Venkata Kavuri

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Executive Summary:

Experienced SAP Application Architect and Certified SAP Associate Developer serving a diverse client base in automotive, utilities and healthcare, telecommunications, oil & gas. Project management qualifications combine with demonstrated ability to develop and implement technical solutions in functional areas like Procure to Pay, AP Financial Accounting, Order to Cash & Supply Chain Management to meet critical business needs. Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills resulting in effective working relationships and top performance among the talent pool.

An excellent communicator between technical and business units who can translate complex data into layman terms. Characterized as a talented strategist having 17+ years of IT experience and qualified IT professional with successful record determining and documenting requirement for IT logistics applications.

Outstanding problem-solving, analytical and decision-making skills with proven ability to conceptualize solutions to challenging situations and implement practical, cost-effective project plans.

Areas of Expertise:

-SRM Operational & Strategic Purchasing, SRM Employee Self services, Ariba Procure to Pay, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, AP Financial Accounting, Human Resources

-Business Rules Framework plus configuration and build.

-SAP Fiori & Launchpad configuration and build.

-SAP Floor Plan Management configuration and build.

-Implementing SAP Fiori-like apps & configure the SAP OData Gateway services.

-Hands on experience using S/4HANA ABAP, ABAP CDS views.

-SCRUM sprints in implementing& testing the ABAP deployments.

-Integrated the ABAP Units during the development.

-Hands on experience utilizing the PI Integration Engine, Integration Builder.

-Conversion of OData to Open API 2.0 or 3.0 specifications.

-Quick view reports, cycle-time reports, ABAP ALV Reporting.

-ABAP Webdynpro, ABAP UI5, JavaScript, BSP.

-ABAP Data Dictionary, Open SQL, Performance Tuning.

-Adobe Interactive forms, Object Oriented ABAP design patterns, SAP Business Workflow, cXML, Object Services.

-Integration between SAP and Non-SAP, IDOC, REST API, SOAP Web Services, ODATA, ABAP Server Proxy, ABAP RFC, File Interfaces.

-SQL Monitor & ABAP Test Cockpit tools, ADT.

Project Management:

-Project management experience in implementing the digital transformation of Shopping Cart, Purchase Order change, Procurement substitution applications and SAP interface projects.

-Create a plan that fits scope; define and clearly articulate project goals and milestones (stretch, yet realistic); assemble, coach, manage, and motivate the team; intervene to resolve technical and business issues using problem-solving skills that are second to none.

-Experience in implementing the projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

-Experience in project scheduling, resource management and developing a multilevel Work Breakdown structure, stakeholder communication, and RAID log.

-Developed project progress reports, burn down charts and graphs for senior management to provide project status and application prototype performance.

-Developed a tracker as a single source of truth to bridge the gap between all the team’s individual trackers, to ensure project deliverables remain on track and aligned with business expectation.

Process Improvement:

-Improved the procurement card payment process by building a seamless interface & send the update to affiliates, cross-functional teams & helped the client to save $200K per annum.

-Improved the procurement sourcing process by building a preferred supplier list based on product category and thereby enforcing the compliance of utilizing the source list approved by PSM.

-Created user intuitive web application as per the government regulations to report the physician payments.

-Improved the approval agent determination logic for procurement documents by building a scalable, robust & customizable workflow based on Business Rules Framework plus.

-Improved the efficiency in processing supplier invoices by building a robust invoice reconciliation rules engine.

-Customer was ecstatic that the one-year performance problem in Fiori My Inbox was resolved and design of outbox which made accessing the Fiori Inbox in less than 5 secs.

-Improved the SRM Invoice web application performance by caching the buffer and clearing the cache during the save event of the web application. As a direct result, AP users were able to process more effectively and efficiently Non-PO based Invoices in SRM.

Work Experience

Dec 2019 – Now SAP Application Architect – Medline Inc., Greater Chicago, IL

Environment:

ECC ERP 7.0 EHP5 SP13, SAPK-75006INSAPABA, SAPK-75006INSAPGWFND, Talend, WSO2 API Gateway, SAP S/4HANA 1809, HANADB 1.00, SAP SCM 7.0

Key Project Contributions:

-Responsible for developing solution, document the design, configuration, develop implementation plan, execute, maintain, and support applications software in the Procure to Pay area.

-Serves as an Information Systems point person for addressing issues and enhancements related to the specific product, functional and technical area.

-Analyzes production issues as necessary to determine the cause of the issue and determine the necessary course of action for resolution.

-Develop testing plan, review and implementations plans with the developer and business groups

-Provide post-implementation support for implemented solutions

-Establish the design standards and framework templates for the enhancements.

-Created and delivered documentation as necessary to ensure proper use of changed and newly implemented efforts.

-Mentored the offshore team.

-Designed and deployed following enhancements:

-Analyzed, prepared, and executed vendor master data conversion from ERP to S/4HANA using CVI conversion tool.

-Custom vendor master IDOC process code function module in S/4HANA

-Custom wave picking Fiori app to group unreleased manufacturing orders into a wave.

-Transfer of purchase orders from ECC to S/4HANA using ORDERS IDOC.

-Transfer of purchase requests from S/4HANA to ECC using custom OData API.

-Transfer of cost center data from ECC to S/4HANA using COSMAS IDOC.

-Integrated the external requirements from legacy system to SAP S/4HANA using OData Restful API.

-Integrated the supplier invoice from legacy system to SAP S/4HANA using OData Restful API.

-Integrated the goods receipt from Outsystems to SAP S/4HANA using OData Restful API.

-Custom Fiori like Purchase Requisition application.

Mar 2013 – Dec 2019 P2P Application Architect – AbbVie Inc., Greater Chicago, IL

Environment:

SRM 7.0 EHP1 SP09, ECC ERP 6.0 EHP5 SP09, SRMNXP01 SP08, UISAPUI5 SP13, UIX01CA1 SP06, UIX01SRM SP08, SAPK-75006INSAPABA, SAPK-75006INSAPGWFND, ARBCIG2 SP 03, ARBFNDI2, ARBSRMI1SP03

Key Project Contributions:

-Manage medium to large-sized projects as it relates to the program

-Provide status reports, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas

-Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify risks, and devise contingency plans

-Prepare project documentation, and project plan to ensure timely completion of project deliverables. Communicate project status to team and department

-Define project success criteria and disseminate to involved parties during the project life cycle.

-Facilitate meetings with project team and Stakeholders to support project initiatives

-Coordinate user acceptance testing for projects to ensure business requirements have been met with high levels of quality

-Assist with the development of test methodology, test cases, test scenarios and supporting templates for testing

-Manage cross-functional leadership teams to successful execution

-Prepare & present the business process to the IT & business stakeholders to understand the requirement gap and get the change request approval.

-Developed estimation tool and provided the estimations including budget to the business.

-Prepared the configuration and schedule to deploy the change request.

-Prepared the FRS and developed the test plan.

-Developed the training plan for the change requests.

-Rollout communication to the business community immediately after deploying the code to production.

-Mentored the offshore team.

-Designed and developed following enhancements:

-Integrated the payment remittance information from SAP ECC to Ariba.

-Integrated the status of purchase orders closed on SAP ECC to Ariba.

-Integrated Non-PO(FI) invoices created in Ariba with SAP ECC.

-Configured the approval rules (base, chain, edit & validation) for the invoice documents created through ICS.

-Integrated contingent workforce SOW approval process in SAP Fieldglass with SAP SRM using RESTAPI interface.

-Configured email alerts for reconciliation and resolution of Invoices posted through Ariba ICS.

-SRM Non-PO Invoice to include the payment reference number for European countries.

-SRM Non-PO Invoice to include supplier specific withholding tax payments.

-SRM Procurement documents to include a supply bank country for Germany.

-To perform a duplicate check for the PO-based invoices created from Brain Ware in ECC.

-To perform Invoice reconciliation and setup block based on two-way/three-way match rule engine in ECC.

-Configured the import tax code and tax code lookup tables for extended tax calculations in Invoice reconciliation.

-N-level approval workflow for PO-based Invoice using BRF+ in ECC.

-Harmonized business roles as per Separation of Duties in ECC and SRM.

-Implemented turnkey fully automated solution for Bank card interfaces with SharePoint integration.

-Dynamic N-level process-controlled workflow in SRM system for Procurement documents Shopping Cart, Purchase Order and SRM Non-PO Invoice.

-INTRASTAT import data in SRM Shopping cart and Purchased order using FPM Webdynpro.

-Web Application to record the events and physician details using FPM Webdynpro and interface to fetch the physician details stored in third-party database.

-Event based alerts to Procurement users after the document changes in SRM.

-Dual language Purchase Order output based on Adobe forms using PPF and direct Purchase Order printout forms

-Country-based tax code display on procurement documents

-Web application to users who perform business sponsor role to procure the goods/services based on UI5 framework.

-Web application to AP users to enter the Non-PO based invoices based on UI5 framework.

-Automated the processing of closing PO’s based on the activities related to follow-on documents and 2-way/3-way match.

-Implemented interface to send the MM and FI invoice data to EDICOM.

-Creation of multi-leg STO for certain document types and plant.

-Implemented custom OData services for Fiori like Purchase Order application, Procurement substitute.

-Custom Fiori like Purchase Order application & Procurement Substitute application.

Nov ‘12 – Mar ‘13 Development Manager – Stanley Security Solutions, Indianapolis, IN

Key Project Contributions:

-Assisted in maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), issue/action/decision logs, meeting summaries and status reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications across all team members

-Designed tools, reports, charts and graphs for senior management to provide ongoing, at-a-glance summaries of project status and application prototype performance

-Collaborated effectively with stakeholders and program managers to ensure project deliverables remained on track and aligned with business goals and expectation

-Contributed to an innovative solution that resolved communication gap across teams, comprising release readiness, budget and schedule

-MM Purchase Order release strategy workflow

-Label printing for Production Orders

-Freight condition type for Outbound Delivery, and access sequence and requirement generation for pricing conditions in Sales Orders

-Form printing for Sales & Purchase Orders.

Apr ‘12 – Nov ‘12 Technical Architect – Abbott Inc., Greater Chicago, IL

Key Project Contributions:

-FPM Webdynpro application to record the physician payments as per Sunshine Act

-Workflow

-Created a customized process-controlled workflow (using BRF) for Invoice & SC (both external & internal) which validates and fetches the approvers according to the financial and budgetary levels defined as per the custom tables and sends the SC/Invoice for the approval process.

-Created a customized process-controlled workflow (using BRF) for Purchase Order which validates and fetches the budgetary & financial approvers according to the values defined in a custom table and fetches the purchasing approver from the organization structure.

-Interface

-Designed and developed an interface which creates external requirements in SRM 7.0 using SOAP webservice and sends the shopping cart to approval workflow using BRF.

-Designed and developed an interface which sends the external fulfillments to third-party systems using SOAP webservice.

-Enhanced the basic IDOC type to populate custom fields of the Purchase Orders created/changed.

Apr ‘08 – Apr’12 Technical Lead – Southern California Edison, CA

Key Project Contributions:

-Process Controlled workflow configuration/build for SRM Procurement documents

-HR organization structure data transfer from ECC to SRM.

-Enhancements related to Plant Maintenance work orders.

-SRM Shopping Cart & Purchase Order print output build and configuration

-Web Dynpro enhancements in Shopping Cart, RFx, and Purchase Order response to include custom fields.

-Enhanced the SRM SOA based interface to ECC to include custom field data for the Procurement data.

Workflow

-Created a customized process-controlled workflow (using BRF) for RFX which validates and fetches the approver according to the organizational plan & target value of the RFX and sends the RFX for the approval process.

-Created a customized process-controlled workflow (using BRF) for Shopping Cart which validates and fetches the technical approver according to product category and fetches the financial approver based on the Organizational plan and sends the Shopping cart for the approval process.

-Developed a workflow which sends the candidates geographical information to Passport system (Legacy system) through XI proxy whenever a testing activity is created for a particular candidate.

Reports

-Standard replication program (MECCM) replicates price and material at the line item level of contracts. Developed a program to extract the contract fields into an Output file and the output file will be uploaded to the import server.

-Developed a program to transfer the personnel area address of the pernr’s in ECC to SRM and default that address in the user’s position attributes.

-Developed a report program to update the custom table (containing PO & User Name), which is used to update the Recipient field in PO.

-Developed a program to create an order, suborder for an NN notification type.

-Developed a program which sends the Notification data to XI system which further sends the data to Action way.

Extractors

-Developed custom generic data extractors to extract the LSO, INPO, and SCORM training exam data.

SRM

-Implemented BADI: BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER which converts the MDM vendor material catalog values to the client defined SAP values.

-Implemented BADI: BBP_EXTREQ_OUT which controls the purchase requisition to send and receive the data.

-Custom PO data from SRM ( using RFX/Auction) to ECC: To transfer the custom fields from SRM to ECC as follows: 1. Header Text, 2. Header Note, 3. Terms of delivery, 4. Shipping instructions, 5. Terms of payment, 6. Award Type indicator, 7. RFX number, 8. Auction number.

-Custom contract data from SRM to ECC (using RFX/Auction): To transfer custom fields award type indicator, shipping instruction, auction number, and etc. These custom fields will need to be updated from SRM to ECC for PO and Contract document exchange.

-Created a custom form by copying BBP_AUCTION to display the client required format of SRM Auction.

-Created a custom form by copying BBP_BID_INVITATION to display the client required format of SRM RFx.

Enhancements

-Created an enhancement in SRM while fetching the source of supply data for a shopping cart for filtering out the ECC purchase info records.

-Created an enhancement in ECC to enable the functionality for buyers to create RFX directly using CPPR instead of going through Plan driven procurement.

-Created an enhancement to send the Purchase Requisition data from ECC to SRM as a part of external requirement and then submitting the shopping cart to the approval using Business Rules Framework and transfer the shopping cart for sourcing.

-Created an enhancement in ECC to transfer the HR Organizational data from ECC to SRM.

-Replicated the vendor master data to include minority indicator data.

-Created an enhancement to send an email to the shopping cart creator (requestor) in case of rejection/inquire of one or more-line items on a shopping cart.

-Created an enhancement to default dummy tax jurisdiction code during SRM shopping, so that ECC tax jurisdiction will override when the shopping cart data is passed to ECC for follow-on documents.

-Created an enhancement to create the Shopping cart number & line item number in the custom data tab of a Purchase requisition and also an enhancement to capture the data in those fields.

Web Dynpro

-Enhanced the ‘Carry out Sourcing’ screen 3 to populate the client defined the custom field.

-Enhanced sourcing cockpit screen and RFx/Auction response screens to populate client defined custom field necessary while creating contract and PO at ECC.

-Enhanced sourcing cockpit screen to display purchase requisition number along with shopping cart number.

-Enhanced the delivery address screen in the shopping cart to have a checkbox to default the delivery address and update the changed address into the attributes of the requestor’s position.

Apr ‘06 – Apr’08 Offshore Technology Lead, Accenture, India

Key Project Contributions:

-To participate in the requirement gathering and architecting the optimal solution with the available resources.

-Participating in the RFP’s and providing the estimations.

-To configure the system before starting the development.

-Project scoping and planning.

-To involve in all phases of the project starting from Project preparation, business blueprint, realization, Integration testing, go-live, & support.

-Assign the requirements to offshore team members.

-Review of Technical Design & Code developed by team members.

-Mentoring the team members.

-Handling a key role in System Investigation Request (SIR’s) during the Integration Testing of Roll-out Project.

-Development of reusable objects & review of reusable objects developed by team members.

-Preparing case studies & proposals for project purposes.

-Project Code creation for the team members.

-Development of code in ABAP, unit testing.

Sep ‘03 – Apr’06 Programmer Analyst, Capgemini, India

Key Project Contributions:

-Strictly adhering to ADM-V model delivery.

-Ensuring 0% tolerance in delivering the objects.

-Analyze the requirements based on specifications provided by the functional consultants.

-Development of Technical Specifications.

-Worked onsite (Denmark) during the roll-out.

-Development of code in ABAP, Unit Testing.

-Review and Walkthrough of other team member’s Technical specification and Code.

-Defect fixing and reusable object development.

Reports

-Modified Material Master Item Report to display Sales Organization, Distribution channel, D-chain Specification status. This Report lists the critical information from the Material Master along with the Scheduling agreement for the vendor. Report also lists stock information of the material for classical storage location, total Vendor Consignment stock, total stock, on order quantity, reserved quantity and stock value for the Material at the Plant. Two different layouts are displayed depending on the user selection of the Radio Button. First button i.e. Item Master Specifications provides general details of the Material and the Second Radio Button Item Master Inventory and Value Data provides stock and Valuation details.

-Modified Physical Inventory Verification summary report to display year to date information.

-Modified Supplier Release Detail Report to display Material Group and Compressed legacy part number.

-Modified Payment for Materials Management Details report that generates the payment details for a vendor on the basis of FI document number, to display the correct ASN number. For an Accounting document number, this report gives corresponding MM invoice number, GR purchase order, and ASN details. The choice is provided to view both open and cleared Items. This is an interactive report where detailed entries for an FI Accounting number can be viewed.

-Modified SAP Production application with particular billing doc type need to be corrected ONLY for a particular customer at the bill-from address part at the footer of the invoice so as not to reflect Customer reference number.

EDI

-Done map changes for the EDI subsystem (INOVIS) in order to convert legacy files to IDOC format.

-Created new ship-to and new sold-to setup sheets.

-Worked on EDIFACT, X12, VDA, Odette file types.

-Provide Production support and trouble shootings for outbound and inbound postings

-Coordinate with functional groups for scheduling or reporting transactions as necessary

-Escalate posting failures to various functional and technical groups

-Working knowledge with EDI transactions of 830,856,810,862

-Hands on experience on mapping the inbound and outbound transactions

-Monitor inbound and outbound postings and resolve any posting failures.

Skills

Domain Knowledge : Ariba Procure to Pay, SRM 7.0/6.0/5.0, SAP FI-AP,

SAP Plant Maintenance, SAP MM

Operating Systems : Windows (all versions), Linux, Mac (OS9 and OSX)

Programming Languages : ABAP/4, JAVA, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, XML,

Adobe Script

Development Tools : Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland J Builder, Eclipse,

ABAP/4 Workbench

Project Management : Microsoft Project

Protocols : TCP/IP, HTTP, SFTP, RDP

Education

Bachelor of Technology – Nagarjuna University, India 1999 - 2003.

Certifications

SAP Certified Development Associate NW 7.01

References

Available upon request

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