Rajesh Rengarethinam

abm02m@r.postjobfree.com

408-***-**** (M)

Sr. SAP Netweaver/ABAP Consultant

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SUMMARY

. SAP certified Development Consultant - SAP Netweaver 6.2, ABAP

Workbench

. 13+ years of Software consulting experience with Big 5 Consulting

firms, such as PriceWaterCoopers (PWC) and with IBM on complex SAP

landscape implementation at Nike Inc., and Intel Inc.,

. 9+ years of SAP experience involving Ten Full Cycle End-to-end

Implementations, Roll-out and Post Go-live Production Support

. 3+ years of Lead developer experience in the SD/SM & MM modules

managing onshore as well as off-shore developers in India & Vietnam

. ABAP expertise include Reports, Transactions, Function Modules, Dialog

Programming, BDC programs, ALV reports, ALV Tree, OO-ALV (object

oriented programming) using control programming

. Extensive experience in Interfaces such as BAPI, Enhancements using

BADI with enhancement framework/ User exits/Field exits, Data

Conversions from Legacy Systems using LSMW, SAP Scripts, Smart forms

and ABAP/4 Query in both procedural ABAP and ABAP Objects

. Experience with Workflow triggered by business objects such as PO,

Delivery documents and experience with Webdynpro ABAP creating web

dynpro components

. Excellent understanding of the SD, SM & MM module and its interfaces

with FI and development experience in Cross-Applications, PP, QM and

PM modules

. Proficient in the use of ABAP Workbench, Data Dictionary, Debug and

SQL tracing tools with extensive development experience in APO and

development of Start routines in BI

. Experienced in creating Roles, Authorization profiles using Profile

generator, creating authorization objects, authorization fields along

with user administration and authorization administration

. Extensive experience in Form printing (SAP script, Smart forms, Print

Workbench) and Converting SAP smartforms into PDF.

. Implementing authorization checks and Lock objects in Programs,

Transactions satisfying SAP Security concepts and SOX requirements

. In depth knowledge of Business processes involved in Supply Chain

Management

. Extensive experience in the business processes of the Retail Industry,

Hi-tech Industry, Manufacturing Industry and Product Development

. 8+ years of production support experience involving business teams and

end users of the different regions, namely, US, Canada, EMEA and SEA

EXPERIENCE:

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Mar '09 - Till

Date)

Role: Sr. SAP - ABAP Consultant

Project: ERP Upgrade (4.6C, ERP 6.0)

Responsibilities:

. Analyzing the existing gaps in the current 4.6C system and evaluating

the necessity of those gaps in the new ERP 6.0 system by checking the

delta functionality between 4.6C and ERP 6.0 and proposing design

alternatives for implementing the gap functionality

. Analyzing existing custom functionality to determine if they can be

implemented using Enhancement framework (either implicit or explicit)

to utilize the switch framework and removing any modification,

eliminating cloned functionality wherever possible

. Designing the solution for the gap functionality using the new BADI

framework

. Developing the solution and testing it

. Working with the business to get the solution tested and signed off

Duties performed:

. Re-designed the processes in Sales and Delivery modules, such as

Availability to Promise functionality, Batch Availability

functionality, Integrated Delivery Processing functionality and Nota

fiscal functionality using the enhancement framework and BADI

technology

. Eliminated the existing gap with standard functionality for updating

loading groups on Sales Orders from the material master using the Mass

Document Change functionality using the business objects

. Developed the Enhancement framework by creating enhancement spots,

enhancement implementations and custom classes and custom BADIs to

house the functionalities such as ATP, IDP and Batch Availability and

replacing all the logic using implementing classes and methods

. Implemented custom BADI framework in the sales module using the Master

BADI framework for Sales Order creation replacing the user exits in

the program MV45AFZZ

. Designed and developed the Master BADI framework for delivery creation

to replace the user exits in the program MV50AFZ1

. Enhanced the functionality of the IDOC error handling program and

upgraded it to the new development standards

. Remediated the old custom objects as per the new Unicode syntax and

new development standards and performed performance tuning for the

same

. Converted existing custom programs to object oriented versions using

ABAP object technology and control programming

. Analyzed and checked various VOFMs to see if they are needed in the

upgraded system

. Designed the custom service utility classes and methods to implement

the functionality of the TOP include in SAPMV50

. Designed service utility for error handling for the various custom

BADI implementing custom functionality in the sales and delivery

modules

. Maintained documentation, service tickets, issue logs and recording

status using various tools such as Kintana, Livelink, IQ-Navigator

. Running SQL trace and Code Inspector to check performance of custom

functionality

Client: Novellus Systems Inc., San Jose (Sep '06 - Feb

'09)

Role: Sr. SAP - ABAP Consultant

Project: Maintenance and Enhancement of Novellus SAP systems/ERP upgrade

(4.6C, ERP 6.0)

Responsibilities:

. As the lead developer of the SD/SM module, performed the ground work

for the ERP 6.0 technical upgrade.

. Working with the business to propose new enhancements in the existing

processes and to gather new requirements

. Working with the offshore resources to get the requirements developed

and testing the applications and delivering it to the business as per

Novellus quality standards

Duties Performed:

. Designed specifications and enhanced the functionality of creating

quotations as per the business requirements from Japanese customers

. Enhanced the quotations print program to according to the Japanese

customer specifications and translated the quotations to Kanji for the

Japanese Sales organizations

. Created webdynpro components to be integrated into the enterprise

portal for the field service portal

. Developed multiple module pool programs using custom controls to house

ALV grids developed using object oriented techniques

. Designed and developed report programs to report on complex business

scenarios, such as, Lead Time necessary for components in Bill of

materials for materials in Sales orders ready to be shipped in the

next six months. The program uses custom controls to house four ALV

grids to report the header, summary, lead time per week details and

item details

. Designed and developed multiple programs for data loads, reports and

extracts and modified user exits for the creation of a new

International headquarters in Singapore, which involved a new Company

code and plant creation.

. Customized transaction and enhanced the functionality as per the

business requirements, as in the case of Transfer requests for storage

. Designed and enhanced user exits in MM and SD modules to enforce

stricter controls as per the SOX rules. Changes involve complex

enhancements using user-exits during the PO creation, change, PR

creation to trigger new release strategies stored in custom tables.

Also complex changes to user exits in SD, such as, Enhanced the user

exit for monitoring outbound deliveries to add Transfer order details

. Created application programs to trigger business object using work

flow, such as, updating material master using BAPI triggered by

workflow object, when a proforma invoice is created

. Enhanced the functionality in the subpools for printing MM & SD

documents such as Purchase requisitions, Orders, Sales documents,

Delivery and billing documents

. Created a new SMARTFORM to print quotation details according to the

new rules provided by business users

. Modified the copy control routines, such as, RV50B601 to prevent

deliveries from being created when a sales order has different plants

on it for the same shipping point

. Enhanced functionality in multiple forms and sap scripts to

accommodate new company code and plant created for International Head

Quarters project

Client: Fox Technologies, Palo Alto (Jun '06 - Aug

'06)

Role: Sr. SAP - ABAP Consultant

Project: Development of FoxT Security Product Suite (ECC 5.0, 4.7, 4.6C)

Responsibilities:

. Developing the FoxT application suite of SAP security products in the

various SAP versions

. Unit testing and string testing the applications according to the FoxT

product quality guidelines

. Packaging and delivering the application suite to the customers

Duties Performed:

. Developed module pool programs implementing the SAP security concepts

to build the Audit and Segregation of Duties (SOD) module. The SOD

module is further supported by sub modules, such as Risk designer,

Mitigation designer and Business process designer each with its own

module pool programs, screens and menu interfaces

. Developed application programs for the Change Control Module to

implement functionality such as, Changing user access, changing Roles

of users and Approving or rejecting changes to user access

. Developed application programs for the Foxt application controls

configuration manager, which enforces control over the way the

application behaves by providing screens to alter screen and menu

interfaces

. Enhanced the functionality of the Data/Role owner module from its

previous 4.5 version, by creating a Role owner approver table and the

corresponding table maintenance and linking it to the module

. Developed application programs to provide Central user Administration

(CUA) functionality through the Global User Administration module

. Provided functionality to Create users, change user access, lock user

access, etc., through the Global Security Administration module

. Designed and developed the Bapi interfaces to Java based Web GUI to

send custom application data, such as, Business Process, Business

function, Risk, and also the relationships between Roles/Profiles,

Roles/authorization objects, Profiles/authorization objects,

Transactions/authorization objects, etc.,

. Enhanced the Bapi interfaces in accordance with the next version of

the Security application suite to facilitate a common interface to

other ERP systems such as CRM, Oracle Financials

. Developed the translation strategy to localize text elements from the

custom application programs of the earlier 4.5 version to enable

translation to other languages such as German and Japanese

. Analysis and support for the earlier releases of the Security

application suite, upgrades in terms of functionality for the next two

releases, namely, 4.8.1 and 4.8.2

. Upgrades in terms of Unicode compatibility for 4.6 versions of the

application to enable them to be ported to the new 4.7 Unicode and ECC

5.0 environments

. Created all custom DDIC objects such as domains, data elements, data

structures, tables, view, authorization objects, table maintenance

screens etc.,

. Created custom programs for loading data into custom tables such as

Risk, Business Functions

. Created ALV reports for generating reports such as the Security

watchdog report, Executive summary report for Business Process View,

Risk view, Detailed summary reports, etc.

Client: PolyPipe Incorporated, Gainesville (Feb '06 - May

'06)

Role: Sr. SAP - ABAP Consultant

Project: Implementation of SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities:

. Gathering requirements from the business users from various SAP

modules

. Developing High level design documents and Technical specifications

according to the business requirements

. Developing the applications as per the coding standards and unit

testing the applications

. Getting the applications tested and approved by the business teams

Duties Performed:

. Developed custom reports including interactive lists and hierarchical

ALV reports in FI module for reporting Cash Application aging for

customers, Accounts receivable aging detail by profit center, Resin

cost report

. Developed SIS reports for complex business scenarios such as Invoiced

Sales details, Bidding Inquiry Information, Market Summary information

in Sales and distribution involving the creation of custom field

catalogs, self-defined infostructures, update rules, formula and

requirements

. Created a BADI implementation for the Work order infosystem (COOIS) to

enable to see work-centre information in PP module

. Developed user-exits and modified SAP standard program to implement PO

release strategy involving eight levels of authorizations in MM module

. Created a XML file port interface for XI for sending outbound payments

to the bank

. Created a user exit to check authorizations based on cost centre

during PO release, created authorization fields and authorization

objects for the same

. Created a Tax user exit (ZXFYTU01) for populating tax codes based on

customers and tax jurisdiction codes to be sent to the vertex system

to calculate the taxes in FI module

. Created BDC program to load journal entries for GL accounts into the

system based on Cost and Profit centers in FI module

. Created Infosets, User groups and SAP queries to report various

details such as Unbilled Deliveries, Stock availability, Balance sheet

by profit centers, etc., in SD module and FI modules

. Created custom program to release Commission payments, Backlog reports

for contracts, Freight payment information in SD

. Created a custom applications to report Physical Inventory, Blocked PO

report, Release and approve purchase orders in MM module

. Created a BADI implementation to include Purchase Order details,

Material description in the Quality Inspection lot in QM module

. Created a custom report to list Material usage in PM module

. Created a custom report to include partial payments applied to lockbox

accounts in FI module

. Created Unit test plans and Integration test plans, performed unit and

integration testing

Client: Intel Corporation, Folsom (May '05 - Jan

'06)

Role: SAP - Netweaver Consultant

Project: Tactical Demand Fulfillment (ECC 5.0)

Responsibilities:

. Developing High level design documents and Technical specifications

according to the design documents

. Developing the applications as per the Intel quality and coding

standards and unit testing the applications

. Getting the applications tested and approved by the business teams

Duties Performed:

. Translated functional requirements from the Business Analyst to

Technical Specifications for a number of applications, such as the

Customer Hierarchy application, which is the backbone of the TDF

project

. Developed complex module-pool applications to build the TDF customer

hierarchy using object oriented programming techniques with event

handling using ALV grid and ALV tree incorporating user interface with

dynamic context menus and drag n drop functionality

. Created Authorization objects, authorization fields and Lock objects

both at the transaction and the application levels and defined levels

of security for accessing data in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

requirements

. Designed Security profiles and authorizations for SAP Enterprise 4.7

based on role based Security

. Interacted with business users to consolidate requirements for the

Customer Hierarchy application and incorporating the evolving

requirement with the technical specifications and functional

specifications through change control management processes as part of

CMM-I requirements

. Created BAPIs to bridge SAP X-App with .net front end and with

Business Information Warehouse (BIW)

. Designed and Created Data Dictionary (DDIC) definitions and Table

Maintenance Objects and performing table loads for master data

. Created start routines in BIW for calculating differences arising in

Intel's Billing and Backlog data versus the Guardbands set for the

Intel customers

. Created a Daily/weekly Summary report of Change orders and a Back

office audit report for the business users using ALV

. Created a ATP(Available to Promise) report in APO(Advanced Planner &

Optimizer) to report the Supply, Balance on Hand(BOH), Requirements,

Grants and other ATP details for Active, inactive and fungible

materials using BAPIs

. Performed extensive performance tuning using SQL trace and using

Runtime Analysis in both SAP X-App and BIW

. Creating Unit test plans and unit tested the customer hierarchy

maintenance application and assisting with the creation of test cases

for the consolidation testing of the application with other interfaces

(Will-I,Can-I function modules)

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Dec '04 - May

'05)

Role: SAP - ABAP/4 Consultant

Project: Nike Supply Chain - ROW Wave-II &

Global PO-III implementation

Responsibilities:

. Gathering requirements from the super users from the different regions

of the Nike business world

. Developing High level design documents and Technical specifications

according to the business requirements

. Developing the applications as per the coding standards and unit

testing the applications

. Getting the applications tested and approved by the business teams

. Leading the conversion team through the various stages of data

conversion from the Legacy system to SAP

Duties Performed:

. Gathered requirements from users and formulated functional

specifications for various conversion processes involving definition

of extract criteria, formulating mapping rules and designing loading

methodology into SAP R/3

. Developed Technical Specifications for the conversion processes, such

as the Inbound Advance Shipping Notification (ASN) conversion

. Lead the team through the development of the conversion programs,

involving Extract programs in SAP R/3, e*Gate mapping and translation

and Load programs in SAP R/3

. Enhanced the SAP R/3 loads using User exits, such as, the user exit

for populating the old shipment number as a reference in the new

shipment data at the shipment level in the VTTK table (The reference

field ZZ_TKNUM_SRC was added to VTTK using an Append Structure). The

old shipment reference was added to the standard VTTK table using an

append structure.

. Performed Hard Unit Testing, for the SAP extract program and String

Tested the full process for the Inbound ASN conversion. Ensured

optimum performance of the extract program through SQL Trace.

. Designed Reconciliation reports through SAP Query, Quickviews to match

the control totals after extract with that after the load.

. Created BAPI interfaces for transferring Sales Order, Purchase Order,

Shipments, Deliveries and Origin Receipts from R/3 to Event Manager

. Provided Production Support on a 24/7 basis for the Deliver business

activities for the regions that are live in SAP, namely, US, Canada,

EMEA and SEA.

. Created documentation and developed Visio diagrams detailing the

various conversion processes for the Business team. Created

documentation for User Training and also a task list for the execution

of the process

. Facilitated the GPO III testing, as a result of the replacement or

installation of Nike Liaison office (NLO) and factory labeling

systems.

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Nov '03 - Dec

'04)

Role: SAP - ABAP/4 Consultant

Project: Nike Supply Chain - SEA & Japan/ROW Wave-I implementation &

Global PO-II implementation

Responsibilities:

. Gathering requirements from the super users from the different regions

of the Nike business world

. Developing High level design documents and Technical specifications

according to the business requirements

. Developing the applications as per the coding standards and unit

testing the applications

. Getting the applications tested and approved by the business teams

. Leading the conversion team through the various stages of data

conversion from the Legacy system to SAP

Duties Performed:

. Involved in gathering requirements from users of different countries

and formulated functional specifications for the SEA implementation,

involving, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Japan

. Lead the conversion team through the design, development, execution of

the conversion processes, represented the team in the Change Control

Board

. Designed and developed various conversion programs and function

modules to accommodate changes due to Global PO implementation

. Designed, configured and developed the ALE processes for the transfer

of Master data and transactional data, like, Carriers, Hubs, Sub-hubs,

Container Types, Packing Materials, Transit time and Silhouette data

from the Global SAP R/3 instance to the new Asia Pacific SAP R/3

instance

. Created Test scenarios and executed the test scenarios during String

testing phase of the GPO II implementation

. Designed Reconciliation reports through SAP Query, Quickviews to match

the control totals of the Quantity shipped in the delivery level and

the Quantity ordered at the PO item level

. Tested SD interfaces with Customs and third party tools used in

Foreign Trade, namely, Vastera

. Provided production support for the Deliver business activities for

the regions that are live in SAP, namely, US, Canada, EMEA and SEA.

. Develop cleansing strategy for Inbound ASNs before their extract from

the Asia Pacific instance of the Nike Legacy System

. Executing the conversion processes for the various mock conversions

designed for this go-live and for Cut-over

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Jan '02 - Oct

'03)

Role: SAP - ABAP/4 Consultant

Project: Nike Supply Chain - Americas Implementation &

Global PO-I & EMEA Implementation

Responsibilities:

. Primary responsibilities include identifying the data that need to be

converted and designing the conversion process for the Americas

Implementation, involving, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico

. Developing High level design documents and Technical specifications

according to the business requirements

. Developing the applications as per the coding standards and unit

testing the applications

. Getting the applications tested and approved by the business teams

. Leading the user training environment set-up for the users from

various geographies

Duties Performed:

. Developed conversion programs for EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa)

implementation as part of the Nike Supply Chain initiative by

interacting with the EMEA business users and the region's technical

team

. Modification of the load programs in R/3 developed for the US/Canada

implementation for loading EMEA region specific data

. Designed and developed reports using ALV to report the data loaded for

the various master data and transactional data

. Developed the ALE loads for bridging master data to the EMEA instance

and executing the ALE processes, monitoring the batch jobs and

reprocessing Idocs that had errors

. Leading the effort of populating data into the R/3 training instance

used for training the EMEA business users

. Enhanced the master data load programs and executing the loading

programs to load the master data for the business regions involved

. Estimating the timelines for executing the various mock conversions

and preparing the plan for execution and executing the conversions

. Executing the conversions during cut-over and providing technical

support during ramp-up of the region's business operations

. Providing 24/7 production support for the business operations of

US/Canada regions

. Creating Test Scenarios for the Global Purchase Order (GPO) phase-I

implementation which moves PO creation and maintenance processes from

Legacy environment to SAP

. Enhancing the conversion processes through the mocks and through

interaction with the end-users

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Jan '01 - Dec

'01)

Role: SAP - ABAP/4 Consultant

Project: Nike Supply Chain - US Implementation

Responsibilities:

. Primary responsibilities include gathering requirements for

conversion, designing the conversion process

. Creating Low level design and technical specifications for the

conversion process

. Executing the conversions during cut-over and providing technical

support during ramp-up of the of the US business operations

Duties Performed:

. Analyzed source data in Legacy systems to be loaded into SAP R/3,

defined corresponding structures in the data dictionary and mapping

the data to the data structures

. Created extracts from Legacy Transportation System to transfer

transactional data from Nike's Legacy system - GOAL to SAP R/3 for the

US region

. Executed the data loads in R/3 for master data such as Carriers,

Packing Materials, Packing Box Cross reference and Container Types

using the LSMW, BDC

. Developed report programs for reconciliation of the master data and

transactional data

. Optimized performance using SQL trace and Runtime analysis for the

load programs

. Unit Testing and String testing the same

. Enhanced the conversion processes through the mocks and through

interaction with the end-users

. Provided 24/7 production support for the business operations

Client: Nike Inc., Beaverton (Mar '99 - Dec

'00)

Role: Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Project: Nike Maintenance, Beaverton

Responsibilities:

. Primary responsibilities include providing maintenance support for

Nike's Legacy System - GOAL (Great Order Allocation Leap),

specifically, Nike's Legacy Transportation System

. Interacting with the business team to gather requirements for new

development efforts

. Providing production support for the US, EMEA and Asia-Pacific

business operations

Duties Performed:

. Enhanced existing functionality to aid changes in business operations

in the respective regions

. Provided support for the day to day business operations by fielding

user queries and implementing support fixes

. Created Low-level design and technical specifications for the new

requirements

. Developed the applications, performed unit testing and string testing

Client: Midland Bank, London (Jun '98 - Feb '99)

Role: Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Project: Midland Bank Oasis

Client: Southern Company Services, Atlanta (Apr '98 - May

'98)

Role: Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Project: Southern Company Services - Y2K

Client: Prudential Insurance Corporation, Jacksonville (Aug '97 -

Mar '98)

Role: Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Project: Prudential Insurance - Y2K

Responsibilities:

. Developing Technical specifications according to the high level design

documents

. Developing the applications as per the coding standards and unit

testing the applications

. Packaging and delivering the applications tested and approved by the

quality team

Duties Performed:

. Developed Low Level Design for the development of OASIS (Operational

Acquiring Support and Information Services) module which provides a

Central support system for Midland Customers and Electronic Banking

Service Centre

. Performed analysis of COBOL, MF-COBOL batch programs

. Documented the impact, created Y2K change strategy

. Prepared Technical Specifications for the COBOL, MF-COBOL batch and

online applications

. Developed the programs, Test plans and Test cases

. Performed Unit testing and String Testing

. Packaged programs for delivery and provided implementation support

TRAINING ACQUIRED

SAP training for development consultants

. ABAP Workbench: Foundation and Concepts

. ABAP Objects

. ABAP Dictionary

. Techniques of List Processing

. Programming User Dialogs

. Programming Database Updates

. Enhancements and Modifications

Software Development Consultant training

. Requirements Engineering, Database Management Systems (DBMS), Quality

Management System (QMS)

. Testing and Debugging, Reviews, Walkthroughs and Inspections

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Business SAP ERP 6.0,ECC 5.0, SAP Netweaver WAS 6.2,

Applications 6.4

SAP R/3 (Versions 4.6B, 4.6C & 4.7), BIW 3.5,

BI 7.0

Languages ABAP 4, Java, C++, C, COBOL, .Net, Visual

Basic 6.0, HTML

Cross EDI, ALE, IDocs, BAPI, RFC, BADI

Applications

Database Oracle, Microsoft Access, DB2

Operating Systems Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MVS

EDUCATION

Bharathiar University

Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Bachelor of Engineering

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