Sap Analyst

Srividhya Padmanabhan

Email: adglng@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 904-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/srividhya-padmanabhan-060457a0

Senior SAP Technical Architect with functional experience and 20 years of proven expertise in SAP ABAP, PI, Basis support, HANA and SAP Order to Cash. Strong SAP service Delivery Analyst leading the outsourcing partner providing clear recommendations to the business/IT from design to implementation. Excellent communication with Analytical and interpersonal Skills. Easily adaptable to changing job environments, capable of working independently, good vendor liaison skills, excellent team player and self-motivated quick learner. Looking forward to adding value to the IT organization through leadership and strategic thinking.

SKILLS

●Expertise in various areas of ABAP including Reports, Smartforms, SAPScripts, Customer enhancements, ALV, BADI, user exits, OOPS, Interfaces, ECC/PI setup, ALE, IDOC, RFC, BAPI, Data Migration (BDC/LSMW), workflow, Data Dictionary, Adobe forms etc. Expert in troubleshooting and problem solving in ABAP across all modules of SAP. Well versed in ASAP methodology and in all phases of SAP Project implementations.

●Expertise in SAP Net weaver PI to set up interfaces from SAP ECC to non-SAP third party applications. Managed the PI Consolidation project by being the technical lead to combine 2 PI systems after company Merger.

●Experienced with set up of SAP systems ECC, PI/ others after HANA Upgrade and code optimization to suit the HANA database.

●Experienced as Business analyst with hands on configuration of Sales and Distribution (OtC) module.

●Experience working on technical optimization of the Basis areas such as job monitoring, transport management and client copy activities.

●Excellent experience in managing the Outsourcing for ABAP development /SAP hosting company and experience as mentor in ABAP trainings.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Arconic Aug 2019 – Present

Role Senior ABAP/PI Consultant

●Involved in testing of interfaces in PI for the company separation, daily monitoring and find and resolve production issues related to the EDI supply chain interface.

●Designed and wrote programs to download a few years data from CRM_DNO_MONITOR (Solution Manager) to support the upgrade.

● Involved in enhancement of customized transactions such as GL upload with BADI extensions, stock in transit, vendor managed inventory creation, Prod order dispatch, invoice/supplier extracts, customer master report, performance improvement etc.

●Involved in various Adobe form and branding changes during separation involving PO, packing list, invoices, order acknowledgements and others.

●Design and create a smart form for the production and process sheet configuration.

Change Healthcare Dec 2018 – June 2019

Role Senior SAP ABAP Consultant

Accomplishments

●Lead the outsourcing ABAP resources located offsite and manage the project effectively with business /IT team to deliver quality products on time. Involved in enhancement of heavily customized transactions such as creating renewal sales orders.

●Designed and created a robust and low maintenance enhancement with BTEs to create the attachments to the AP invoice documents.

●Effectively troubleshoot and finding causes for rare production issues as a result of cloning the systems such as fixing the SAPFTPA for big attachment issue, issues because of different process/scenarios.

●Involved in SAP to Oracle project conversion / Interfaces in ABAP.

Kraton Corporation (Arizona Chemical) Dec 2007 – July 2018

SAP R/3 4.6C, ECC6.0, CRM, HANA, APO and BI

Kraton Corporation (Arizona Chemical), is a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers, specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from pine wood pulping co-products.

Role Senior SAP ABAP/PI Analyst

Accomplishments

●Good experience in HANA upgrade, ABAP program optimizations for HANA, SPAU involvement and also basis set up for the SAP systems after upgrade. Acted as SME for the system integrations.

●Technical Lead for the PI Consolidation project with merging of the 2 SAP PI systems after the company's acquisition. This involved a great experience with technical certificates, Proxy, SFtP, PGP encryption, web services, Troubleshooting and Vendor Liaison.

●Involved in basis support to find/resolve issues in the SAP systems with dump, SM21 logs, Job, queues etc. and work with the hosting partner to resolve. Worked well with the Infrastructure team to set up /resolve Printers in SAP

●Expertise in resolving SAP Production issues including functional areas, not limited to ABAP, VOFM routines, Enhancements, smart forms creations involving translation, preprinted and Barcode. Involved in research / resolving issues with OSS notes

●Created various Z monitoring program from Solution manager for easy maintainability of the system which includes interface monitoring, Queues and SLG1 Logs.

●Exposure to CDS views in eclipse oxygen for future HANA development and ELT.

●After Arizona Chemical was acquired by Kraton, I quickly adapted in the new team and started contributing within short time.

Role Senior SAP Service Delivery Analyst

Accomplishments

●Extensively Involved in liaising with the SAP outsourcing and has come up with a methodology/BPP to operate efficiently with them.

●Set up efficient processes with the outsourcing company to pass on the requirements and getting done the developments with high quality. Involved in AP automation project developments closely and successfully so it runs with no issues in Production after going live.

●Timely and responsive resolutions to various SAP GUI, printer, interfaces and other basis related issues which involves co-ordination with various teams. Experience in coordinating with the hosting partner in optimizing the SAP Basis functions including job monitoring, transport management etc.

●Involved in setting up the client copy strategy and planning for the client copy activities across various systems with minimal interruption to the business.

Role OtC Business Analyst

Accomplishments

●Good Experience in gathering business requirements, analysis by understanding the process, suggesting SAP solutions and executing them in OtC configuration.

●Involved in the design and execution of the Freight forwarder interface which had multiple EDIs of shipment data between SAP and third-party vendor.

●Involved in resolving the issues in Rebate processing by recommending a way to do the adjustments in Finance.

●Involved configuring Shipping points, Shipment types, Shipment cost documents/ integration to GL accounts, Factory calendars etc.

●Worked on coming up with an optimal timing plan for various background jobs involving creation of shipments, sending them through interfaces within acceptable frequency.

●Involved in configuring the alternative for hierarchical pricing, found the root cause of issues in Internal pricing VPRS and clarified the pricing nuances to the business.

●Involved in creating Purchase requisition, Credit/debit memo custom workflows in ABAP.

Role Senior SAP PI/ABAP Analyst

Accomplishments

●As a key techno functional analyst in the SAP team, I was involved in finding the feasible solution for SAP issues, design and implementation of the various interfaces and work items that needed the business knowledge & ABAP expertise.

●Technical and design experience in integrating SAP products with 3rd party applications.

●Good Trouble-shooting experience using the Runtime workbench and transactions like SM59, SMICM, SXMB_ADM AND SXI_CACHE etc and was also involved in issues resolution during ECC upgrade and after client copies.

●Expertise in creating System Landscape (Technical System and Business systems), Enterprise Service Repository (Message mappings, Interface Mapping), Integration Directory (Routing Channels, Receiver/Interface determination).

●Involved in the designing and configuring the interfaces from SAP to CRM, SAP to Freight forwarder third party and e-invoicing which involved File to ABAP proxy, File to XML scenarios.

●Involved in doing the Alert configuration in PI to proactively act on the message/Communication errors.

●Involved in the design of templates for the functional, technical documents according to Arizona’s needs and also put together the standards document for ABAP objects thereby setting up the process guidelines for the smooth end to end flow of the custom development / maintenance.

●Timely solving of the production issues in various modules such as SD, MM, FI and security. Involved in the coding / implementation of lots of enhancements such as users exits, Business Transaction events, changing area menu, support of IDOC, OSS notes implementation, module pool programs, BADI etc.

●Analyzed the current price maintenance process in purchasing and designed & created a fully automated program for the price upload in purchasing.

●Involved heavily in the data migration and conversion of SAP implementation which happened after the divestiture.

TATA IL SAP Post Implementation Support Feb 2005 – Jun 2005

ABAP/4 Consultant - SAP R/3 4.6B (SD, FI and MM)

Price Waterhouse Coopers US-GFS Implementation Nov 2003-Dec 2004

ABAP/4 Consultant - SAP R/3 4.6C (FICO, SD, HR & MM, worked on Interface)

Siemens ICN - SAP Stage 4 Implementation Oct 2002 – Oct 2003

ABAP/4 Consultant - SAP R/3 4.6C (FICO, SD & SM, Worked on Interfaces)

Triveni Engg. &Indus. Lim SAP Implementation Jan 2001 – Sep 2001

Jan 2002 - Sep 2002

ABAP/4 Team Lead - SAP R/3 Ver 4.6B and later upgraded to 4.6C

Bridgestone Firestone, SAP- Legacy system Interface Oct 2001 - Dec 2001

ABAP/4 Programmer & Reviewer - SAP R/3 Ver 3.1H

Murudeshwar Ceramics Limited SAP Implementation May 2000 - Dec 2000

ABAP/4 Consultant - SAP R/3 Ver 4.0B

Falcon tires Limited SAP Implementation Oct 1998 - April 2000

ABAP/4 Programmer - SAP R/3 Ver 4.0B (FICO, MM, HR & SD, Worked on BAS Interface)

EDUCATION : Bachelor of Engineering (4 years- Equivalent to B.S degree)

TRAININGS : SAP PI, Basis, HANA CDS, HANA ABAP Optimization, BW query,

Business requirement Analysis, Communication & Presentation Skills

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