SAP BW on HANA 13+ Exp

Sathis Kumar Jegannathan

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Executive Summary:

13+ Years of experience implementing SAP solutions in wide range of industries. Specializing in delivering SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) on HANA, Business Objects (BO), Analysis for Office (AFO), Sathis has designed and led many successful SAP BW/BI implementations. Has sound knowledge of Analytics and Processes in HCM, Financials (FICO) and Supply chain (SCM). Expertise implementing Life Science, Public Sector, Consumer Goods and Manufacturing BI business content.

Educational Qualification:

2000-2004B.E (ECE), Madurai Kamaraj University, TamilNadu. India

2004-2006 M.B.A – Marketing, (Direct Distance Education) Alagappa University.

Professional Experience:

Company

Location

Designation

Period

From

To

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd

India

Germany

UK

Sr. Associate

19/12/2014

Till date

IBM India Pvt Ltd.

Bangalore Chennai

Sr.System Engineer

19/01/2011

17/12/2014

Magna Infotech Pvt Ltd. (Deputed to IBM)

Kolkata

Software Engineer

30/07/2009

05/11/2010

Yaltech Consulting Pvt Ltd

Trichy

SAP Technical Analyst

02/08/2006

20/11/2008

SAP Skills & Certifications:

Expertise in SAP Business Information Warehouse BW 3.5, BW 7+ and HANA.

Expertise in SAP Business Objects 4.1.

Expertise in Analysis for Office.

Knowledge on Basics of ABAP

Certified for Professional Scrum Master I – Sprint Activity.

Cognizant certified professional for Fundamentals of Life Sciences Industry.

Achievements:

Awarded with Rising Star Quarter (Q3 2017) in Cognizant, Germany

Awarded with Spark for best performance – IBM India.

Project - 1 : Pharma and Life Science Company – Sprint – (Onshore)

Period : 11/2018 to Till Date

Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions

About Client: Client is a second largest influenza vaccine company in the world. It’s a UK based influenza vaccine company with extensive research and production expertise and manufacturing plants in the US, UK, Germany and Australia.

Role:

I have been working as a SAP Analytics Lead from Onshore, United Kingdom.

It’s a BW on HANA agile methodlogy project which is being delivered 6 weeks of duration for each sprint.

Management Activites:

I have been conducted the daily scrum meeting with developers as a scrum master.

Weekly meeting with Customer for delivery status and Sprint plan meeting.

Sprint review meeting with internal congnizant leadership for each sprint feedback and challenges.

Prepared the weekly deck and present the status to cognizant leadership.

Responsible to submit the Budget Plan, Revenue forecast, Invoice, resourcing, Time sheet, Leave approval etc

Managing the Offshore team to deliver the reports on time without any time delay.

Sprint Activities:

I have been working as a scrum Master to conduct the sprint planning, execution, daily scrum, sprint review etc.

I am also working as solution architect to provide the functional and technical expertise to Developers from Offshore.

Prepared the Test script, QA execution, UAT support, Failover execution in HPQC tool.

Prepared the Functional, high level design and Technical, Unit, SIT, QA testing documentions etc.

Prepared the Cost Center, Cost Element hierarchy files and shared with Business users.

Prepared the cutover document for go-live support and Wave 3 synch-up meeting.

Technology: SAP BW 7.5, HANA Studio, Analysis for Office, WEBI Reporting tool.

Project - 2 : Merck KGaA, Germany – Support (Onshore)

Period : 11/2015 to 10/2018

Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions

About Client: Client is a German multinational chemical, pharmaceutical and sciences company with around 50,000 employees in around 70 countries.

Role:

I have been working as a SAP BW/BI Lead at onshore in Germany location since 2015 to June 2018. The primary roles and responsibilities to managing the team and delivering the support applications within the SLA’s timeframe. Responsible for Supporting the customized applications (HR, Inventory, DIE, APO, Trackwise, ACE, CTD, Regional and IT Reporting) etc. Identify the changes as RFC and also part of the Agile/Scrum Team in HR application.

Production Support:

Daily ticket management with Incident, Service request, Request for change, conduct the scrum meeting for weekly thrice.

Requirement gathering discussion with business users for changes and improvements.

Estimate the new requirement or change requirements etc.

Responsible for identifying the Month end closure issues for HR, Inventory, performed the Year-end activity for APO restatements etc.

Technical assistance to team members to ensure timely and defect free delivery

Extensively providing knowledge sharing session and problem-solving capability.

Daily discussion with Application owners (SME) for ticket status, Inflow reduction plan and improvements.

Weekly discussion with internal and external business partners to provide the recommendations and Root cause identification for application issues.

Coordinating with other functional teams like (BW, BO, APO, System downtime, Support Pack upgrade synchronizing transports).

Technology: SAP BW 7.4, Analysis for Office, WEBI Reporting tool.

Project - 3 : Smith and Nephew – Migration Project

Period : 01/2015 to 10/2015

Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions

About Client: Client is a British-based multinational medical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is an international producer of arthroscopy products, advanced wound management products, trauma and clinical therapy products and orthopedic reconstruction products. Its products are sold in over 90 countries.

Role:

It’s a migration Project from SAP to Informatica.

I have been assigned as a BW consultant for transition purpose from SAP to informatica. I have provided the design details starting from list of Master Data sources, Transactional data sources related to scope of the project. Provided Source to Target (S2T) mapping, Metrics derived document. Explained the design and Logics were implemented in existing SAP BW production system.

Technology: SAP BW 7.3 and Bex Reporting tool.

Project - 4 : Bio-Rad – Support Project

Period : 10/2013 to 12/2014

Company : IBM India

Bio-Rad is a pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1952 in Berkeley, California. The company was initially engaged in the development and production of specialty chemicals used in biochemical, pharmaceutical, and other life science research applications. The Project is currently supported by IBM and a BA team of 7 members support the BI and BOBJ Modules.

Role:

I had been supporting the client on 3 fronts.

1. Handling of Incident tickets

I had been handling the BA team Incident and Service request tickets, which are being assigned to me, by the Team Lead and Design Architect.

Resolution given to close the tickets included creating new objects in BI system, changing the logic and helping the users on knowledge gaps, where ever required.

2. Defect and Change Request

The Defect and Change request have been successfully delivered by me.

3. Process Chain Monitoring

The process chain monitoring is done 24*7 (including weekends) on the BI system and the critical chains for Master Data, COPA data loads are given the highest priority for uninterrupted data loads.

High Severity tickets were raised against the Basis teams on occasions where the CPU full and memory space issues related and the chains were recovered and data loads were completed.

FFID’s were requested upon failure of process chain and chains recovered in time for the business to use them.

Project - 5 : Campbell Soup – MAESTRO Project - Enhancement

Period : 01/07/2013 to 30/09/2013

Company : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Campbell Soup Company, also known as Campbell's, is an American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

Role:

Responsible for identifying the user requirement/changes. Prepared the Functional specification, time line and along with High Level design document, Architecture document based on the client requirement. Documented for all the data flows, RFC and step by step for solution document.

Project - 6 : Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) - Support

Period : 06/2010 to 06/2013.

Company : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Mead Johnson Nutrition is a global leader in infant and children's nutrition.

World wide best known for Enfamil and Enfalac families of infant formulas as well as for our regional children's nutritional products, including Enfagrow, Enfapro, Enfakid, EnfaSchool, and Sustagen in Asia, and Choco Milk and Cal-C-Tose in Mexico and Latin America.

Manufacture and market more than 70 products in over 50 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and we operate major manufacturing facilities in every region where we conduct business.

Team Size : 4

Environment : BI.7.0 /BO XIR/3.1

Role: Team Lead

Responsible for BW application support as a single handy for first 18 months and then expanded to other members. I had been supported various source system data loads, Coordinate the high severity 1 and Sev 2 tickets and capability to resolve those in SLA timeline. Creating the Change Management request and raise Fire fighter ID access for any major changes or refresh the data load activities. Providing the Elective enhancement estimation hours, Requirement gathering discussion with business users.

Manage ticket status and correct assignment within the team

Project - 7 : Leaf Procurement – Implementation (Onsite)

Period : 07/2009 to 05/2010.

Client : ALTRIA - Philip Morris USA

Company : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Philip Morris USA is the largest tobacco company in the United States, with approximately half of the U.S. cigarette market.

U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company is the leading producer and marketer of moist smokeless tobacco.

Altria is parent group of Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, John Middleton, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Philip Morris Capital Corporation.

Team Size : 2

Environment : BI.7.0

Role:

Involved the work Shop discussion about the Business requirement gathering as per the client needs report. Prepared the Functional specification based the client requirement before starting the Development. The Technical specification prepared based on the reports.

Designed custom data sources using database views and custom function modules.Designed new customized Leaf Purchasing Order Item DSO, Infocube and Multiprovider created.

Purchase Order Item (2LIS_02_ITM) all the reports are detailed level only.

Designed New Inventory Infocube and Multiprovider and created the update rule from Stock Initialization (2LIS_03_BX) and Material movements (2LIS_03_BF) DSO’s. Created the reports based on the workshop discussion.

Project - 8 : ConvaTec - Implementation

Period : 09/2009 to 02/2010.

Company : IBM India Pvt Ltd

Manufacturing Industry: ConvaTec is and international company that develops manufactures and markets medical devices and services related to Wound Therapeutics, Ostomy, and Incontinence

Team Size : 3

Environment : BI.7.0

Role:

Prepared the Functional, high level design document and finalize the client requirement before install the BCT. Installed the business content Datasources related to BI content of SD, MM, PO, and FI.

Installed the business content InfoObjects, Master data and Transaction Data Inforprovider of DSO, Infocubes and then Datatargets. Created transformations and related DTP methods to transfer the data from Datasource to required Datatargets.

Created and scheduled Process Chain in Master Data and Transaction Data related to all the above components. Installed and Activated the standard reporting queries of Profit and Loss, vendor reports, Balance sheet report, purchase order report

Created the new Customized request and Workbench Transport request from ECC development into QA, Production ECC and then BI related objects.

Project - 9 : Gulfmark - Support

Period : 02/2008 to 11/2008.

Company : Yaltech Consulting Pvt Ltd.

International Offshore Marine Service Industry: The client is a leader in providing large and technologically sophisticated fleet and charters for exploration and production of Oil and Natural Gas.

Team Size : 2

Environment : BI.7.0

Role:

Responsible for Design, support and enhancement of BI Reporting and Business Consolidations (BCS).

Developed Consolidation cum Reporting Data Model. Built Consolidation Functions such as Currency Translation, Inter Unit Elimination and Reconciliation, Allocation, and Reclassification.

Constructed Consolidation Reporting solution based on the Consolidation cube and G/L Data. Developed BEx queries and workbooks to meet the Reporting requirements.

Performed pro-active work in identification of issues and opportunities in BW/BCS system.

Resolved the issues in a timely manner to the satisfaction of business users.

Project - 10 : County of San Luis Obispo (SLO) – Implementation

Period : 02/2007 to 10/2007

Company : Yaltech Consulting Pvt Ltd, Trichy

Team Size : 4

Environment : BW 3.5

Role: Delivered the complete BW reporting solution for Budget/Actual/Commitment and Trial Balance (Summary and Line item). Generated data sources for the special ledger summary and line items and delivered workbooks that meet the trial balance reporting. Enhanced Commitment/Actual and Budget infocube/ODS (0PU_C02, 0PU_O32, 0PU_O33, 0PU_O41, OPU_O31) to meet the county’s internal audit requirements.

Project - 11 : Home Meridian - Implementation

Period : 11/2006 to 11/2008.

Company : Yaltech Consulting Pvt Ltd, Trichy

It’s a SAP BW (3.5) Implementation project, which involves implementing SD, MM, and PO. This project basically involves in Extracting data from SAP R3, building up the Data Targets, providing validated reports to the user and Setting up the procedures for ETL process.

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