Saravanan Shankaran

• Manage master commercial contract information for global ocean freight customers.
• Validate customer pricing data before publication.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of commercial master records.
• Review tender templates and pricing data against governance policies.
• Support contract lifecycle management activities.
• Collaborate with Product, Pricing, Sales, and Intelligence teams to maintain data integrity.
• Ensure contractual data complies with internal governance standards.
• Participate in automation initiatives to improve data quality and operational efficiency.
• Analyze commercial data exceptions and coordinate resolution with global stakeholders.

• New item creation in the MDM tool.
• Validation of the appropriate product license.
• Item Master Update.
• Item mapping in the corporate system.
• Internal SLA report preparation.
• Product information governance.
• Maintained high levels of data accuracy.

Managed procurement operations together with Supplier Master and Customer Master governance.

Indirect Procurement:

• Converting purchase requisitions to purchase orders from Oracle and sending a copy to the PO requestor.
• Extracting and working on the month-end indirect supplier report, purchase card report, open PO report, and global spend analysis report from Hyperion (Oracle).
• Collecting utility invoices and sending them to the monthly audit team.

Spare Parts Buyer:

• Demand extraction from Oracle ASCP (weekly).
• Preparing a forecast for contract suppliers.
• Sending RFQ to suppliers, and follow-ups when required.
• Creating a purchase requisition from the workbench and manual PR creation from Oracle according to demand.
• Purchase Order Creation for Approved PR.

Supplier and Customer Master Data:

• Creation and update of supplier master data set up in Oracle EBS.
• Workflow approval routing and supplier document validation (banking details, W-9 contracts, etc.).
• Creation and update of Customer Master Data.

• Shipping Documents Validation.
• Post Goods Receipt in (MIGO) SAP.
• Sale Order Creation.
• Delivery creation.
• Invoice creation and issuance to customers.
• Purchase Order creation in SAP.
• Assistance to the AP and AR team queries.
• Providing a shipment schedule to customers and third-party requestors.
• Customer Identy - Customer master data creation