Daniel Victor Kanka Francis

• SPOT/Quick Buy and Escalations
• Conducting training to the new resource on PR creation, Vendor Setup, Help Desk (create & close Incident/Ticket from APOservices) Catalog Creation, and SPOT/Quick Buy activities

· Reporting activities (Daily, Weekly & Monthly) extract report from Ariba system and segregate work among the team members daily, publish the weekly report to the management along with the volume, accuracy and savings achieved.

• Facilitator for P2P Governance Meetings by projecting ppt. deck on biweekly to Sourcing and Finance Head located in Canada
• Conducting DOR’s daily.
• Monitoring the web cycles TAT, daily volume
• Handle escalations with internal and external stakeholders
• Drive responsibilities/tasks within the team
• Preparing Dashboard & Conducting KPI’s
• Participate effectively in client calls &Identifying and understanding the tasks.
• Complaint: review and identify the root cause and provide solution to a problem & implement control plan.
• Make sure the daily targets are met by the team members
• Assigning tasks like BWR’s, Web cycles Requisition and Renewals to the team members.
• Capturing eProjects for all the savings achieved by the team.
• Generating reports/ Volumes like Ageing Requisitions, cleanup activities & quick fix projects.
• Motivating, encouraging and providing feedback to the new joiners& team members to give the BEST performance within Team.
• Working with the Quality Team to have controls in place to improve the efficiency / quality of the work
• Handling Critical Customers and built good rapport with them.
• Customer and Client interaction daily through process and monthly through Dashboard calls.
• Standardized processes to effectively and efficiently manage work.
• Leading the DMT (Differential Management Technique) Call on daily basis, a common platform established between Indian team and Buyer’s for review of the requisitions on daily basis.
• Met the responsibilities as an Account Lead for the team and make sure to have effective back up for the team members.

Completed Projects: Tail Spend, Ariba Catalog, Quick and SPOT buy Savings

• Prior to this Client, I have worked with the Chemours Company–The Chemours Company, commonly referred to as Chemours, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 2015 as a spin-off from DuPont. It has its corporate headquarters in Wilmington - Delaware, United States

• Chemours by contract management and support the Sourcing function through conducting Rfx /Estimate projects along with Analytical & Strategic support
• Conducting pricing analysis for the all packaging materials
• Initiating the savings opportunity
• Finding the alternate vendors for top materials
• Worked on specification project for Drums and Pallet
• As an extra initiative worked on WAVE project (conducting Bid event with the vendors and project was successful and lasted for a year, achieved saving of >5M for the client
• Training New hires (end to end) in the process.
• Conducting assessments and retrain the section on timely manner.
• Cascading the process updates & help the team in resolving queries.
• Cross trainings & Refresher training for the entire team.
• Driving KPI’s and preparing customer dashboards.
• Apply best practices in everyday work and share the same with the team. Share knowledge and experience with the team to maximize the effectiveness / efficiency of the process.
• Managing queues of the process
• Capturing eProjects for all the savings achieved by the team.
• Generating reports/ Volumes like Ageing Requisitions, cleanup activities & quick fix projects.

• Responsible for content collection strategy, project plan, configuration,usabilityand content delivery
• Address category – specific content requirements with following leads for solutioning (i.e new enhancements) with Demand Management, Requisition to Pay and Invoice to Pay
• MyBuy Roche Implementation: Setting up Content related activities in SMART by GEP tool
• Reviewing with Roche team on weekly bases during Automation meeting by discussing on Planning, bugs, blocker, issues, setup, suggesting the client.
• Provide periodic status update on the content readiness in daily standup call to Roche content work stream
• Responsible for setting up Routing criteria in Smart by GEP tool
• During the discussions, gather the details and information, so that Initiate> Built >Test >Transition to UAT> UAT Signoff> setup PROD> PROD Signoff>Go Live
• Based on the client requirements analysis if the requirement setup is acceptable by meeting with Engineering and PMG Project Management Group (Development team)
• Creating IT ticketing in SOLMAN (client) and work closely with the team and ensure that the ETA is provided for all the requirements by creating internal Jira for all the bugs ticket and assign to engineering team and discuss on the requirement and provide feedback to the client
• Worked on the Implementation on various sprints cycle (i.e Red, Green, purple, yellow)
• Tracking all the IT ticket into a common content validation tracker and follow up and monitor until the requirement is fulfilled.
• Conducting training through the SAMRT by GEP domain to the Automation team (Content processers team and Content Lead from Client) on all the developed content
• Tool kit: 43 items developed and signed off from client
• Tool Kit: Developed took kit for content work stream by creating Demo videos Project decks, and process setup deck in this tool kit and provide link to client to access the same this tool kit is helpful for any new joiners at client
• Content buying channels type setup: Quick Quote Category Form, Hosted catalog, Punch-out catalog, Info Items, Procurement support, Preferred suppliers and External links set up activities along with categories
• Conducted - Show and Tell sessions to Malaysia and Singapore Roche Team on Demand and Content Management weekly calls on the data review and setup related activity from UAT to PROD until Go Live

• Identify and implement any synergies between Accounts Payable & Purchasing to ensure timely invoice resolution and prompt payment to supplier.
• Liaise with buyers and coordinate with site contact. Service Centre to strategize and execute agreement renewals.

· Creating,Amending and renewing contracts in ERP systems.

• Work cross-functionally with global SCM, Sourcing, Quality and Operations to ensure supplier sourcing, TAT and on-going performance, meet defined targets and overall business needs.
• Act as escalation point for supplier related quality disputes providing updates to Operation leadership as appropriate.
• Assistance to Suppliers for any invoice related issues, acting as a single point of contact for any issues related to process.
• Monitoring SPT sheet price fluctuations.
• Identifying the opportunity on the materials and project the potential savings for Buyer
• Analyzing the CRU data along with the Marketing intelligence team and project the price fluctuation in metal cost.
• Identifying the second source of supply for each material with higher spend.
• Providing spend report for all the material falling under Buyer’s commodity on regular bases.
• Analyzing spend report and calculating the saving with 10 or 15% increase safety factor in future volume.
• Capturing the savings for SVM, YOY & WC and creating eProjects report
• Addressing the DuPont site/supplier quires by keeping Buyer in loop.
• Requesting supplier to provide specification sheet for each material and find alternate source
• Providing a quality spend analysis (identifying top – suppliers & Materials) and giving an opportunity for Buyer to negotiate
• Serves as the effective back up for the Corporate Executive Strategic Buyer