, CO, MM, WM, PM, HCM/Payroll, ESS/MSS, and BI modules.
• SAP Rollout for Egyptian National Railway (ENR) over five geographical regions.
Projects to Credit:
• Saudi Construction & Real State, KSA - ERP Implementation - MS AX 2009 Integrated With Real Estate & Construction Modules
• MMI (Mansour Medical Insurance), UAE - ERP Implementation - MS GP 10 Integrated With MS CRM.
• Macho Systems, Egypt - Macho (Money Market System) - Development of system for managing liquid assets such as bills of exchange, treasury bills etc.
• Loans/Installment Management System, B. Tech, Egypt
• Development of systems for managing installment processes right from request creation for customers follow-up and installments rescheduling. Distribution, Extension, P&G Egypt
• Development of web based application for monitoring distributors’ sales in the Gulf region as well as providing advanced reporting tool for P & G administration staff. POSM Manager, P & G, KSA
• Development of web based solution for managing marketing materials of the clients.
Projects to Credit:
• Retail & Point of Sale Management System, MS Dynamics RMS. Implementation of POS to achieve company’s requirements.
• SEAVIN Portal, Development of Content Management System is using PHP & MySQL.
• Work Order. Development of ticket web based application using ASP.NET (C#) & SQL Server 2000 for handling customer complaints.
• News Channel, Development of Content Management System is using PHP & MySQL for publishing news over the internet
• Customer Satisfaction Survey, Development of a web based application using PHP & MySQL, which enabled the customers to access the evaluation survey anywhere and anytime.
• Tracking System, Development of web based application using ASP.NET (C#) & SQL Server 2000 for tracking, collecting and reporting the transactions through company’s gates over five sites across Egypt.
