Consultant atAccenture
01 // Mandate
Between the business and the stack
I work as a procurement analyst on Accenture's team for a life sciences client, sitting on the buy-side desk where requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier collaboration actually run. My day moves between SAP, Coupa, and SCC — validating what comes in, fixing what breaks, and keeping spend documents clean enough to survive an audit.
The landscape is still being built out, so I split my time between running operations and helping stand the systems up: mapping how the business buys, validating configuration, writing and executing test cases, and supporting the team through cutover and hypercare.
S2P
Scope
Requisition through invoice readiness
3
Platforms
SAP · Coupa · SCC
Run + Build
Dual track
Live operations alongside implementation
Tokyo
Based
Accenture Japan
02 // The desk
What I own
The buy-side desk, end to end — plus the data and system hygiene that keeps it working.
01
Requisitions & purchase orders
- Review and validate purchase requisitions for cost object, pricing, and policy fit before conversion
- Convert approved requisitions into purchase orders and confirm vendor, material, quantity, price, and delivery terms
- Process PO amendments, line additions, and cancellations as the single point of contact for change requests
- Maintain outline agreements and scheduling agreements — adding or removing materials as sourcing changes
- Check release strategies and approval routing so spend authority matches category and value
02
Master data & catalogs
- Raise and validate material master and vendor master records, including new material number creation
- Keep supplier records complete and free of duplicates before they flow into purchasing documents
- Maintain catalog content and buying channels so requesters land on guided, contracted sources
- Reconcile master data across SAP and Coupa so documents and statuses do not drift between systems
03
Expediting & exceptions
- Track open orders and expedite where delivery dates put the business at risk
- Chase supplier confirmations and flag delivery or price deviations to requestors and supervisors
- Work GR/IR mismatches, blocked invoices, and three-way match failures with finance
- Run quality checks on orders processed by the team and correct issues before they reach the vendor
04
Support & stakeholders
- Handle procurement helpdesk tickets on PR-to-PO and amendment queries within agreed SLAs
- Troubleshoot functional issues in Coupa and SAP, trace root cause, and document the fix
- Coordinate daily with requesters, category owners, finance, and suppliers to unblock buying
- Write process notes and run knowledge transfer for new joiners as the operating model evolves
03 // Systems
Systems I work in
Three platforms, one buying story. I work across all of them so documents, approvals, and supplier signals stay in sync.
ERP backbone
SAP
My system of record for purchasing documents and master data — where the transaction ultimately has to be correct.
04 // Delivery
Building it while running it
The client landscape is being stood up from scratch, so implementation work sits alongside the daily desk.
Discover
Understanding how they buy
I sit with buyers, category owners, and finance to learn the real buying paths — including the exceptions people work around rather than through.
Design
Process charts & ownership
I turn those sessions into functional process charts and role maps, so every step has a clear owner and system before anything gets configured.
Build
Configuration & functional specs
I support setup across Coupa, SAP, and SCC — approval chains, catalogs, master data structures, and the functional specs behind integrations and reports.
Test
UAT & defect triage
I write and run test scenarios against real buying cases, log defects, retest fixes, and push back when a workaround would just move the problem downstream.
Run
Cutover & hypercare
Through go-live I work the desk and the ticket queue at the same time, stabilising catalogs, master data, and process gaps as live volume exposes them.
05 // Intelligence
Where I use AI
I lean on AI to move faster on the repetitive parts, then verify everything against system data before it counts.
- 01Spot recurring patterns across ticket and PO exception data instead of reading queues line by line
- 02Draft process documentation and knowledge-transfer notes, then edit them for accuracy
- 03Speed up triage so my time goes to judgement calls rather than copy-paste work
- 04Keep every output traceable back to the system of record and client policy
Next
Let's talk procurement systems
Happy to get into Coupa–SAP landscapes, source-to-pay operations, or how consulting sits between the business and the build.