Author

Shankar VR

Founder & CEO, Krinati Solutions

Shankar VR has spent close to three decades in the sourcing function - first running it, then selling the software meant to fix it, and now building the platform he wishes had existed the whole time.

As Founder & CEO of Krinati Solutions, he's applying that experience to eSourcing - reverse auctions, RFI/RFP management, supplier management and contract lifecycle management - built around how procurement teams actually work, not how a product roadmap assumes they should.

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Track Record

Two decades in sourcing, before Krinati

That perspective comes from sitting on every side of the sourcing table: as a buyer, as a management consultant, and for more than a decade building and selling S2P software at two of the category's biggest names.

1997 - 2000

Strategic Sourcing, Mahindra & Mahindra

Started on the buying side, running sourcing for one of India’s largest industrial groups.
2000 - 2004

Management Consultant, Siemens Information Systems

Advised on process improvement and trained in Theory of Constraints - a grounding in constraint-based thinking that still shapes how he approaches sourcing bottlenecks today.
2004 - 2015

SAP Ariba

Eleven years delivering sourcing transformation programs for some of the best-run companies in the world, and leading Ariba’s global alliances - work that put him as close to enterprise software partnerships as to the procurement teams actually using them. By the time he left, he was known across the S2P ecosystem as a thought leader in sourcing transformation.
2015 - 2017

Country Head - India, Coupa

Built and led Coupa’s India business, taking a second S2P platform from vendor pitch to enterprise rollout.
2017 - Present

Founder & CEO, Krinati Solutions

Founded Krinati to close the gap he’d seen from every side of the sourcing table - between what procurement teams actually need and what S2P software usually ships with.