Ram Bala - 972-***-**** MBA - Texas A&M

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Ram has over twenty-five years of software development experience including over twenty years in the design, development, customization and implementation support for SAP R/3 and S4 HANA.

Currently engaged in a SD/ABAP/EDI AMS rollout for client Verizon & Sanofi - Pharma client.

Previously engaged in a SD/ABAP/EDI rollout for medical clients LivaNova JnJ and Mckesson.

Prior to this, he was involved in 7 AFS rollouts for various Footwear and Retail industries.

Completed a major S4 Greenfield SAP OTC HANA ABAP assignment for TCS Novolex.

Earlier he was also engaged in major SAP OTC EDI integration projects for Komatsu Caterpillar and Mohawk Flooring Industries.

His extensive expertise in SAP also involved a recent SAP Hybris Billing rollout for Toyota/SAP in upstate NY and SAP AFS assignments for Hanes Apparel, SAP GTS Consultant for Raytheon(A&D) Airbus and Tyson Foods.

Chemical industry expertise with special focus on Elemica (from Dow Chemical & LivaNova)

Ram also worked as senior Technical consultant for Johnson Controls and E&Y (integrating Caterpillar & Bucyrus SAP systems). Earlier he was also involved in huge SAP IS-Retail rollout(s) for a major furniture client (Bob’s Discount Furniture) and energy giants Westinghouse Nuclear and HESS OIL CORP.

Overall Work Experience

His long stretch of various project experiences has brought him the following:

•Secret Security Clearance, Army/Air-Force and other Defense expertise.

•SAP Innovation Award for the TCS Novolex S4 Greenfield Implementation.

•Excellent Architect, Team Lead and Team Player experience from various projects.

•Working knowledge and expertise on SAP new dimension products like Hybris Solution, SAP GTS, TMS, CRM, and Vertical Industry Solutions like AFS (Apparel and Footwear Solutions), IS-Retail, A&D (Aerospace/Defense) and SAP BRIM-Hybris solutions.

•Strong SAP SD OTC ECC and ALE/EDI/IDOC and Technical ABAP (RICEF) expertise of over 23+ years involving multiple projects and more than 15+ full life cycle implementations.

•Working expertise on latest technologies such as SAP HANA and ECC 6.0 upgrades on NetWeaver platforms, Enjoy SAP (OOPS), BADI, LSMW, Seeburger/Sterling and Web Methods – Business Connector.

•Experience working as a 3rd party consultant for major implementation partners like

IBM/Deloitte/CSC/Accenture/E&Y and SAP America on numerous implementations.

•Was involved in the product development of Fast-track IS-Retail with SAP America and Bob’s Furniture, AFS – joint venture of SAP and Reebok, both being SAP’s award-winning rollouts.

ERP: SAP ECC 6.0, 4.7 (ABAP/4, BAPI, ALE, IDOC, EDI)

Tools: LSMW, XI/PI – NWGS, Sterling Gentran, Seeburger Languages: ABAP/4 (GTS, CRM, SRM, FI, SD, PS, MM, IM/WM) and JAVA

Operating Systems: NT, Windows 95 and Solaris Hardware: Intel Servers, Sun Ultra

RDBMS: MS SQL Server 6.5, Oracle 7.x, Sybase 11

Experience: 25+ Years

SAP AMS Dev Support TCS/Honeywell Aug 2023 - present

SD/EDI/ABAP AMS Support consultant involved in the design, mapping and development of all the OTC related Objects.

Heavy customizations on the SD/OTC space involving dates and back order functionalities.

Coded custom BADI’s in various Sales Order User Exits to satisfy customer requirements.

OTC process involved Inbound 850, Outbounds – 855/856 and 810.

A&D and ITAR controlled environment.

SAP ETL/EDI Interface Lead Sanofi-Aventis May 2023 – Aug 2023

Client-facing, Onshore hands-on Lead Analyst on the SD OTC module assisting with the ongoing new ABAP ETL rollouts - Limestone Project.

Ongoing AMS support for complex SAP Objects in ABAP/SD/OTC and LSMW/EDI/IDOC’s.

3PL support for their Tennessee WMS DC.

Error processing of various SD/OTC IDOC scenario’s.

SAP ABAP/SD/EDI Lead Verizon May 2022 – May 2023

Client-facing, Onshore hands-on Lead Analyst on the SD OTC module assisting with the ongoing new ABAP rollouts - Limestone Project.

Ongoing AMS support for complex SAP Objects in ABAP/SD/OTC and EDI/IDOC’s.

3PL support for their Tennessee WMS DC.

Error processing of various SD/OTC IDOC scenario’s.

SAP ABAP/SD/EDI Lead CapGemini - Kronos Paints June 2021 – May 2022

Client-facing, Onshore hands-on Lead Analyst on the SD OTC module assisting with the ongoing AMS support for the nSAP application for CapGemini.

Ongoing AMS support for complex SAP Objects in SM37 Batch Job management.

Involved in the analysis and reporting of various SAP IDOC like GR’s, DESADV and PICKPGI.

Error processing of various SD/OTC IDOC scenario’s.

Client-facing, Onshore CoOrdinator for SD/EDI/ABAP for CG involved in the design, mapping and development of all the OTC related Objects.

Continuous AMS support for all the rollouts for the client.

Worked as a Liason/Interface coordinator for the client.

SAP SD/EDI/ABAP Developer LivaNova – Remote Jan 2021 – June 2021

LivaNova is a $6 billion medical device company that manufactures devices for the Head and the Heart. They wanted to integrate their SAP ECC system with GHX, the global healthcare exchange for their OTC process.

Sole SD/EDI/ABAP consultant involved in the design, mapping and development of all the OTC related Objects.

Heavily customized ECC environment with heavy focus on Sales Order (MV45AFZZ) and IDOC related enhancements.

Heavy customizations on the SD/OTC space involving dates and back order functionalities.

Coded custom BADI’s in various Sales Order User Exits to satisfy customer requirements.

Detailed mapping analysis and template development and working closely with GHX on Unit and Integration testing.

OTC process involved Inbound 850, Outbounds – 855/856 and 810.

SAP ABAP Developer IBM/GFEBS ARMY – Remote April 2020 – Jan 2021

GFEBS is the Army’s cloud-based financial, asset and accounting management system that standardizes, streamlines, and shares critical data across the active-duty Army, the Army National Guard, and the Army Reserve. GFEBS uses SAP extensively interfaced with a host of other applications to feed data in and out of the system.

Part of the SRM-SUS Agile Team delivering rollouts for each iteration based on deliverables.

Hands-on design and development on multiple FRICE Objects across SRM and ECC modules.

Implicit Enhancements on VL06i to propose and Save PPA Dates.

Implicit Enhancements on ML81n and ML85 to display Custom Warning messages as per Client requirements.

Developed a Custom Program to send Notification to COR by Email based on SUS/PO/External reference numbers.

Excellent knowledge and working in a highly organized Military Agile environment with strict document control and peer reviews, version control etc.

SAP S4/EDI Technical Architect TCS/Novolex Brands Inc. Oct 2019 – Aug 2020

Novolex is a $3 billion paper and packaging conglomerate involving multiple brands under its portfolio and is a leader in the industry. It is undergoing a major S4 Greenfield Transformation with HANA 1709 partnering with TCS on HANA Enterprise Cloud HEC.

Playing a major role in an ongoing huge SAP award winning S4 Greenfield implementation for Novolex, in-charge of their entire Technical ABAP Onshore co-ordination and EDI in-scope.

Hands-on design and development on multiple FRICE Objects across various modules.

Coordination in development of maps using Seeburger BIS6 and Data Masons.

Development of maps inBIS6 using Mapping Designer, configuring partners in BIS6 and building FTP between SAP and middleware etc.

SAP 3PL design and delivery with DSV Logistics for the Norcross Plant.

Sample EDI ANSI transactions include 850,855.856,810 and other IM/WM transactions.

Two plants have gone live successfully and multiple plants in scope for a future rollout.

Modules in scope include SD/CS, Analytics, eWM, ARIBA and a host of EDI interfaces with a

FioRi frontend on HANA Enterprise Cloud.

SAP ABAP/TM Analyst Developer Scott Air Force June 2018 – Oct 2019

USTRANSCOM envisions an enterprise solution that provides the ability to seamlessly plan, order, ship and pay. This solution must also provide the tracking, reporting and visibility capabilities across the transportation life-cycle.

USTRANSCOM is seeking to prototype a robust/scalable Transportation Management (TMS) solution to execute Department of Defense and Federal Government multi-modal, worldwide transportation requirements of material and personnel from planning through payment and audit.

The solution must enable integration with DoD and commercial systems, have system availability of 99.9% and support the ability to scale up to approximately 50,000 users with 30,000 users simultaneously.

As a part of this project, involved in creation of Master Data and other RICEFW objects pertaining to Freight Order and Forwarding Order Management.

Release 1.1 went live in October 2018 with limited TM scope and then Release 1.2 in early July 2019.

SAP ABAP EDI Solutions Architect KOMATSU/JOY GLOBAL Jan 2018 – June 2018

(Remote) - Milwaukee WI

Komatsu, a world leader in heavy equipment machinery, recently purchased Joy Global to set a foothold in the mining industry. This integration also required a lot of their ERP systems to integrate and consolidate many of their trading partners and 3rd party vendors etc.

Ram was the sole techno-functional consultant on the project spearheading the team on this integration role. The EDI integration work involved Transactions 850, 855, 810,856(ASN), 204, 214 and 211 for multiple trading partners involving various continents.

The scope of the project and Ram's role can be briefly summarized as below:

Blueprint configure code and Unit Test all the above-mentioned transactions.

Meet with Business and end-users to gather requirements.

Configure 850 855 and 810 as a part of the initial phase.

Configure 856 204 214 and 211 as a part of the secondary phase.

Set up Ports partner profiles and all related interface work in SAP. Work with Sterling folks and the external partner to convert XML/JASON files into SAP IDOC and vice versa.

SAP IDOC's were used all along in the EDI integration work.

SHPMNT05/ORDERS05/DESADV etc.

Work with Komatsu Brazil to streamline the Vale and K&N integration work.

Work with Komatsu Australia in identifying User Exits pertaining to some EDI Transactions.

Unit and integration testing and KT, Demo and Training.

SAP OTC HANA Developer TCS/McKesson PHARMA Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

Dallas, TX

McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 5th on the FORTUNE 500, is a $193B healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to making the business of healthcare run better.

Part of the Special Projects team, Ram was involved in the CRRB Modernization project, to enhance and revitalize the old Credit and Re-bill OTC system by infusing new HANA technology with an Agile background to enable it to process faster and make it more user-friendly.

Team work with the BI Team to develop SLT landscapes that allows you to load and replicate data in real-time or schedule data from the source system(ECC) into SAP HANA Database. Some of the T-Codes used - LTR and LTRC.

Developed all the queries for SLT to load them into HANA. Utilized the trigger-based replication approach to pass data from source system to target system. SLT server installed on the SAP ECC source System.

Ram was the key and the sole developer to develop all the backend programs (BAPI/IDOC) in the ECC OTC module to integrate with the front end IBM-IDT portal using the JASON Mule-Soft middleware.

Responsible for ABAP development of all the critical PRICING interfaces between existing ECC applications and SAP S/4HANA.

The project was developed using Agile SCRUM methodology and is slated for successful go-live Jan 2018. Currently handling post-production support and knowledge transfer to the in-house team.

SAP OTC EDI Technical Lead Mohawk Industries April - August 2017

SAP SD/ABAP/EDI/IDOC Consultant for Dal-Tile/Mohawk/IVC Group

Played an integral role on the IVC-US/Commerce Hub/Home Depot roll-out for DOTCOM and SOS(Special Orders) project.

INBOUND - Scope of the Project involves 850's coming from THD(Home Depot) through CHUB into SAP(IVC-US)

OUTBOUND - Sending back 870's/856 and 810's back to CHUB and THD from IVC-US.

On-site co-ordination at the IVC Plant in Dalton GA for go-live preparation and the actual go-live.

Active interaction with the Users on-site and understanding the business requirements and develop a solution based on the requirements.

SD/ABAP/EDI/IDOC development for 850/870/856 and 810 for DOTCOM and SOS.

SAP Hybris Solution Analyst/Developer Toyota/SAP October 2016 – April 2017

•Custom SAP Hybris Solution for TOYOTA RAYMOND involving SAP ECC/CC (Convergent Charging) and CI (Convergent Invoicing).

•As a Hybris SAP developer, was involved in developing all the custom code for interfacing CI with ECC – Billing Documents in CI will create a Sales Order in ECC and eventually Invoice out of ECC.

•Strong exposure to REST API and SOAP technologies.

•Created a local FM and exposed it as a RFC using Webservices.

•Provided solution for Single and Mass transfer of Billing documents from CI to ECC.

•Solution custom built by SAP America for Toyota Raymond.

•Potential go-live in April 2017 and likely expansion to other TMH divisions.

SAP SD/OTC Developer BSN Sports, Dallas Feb 2017 – April 2017

BSN Sports headquartered in the DFW area is a leading distributor of apparel and sports supplies for almost all the schools and colleges all over the country.

This was a remote project for BSN to help them with some of their development work.

•Analysis and Support on various ongoing SD/OTC activities for their various projects.

•Multiple FORM Objects involving Smartforms and Excel Downloads for their MTS and LWO activities.

•Some of the form/report developments include MTS Print Order Details, MTS Order Details Report and Decorator Personalization Report etc.

•Created REST API for credit memo create, Quote Create, Customer Create, Customer Address change RFCs,

•Tested REST API test via Netweaver gateway client

•Created new project in SAP NetWeaver Gateway Builder (SEGW)

•Created Data Model Import RFC/BOR interface

•Register the Webservice. Service maintenance and Register with OAuth enable.

•Provide Consulting and Support in Integration and Cutover activities that involve design, and development.

Senior SAP AFS ABAP Analyst/Developer Hanes Apparel May 2016 – Jan 2017

HanesBrands Inc.(HBI) is a leading apparel company with multiple brands like Champion Athletic wear, Playtex and Wonder-bra among many others under its umbrella. This role specifically involved the Champion go-live and support.

•Analysis and Support on various ongoing AFS activities for B2B and B2C projects.

•Multiple RICE Integration Objects involving LSMW, EDI/IDOC, BADI and various Enhancement activities.

•Provide Consulting and Support in Integration and Cutover activities that involve design, development, SIT and UAT for B2B go-live in September.

•Developed Code for SAP Tax Register and Cyber Source credit card calculations for

Team Champion go-live.

•Provided bug-fixes for credit block and various other post go-live issues.

•Team Champion Initiatives go-live and support.

Senior SAP GTS ABAP Consultant Raytheon, TX June 2015 – May 2016

Raytheon is a major US Defense company valued at over $25 billion specializing in defense technology such as missile development, cyber security etc. Among the major SAP modules they have, GTS (Global Trade Solution) is very import in determining their Export/Import process.

Working as part of the GTS team, Ram was responsible for the following:

•Played an integral role in the ITCS/EX-IM Project, which is a high profile, high visibility GTS initiative to integrate the Export/Import modules with the home grown RGEMS

system.

•Prime focus on developing IDOC interfaces/enhancements (BADI's) and custom ALV reports in GTS Customs & Compliance Management involving Licenses/Agreements etc. to be interfaced with other RAYTHEON ECC systems (APEX/PRISM/RGEMS etc.)

•Responsible for the entire SAP design & development of Temporary Licensing report (DSP73 licenses) for the EX-IM process with DHL/Expediters and other 3rd party carriers.

•Developed Custom Code for HTS rollup, SPL loads (/SAPSLL/SPL_UPLOAD_IXML) in GTS.

•Deep understanding and technical know-how of GTS tables relating to Customs Doc Header and Items/Licensing/Partner attributes/Doc. Flow etc

ITCS - International Trade Compliance System (RAY's SAP GTS system) RGEMS - RAY Global Export Management System - Home grown portal APEX/PRISM - RAY SAP ECC systems

SAP GTS Interface Consultant Tyson Foods, AR Jan 2015 – June 2015

Springdale

With 2011 sales of US$32 billion, Tyson Foods is the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500, the largest meat producer in the world, and according to Forbes HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" one of the 100 largest companies in the United States.

•Interface SAP GTS with various external Ocean carriers for sending outbound BOL 304.

• Responsible for configuring GTS to enable PPF messages to be sent via EDI/IDOC to the external carriers.

• In charge of mentoring and developing solutions to code the BADI’s required for enhancing 304 BOL IDOC.

• Enhanced IDOC - /SAPSLL/CCECUS02 with message type /SAPSLL/CUS_EXP for BOL 304.

•Coding for the classic BADI interfaces MODIFY_IDOC_DATA and

MODIFY_IDOC_PARTNER_PROFILES to satisfy client mapping requirements.

• Develop several ‘Implicit Enhancements’ in the GTS Communication module for IDOC processing to satisfy client requirements.

• Enhance a Tyson Custom screen for calling the Z OBL EDI by integrating it with the ‘Message Output’ screen(/SAPSLL/PRN_MONITOR)

•Overall co-ordination in design, development testing and integration until go-live.

SAP Interface Lead Developer Johnson Controls Inc. Jan’14 – Dec ‘14

Norman OK

Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in more than 150 countries with Fiscal Year 2013 global sales at $42.7 billion.

When it comes to managing Energy efficiency/HVAC, be it for the world's tallest building @Bhuj in

Dubai or for the Pentagon, only one name comes to mind - Johnson Controls, ranked No. 67 on U.S.Fortune 500 and No.251 on the Global Fortune 500.

Phase 1 – 3PL – TMS – SAP Rollout for Wichita Plant

•As a part of a 2 member team (1 functional + 1 technical), Ram was entirely responsible for creating and managing all the development objects for JCI/York Controls/UPG in automating their SAP SD/MM-TMS integration with VistaLogix in the Phase 1 go-live for their plant in Wichita, KS.

•The project involved blueprinting/design and development of multiple ALE/EDI/IDOC interfaces between SAP and VistaLogix with Seeburger as a middleware to automate the Delivery/Shipment process.

SAP – TMS integration went live successfully in mid-June 2014 with minimal to no major issues.

Phase 2 – 3PL – TMS – SAP Rollout for Norman Plant – Go-Live Oct 2014

Phase 2 had almost similar functionalities as Phase 1, but with flavors of variation for Norman plant. Additional Transportation Planning Points were added and fields relating to Shipment date and time were updated from TMS into SAP

Both phases achieved the following functionalities:

•Deliveries and ASN’s going out from SAP to TMS – DELVRY03 IDOC with Message Type DESADV(856)

•Shipments coming into SAP from TMS – SHPMNT05 IDOC with Message Type SHPMNT

•Shipment Status getting updated in SAP – TPSSHT01 IDOC with Message Type SHIPPL

•TMS Freight Cost Payment Voucher to Pro-Ship Table in SAP – Custom IDOC

The project involved technical challenges and using various flavors within SAP ABAP – FRICE

including writing a few implicit Enhancement points for the following scenarios:

•VL10 background job was not triggering EDI Output by default.

•Stage Determination for Inbound Shipments was deleting the stages from VTTS

•Offshore co-ordination with the EI(Seeburger) Team to getting all the mapping completed for all the interfaces.

Phase 2 – TMS integration went live successfully in Oct 2014 with no major issues. VistaLogix has been renamed as CLX Logistics and is now part of IBM Sterling group.

Senior SAP Lead Developer Zachry Construction Aug – Dec’13

San Antonio, TX

Zachry Construction is part of an 80 year old Zachry Holdings originally founded by H.B.Zachry and is the largest contractor in the state of Texas. Zachry construction is primarily involved in highway projects that involve constructing highways/bridges/airports among others. Zachry is privately owned, based out of San Antonio and has a turnover around $3 billion.

ERP Business Improvement Initiative

The SAP rollouts at Zachry were termed as Business Improvement Initiatives and were classified as Wave1, 2 and 3.

Wave 1 CRM/BobJ Rollout:

•As the only SAP developer in the CRM team, Ram played an important role in the Wave

1 CRM rollout by developing the key CRM RFC enabled Function Modules for the Pipeline Report that extracts data from CRM and feeds it to BobJ.

•The CRM pipeline report extracts critical CRM data from the Opportunity Table, factory Calendar and Partner tables and feeds it to BobJ. Three RFC enabled function modules were written and data passed real-time to BobJ for user display.

•Wave 1 went live successfully early November 2013 with no major issues.

Wave 2 FI/CO/HR/PY Rollout:

•Ram was a key player in the development team during Wave 2 and was in charge of 6 FICO RICEFW objects. This included both Inbound/Outbound interfaces between various Banks and the client on their day-to-day transactions.

•This includes the Positive Pay interface (FCKR), the Cleared Checks Inbound interface (FCHX/FB05) and the Outbound Interface to a 3rd party provider called CMIS. The banks involved were primarily Chase/BOA/Wells-Fargo and Frost. Some of them required DME formats to be sent to them.

•General Ledger (G/L): Data loads involving G/L account master records, company code segment, chart of accounts, account groups etc.

•The Outbound Interface to CMIS was a complex interface that involved development of 2 ALV reports (Validation & Error report) that allows data to be validated before being extracted as a flat file and sent to CMIS. This interface also involved an FB01 posting into SAP.

•The project generally adopted an ALE/IDOC methodology for all the interfaces (to enable easy maintenance & error handling) with certain exceptions and data was routed through SAP TLE as a middleware platform.

Senior Developer/GTS Consultant Airbus Helicopters Dallas Mar’13 – July’13 Implementation Partners – In house

Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter) is an A&D client and is the largest manufacturer of helicopters in the world. It is owned by EADS, the same company that owns Airbus. Eurocopter USA implemented a custom 3rd party SAP GTS as part of refining their export/import processes.

As an ongoing part of this huge integration, Ram was involved in the following:

•Single handedly spearheading the ABAP development from a consulting standpoint.

•Involved in configuring and developing all the GTS related code for export/import

process.

•Developed the Item Master Extract, FIFO Extract and the Inventory Balance Extract Outbound for the GTS interface with Integration Point 3rd party bolt-on.

•Working very closely with the 3rd party integration supplier called Integration-Point to deliver the extracts to them in a timely manner.

•Configuring the related FTZ Custom tables for the 3rd party GTS integration.

•Provided mapping expertise using Seeburger, in-house training on SAP ALE/EDI

810,850 and 856(ASN’s).

•Team consists of 1 SAP Functional, 1 SAP technical, BA & Ram (Consulting Lead).

Sr. Technical Integration Consultant E&Y/Caterpillar Global Mining May’12– Feb’13 Milwaukee, WI

Implementation Partners – E&Y

Caterpillar, the world’s largest maker of heavy equipment purchased Bucyrus in 2011 for $9 billion to set foothold in the mining industry and is in the process of integrating the 2 systems. As an ongoing part of this huge integration, Ram was involved in the following:

•Custom IDOC development for Inbound ORDERS involving ANTARES interface into SAP for the Dealer Divestiture project. This involved modifying user exits in MV45AFZZ among other things.

•Various integration areas in the ALE/EDI/IDOC world involving ORDERS (850)/Invoices (810), ASN’s (856) and other file based transactions from/into SAP from various Dealers.

•Extending many of the ALV reports from Caterpillar to Caterpillar Global mining (Formerly Bucyrus) with additional functionalities.

•Developed a custom program to fully automate the Accounting Reversal of an FI/GL Document (using BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST) and reversal of a reversal (FB08) (using FM – CALL_FB08).

•Creating/modifying several CMOD user exits relating to splitting Transfer Orders in the MM/IM/WM areas of SAP.

•Developed a custom Dealer Statement ALV Report that incorporates VF05 and FB03, SD and FI billing documents, that provides the information about all the open items for that customer in each period range.

•Monitoring IDOC related errors, TLE mapping and educating the E&Y management on solutions to ongoing daily issues.

•Ram was a 3rd party Consulting Team Lead who was hand’s on SAP and mentoring the young E&Y Team from a development standpoint.

•SAP for EC&O delivered and implemented by E&Y to Maximize productivity and profitability of project resources, including materials, equipment, and labor.

Senior ABAP Developer SAP America/Bob’s Furniture Aug’11– May’12

Hartford, CT Implementation Partners – SAP America

Bobs’ Discount Furniture is a leading furniture retailer located primarily in the North East USA. With over 42 retail stores from Maine to Maryland and over a billion dollars in sales, Bobs is well positioned in the furniture retail market and poised for excellent growth in the future. Visit them at

www.mybobs.com

SAP America has partnered with Bob’s to develop a Fast-track furniture IS-retail solution that could be prototyped for other furniture companies in future.

Working as a Senior ABAP developer for Bob’s, was involved in the following:

•Part of the SAP Optimization team brought in after go-live to streamline process and fix process and performance related issues in SAP.

•Worked on a Custom Fixed Pricing Solution for Bob’s called Sales Set Substitution, which enables article substitution and re-pricing in the furniture retail industry.

•Worked on a custom warranty solution called Goof-Proof, which provides spill/wear & tear warranty over extended periods of time for merchandise sold in furniture retail.

•Implemented Sales commissions solution for sales rep’s using SAP pricing functionality.

•Implemented OSS Note – 155012 which involved extending SAP Tables (VBAP/KOMP) and subtotal calculation for Vertex using the VOFM pricing Condition Value Routine.

•All of the above mentioned were part of customized solutions in the SAP OTC process that were implemented using User Exits in SAPMV45A (Sales Order user exits).

•Developed a number of customized ALV reports(ZR00 Price Over-ride/Sales Concession Report) and wrote LSMW loads for FI postings (FB01) to enable their quarterly loads etc

•Supported various EDI/IDOC interfaces (80/850/856 etc) to integrate data with Red Prairie, an external WMS.

•Participated in hands on SAP IS-Retail Development and managed a team of 5 developers.

SAP Lead Developer CSC/Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA Nov’10 - Aug’11 Implementation Partners – CSC

Core SAP Modules used – SD/MM/SCM

Westinghouse Nuclear, part of the 125-year-old Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEC) is a multi-billion dollar company that provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry.

Working as a SAP ABAP Lead developer for W EC – SCM team, was involved in the following:

•Involved in Upgrades/New development of the various RICEFW objects for the SAP ECC 6.0 rollout.

•ETL Development of several objects involving WBS elements(CJ11/12), Purchasing Contracts (ME31K), Purchase Info Records (ME11) and Source Lists (ME01) for data loads between SAP 4.7 and 6.0, using BDC, BAPI, LSMW and traditional ABAP.

•Worked on several enhancements (CMOD/SMOD) for adding a new Customer Data Tab to Purchase Req. (ME51n) for incorporating several fields into EBAN Table.

•Developed and modified existing and new ALV reports, some for conversion purposes and others for end-users. Some of the reports are UOM conversion report, Vendor Analysis report and report for Open commitments in SCM.

•Used SAP SOLMAN and HP-QC extensively for audit control and defect management.

•Managed the entire off-shore SAP Team (from Argentina) for development and finally took over the entire work load from them.

Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant Justin Boots, Fort Worth, TX Aug ‘10 – Nov'10

Implementation Partners – None – In House

Justin Brands comprising of Justin Boots, Tony Lama, Nocona and Chippewa brand names is a 125-year-old Apparel and Footwear company, which is now owned by Berkshire Hathaway, managed by Warren Buffet. The company has been live on SAP since 1998 and is now on ECC

•and AFSV600.

Core SAP Modules used – SD/MM (OTC)

Working as a Sr.SAP ABAP developer for Justin, was involved in the following:

•Single handedly spearheaded the

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