Ramesh Nalla Cell #1-804-***-**** acv4bs@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

•15 years of IT experience in IT domain, this includes 12+ years in SAPERP,

12+ implementations,Upgrades and support projects in SD/MM/FICO/ABAP areas.

•Strong team player,able to work well and lead others and Strong project management skills.

•Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities; proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently.

•Initiate and lead ERP projects and provide day to day support,Collaborate with various business units in organization to facilitate implementation of new or improved processes and functions.

•Interact with internal and 3rd party vendors (Vistex/Sabrix/Coupa/Paymetric) for SAP system.

•Define business, financial and operations requirements and system goals working with decision makers and end users, analyzing and translating business needs to technical requirements.

•Lead and analyze design sessions in prototyping new systems to enhance business processes, operations and information process flows,tools,methodologies and standards for requirements gathering, documentation and analysis.

•Experience with ENH packs, System Upgrades,OSS notes,CRM WebUI, Enhancements with EEWB,AE Tool,Web UI development,UI5,Fiori .

•Web Dynpro - Context Binding, Model Binding, Data Binding, Custom Controllers, BAPI Services

•SAP's data archiving,using Archive Development Kit(ADK),Customizing/Pre-Postprocessing .

•RF Programming for custom Mobile Data Entry transactions (RF via SAPConsole) and interfacing to external Warehouse Management Systems and Datastage/FMW/ETL tools.

•ALE/IDOC administration,Parallel Processing of Dialog/Background Jobs,SPTA Framework.

•OOPS Programming, Workflow,Interface design - RFCs,BAPI, BDC, Call Transaction, LSMW, ALV,Screen/Menu Painter, SAPScript/Smart/Adobe forms, Data Dictionary design, expertise in ABAP debug and SQL tracing tools,BTE, User Exit, BADI, Enhancement & Switch Framework.

•PI sustainment support includes the monitoring, enhancement and optimization of external interfaces,SXMB_MONI,PI Interfacing, PI Inbound/outbound proxies.

•Exp. in BRFplus-Application,Expression/Action Types,Rulesets,Rules,Function,CL_FDT_FACTORY.

•Sabrix,Payment card tokenization software and SAP encryption,SOLMAN CCLM - Custom Code Decommissioning.

Expertise in the following areas of SD:

•Good experience on SAP OTC/ Vistex rebates and claims management for Paybacks,Chargebacks.

•Basic Functions: Text Determination, Output Determination, Partner Determination, Material Determination, Account Assignment, Customer Hierarchies, Pricing Procedure, Credit Management, Copy Control between various documents and Tax Determination.

•Master Data: Customer Master, Vendor Master, Material Master, BOMs, Item Proposal, EDI Partner Profiles, Customer Material info, Master data template (MDT),IDOC EDI X12 mapping.

•Sales: Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order, Rush Order, Cash Order, Scheduling Agreements, Contracts.

•EDI transactions: 240, 846, 856, 940, 944, 945, 946, 947, 997, Partner profiles, Inbound & outbound parameters, RFC controls, Process codes and message types.

•Shipping and Transportation: Delivery document types, Delivery Item Categories, Shipping Point Determination, Picking, Packing, Route Determination, ATP, Shipment Creation, MRP and Availability Check.

•Pricing: Condition tables, Access sequence, pricing procedure for computation of discounts and defines and assigns condition type for discounts in pricing procedure.

•Purchasing: Purchase Requisition, RFQ, Purchase Order and Stock Transfer Order (STO).

•Inventory Management: Goods Receipt, Goods Issue and Returns Delivery.

•Billing: Billing Document Type, Credit Management, Pro forma Invoices, Revenue Management, Intercompany billing and revenue recognition.

•Rebates: Rebate processing, rebate agreements,configuration with accruals and account keys.

•Accounts Receivable: Customer Groups, Customer Master Data, Payment Terms, Incoming Payments, Dunning, AR information System, and integration with SD.

Experience Summary

AVAYA Inc. (Aug'14 – Till Date)

VWR International LLC (Feb'13 – Jun'14)

IBM (Jan'06 – Jan'13)

NTTDATA (Intelligroup Inc.) (Nov'04 – Jan'06)

L&T InfoTech (Mar'04– Nov'04)

Grasim Industries Limited (Mar'01–Mar' 04)

AVAYA International LLC, Coppell, TX (Aug 2014–till date)

Currently, working in capacity of a SAP Solution Architect/ OTC systems analyst consultant.

•Vistex Rollout Projects – Worked in Vistex Module – Claims/Agreements / Credit memo

Claim Management/Submission/Processing/Settlement/Adjudication/Resubmission

Claim IDOC Error report, Credit Memo Summary/Details Report, Distributor BEC report, Ditsy Claim Analysis Report, Claim G01 rejection validations, Open Claims, PI Return feed, Claim IDOC Processing reports,BADIs,Custom enhancements,PI proxies for sending the return feed.

Experience in execution of all phases of the SDLC (using ASAP / Agile-ASAP methodology) - requirements gathering, writing functional / technical specifications, system configuration, prototyping application design, build/configuration, testing, production rollout/Support.

•RMA360 Phase 1

I was involved at SCM project, here business wanted to re-direct the customer returns directly to the repair vendor rather than routing through third party. Also business is revamping the Avaya Support Site Portal to accept maintenance returns as well as provisioning returns from customers where customer logins and places the return. The Objective was to real time communication there by increasing customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities included:

•Creating Process Design Document as per the requirements mentioned at BRS

•Prepared Data Flow Diagram for the end to end business process flow

•Perform’ d various configuration(s) related to Output type(s), ALE,IDOC's and maintained Partner profiles, custom Text Type(s),Output Determination procedure, Delivery block at Sales user exits,PGR w.r.t. PO,Inbound Delivery userexit,Replacement/Return orders,their respective Delivery outputs, transmitting the SAP details to PI/FMW/SEIBEL.

•Condition tables, Access sequence, pricing procedure,inclussive/exclussive Free goods config,Material Determination,Listing/Exclussion,outline agreements.

•Created Functional specifications for RICEF objects, executed unit test scripts.

•Conducted integration testing with various external systems such as PI,FMW and Siebel

•Used HPALM to create test plan, executed test scripts at test lab

•Manage the entire project deliverables via HP Service Manager and Share point

•Support Production for Go-Live and Production issue(s) during Warranty phase(s)

•SP13 upgrade project - EHP5

Managed the Entire SAP upgrade project from SP07 to SP13 environment for AVAYA

Using Downtime-ized strategy, I was Involved System preparation,OSS notes,,Testing of critical Business processes, Batch jobs using RMJ / Autosys and Post upgrade activities so that the business continuity after the upgrade is ensured, verified 700 objects part of process/validated 350 test cases.

•Upgrade Activities - SPDD,Upgrade of the System and SPAU Phase

•Post-Upgrade Activities - SAMT / MASS SYNTAX CHECK(REDSRS01)SPAU_ENH/DBACOCKPIT,Check variants

•Unicode Conversion Programs with Unicode Flag Unchecked /UCCHECK Corrections / SLIN,SAMT,Check of all custom Programs & Corrections.

•SOLMAN CCLM DECOMMISSIONING

Actively involved in SOLMAN Custom Code Management and their Decommissioning for identifying the unused custom code objects.We progress through various phases for custom code objects for Identifying/Marking for Decom/Backup/Waiting phase/Delete.

•Fiori Products: Time sheet entry and approvals(OData Services integrates applications via ABAP) Developed and customized for AVAYA.

•Developed Custom reports/IDOC enhancements/Interfaces/SD & MM Enhancements/ Custom BAPI's/ Equipment /Techinical Object Linkage for contracts cleanup programs/Application Error Logging for Custom business Processes/programs.also Object code review, transports validation/performance fine tuning of the custom objects/Deployment activities.

VWR International LLC, Radnor, PA (Feb 2013–Jun 2014)

Project: SAP SCIED Implementation/support

Senior OTC Systems Analyst

Worked for VWR International for it SCIED Implementation/support.

•Responsibility for day-to-day procedures related to the identification, prioritization, and resolution of SAP and related application problem tickets, including the monitoring, tracking, coordination, and resolution of SAP functional areas in Finance (FI/CO), SD, SCM support tickets.

•EDI – Inbound & outbound IDOC’s: Worked on various EDI profiles, determined user exits to derive SAP custom customer number, material number and populate additional fields on Sales order header/ Item Screen.

•Conducted As-is process Analysis of business processes related to Sales & Distribution (SD), Material Management (MM), and LES with main focus on Order-To-Cash (OTC).

•Analyzed Requirements, investigated all possible solutions, provided recommendation, and reviewed with team members or business groups and proposed optimal and flexible solutions for the Business process.

•BRF+ Rule Modeler, Validation, Substitution, Rules (VSR),Workflow Rules

•Reused salv_wd_table component for ALV Tables integration in WEBDYNPRO Components. Working on new requirements like user exits/reports/forms and other enhancements

•Interfaces/corrections/additions in existing reports/forms and other enhancements.

•Custom enhancements of the Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, and Warehouse Management modules and FI/AP, Banking, GL and Assets processes

•Worked with Load runner for SAP Interface testing,Paymetric system tokenization.

•Customized fields for purchase orders via the BADI’s ME_GUI_PO_CUST/MC_PROCESS_PO_CUST/BADI HE_PROCESS_REQ_CUST

•Used MACROS - MMPUR_METAFIILD macro/ MMPUR_MESSAGE_FORCED

•Involved in conversion activities for various Data Migration of Legacy data into SAP. Used LSMW for the Data Migration of open sales order, updating pricing.

•Worked extensively for interfaces between legacy system & SAP system including master data, orders, inventory and pricing using web-method middleware system.

•Defined special functionality: Listing & Exclusion, material determination, Mod-coded material, substitution, item proposal, output control, and partner functions.

•Completed cutover activities for SAP. Worked with the cutover team using the cutover plan to perform deployment tasks in sequence

IBM GBS Inc. (Apr’10– Jan 2013)

Senior OTC Systems Analyst/ Finance Solution area Lead

Worked for Blue Harmony project (Implementation/Support)

•Experience working in a SAP Solution Manager environment for maintaining the Functional, Technical specifications and UAT.

•Involved in Design/ Configuration/ Deployment, Production support of SAP – SD,FI & MM solution in Blue Harmony - 0.5 / 1.0 Rel Projects.

•Key Resource to OTC (Order to cash) related issues,supporting activities in US and non-US Region.

•Involved in conversion activities for various Data Migration of Legacy data into SAP. Used LSMW for the Data Migration of open sales order, updating pricing.

•Worked extensively on lot of integration between legacy system & SAP system including master data, orders, inventory and pricing using web-method middleware system.

•Validating the business process changes like document creations, postings, pricing conditions, output conditions, material movements, Tax conditions, EDI Partner, inbound and outbound Idocs, RFC postings and Manual creation processes.

•Specific responsibilities include the support of the SAP functional areas in Finance (FI/CO), Sales and Distribution (SD), RRB, Revenues & Earnings and related applications.

•Responsibility for day-to-day procedures related to the identification, prioritization, and resolution of SAP and related application problem tickets, including the monitoring, tracking, coordination, and resolution of SAP support tickets

•Custom enhancements of the MM, SD,PM,FI,WM modules,CRM WebUI, Enhancements with EEWB,AET,SAP CRM Middleware.

•Developed SAP ABAP programs, ABAP WebDynpro using ABAP objects. Also done Migration of existing Smart Forms to PDF forms, used FM GM_RRB_RUN.

•Custom Fields in MIGO/MIRO - MB_MIGO_BADI/MRM_ITEM_CUSTFIELDS

•validation to check an accounting document OB28,various callup points substitution via OBBH

•pricing in purchasing documents.- BAdI ME_DEFINE_CALCTYPE

•Creating Context-Based Adaptations and Enhancing, Adapting FPM Applications on SAP

•Used explicit configuration to assign additional WebDynpro components as user specific

•Views using UIBBs - FPM_LIST_UIBB,FPM_FORM_UIBB,FPM_TABBED_UIBB

•Create actions for the views and implement simple event handlers

•IDOC: The remittance advice text is preceded by <7XX> and is referred to as 700 remittance advice text. This entry in invoice FI doc correspondence text field needs to be populated in the Remittance Advice IDOC (IDOC – PEXR2002, Message Type – REMADV) and Payment IDOC (IDOC – PEXR2002, Message Type – PAYEXT).

Altria Group, Inc. (Jul’09 – Apr’10) Company: IBM

Project: SAP ECC 5.0 Technical Upgrade

@Senior SAP OTC Systems Analyst

•Developed new layout set for shipper declaration of dangerous goods both Air and ocean and created new print programs which will be executed from delivery output type ZOHZ

•Actively Involved System preparation,OSS notes,SPDD,Upgrade of the System and SPAU Phase,Testing of critical Business processes and Post upgrade activities so that the business continuity after the upgrade is ensured.

•Testing of Batch jobs using Autosys and Post upgrade activities so that the business continuity after the upgrade is ensured.

• Developed several SAP adobe Interactive and classical reports required for production planning/ sales, which includes information on inventory, material transfer, order volume, freight carrier payments and sales requirement, Workflow modifications.

•Developed Interfaces in ABAP for sales orders in SD and invoice outbound to vendors

•Designed and Developed Zebra Barcode Label to print barcode label. The label/card displays basic material information and a barcode.

•Developed a customized PDF form for Payment advice (F110) from F110_AVIS_INT via FBZP.

•Developed outbound and inbound interfaces, BDC programs for custom-defined tables, Master Data Management like LSMW, BDC Data Conversions and ABAP Web Dynpro using ABAP OOPS.

Abbott Labs Inc, APL/AP16 projects, (Sep’08 - Jun’09) Company: IBM

@Senior Sytems Analyst

•Developed ALV interactive report similar to CS12 that identifies spare parts in a Bill of Material (BOM).

•Developed a BDC program to upload the Material Master (MM) data and to upload Physical Inventory (PI) data, Master Data Management like LSMW, BDC Data Conversions.

•Modified existing Smart form for Goods Receipt slip to include Delevan specific information.

•Designed and Developed Zebra Barcode Label to print barcode label. The label/card displays basic material information and a barcode.

•Created/Modified existing Smart forms for Order Acknowledgment, Repair Quotation, Free-of-Charge types.

•Developed a Sub screen tab in Customer/Vendor transactions to store and access multiple customer Shipment Account numbers for each customer.

•Developed custom transactions, screens and programs which enable the use of RF (Instrument) transactions (LM01) for processing Goods Receipt for Purchase Order, Put away of Purchase Order, Transfer Stock, Picking for Production Order, Material Inquiry and Picking for Sales Delivery.

Panasonic North America Inc (Nov’07 - Aug’08) Company: IBM

@Senior SD/MM Systems Analyst

•Developed Technical specification documents for Developing Field Stock Automation Screen.

•Developed Module Pool Programs, Transaction and function modules to Process Material Bundles in Field Stock Automation custom screen. Each Bundle contains several materials with different product hierarchy levels.

•Developed a Drill-Down Report to display State, County, Tax Code, City, Tax Jurisdiction and Tax Base, Tax percent, State Tax, County tax, City tax, etc. The report data is derived from accounting documents posted against the Use Tax Payable account, specified in the selection screen.

Unilever Inc, UK (Aug’07 - Oct’07) Company: IBM

@Senior BCS/BW Technical Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.04, SEM BCS 6.0

•Developed a smart form to print, Material, Supplier code, manufacturing date, material description, etc., on a bar coded label after packing the material in outbound delivery.

•Modified the existing print program for displaying delivery number in bar coded tag for Nissan customer.

•Converted delivery note SAP script into smart form.

•Created a report to indicate delivery quantity, storage location, available quantity, picking quantity for each item in a delivery.

•Involved in generating Interactive Reports to give details on sales order, vendors, customers and stock for a particular material.

•Implemented BADI “UC_DATATRANSFER” / “UC_TASK_CUSTOM” for t-Code UCMON in BCS system

Lund beck, Copenhagen, DK (Jan’07 - Aug’07) Company: IBM

Project: SAP ECC 5.0 Technical Upgrade

@Senior OTC Techno functional Consultant

•Developed a Pricing Routine for calculating the price difference due to increase or decrease in the resin contract price from the resin actual price, for condition types in Orbits sales order.

•Implemented the BADI method using the standard BAPI to create a freight service purchase order automatically at goods issue in Delivery.

•Developed two different size labels using SAP script forms to print bar codes and material, plant, batch, production order, and quantity information.

•Guided other LSMW resource on how to transfer the data of Routing via Direct Input method

Beiersdorf North America Inc (Jan’06 - Jan’07) Company: IBM

GE Inc, ERC Strategic Reinsurance (Nov’04 – Jan’06) Company: Intelligroup

Gillette Inc, CEBOM, Poland (Mar’ 04 - Aug 04) Company: L&T Infotech

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