RAGHU VANNELAKANTI
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SUMMARY
Application Development and Support Specialist experienced in developing,
supporting, testing and implementing applications in SAP specializing in
ABAP . Excellent proficiency and expertise in the understanding of the R/3
system. Extensive experience in ABAP work bench tools, interfaces, ABAP
Objects and Utilities for reporting using quality-driven methodologies,
optimizing and analysis, testing and documentation of ABAP code, developing
functional specifications, technical specifications; create and develop
process, coding standards, design and develop ABAP code according to
specification for various objects like data conversions, user-exits,
interfaces, custom transactions, SAP scripts and reports; unit testing,
integration support, performance improvement and post go live production
support.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Systems & SAP & ABAP (8+years)
Languages AS/400 & RPG (10 years), JD Edwards (4years),
Tools: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Remedy and
Peregrine
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Total SAP/ABAP Experience: 8+ years
Total IT experience 20+ years
Dr Pepper Snapple Group inc, Northlake, IL 2009-2010
Worked as a contractor from April 2009 to Feb 2010 to develop interfaces
between existing AS/400s and new handheld system (Apacheta) for Chicago and
Florida locations.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group inc, Northlake, IL 1997 - 2009
(American Bottling Co, Select Beverages)
Sr Systems analyst / CSF analyst
Was responsible for design, development, testing, implementation and
documentation of development objects: Programs, function modules, SAP
scripts and SAP objects. Developed functional specifications, technical
specifications, coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance
tuning and implementation.
SAP 6.0 Convergence: Technical lead:
As part of converging existing SAP 4.0b and SAP 4.6c systems into SAP 6.0,
was responsible for porting existing custom interfaces and reports.
. Created functional specs and tested 20 custom programs for accuracy
and performance. Was a great help in mapping and loading data for
customer master, material master, customer hierarchies, pricing data
etc.
. Created LIS structures
Some of the systems developed and enhanced are:
Centralization of customer master data: Technical Lead
Centralized customer master data from 3 companies of the organization.
. Designed input file layouts, created program to upload customer master
using BDC to load customer from other companies.
. Created custom program to update the customer master (added user exits
to standard SAP program) to validate the number ranges by location.
(customer numbers were not unique across the companies in legacy
systems).
. Created custom program to download customers to legacy systems,
scheduled jobs to transmit changes every 30 minutes.
. Developed Unix scripts for interfacing.
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Account receivable and General ledger migration: Technical Lead
Developed interfaces, input file layouts, custom programs to upload daily
invoices into SAP for 3 companies of the organization.
. Created program to accept files from 60 locations, with duplicate file
check and archiving after successful completion.
Private Label EDI order processing:
. Developed a custom program to split the incoming orders based on the
company and customers. Incoming sales orders were received from the
customer for all locations. The local orders were submitted to IDOCs
to create SAP sales orders and other orders were printed and
transmitted to the legacy systems.
Other processes supported:
. Created interfaces to outside applications like Margin Minder, Cognos,
Hyperion, Getpaid, A/R statements to outside vendors etc.
. Created various custom reports for A/R aging, Statements, Dunning etc.
. Monitored batch jobs, BDC sessions, Unix scripts, EDIs, IDOCs etc.
. Provided user support in master data, sales order processing, pricing,
EDIs.
Dispatching and route accounting systems (two-part application on AS/400) :
Technical Lead
. AS/400: Dispatching included sending customer changes to legacy
system, capturing sales orders from Laptops, routing the customers and
downloading the orders into the handheld devices.
. Sales upload included processing invoices from handhelds, creating
sales orders to SAP, Creating IDOCs in SAP and processing IDOCs.
Monitoring the jobs, supporting the user in tallying the sales and
IDOC corrections, creating deliveries and invoices.
BOODAI TRADING COMPANY, Kuwait 1994 - 1997
Developed Payroll System and implemented for all affiliated companies in
Kuwait and Dubai. Supported and developed other AS/400 and JD Edwards
applications.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
COROMANDEL FERTILIZERS LIMITED, India Programmer and Systems Analyst
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA, India Programming Manager
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Bachelor of Engineering SVU College of Engineering Andhra
Pradesh, India
MBA Studies
SAP Plant Maintenance Studies
Training: SAP BI 7.0, Business Objects, Xcelsius.