Senior SAP ABAP Consultant

Professional Profile

Pavan Tiwari is an SAP ABAP Technical Consultant in the SAP practice of IBM Global Service’s Application Management Services Line of Business. With a rich experience of more than 9 years in the SAP ABAP, Pavan has proved himself to be a proficient and a zealous resource who has been involved in highly challenging developments and projects and has always guaranteed strong client satisfaction. During his tenure with IBM, Pavan has worked with some of the biggest and complicated SAP implementations (mainly roll outs) like Pfizer Global ERP, PepsiCo International, Philip Morris International, Thomson Finance+, Akademibokhandeln and Sodexho Support in multiple roles- as a developer, a team lead, an onsite coordinator as FICO offshore lead in Pfizer and then move to Data load role and worked as Data Lead before joining the Abbott Labs Manage Services project as a SAP ABAP team member (Sr. ABAP Developer/Co-ordinator) as well as Data migration developer.

His areas of specialization in SAP-ABAP are Report (Simple, Interactive, and ALV, Report Painter), Enhancements (User Exits/BADIs, FI Validation & Substitution, BTE, Enhancement (Implicit and Explicit), BDC, DME file generation, Smart Forms, Script, Interfaces (File to File, ALE IDoc, ABAP Proxy, Bank Statement Upload ), LSMW and SAP Workday Integration (SAP HR was replaced by Workday)

Pavan is also part of data migration team which basically works with Back Office Associate Tools for data migration which required knowledge of BOA tools and SQL. Apart from these skills, use to manage the all small system like Esker, Pay Matrices, Vertex and all other peripheral system.

Apart from achieving commendable technical expertise, Pavan has acquired in-depth knowledge on FI Functional topics like AP&AR, Banking (Statement upload and DME generation), FI-Payment, Sp. Ledger. Pavan has worked in FSCM Credit and Dispute Management developments. From SD point of view has knowledge on SD cycle and Pricing, DSD and has elementary working knowledge on SAP PI/XI and Workflow.

Pavan also worked as an external reviewer for other projects of IBM India.

Pavan also has developed an Error Monitoring tool in SAP for which he was awarded with IBM’S 2011 OTAA (Outstanding Technical achievement award).

Pavan has worked as a Data lead for Pfizer’s Singapore Plant, based on his technical and on-job functional expertise, he was co-ordination work for Data loading of Pfizer Singapore Plant (2011-2012).

Pavan Joined SAP ABAP team as Delivery team lead before coming to USA and currently part of manager service team for Abbott.

Experience and Accomplishments:

Project Name : Abbott Manage Services

Client : Abbott

Role : Onsite Co-ordinator/Sr. ABAP Developer/ BoA Developer

Version : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration: : March, 2013 – Till Date

Description: Abbott Laboratories was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois. It engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. It has four core businesses Diagnostics, Devices, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.

Process Area: Order to Cash (OTC), Supply chain management ( MM, PP and QM), Account Receivable, Purchase to Procure (PTP: Account Payables and SRM) and Record to Report (RTR)

Environment & Tools: SAP EEC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager, SAP PI, TIBCO, Share Point, BOA Tools, TAC tools, HP Quality Center, Workload Control Center (WCC), Autosys, SAP BI.

Team Size: 200

Responsibilities as Onsite Co-ordinator / Senior Developer:

Work with GIS People, User and Functional owner to understand the issue and explain it to offshore.

Analyse the issue to understand whether its defect or Change Request and follow the SDLC accordingly.

Work on all critical issue at onsite, and if require arrange the call between all parties involve in the issues.

In case of new requirement, gather the information, prepare the design, get it approved by Architect.

Monitor all the interfaces two times in a day; I’m responsible for RTR and SCM Interfaces only, so monitor RTR and SCM interfaces.

Actively involve in the Disk Space management for the SAP with Unix Team.

Create a JIL file for Autosys Job which is a scheduler for this Project. All jobs are executed from Autosys .

Based on the demand, force start, hold and off-hold the Jobs of Autosys.

Plan the outage for quarterly maintenance from technical side: this involve prepare the Job forecast list, Discuss with business which need to be run earlier and which needs to run after Outage.

Send the status report to Project Management team every week about status of Enhancement request and Defect.

Review all the deliverables related to defects/ER across the Team .

Responsibilities as Data Migration Developer

Review the Ticket received from the User.

Prepare the Report in BOA tool if its related to only data extraction.

Follow the process lead out by Abbott to provide the report, once all approvals are in place generate the Information report and deliver to user.

If its related to Mass change in SAP, follow the Data change process (DCR) setup by the Abbott.

Once all approval in place, generate preload report, get it verified by Data SME and business users.

Once approved, load the data into sap using BOA tools and generate Post Load report.

Get it verified by the Data SME, SAP Functional Consultant and Business user.

Prepare the weekly report for the Management

Project Name : Pfizer SAP (Core Team)

Client : Pfizer

Role : FICO/FSCM Lead

Version : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration: : May, 2010 – Feb, 2013

Description: Pfizer is the number one pharmaceutical company in the world in terms of sales. The company has its corporate headquarters in New York and its research headquarters in Connecticut.

Process Area: Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Distribution and Packaging.

Environment & Tools: SAP EEC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager, SDMS, TAC tools, HP Quality Center, GX Pharma, ARIS and Share Point.

Team Size: 25 to 30

Responsibilities as Site Data Lead:

Attend workshop during Solution and confirmation phase.

Work with BT People, BPLs and Functional owner to write the EZMAP rule. I was not involve in initial mapping but join the team during Mock 2 load.

Main responsibility is on defect area, analyze defect, review the defect, decide whether its need to assign to Core team, local BT team or BPL.

In Pfizer project, Data loading schedule comes from the Core data team, so send across to the site and check if any thing need to adjusted and inform the Core data team/Regional Data Lead in advance.

Publish the daily defect status dashboard

Based on the defect trend, prepare the check list of missing configuration/ Construction file issue/ Mapping rule issue. And request the responsible person to check these before the next load.

Publish daily Data load status report during the Integration Load for site BPL and Integration team

Chair the defect call with core data team process area lead/BOA developer and Site peoples during Integration to watch the defects more closely.

Follow up with BPLs regarding the Data Verification

Responsibilities as Interface lead at Singapore Plant (Worked only 2 Months):

Attend workshop for all process area during Solution and confirmation phase.

Prepare the RICEF List during the Solution confirmation phase

Design Interface and application Diagram

Attended Service delivery meeting with Singapore Project team

Responsibilities as FICO/FSCM Offshore Lead

To understand and analyze the business processes and requirements and implement SAP ECC as per these requirements.

To make sure that the best practices for Global SAP ECC implementation are followed and also identify the potential risks of SAP implementation.

To use tools in SDMS and IBM SAP TAC (Technology Assembly Centre) for Planning/tracking and to expedite the delivery of Global Delivery Service Offerings

Design the cross-system integration process by working on the interface of SAP ECC with other systems – Legacy system, web portal etc using SAP ALE/ IDoc, BAPI.

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design for team

Prototyping of complex technical designs.

Quality review for team

Performance tuning for developments

Developed a cockpit to display all kind of error message occurred in Production and it has ability to download and prepare the dashboard also. Now this development is going to be part of the IBM GD asset also.

Project Name : PepsiCo Global Roll Outs

Client : PepsiCo International

Role : Senior ABAP Consultant

Version : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration: : May, 2007 – May, 2010

Description: PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages with revenues of more than $39 billion and over 185,000 employees. It consists of 4 major companies which includes PepsiCo International (PI) which is the company responsible for all its food and beverage business outside North America. The company consists of Frito-Lay North America, PepsiCo Beverages North America, PepsiCo International and Quaker Foods North America. PepsiCo brands are available in nearly 200 countries and territories and generate sales at the retail level of about $9.2 billion.

PepsiCo decided to kick off their SAP implementation PI in 2007 in their markets Netherlands, China, Mexico and Egypt. The PIRT 1.1 template was successfully implemented in all of these markets with IRC (Saudi Arabia) being the last extension. PI then migrated to the PIRT 2.2 template which has been rolled out to Germany, China (Phase II), Egypt (Phase II), the remaining industries in Mexico and Brazil. Being an implementation in the distribution sector, PI poses several challenges in the business areas of procure-to-pay, production planning, inventory and warehousing, indirect sales, etc. Following two enormous implementations in Germany and Brazil, PepsiCo has now migrated to PIRT4.2, the DSD module being the latest addition to the template. All throughout, Pavan has been a key technical resource who contemplated and implemented crucial technical changes to enable this evolution of the PepsiCo roll-out template.

Pavan is involved in FICO and OTC developments which involved development of reports, Smart Forms/Script, Enhancement, Interface, Report Painter, ABAP Query and DME. The key focus is on operational reports and sales cycles (with OTC forming the backbone of the implementation). Pavan has knowledge of complete OTC cycle of Pepsi CO Market including the integration with DSD and FICO. Pavan was in China to support the Go-Live Phase of China Market and co-ordinate with Offshore.

Pavan was Offshore FICO lead for PepsiCo Germany, Egypt, Saudi and Brazil. He worked as onsite-coordinator for 3 months for Brazil Market during the most critical integration testing phases and returned with encouraging letters of appreciation from the client and the project management.

Pavan is currently involved as a dedicated technical lead in the challenging DSD (Direct Store Delivery) implementation for PepsiCo International that will be simultaneously rolled out to 3 major markets across the globe. Pavan was specifically congratulated by the PepsiCo management for his proactive contribution that accelerated the project deployment.

Responsibilities

Gap analysis and design of technical solution to business requirements.

Integration of non-ECC components (like XI, HHBE, etc) and third parties with ECC during implementation blueprint. Design of entire FI interface landscape in Brazil including complex credit management and Nota Fiscal functionalities.

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design for team

Prototyping of complex technical designs.

Quality review for team

Performance tuning for developments

Co-ordinating the offshore team and worked as Onsite coordinator whenever in China and Brazil market implementations.

Project Name : Thomson Finances+.

Client : Thomson.

Role : ABAP Consultant

Version : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Description: Thomson is one of the largest organizations providing Financial Accounting and Business Solutions. They mainly deal with the improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of finance function enterprise. Thomson has standardized a common process across market groups and a single suite of applications based on SAP and built an effective HR strategy.

Pavan worked for this implementation from IBM India as an SAP ABAP Consultant. Pavan was mainly involved in DME file generation from Sap Automatic Payment Run, FI Validation and Substitution, LSMW, Enhancement (BADIs, BTE), Report.

Responsibilities

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design

Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing

Conducting Peer to Peer Quality Review

Liaising with onsite team

Project Name : P1 European Roll Out

Client : Philip Morris International

Role : ABAP Consultant

Version : SAP R/3, ECC 5.0

Description: Philip Morris International, part of Altria Group, Inc., based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is one of the world’s leading and largest tobacco companies. It holds a 15% share of the International cigarette market and produces many of the world’s best-selling cigarette brands, including the most popular brands worldwide i.e. Marlboro, L&M, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Parliament and etc.

PMI’s global SAP implementation program was named P1 and the process areas involved are Logistics, P2P, P2Y, PMT, FICO, and OTC.

Pavan has been working for this implementation from IBM India as SAP ABAP Team Lead. Pavan has worked for Wave2, Wave3 and Wave4 of PMI implementation. Pavan was involved in FICO and Plant Maintenance developments which involved development of ALV reports and Smart Forms, Interface, Bank statement Upload, Automatic Payment related development. One of the key responsibilities was to develop Banking solution for PMI affiliates.

Responsibilities

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design

Travelled on-site and attended blueprint workshop for technical design of FI developments

Worked as a workflow consultant for 3 months

Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing

Conducting Peer to Peer Quality Review

Co-ordinating the offshore team.

Project Name : Akademibokhandeln IS-Retail

Client : Akademibokhandeln

Role : ABAP Consultant

Version : SAP R/3 Retail

Description: Akademibokhandeln is a big book retail shop. It has more than 4 million books in a single store.

The Retail process area was the key focus.

Pavan was involved in creating a report to handle their daily sales and on the basis of their sales, create PR and PO.

Responsibilities

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design

Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing

Liaising with onsite team

Project Name : Sodexho-Support

Client : Sodexho Australia

Role : ABAP Consultant

Version : SAP R/3, 4.6 B

Description: Sodexho is world wide market leader in Food & Management Services. It employs 324,000 employees across 76 countries and 26700 sites. In 2006 it generated a consolidated annual revenue of around USD 15 billion. Sodexho Australia is part of the Sodexho Alliance, the group company. Sodexho Alliance was founded in 1966 in Marseille, France and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse. The sphere of activity includes support services management and consultancy services for industry, commerce, government, venues, educational establishments, defence forces, remote on and off shore operations and healthcare organizations.

The process areas involved are FI, CO, MM.

Over and above his usual involvement as an ABAP consultant, Pavan used to handle all process area tickets in absence of that area consultant.

Responsibilities

Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design in case of any change request.

Problem solving- investigation, analysis and resolution of support issues (principally related to FI).

Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing

Liaising with Super User.

Trainings:

Has undergone IBM SAP ABAP one month training program.

Has attended trainings on SD and FI Functional Overview.

Has attended trainings on Workflow.

Has attended trainings on SAP PI.

Has attended trainings on CRM.

Has attended training on ALE/IDoc

Has attended training on SAP-APO.

Has attended On-line SAP training on Introduction to Mobile Solution Development for the Enterprise

Has attended On-line SAP training on Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA

Education and Background:

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Jalpaiguri Govt. Egg. College, 2006. (Secured CGPA 8.44).

Personal Details:

Sex : Male

Date of Birth : 10th July, 1984

Phone : +1-484-***-**** ( US), +91-988**-***** ( India)

Language Proficiency : English, Hindi, Bengali

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