Sap Developer

Executive Summary

Professional experience of **+ years in SAP

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Comprehensive understanding of business processes in various industries include Manufacturing, Pharma, Aviation, Oil and Gas and Retail

Experience in administering project delivery activities such as tracking, documentation, change & delivery management

Experience in coordinating internal/external parties for successful results

Good analytical skills supported with Strong communication, presentation, team player and team leader skills

Quick adaptability to new technologies

SAP Experience

Extensively Experienced in:

oArchitecting Integration solutions using XI/PI/PO.

oSetting up the XI/PI landscape for global implementation projects.

oPerforming Configuration and Administration activities along with building complex integration scenarios for various clients.

oImplementing SOA architecture in PI

oEnterprise Portals, ABAP, Java, and legacy systems.

oIntegrating various systems: SAP, nonSAP, Database, JMS, MDM, BW/BI .Net applications with PI/PO.

oBuilding complex Integration scenarios using BPM

oPerformance tuning PI/PO systems

oArchiving infrastructure for PI/PO messages

oVarious PI transport mechanisms – CMS, CTS+

oSeeburger adapters For EDI Communication

Excellent knowledge of SAP NetWeaver that includes XI, Enterprise Portals, Knowledge Management and Collaboration.

Knowledge of PCK, XML, SOAP, XSLT, WSDL, XSD

Expertise in using industry XML standards – cXML, HR-XML,pAPINET and ACORD (Insurance Standard).

Excellent Java background and knowledge of OO concepts, J2EE concepts

Adapter module development

Expert in all kinds of Mapping Techniques – Java, ABAP, XSLT, Message Mapping.

Paper and Retail Industry standard XSDs (NAXML) creation.

Configuration of the connection between centralized and decentralized adapter framework

Technical Skills

SAP Enterprise Application : R/3 4.5x, 4.6c, 4.7,ECC5.0 and ECC 6.0

SAP Netweaver: SAP PO7.4,PI7.1,PI 7.0,XI 3.0, JCO, UDDI, WSDL

Programming Languages: Java, ABAP/4, C, PL/SQL

Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, Java Beans, JDBC, HTML, CSS.

XML, BSP, PDK, JNDI, RMI, LDAP, SOAP

Application/Web Server: Web Logic 7.0/8.0, Apache Tomcat 4.x/5.0, SAP Web Application Server (WAS)

Databases: Oracle (8i, 9i), SQL Server 7.0

Operating Systems: Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95 and MS-Dos.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aug 16 - Present: WestRock (MeadWestvaco Corp), Richmond, VA

Mar 16 - Aug 16: Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA

Apr 10 - Feb 16: WestRock (MeadWestvaco Corp), Richmond, VA

Aug 08 - Apr 10: AstraZeneca Wilmington, DE

May 07 – July 08: DHL, Scottsdale, AZ

May 06 - April 07: Tesoro Petroleum, San Antonio, TX.

March 05 –April 06: Deere And Company.

Apr 04 – Feb 05: International Trucks & Engines, Fort Wayne, IN

Aug 03 - Apr 04: Nissan Motor Corporation, Gardena, CA.

Oct 01 – July 03: SITA INC. Atlanta, GA.

Industry Experience:

Manufacturing and Logistics

Pharmaceuticals

Oil Refinery

Aviation

SAP Project Experience:

PROJECT

Client : MeadWestvaco (WestRock), Richmond, VA

Project : SAP Implementation/Projects

Duration : Aug 2016 to Present

Role : SAP PI Lead

Environment : PI 7.0, 7.1, PO 7.4 and ECC 6.0

WestRock is a global packaging company. They help in shaping the consumers’ experiences with products in healthcare, beauty & personal care, food, beverage, tobacco, and home & garden markets around the world. They have been the pioneers in the industry for more than 150 years. Their market insights, innovative solutions and packaging expertise make them a partner of choice for customers who want to grow their business. WESTROCK makes sure their impact reaches from the store shelf to the kitchen pantry and everywhere in between.

Apart from the packaging they operate additional businesses that fit their strategy and drive maximum value for the shareholders, including Specialty Chemicals and the Community Development and Land Management Group. They have operating facilities in 30 countries and their products are marketed on every continent.

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

AMS Support and Projects:

This is support project which include all SAP FI, LE, SD, MM, PP, BW and APO modules. WestRock has many third-party systems for their manufacturing mills and Warehouses

PI is main middleware to integrate SAP and non-SAP systems such as Optivision, Visitrack, BPCS, Manhattan’s Transport system and many other customer EDI systems

There are around 300 integration scenarios in SAP PI

Responsible for SAP PI and PO systems maintenance and support

Monitoring the system and notify Business on any failures in end to end integration.

Make sure business critical interfaces run uninterruptedly and fix technical issues on the fly.

Designed and Configure alerts for all business critical and Customer related Interfaces

Monitoring Queues, Adapter engine, Integration engine and Alerts.

System Outage support which includes, notifying business partners, stopping, starting the channels, clearing the queues and send failure or backlog messages.

Supporting Seeburger add on tool for all EDI scenarios(EDI ANSI stds 304,417,418 810,824,850,855,856,940,944,945 and 997 )

Developed EDI Integration Interfaces for FI, PP, APO and LE modules.

Worked on a POC on SAP B2B add on for replacement of Seeburger with SAP B2B add on

PROJECT

Client : Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA

Project : SAP Implementation

Duration : Mar 2016 to Aug 2016

Role : SAP PI Lead

Environment : PO 7.4 and ECC 6.0

Delta Air Lines, Inc., often referred to simply as Delta, is a major United States airline, with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Project: Horizon

It is an SAP HR Implementation project for All HR modules. As part of this project, Delta has to implement solution for their all HR functionalities from Legacy systems to SAP.

This project is implemented in cloud environment, SAP ECC HR, SAP PO both are in cloud.

AS a PI lead/consultant

Recommend Solutions to business needs

Overall responsibility for delivery of PI Objects

Finalizing the solution design and architecture with Delta team

Converts business/functional requirements into architectural designs, technical specifications and test plans in accordance with established service level and documentation standards

Co-ordinate with Delta Project team to ensure that the solution design is in line with the business requirements

Built new enterprise service repository (ESR) and Integration Directory objects and modifies existing ones

Developed Interfaces between SAP and SuccessFactors system, Third party systems by using communication methods Proxy,JMS adapter and SFSF adapters.

Monitor to process improvements for PI interface maintenance and production support

PROJECT

Client : MeadWestvaco (WestRock), Richmond, VA

Project : SAP Implementation/Projects

Duration : April 2010 to Feb 2016

Role : SAP PI Lead

Environment : PI 7.0, 7.1, PO 7.4 and ECC 6.0

WESTROCK is a global packaging company. They help in shaping the consumers’ experiences with products in healthcare, beauty & personal care, food, beverage, tobacco, and home & garden markets around the world. They have been the pioneers in the industry for more than 150 years. Their market insights, innovative solutions and packaging expertise make them a partner of choice for customers who want to grow their business. WESTROCK makes sure their impact reaches from the store shelf to the kitchen pantry and everywhere in between.

Apart from the packaging they operate additional businesses that fit their strategy and drive maximum value for the shareholders, including Specialty Chemicals and the Community Development and Land Management Group. They have operating facilities in 30 countries and their products are marketed on every continent.

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Carolina EDI project

WestRock has acquired the Carolina brand business from International Paper. The management and manufacturing of that product moves over to WestRock. As part of this project WestRock needs to be prepared to service the Carolina brand trading partners currently set-up as EDI trading partners with IP

Responsible for Integration part of the project

Requirement gathering, Design and Developed multiple maps for EDI solution using SAP PI and Seeburger add on

Designed alerts

Helped AMS team to resolve business critical issues

Go-live support

TMS Implementation

TMS (Transportation Management system) Implement and replace the current TLM In-house system with Manhattan Associates’s SaaS model for WESTROCK PBO and Specialty Chemical Divisions.

PI Lead for a team of 4 to integrate SAP with TMS system. This project required setting up a new SAP PO box.

Analyzed existing interfaces and provided an efficient design to integrate two different SAP ECC instances work with TMS in SaaS model. This project was the 1st SaaS model implementation for the client.

As part of PI development

Configured the new PI7.4 box after installation

Gathered requirement from multiple parties (WESTROCK business team, Manhattan Associates and Other third-party vendors)

Designed and developed Interfaces between SAP and TMS using PI 7.4 JAVA IDOC adapter, RFC and JM adapters

Designed alerts to notify Business about critical failures

EDI Consolidation project

PI lead

Setup warehouse EDI suite (EDI 856, 944, 940, 945) for four warehouses

oDeveloped re-usable interfaces for above ANSI EDI messages

oDeveloped BIC maps using Seeburger.

Setup customer EDI suite (EDI 850, EDI 855, EDI 856, EDI 810, PO, POA, DESADV, Invoice {EDIFACT & papiNet}) for 3 customers.

oDeveloped re-usable interfaces for above EDIFACT, papiNet messages

Developed interfaces for HR payroll for various vendors, Master data, Payroll comparing and Travel expense Credit card re-imbursement

Developed interface between SAP and KRONOS for Blue employees time evaluation

Developed interface between SAP and KENEX for new hire employees to send Job code

Provided day to day support for business processes

SAP Implementation

It is an SAP roll out project, client has 3 plants, one of the plants has gone live with SAP in 2009 and this project is rolling out the solution to remaining 2 plants

SAP PI Architect and lead responsible for overall PI deliverables

Lead a team of 2 on-site and 6 off-shore PI developers.

Worked with external Customers, Freight forwarders and third-party warehouses to setup connectivity.

FS review, TS creation and code validation developed by team members

Developed the integration scenarios between SAP and non SAP systems which includes OPTIVISION, VISITRACK and Client’s customer applications.

Developed the integration scenarios for SD, LE HR and FI Modules

Designed Complex interfaces in PI and Seeburger

Developed integration scenarios for EDI 304,417,418,850,855,856,810,940,944 and 945 transactions

Worked on Seeburger BICMD to develop custom bic maps

Designed many AS2 integrations with client’s customers using PI and Seeburger

Prepared Help/KT documents for smooth transition to the support team

PROJECT

Client : AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE

Project : ePedigree

Duration : Aug 08 to Apr 10

Role : XI Administrator/Developer and Support for SAP Bolt-Ons

Environment : XI 7.0/PI and ECC 6.0

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

As the sole PI resource for this project, I have completed following tasks

Active participation in PI Installation on all systems (Dev, QA, Test and Prod)

Performed post installation activities.

Active participation in Configuring CTS+ (Enhanced CTS)

Built XI landscape from scratch

Performed Initial Configuration of PI system to start development on all systems (Dev, QA, Test and Prod)

Configured and maintained SLD

Performed Readiness Check

Configured End to End Monitoring, Alert Monitoring and CCMS

Configured Data Suppliers and Integration of Business Systems

Imported Auto-ID repository content and extended the data types according to the requirement

Developed Integration Scenario (using BPM) for pushing the Dispatch Delivery Notification from SAP to a third party, this is used to prepare ePedigree document

Developed XSLT Mapping Programs

Performed Delivery Processing Configuration in R/3

Performed Daily Admin Checks

Prepared Interface naming standards

Prepared KT Documentation and provided Go-Live Support

Prepared documentation of PI Initial Configuration and Development

I also had Support and Maintenance role for following SAP Bolt-Ons

HPOMS (HP Output Management Solutions)

PlOSSYS

Vertex

IXOS

GSW

PROJECT

Client : DHL, Scottsdale, AZ

Project : Small Projects

Duration : May 07 to July 08

Role : XI Developer

Environment : XI 7.0/PI and ECC 6.0

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Developed Interface strategy Document for client.

Performed/Configured administration activities

Developed Integration Scenarios for posting accounting documents in SAP FICO.

Developed ABAP proxies for posting accounting and payroll data.

Involved in the Business and Technical Architecture

Worked with clients to define strategies to restrict/limit development collision by namespace, software component version (SWCV), and imports of RFCs and IDOCs into SAP XI for SAP R/3

PROJECT

Client : Tesoro Petroleum, San Antonio, TX

Duration : May 06 to Apr 07

Role : XI Developer

Environment : XI 3.0, PI and ECC 5.0

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

During this period I involved in development of multiple Integration scenarios

File-to- Jdbc-to-File

File-to-Mail

SOAP-to-RFC

SOAP-to-IDOC

File-to-Proxy

File-to-IDOC

File-to-RFC

PROJECT

Client : Deere And Company.

Duration : March 05 – April 06

Role : XI Developer

PROJECT

Client : International Trucks & Engines, Fort Wayne, IN

Duration : Apr 04 – Feb 05

Role : ABAP/XI Developer

PROJECT

Client : Nissan Motor Corporation, Gardena, CA

Duration : Aug 03 – Apr 04

Role : ABAP Developer

PROJECT

Client : SITA INC. Atlanta, GA

Duration : Oct 01 – July 03

Role : Java/J2EE Consultant

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