Swathi Ramineni

Sr. SAP ABAP Techno Functional Consultant

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Summary

Over 12 years of experience as a Senior SAP ABAP Techno Functional Consultant with a blend of Technical and Functional knowledge of various business applications.

Experience in multiple SAP full lifecycle implementations and rollouts, from requirement gathering to analysis, Technical design, Implementation, testing, and post go-live support.

Good functional knowledge on various modules like SD, MM, FI-CO.

Lead POC effort in implementing SAP HANA solution by doing the static code analysis, Performance Analysis using tools like ATC, SQLM and SWLT.

Expertise on all aspects of ABAP RICEF Objects like Reports (Classical & Interactive), BDC, Transaction, Dialog Programming, SAP Scripts, Smart forms, User Exits, RFC, IDOC, ALE, EDI, BAPI and LSMW.

In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with understanding of various phases such as Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

Expertise in Debugging and Trouble shooting skills.

Extensively worked on Object Oriented Programming.

Worked on integrating SAP with other systems using EDI, ALE and RFC using IDOC and BAPI technology.

Extensive experience in IDOC Development, Mapping, Configuration, IDOC Extension, Testing and IDOC monitoring.

Extensively worked on SAP Integration with SAP PI for various Interfaces. Monitoring SAP PI/PO applications using SXMB_MONI.

Designed EDI Interfaces for Transactions 850, 855, 856 and 810. Developed Mapping documents for CAD and EDI X12.

Maintained logical system, ports, partner profiles, manipulated data in IDOC’s for customization, Analyzed and Solved errors

Coordinated with all the teams in developing the mapping layouts between ECC, PI, B2B and the Legacy Systems.

Worked with SAP Web IDE to develop simple reports using inbuilt templates using SAPUI5, SAP FIORI Launchpad, OData and SAP Net Weaver Gateway Service Builder.

Worked on Enhancements to enhance the standard SAP functionality using User Exits, Customer Exits, Enhancement points and BADI’s.

Worked on PANAYA Tool for SAP Upgrade projects and testing programs.

Expertise in Customization and Configuration of ABAP Data Dictionary.

Expertise in Data Conversions using LSMW and BDC.

Experience in developing custom applications using Dialog Programming.

Expertise in designing and developing custom layouts using SAP Scripts and Smartforms.

Comprehensively worked on Program Optimization and Performance Tuning using Tools such as SQL Trace and Runtime Analysis

Extensive experience in all phases of testing from integration, Unit, User acceptance and Regression Testing

Worked with Solution Manager for creating incidents and charm tickets to move transports.

Managed application developments and operations as single point of contact for on - site, offshore and Shared Services delivery models.

Worked on Virtual Forge for code remediation.

Good knowledge of Business process re-engineering concepts with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills:

Enterprise Software: SAP ECC 6.0, NW 7.4, 7.5.

Languages: ABAP, SQL Script

Operating Systems: Windows 7, 10.

Interfaces: ALE, EDI, IDOC, BAPI

Professional Experience:

Mercedes Benz USA, LLC, Atlanta, GA Aug’10- Present

SAP Techno Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked as an Onsite coordinator managing offshore team.

Coordinate with business partners to gather business requirements by attending meetings and discussions, finalize designs and perform technical analysis.

Recommended architectural improvements, design solutions and integration solutions.

Prepared High Level and Detail Technical Specifications.

Handled entire Development and Configuration for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms by developing technical aspects for SD, MM, FI modules.

Designed the High level and Detailed Design Technical Specifications for the Functional specifications.

Co-ordination with the offshore team for the development of various objects.

Developed various Interface using File, IDOC’s, EDI, ALE, BAPI.

Projects Overview:

Project Star Request is to automate the approval routing in the corporate business by interacting with people soft

to update the cost center managers on a daily basis.

Project CoFiCo, was to move the First+ SAP system of the Mercedes USA, to a global template for better visibility and consolidation in Germany. Data conversions were done from the original system to global template and leveraged to accommodate the US customization.

Lead POC effort in implementing SAP HANA solution using tools like ATC, SQLM and SWLT.

Implemented complete end to end Project P2P, Purchasing to Procurement process in FIORI using ODATA.

Custom apps for creating Purchase requisition, Purchase Orders, GR and Invoice have been created.

MM, SD and FI are the core modules in scope of these projects.

Project Nexus:

ALFA is a lease software that takes care of leases for Mercedes Benz Financial Services and they send AP Postings for Customer refunds and new business through PI. We used Standard IDOC’s to do the AP Postings (ACC_INVOICE_RECEIPT) and GL Postings (ACC_GL_POSTING) through PI.

Various customer exits in IDOC’s have been implemented to accommodate the custom requirements.

IDOC type ACC_INVOICE_RECEIPT03 was extend to accommodate custom requirement.

Project Esker:

Implemented Brazil AP Module by interfacing Esker to SAP using IDOCs.

IDOC FIDCCP02 was used to post in SAP. We have to extend the IDOC to accommodate the withholding tax functionality.

Implemented custom programs for Brazil Treasury Project to send bank data from SAP to Bank formatted files using FEBRABAN format.

Implemented several OSS Notes and customized programs for Mexico Electronic Accounting based on the Government requirements for compliance.

Project Misc. Billing:

The Miscellaneous Billing System is an enterprise web-based system designed for billing the customers. The system has been designed to speed up a process that involves about 20,000 Mercedes-Benz transactions a year.

The front end tool is connected to SAP as a backend using RFC Function modules.

Once, the “request” is submitted in the MBS system, it has to go through a series of approvals based on the dollar amount.

Once the approval chain is completed, it has to create a sales order in SAP.

A billing and accounting document will be created for the sales order through standard SAP process.

Developed a billing invoice form in SAP, so it can be sent as an official invoice to the dealers.

Project EDI:

Implemented entire cycle of OTC (Order to CASH) using Interfaces, Enhancements and Reports.

Assisted in Mapping the EDI to IDOC layouts.

Configured the Partner Profile for all new customers and handled with Message Control by developing new output type and condition records.

Created Inbound Sales Order IDOC using EDI 850- Inbound Sales Orders.

Extended ORDERS05 IDOC to add custom segments in order to send the custom details to the customer.

Developed the Customized Outbound IDOC’s for EDI 810 - Invoice

Extended INVOIC02 IDOC in order to populate the custom fields in the invoice.

Generated basic lists and Interactive Reports for information in Sales, Billing.

Project Cofico:

Mercedes is going to have a global template for all the countries for better visibility of their business and easy reporting. Currently Mercedes USA has its own SAP system called First+ and Germany is going to take over all the business in First+ to a global template called Cofico.

Developed several LSMW and conversion programs to move the data from First+ to Cofico Template.

Developed LSMW programs for Master data conversion for Cost Centers, GL Accounts, Customers, Vendors.

Project Concur:

Implemented Interfaces between Concur and SAP for Travel Expenses posting.

Implemented DIAS payroll in SAP interfacing with PeopleSoft via AXWAY.

Developed custom interface between SAP and HOV for sending the Check printing details.

Developed a dynamic custom program ZUPLOAD to park and post all type of postings in SAP through Excel (AP, GL, Assets) replacing Winshuttle tool.

Developed user interactive custom interface for BAI and MT940 Files for different banks.

Material and Supplier creation in SAP through Web Services:

Developed RFC’s to create a material in SAP through Web services using JAVA as the front end screen.

Developed RFC’s to create a supplier in SAP through Web services using JAVA as the front end screen, once created goes through a series of approvals to respective DM, Purchasing and AP and then gets created in SAP.

Reports:

Profit and Loss Report: Designed a Report to display the balances of each GL Account, by the year and the period specified.

Budget Report: Developed an ALV report with the entire budget details for a specific internal order based on the year and period specified.

Customer Aging Report: Developed a report to display all the accounting data based on the Customer number specified.

Developed Custom Reports to send dealers their monthly statements and their current month wholesale and retail activity for Cars. Vans and Smart Vehicles. Also, Quarterly a Dealer Performance report is sent to the dealers based on their customer satisfaction scores.

Vendor FI Report: This report is developed for displaying all the accounting information. It gives all the Open Items and Cleared Items in the list for a particular vendor specified.

Logistics Report: This is classic interactive report with tree functionality which displays data for each supplier at the highest level and the details of scheduling agreements of each supplier at the node level. This report also converts the output to PDF format and is emailed to the user.

Delivery Report: This Interactive ALV report gives all the details of the inbound, outbound deliveries and the shipments.

Enhancements:

Implemented user validation exits during FI postings to have and park and post restrictions based on user profile.

Implemented Vendor customer exit ZXF05U01 to automatically block the vendor when any changes are done.

Implemented Purchase order and Purchase requisition customer exits ZXM06U22, ZXM06U31 for determining the release strategy of the PR and PO according to the custom requirements. Implemented PO BADI ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST for populating custom fields.

Implemented BADI for Cost center creation and change to update the custom fields added in CSKS table.

Implemented customer Exit EXIT_SAPMM07M_001 for Goods Receipt to display a custom message.

Scripts:

Check Printing Changes: Changed the Check printing script to accommodate the custom requirements

Modified the Invoice Script to meet the Mercedes Benz standards.

PO Print Program Changes: Changed the print program for the Purchase Order Script is changed according to the custom requirement.

Custom Transaction for printing PO: A custom transaction is created to print PO any number of times the user wanted.

Module Pool Programming:

All Purchasing Reports: Developed a module pool program to accommodate all the purchasing reports on one screen which calls internally all the individual transactions.

Created a transaction with custom screens to individually process error postings for BAI and MTR940.

Created a consolidated screen to check all the interfaces coming into SAP and posting the documents to review the postings and edit the errors for posting manually.

FIORI:

Project P2P: Worked on Purchasing to Payment project by developing several ODATA services, integrating them with FIORI apps. Worked on SAP UI5 development in customizing the apps based on customer requirements.

Wire transfer App: Created a custom app to approve a wire transfer request. This was previously done in Lotus notes which was phased out.

JE App: Worked on Journal Entries App which is used extensively across the company by many departments to reallocate expenses.

Environment: NW 7.5, ECC 6.0, SAP HANA 2.0, MM, SD, FI, CO

Boston Scientific, Natick, MA Jul’09-Aug’10

Sr. SAP ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

Designed the High level and Detailed Design Technical Specifications for the Functional specifications.

Co-ordination with the offshore team for the development and testing of various objects.

Responsible for attending Status Tracking meetings during the testing cycle

Project Scope:

Project Unity is to leverage the SAP business process between CRM and BSC to have a common enterprise management and upgrade SAP version from SAP 4.7 to ECC 6.0. SCM and FI are the core modules in the scope of project. Project Harmony is implemented for European Operations Finance to handle the business in many European countries.

Interfaces:

Designed Interface for Puffing up inventory for Consignment Fill up and Pick up orders to support the BSC distribution model as Limited Buy and Sell. MBGMCR03 IDOC is created to post the GR across local entity.

Outbound Interface to EAI (Enterprise Application Integration): SAP will create a HR IDOC using change pointers whenever there is a change in the personnel record. Customer exit is implemented in order to restrict the creation of IDOC only for specific Sales Orgs.

Outbound Interface to GTS (Global Trade System): SAP creates IDOC when Vendor Master Data is created or changed using change pointers. CREMAS04 IDOC is extended to accommodate custom fields.

Sales Order Interface to GTS: When a Sales order is created or changed, it calls the GTS system providing a real-time monitoring and notification of potential denied party list violations for all customers, vendors. A BADI is implemented to control the GTS interface calls.

Handled entire configuration for the interfaces like partner profiles, output types, message types and distribution model.

Enhancements:

Intercompany pricing is carried out by configuring VOFM Pricing routines and Condition base value routine to make the necessary calculations and pricing conditions to be activated.

Implemented BADI for customizing the Batch Split functionality.

User exit USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE for sales order is used to restrict the foreign trade control for specific Sales Orgs.

User Exit USEREXIT_FILL_VBRK_VBRP is used at the invoice to make Tax calculations.

Reports:

Shipment History Report: Designed to display the shipment history based on the Deliveries, Customer, sales Org, post Goods Issue date and material.

BOM Comparison Report: This report will compare a material's BOM as of a user-defined date with the current, future, or previous cost estimate for that material.

Inventory Visibility Report: This report will be used to report inventory movements by selected manufacturing plant, key data element for financial and regulatory reporting.

FI Report for Open Balances: This report is used as part of the month end close process. Each Guidant company is required to reconcile Intercompany receivable positions held by that company to offsetting Intercompany payable positions held by other Guidant companies.

Scripts:

Invoice Forms: Designed scripts for invoice form for various languages.

Goods Return Form: A Goods Return Form is a document which allows for the return of items purchased outside of their country of origin.

Environment: SAP 4.7, ECC 6.0, SCM, FI and HR

Kraft Foods, Glenview, IL Mar’08- Jun’09 Sr. SAP ABAP/EDI Consultant

Responsibilities:

Analyze client requirements by attending meetings and discussions with client and team members and propose the required solutions.

Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggest options for good user experience and performance improvement.

Handled entire Development and Configuration for Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms by developing technical aspects for OTC, MTI, SD, MM, FI modules.

Designed the High level and Detailed Design Technical Specifications for the Functional specifications.

Co-ordination with the offshore team for the development of various objects.

Using Runtime Work Bench to monitor the object at each level like Message Monitoring, Component Monitoring, Performance Analysis, End-to-End Monitoring and Message Alerting.

Project Scope:

Project Catalyst is to enable the integration of business processes and systems to achieve greater global enterprise-wide efficiency. MM, SD, WMS and FI are the major modules implemented in the project.

Interfaces:

Designed EDI Interfaces for Transactions 856, 850, 810 and 882. Developed Mapping documents for CAD and EDI X12 4010, 4030 and 5010 Versions.

Coordinated with all the teams in developing the mapping layouts between ECC, XI, B2B and the Legacy Systems.

Extended INVOIC02 IDOC in order to populate the shipping information in the invoice.

Designed various interfaces using Proxy by using XI as the Middleware tool.

Outbound Delivery Interface to WMS (Warehouse Management System): ECC will create delivery notes with reference to customer Sales Orders/Stock Transport Orders and use this interface to send IDOCS to WMS using XI as the Middleware tool.

Outbound Order Interface to OTM (Order Transportation Management System):

ECC will create Orders and use this interface to send IDOCS to OTM through XI. VOFM Output Control Routine is used to control the triggering of output depending on the client requirements.

Inbound Delivery Confirmation from WMS: The WMS sends the Delivery confirmation to XI and an ABAP Proxy is called in ECC where the data is imported into DELVRY03 IDOC. Custom Process Code is developed to post the IDOC.

Inbound Time Phased Inventory to SCM/APO: Interface is designed to bring in two key values Recommended Receipts and Planned Production to support logic and configuration in the SCM module that supports the GATP process.

Worked with the various FTP tools like Core FTP and PUTTY to ftp the files from different legacy systems to SAP application servers and vice versa.

Conversions:

Vendor Master Conversion: Designed and developed LSMW program to load the Vendor master data along with the address details.

Material Master Conversion: Designed and developed LSMW program to load the material master data using IDOC method.

Custom Conversion program was designed and developed to upload partner profiles for EDI customers. Scheduling and Monitoring Batch Jobs.

Enhancements:

Implemented IDOC Customer-Exits in Function Modules IDOC_INPUT_ORDERS, IDOC_INPUT_REQOTE, IDOC_OUTPUT_DELVRY and IDOC_OUTPUT_INVOIC to support the customization in EDI Interfaces.

Enhance Sales Order Screen: Custom Fields are added in one of the Tab in Sales Order Screen. Validation of the fields and save in the database are done in User Exits USEREXIT_SAVE_DOCUMENT_PREPARE in MV45AFZZ.

Configured new VOFM routines like Copy requirement, Data Transfer, Output Control Routines.

Designed new Tab in Sales Order Screen to accommodate the custom fields to support the business of the client using Module Pool programming.

Worked with the BADI ME_GUI_PO_CUST to add the extra fields in the ME21N (Purchase Order) screen to save the data for custom fields like ship date, method of ship, method of load etc.

Reports:

Price Comparison Report: Designed an ALV report to view if there are any differences between net prices of materials in the sales orders maintained in the system to the customer expected price set in through EDI.

Vendor Change Report: This report is to list out all the vendors created, changed and deleted in a given period of time.

Performance Analysis:

Carried out Performance Analysis, SQL Trace and Performance Tuning for long running production programs.

Environment: ECC 6.0, OTC, MTI, SCM and WMS

Education:

Master of Engineering – Computer Science and Networks

McNeese state University, Louisiana- 2007

Bachelor of Engineering- Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India.- 2006

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