Simon leads the SAP Spend Management & Business Network team across Deloitte UK.
He specialises in helping clients shape and deliver upon their strategic procurement vision, realising benefits through process efficiencies and cost savings across all spend categories. Whether direct and indirect procurement, Simon and his team are specialists in delivering tangible business value by leveraging SAP Ariba, Fieldglass, Business Network and other best of breed procurement solutions that complement their clients technology landscape.
Simon’s primary responsibility is building a collaborative and transparent relationship with his clients on Deloitte’s largest and most complex SAP-enabled Procurement & Supply Chain transformation programmes. Providing delivery excellence and assuring quality across his programmes, Simon has been able to successfully delivery transformation for his clients across all industries covering Media & Telecommunications, Complex Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Financial Services and Government & Public Sector.
Notable career highlights:
- UK Multi-National Heavy Machinery Manufacturer
- Programme Director for this global direct procurement transformation programme. Simon oversaw the programme end-to-end from mobilisation and design all the way through deployment to go-live. The programme saw SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing suite and Supply Chain Collaboration solutions implemented to transform this client’s strategic procurement capabilities and enhance their collaboration with suppliers across purchasing, quality and forecast planning.
- UK Media and Publishing Company
- Simon led this two-phase procurement transformation programme that rolled out source-to-contract, indirect purchasing and external workforce management capabilities across this organisation. The first phase saw the implementation of SAP Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management solutions to deliver early value through enhanced strategic procurement activities. The second phase saw the implementation of SAP Ariba Guided Buying and the Business Network to provide a self-service purchasing platform company-wide while enhancing supplier collaboration, as well as SAP Fieldglass to streamline their external workforce management for contingent workers, statement of work based suppliers and manage service providers.
- UK Multi-National Telecommunications and Technology Company
- On this multi-year global S/4HANA programme, Simon was the Source-to-Pay Delivery Lead for this two-phase procurement transformation programme. The first phase saw the implementation of SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contract Management and Supplier Lifecycle & Performance Management solutions, followed by the second phase implementation of SAP Ariba Guided Buying, OpenTxt VIM and SAP Fieldglass Contingent Worker solutions.
- UK Multi-National Professional Services Organisation
- Simon was the Procurement Lead for this two-phase SAP Ariba-enabled transformation programme. The first phase saw the implementation of SAP Ariba Guided Buying into SAP ECC, followed by the second phase that saw SAP Ariba Guided Buying implemented as part of a wider S/4HANA finance and transformation programme where Ariba was rolled out to the UK, US, Swiss and Australian member firms of this organisation.
- Global Financial Services Organisation
- Simon was the Procurement Lead for this global SAP-enabled finance and procurement transformation programme. Leveraging SAP Ariba Buying and Opentext VIM, this implementation was rolled out to 37 countries globally.
- Simon was the Procurement Lead for this global SAP-enabled finance and procurement transformation programme. Leveraging SAP Ariba Buying and Opentext VIM, this implementation was rolled out to 37 countries globally.