Professional Summary:
I am having over ** years of experience in SAP ERP implementations, Support and Data Migration Projects including over 2 year of Production Planning Functional Experience. I am Proficient in working on SAP MM, PP, WM, OTC and RTR modules.
I worked as technical consultant in several Full Software Development Life Cycle in Data Migration projects. I am part of requirement analysis, developing technical specifications, Coding, Testing and deployment.
I have strong skill in data migration projects includes data extraction, transformation, data cleansing, uploading data, discussing with business teams.
I am having very good knowledge in SDLC processes, Production Support, SLA’s, RCA etc... Worked extensively on tools like Remedy for incident Management and HPQC/HP ALM/JIRA for defects/enhancements.
Business/Operations team communication, identifying the potential issues, arranging the meeting(s)
Currently I am working on a huge data migration and Development project as Production planning Techno functional consultant at Tarkett (Carpet Company) Inc.
Technical Skills:
ERP : SAP R/3 3.1H, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7 Enterprise, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
ETL/Data Migration : LSMW, IDOC’s, BAPI/RFC’s and IBM Data Stage,
Languages : SAP ABAP/4
Database : MS-Access, Oracle.
WEB Technologies : HTML, Scripting and XML
Operating Systems : Windows.
ABAP Programming Techniques :
Extensively worked on Data Migration Projects, data cleansing activities, worked with Business teams for data Validation activities, LSMW Projects Development, IDOC’s, Testing, Cutover support
Develop data migration approach and strategies as per requirements
Drive data migration strategy and process to enable quality data delivered without any delay
Advice and assist in data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data consolidation, data loading and data reconciliation
Provide guidance to the controls and compliance procedures based on the organizations’ global standard requirements
Provide weekly report updates
Migrate multiple legacy systems to SAP 4.6/SAP ECC for master data and transaction data
In depth and hands-on development experience of using SAP ABAP and workbench tools across all areas of SAP (FI,CO, SD, MM, PP, QM, PM and SM)
Design and develop data conversion programs using conventional ABAP and LSMW
Proficient in LSMW, ABAP, IDOC, BAPI, batch input, direct input, SQL queries, Access, Excel tools to upload/convert data to SAP
Excellent hands on in Excel application for data validations activities during cut over periods
SAP ODATA services, RFC developments
SAP Production Planning Functional Project experience :
Excellent working knowledge of BOM, Routing, Production versions and other concepts of Production Planning
How legacy system CAMS have these production data and how to map them in SAP
Fit Gap analysis on how CAMS data can be mapped in SAP and to ensure the downstream operations without impact
Writing functional specifications and Conversion routines for CAMS to SAP data migration
Build SAP objects to migrate CAMS PP master data to SAP
Working with Business team(s) at the plant to understand the requirement, issues
Custom solutioning in Planned order creation and production order creation
Designing the shop floor paper based on the different plants, different business processes
Training the users, supervisors with the SAP execution flow at the plant
Define and developed Custom production order confirmation process at Yarn Mill
Post production support
Process wise:
Excellent working experience on SDLC process, process adherences, quality guidelines, code review process, UTP and Documentation reviews
Excellent working experience in Production Support/AMS process, SLA guidelines, RCA.
Excellent working experience of Post production support(Hyper-care), quick responses, identifying the critical issues, Grouping the change requests for future release(s) based on business impact/complexity of change
Expertise in understanding the business requirements & converting them into Technical specifications. Highly experienced in understanding/identifying business impact and addressing in the design
Having good understanding in ETL (Extract, Transformation and Loading) technique with IBM DataStage tool and SAP Business Objects Data Services (BODS)
I have gained a solid knowledge and hands-on experience in modeling, extracting data, and reporting.
Experienced in writing up development requests, draw program logical flow diagrams (using MS Visio), and test scripts for custom programs, reports & enhancements.
End User training, Supporting users in UAT, preparing documents, flows for Production Planning operations on the floor.
Clients Worked:
Tarkett Inc.
FreshDirect
Estée Lauder Companies
DHL
KONE Inc.
Ticketmaster
Chevron
ADC
Hospira Life Sciences
Intelligroup Inc.
Marubeni Corporation
Educational Qualifications:
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A)
Achievements
Recceived Star performance award from FreshDirect in 2017
Received Appreciation from the Client “Estee Lauder” for the outstanding performance in the Project
Received “Gold Medal certificate” 2 times from Chevron
Received Appreciation from Accenture Management, Singapore
Received appreciation from the Client “Hospira”
Received Excellence and Eminence Award
PROJECT Experience:
Client
Tarkett Inc., Dalton, GA
Role
SAP Techno Functional Consultant
Duration
Sept 2018 to Till Date
SAP System
SAP ECC 6.0 (legacy CAMS)
Module
MM and PP
About Client :
Founded in 1880, Tarkett(headquater in France) is a worldwide leader in innovative flooring and sports surface solutions, with net sales of more than €2.8 billion in 2018. Offering a wide range of products including vinyl, linoleum, rubber, carpet, wood and laminate flooring, artificial turf and athletics tracks, the Group serves customers in over 100 countries across the globe. Tarkett has 36 industrial sites, and sells 1.3 million square meters of flooring every day, for hospitals, schools, housing, hotels, offices, stores and sports fields. Committed to “Doing Good. Together.”, the Group has implemented an eco-innovation strategy based on Cradle to Cradle® principles and promotes circular economy, with the ultimate goal of contributing to people’s health and wellbeing, and preserving natural capital.
About Project: Tarkett acquired Tandus Centiva located in Dalton, GA in 2018. Tandus Centiva carpet business is on CAMS System. This Stratiss Project is to migrate entire system to Tarkett Global SAP System. Scope includes migration of master data, transactional data, several cleansing activities, enhancements, process improvements are in scope of this 18 month migration project. Total 250 migration objects are in scope (including automatic,semi-automatic, manaul, transformation relavent etc..).
Roles & Responsibilities:
Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data.
Develop several LSMW, Custom and BAPI programs to load the cleansed data to SAP
Validate the data after loading to SAP and discuss with business for data sign off
Interacted with the business regularly to understand the requirements, fill the gaps, providing the solutioning in SAP
Enhacing the SAP standard functionality to create Yarn Mill Planned and Production Orders when Tuft Planned/production orders are created either from SAP or OMP+
Define the Shop floor paper for Yarn Mill to have all information required for the user to execute the order
Define custom tables for scrap quantities, TPI and PLY etc.. to get the correct cone sizes at Yarn Mill
Develop validation programs/reports to cross check all the data before and after the data loading
Unit testing, defect resolutions
Review the developments that were developed by the team members
Proactively identify project risks and create feasible solutions. Escalate cross-functional issues
Data extractions, transformations, loading using different Tools
Client
FreshDirect LLC, Long Island City, New York, USA
Role
Senior Consultant ABAP
Duration
June 2015 – Sept 2018
SAP System
SAP ECC 6.0
Module
MM, PP
About Client :
FreshDirect is an online grocer that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area and part of Tri-state locations. FreshDirect uses SAP software to process thousands of orders placed on its website. Project work includes data migration of master and transaction data from legacy systems to SAP and WMS Manhattan Associates systems. During Inbound to SAP, data comes from Legacy systems both master data (example: material master, customer and vendor master), transactional data (customer orders, purchase orders, Production and planned orders, forecast, invoices etc..). Though SAP is the main system for FreshDirect, there is also another WMS system Manhattan associates. To function this WMS activities from this different system, some of the master data to be sent from SAP to WMS (like material master basic, alternate units, delivery, Purchase orders etc…).
Roles & Responsibilities:
Purchase Order Update Project web Applications using ODATA/RFC backend services
oSeveral ODATA services were built for different services like PO search, PO Detail, PO Conditions, Vendor search etc…
oBackend RFC were built to prepare the data as per the business logic and send it to ODATA service
oBuilt different RFC services to update the purchase orders triggered from User from portal
Responsible for data migration and conversion activities such as extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data.
Interacted with the business regularly
Develop validation programs/reports to cross check all the data before and after the data loading
Review the developments that were developed by the team members
Proactively identify project risks and create feasible solutions. Escalate cross-functional issues
Developed several LSMW programs for master data upload including custom validations
Data extractions, transformations, loading using different Tools
Few development objects – for master data:
oMaterial master different views data upload
oCustomer master and vendor master
oBOM data upload
oRouting data upload
oWork Center data upload
oForecast data upload
Client
Estée Lauder Companies, Long Island, New York, USA
Role
Senior Consultant
Duration
April 2012 - May 2015
SAP System
ECC 6.0, SRM 5.0, DWM
Module
OTC,R2R, MM, FI, DWM,SD
About Client :
Estée Lauder founded this company in 1946 armed with four products and an unshakable belief: that every woman can be beautiful. Today, more than 60 years later, that simple notion has literally changed the face of the beauty business. Estée Lauder Data migration project implementation using RDS approach using BODS tool.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Being part of Data Migration Team, I was taking care of extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data from different legacy systems using SAP RDS Approach
Developed several LSMW, BDC, BAPI programs to load data to SAP
IDOC interfaces for master and transaction data
Validate the data after loading and get the business team sign off
Interacted with the business regularly to discuss open issues/improvement areas
Develop validation programs/reports to cross check all the data before and after the data loading
Review the developments that were developed by the team members
Developed several LSMW programs for master data upload for cutover activities, including data validations in LSMW
Provided advise and guidance to the business team regarding extraction of data, cleaning, data mapping and consolidation.
Taking care of Recordings of the transactions that are required for LSMW objects
Developed LSMW objects for master data upload during cutover activities
Developed reusable code components that are required for project common requirements
Experience in IDoc Monitoring/fixes
Client
DHL
Role
Senior Consultant
Duration
March 2011 to April 2012
SAP System
ECC 6.0, SAP TM 9.0
Module
TM, FICA, RTR, OTC
Technologies worked
Data Migration to ECC
About Client :
DHL is Part of the World's Leading Logistics Group, Deutsche Post DHL. DHL offers integrated services and tailored, customer-focused solutions for managing and transporting letters, goods and information. DHL's international network links more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. DHL also offers unparalleled expertise in express, air and ocean freight, overland transport, contract logistics solutions as well as international mail services.
The overall objective of this project is to assist DHL with Executive and Leadership alignment in defining the key decision drivers that will bring value to the DHL business and then enable the desired Business Transformation and associated ERP, CRM, Transportation Management. DHL NFE is the Project name that is drives the rollout of the SAP in multiple countries in phased manner.
Roles & Responsibilities:
I am part of extracting, transforming, migrating, validating and reconciliation of data from different legacy systems.
Developed LSMW, BDC, BAPI, IDOC to load the data to SAP
Validate the data after loading and get the business team sign off
Interacted with the business regularly to discuss open issues/improvement areas
Develop validation programs/reports to cross check all the data before and after the data loading
Review the developments that were developed by the team members.
Client
KONE Inc.
Role
Senior Consultant and Team Lead
Duration
January 2010 to February 2011
SAP System
4.7 Enterprise and ECC 6.0 versions
Module
SD, MM, PM and FI
About Client :
KONE is one of the world’s leading elevator and escalator companies. It provides its customers with industry-leading elevators and escalators and with innovative solutions for their maintenance and modernization. KONE also provides maintenance of automatic building doors.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Understanding of the Business Requirements, Preparations of Technical specification, Development, Unit Testing, Delivery of the objects.
Part of review team for code and process reviews
Communicating with the client to discuss the requirements, open issues and process improvements
Developed smartforms for Customer Dunning letter
Developed Smartforms for customer notifications and email functionality
Enhanced Several complex reports with new requirements
Implemented OSS Notes
Implemented BAdI’s for customer enhancements
Screen BADI enhancement for standard transactions to accommodate new custom fields
Developed transactions for customer specific requirements in module pool programming approach
Developed RF transactions for customer specific requirements
IDOC’s errors analysis and reprocessing with corrected data.
IDOC’s enhancement for Vendor Master data
IDOC’s Extension for material master data
IDOC’s enhancement for Shipment
Client
Ticketmaster
Role
ABAP Consultant
Duration
April 2008 to January 2010
SAP System
ECC 6.0 and SRM 5.0
Module
ICM, SRM and FI
About Client :
Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, operating in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales, ticket resale services, marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; Approximately 6,500 retail outlets; and 20 worldwide call centers. Ticketmaster celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006 and currently serves more than 9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing exclusive ticketing services for hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, museums, and theaters. In 2006, the company sold more than 128 million tickets valued at over $7 billion on behalf of its clients. Ticketmaster is headquartered in West Hollywood, California and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Understanding of the Business Requirements, Preparations of Technical specification, Development, Unit Testing, Delivery of the objects.
Part of review team for code and process reviews
Communicating with the client to discuss the requirements, open issues and process improvements
Involved in Support issues, new enhancements and maintenance
Enhanced and developed the different types of layouts and reports
Developed user-exit for user status change in Quotation approval
Developed smartforms for customer notifications
Developed several reusable code components
Client
Chevron
Project
“Project Olympic” Implementation/Data Migration Team
Role
Senior Consultant
Duration
November 2006 to Apr 2008
SAP System
4.7 Enterprise version, IBM DataStage
Module
PP, MM
About Client :
Chevron is the second largest integrated energy company in the United States and one of the largest in the world. They conduct business activities in approximately 180 countries and have over 47,000 employees worldwide. Chevron has sales and other operating revenues of over $150 billion. For the Downstream part of their business, Chevron has restructured from a regional orientation to a global, functional organization.
For the Downstream business (Refining through Retail stations), Chevron has gone to a global orientation. In order to achieve this, they are standardizing their business process and underlying IT infrastructure to truly operate as a global business. The foundation for this transformation is a global SAP system for Downstream that will house the standard processes under one SAP system. Accenture has been asked to partner with Chevron to implement this new system for both the design and implementation portions of the project, called “Project Olympic”.
About Project “Olympic”:
Intension of the “Project Olympic” is, integrating the current different SAP systems (Asia, Africa regions) into one global SAP system for its worldwide operations.
Roles & Responsibilities:
I am part of Data conversion & integration team and leading a team of 6.
Converting Functional specification to ETL Technical specifications and also into SAP technical specifications
Validating the output files from the ETL and Sending out to the user/business team for data cleansing
Meeting the end users to facilitate the process of Data cleansing effectively.
Validating the upload program and confirming the same to the user/business team.
Providing demo to the users on the approach of 100% data cleansing and also process of cycles and landscape in the Project.
Coordinating with the BI team for the extraction of Sales History data by using ETL technique (IBM Data Stage) and W/O cleansing the data by mapping it to the R3 system for the Mater data validations.
Participated in Integration Testing.
Providing the Unit test code data to the ABAP team and coordinating with the Business on the technical approach.
Part of process improvement forums to achieve better results
Client
Hospira Life sciences
Role
Senior Developer
Duration
December 2004 to October 2006
SAP System
4.6C, ECC5.0 versions
Module
SD, MM and SCM Execution
About Client :
Hospira is a specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery launched from the core global hospital products business of Abbott Laboratories. Hospira is a leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of medication delivery systems, specialty injectable pharmaceuticals and critical care devices, as well as custom manufacturing services. Among one of the largest manufacturers of hospital products in the United States and it has 15 manufacturing units worldwide.
I joined in the project as Developer and became senior developer and Lead for SCM execution team. I got the appreciation from the client, for delivering one of the Tedious Object without any issues within the given time for the last go-live.
Responsibilities:
Converting Functional specification to the Technical specifications
Coding & testing
Code walk thru for other programs
Preparing project weekly/monthly reports
Updating Project Management tool for the objects, as part of the process initiatives.
Work includes developing of several reports, interfaces & modifications to already developed objects (reports & scripts) & adding new functionality to the developed objects. Currently I am part of SCM Execution team. I also participated in the Upgrade team of Hospira from SAP version 4.6C to ECC5.0.
Roles as part of ECC 5.0 Upgrade Team:
This is an Upgrade from 4.6 Version to ECC 5.0. The work includes finding obsolete statements in the current version & replacing them with ECC supported statements and making all the programs Unicode enabled.
•.Developing code according to new version.
•.Optimized and analyzed ABAP code.
•.Tested and documented ABAP code.
•.Quality assurance and Delivery.
•.For each development class made a list of customer reports, i .e Z programs, verifying the standard reports and list of all customer programs.
•.Verifying the syntax for each customer program and generated.
•.Unicode enabled the custom programs.
•.Comparing the standard transactions with the old version and new versions accordingly modified with the screen flows.
•.Checking the syntax error and use OSS for error of function modules.
•.Verify the Sap scripts and checking the Interfaces with the screen flows with the respective Transactions.
Creating and transporting the Change Requests for all the changed objects.
Roles as part of Development Team
Purchase order creation using BAPI from the legacy input files.
Developed layouts for Pick list for the Japan & Australia. Copied existing layout & made changes as per the Country specific requirements.
Mail sending program which sends mail to the given recipients with the given Delivery details as an Excel attachment when ever user selects the specific output type for a Delivery.
Identified & implemented the appropriate User Enhancement (BADI) which would enable modification of Procurement priority value based on Purchase info record or Purchase order when it’s being transferred from R/3 to APO.
Developed several LSMW objects for Material master creation/change & MRP data & Vendor master data upload into SAP.
Developed an Interactive ALV report in APO which will allow the user to modify/delete/display records of Closed Work order history details by validating the user authorizations.
Developed the RF transactions for Hand held devices used by Hospira Warehouse personal, for the below business requirements…
Bin to Bin: The system shall allow the user to move any material/quantity from one bin to another bin within the same warehouse.
Storage Location to Storage Location: The system shall allow the user to move any material/quantity from one storage location to another storage location.
Apart from the above, also developed several Z programs to fulfill Customer requirements in SCM planning, SCM Execution, SD & MM modules
Client
ADC
Role
Senior Developer
Duration
August 2006 to October 2006
SAP System
4.6C and ECC 5.0 versions
Module
SD and MM
About Client :
ADC is primarily a telecom company. ADC services are, providing supplying network equipment, software solutions, and integration services for broadband, multi service networks that deliver data, video, and voice communications over telephone, cable television, Internet, broadcast, wireless, and enterprise networks etc…
Responsibilities:
This is an Upgrade from 4.6C Version to ECC 5.0. The work includes finding obsolete statements in the current version & replacing them with ECC supported statements and making all the programs Unicode enabled.
•.Developing code according to new version.
•.Optimized and analyzed ABAP code.
•.Tested and documented ABAP code.
•.Quality assurance and Delivery.
•.For each development class made a list of customer reports, i .e Z programs, verifying the standard reports and list of all customer programs.
•.Verifying the syntax for each customer program and generated.
•.Unicode enabled the custom programs.
Creating and transporting the Change Requests for all the changed objects.
Client
Intelligroup Inc.,
Role
ABAP Developer
Duration
September 2004 to November 2004
SAP System
4.7 Enterprise Version
Module
SD, MM and FI
About Client:
Intelligroup Inc. NJ along with its subsidiaries Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd., and Empower solutions implemented SAP in the modules of SD, MM, FI and HR.
Responsibilities:
Worked as ABAP Developer, using SAP R/3 4.7. This is a project implementing by Intelligroup as In-house Project in SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise Edition & supporting for 3 company codes. Work includes fixing of bugs to the developed objects (reports & scripts) & adding new functionality to the developed objects.
Client
Marubeni Corporation
Role
ABAP Developer
Duration
April 2004 to August 2004
SAP System
3.1H and 4.7 Enterprise versions
Module
SD and MM
About Client :
Marubeni is a trading company located at Tokyo, Japan. It was established on 1858 & at January 1972 it changed to Marubeni Corporation. It’s an Upgrade Project from SAP R/3 3.1H – 4.7 Enterprise version.
Responsibilities:
Finding out the BDC’s flow of the existing program & checking the same in the new SAP 4.7 enterprise version & done the changes if required.
Finding out the associated BAPI function module for the existing BDC’s method & replacing them with BAPI’s.
coding and analysis of ABAP and Function Modules for version 4.7 in the modules of Sales & Distribution (SD) and Material Management (MM)
Testing the objects & checking its flow with the old 3.1H version.
Documenting all the scenarios/test cases.