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Venkatakrishna Singareddy

Profile

Professional with 18 years of experience of SAP ABAP with Implementation, Support and development experience.

Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of SAP ERP applications.

Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements

Database skills, Object Oriented Programming and development knowledge

Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Team Lead, Systems Analyst and Developer

Involved in projects for different sectors like Industrial, Automotive, Public and Distribution

Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

Involved in implementation/upgrade and maintenance Projects

Skill Set

Experience in ABAP/4 Interfaces, Data Conversions, Enhancements, User Exits.

Extensively worked on Interactive Reports, ALV and dialog programming.

Good experience on BAPI, ABAP/4 Object programming.

Data Migration work experience in multiple projects.

Good experience in Data Dictionary and SAP Queries.

Experienced in using various modularization techniques like subroutines, Function modules, RFC’s and Class modules.

Good experience of ALE and IDOC’s in Interfaces.

Good experience of Workflow and Web Services.

Good experience in Dialog Programming, designing and developing layouts and forms using SMARTFORMS, SAP Scripts and Adobe Forms.

Expertise in ABAP Debugging, Performance Tools, Runtime Analysis, SQL Trace.

Knowledge of Web Dynpro and SAP XI/PI basics.

Experience in Business workflow integration with Share point

Experience in Gateway service development.

Functional knowledge in Finance, Material management, Sales and distribution, Warehousing, Service Delivery and Commercial project management module.

Design and maintain SAP S/4 Hana Core Data Services (CDS) views and ODATA services, Integrated SAP ECC.

Education:

Master of Computer Applications, Osmania University, India.

Bachelor of Science, Nagarjuna University, India.

Professional Experience

Mar 2007 – Till date, Lead Developer IBM

Project 1 : Name : S4 HANA Implementation

Client : Deluxe Corporation

Start Date : Jul 2020

End date : Till date

Role : Lead Developer

Deluxe Corporation is an American small business financial services company. Deluxe produces personal and business checks logo design, website development, hosting, email marketing, social media management, search engine marketing and fraud protection services. Deluxe also offers promotional products, custom apparel, business supplies, retail packaging, shipping supplies, eChecks and printed materials.

Implemented minimum fee calculation for pricing condition in Sales order

Developed ECC to Ariba interface to send spend data for analysis

Developed Adobe forms for PackPick list and Serial Label Printing

Developed end to end custom Workflow for Non PO Invoice approval

Developed GW service part of Shipping confirmation interface 3PL system to ECC

Implemented Intelligent Serial number and MAC address for Production Order item

Customized API_BILLING_DOCUMENT GW service to simulate invoice

Monitor offshore team and provide technical guidance in delivering Objects on time

Review the deliverables and ensure everything is delivered with good quality

Environment: SAP S/4HANA 1809, SAP FIORI, Mulesoft

Team Size : 50

Project 2 : Name : Strategic Modernization Initiative

Client : Estee Lauder Companies

Start Date : May 2019

End date : July 2020

Role : Lead Developer

Estee Lauder Companies - Strategic Modernization Initiative (SMI) is an enterprise-wide program that will transform the Estée Lauder Companies business processes and organizations enabled by an integrated technology platform. SMI was created to enhance shareholder value and support the goal of aggressive, sustainable growth by delivering a single set of integrated data, processes and technologies, which will be used to cost-effectively scale the company and to standardize business processes across brands and other operating units.

Involved in developing Direct Ship process which replace existing business process. In Direct ship process products are shipped from third party manufacturer to final customer bypassing local distribution centers. The idea with direct ship console is to provide the user the ability and flexibility to process the orders in the ECC system and generate labels at the TPM/3PL. This console will cover most of your needs from filtering Direct Ship sales orders, delivery creation, Carbonization, pick pack and PGI, including managing and generating labels

Developed Direct Ship Console using Module pool programming where user can navigate across Sales Order, Delivery, Handling units and able to print HU labels.

Developed Adobe forms for HU labels which can be printed from Console.

Developed a report to auto update batch on delivery reference to batch on PO.

Part of Hyper care convey work around solution and new ways of working for the business.

Checking feasibility of the defects whether or not to make the change to the system.

Coordinate with change management team and prepare the Transport requests to capture the correct sequence of objects to be transported

Validate objects between Development, Quality and Production servers post transport

Performing manual tasks for those changes which cannot be transported to system.

Monitoring the system health during early life cycle phase. So the proactive action could be taken.

Monitoring incident tracking system (Service-now) to look for new incidents raised by end users.

Resolving the incidents in the Service-now tool with proper resolution steps for future use.

Perform peer review for the technical objects before final delivery.

Environment: ECC 7.0

Team Size : 25

Project 3 : Name : NIKE Program

Client : British Petroleum

Start Date : Jul 2018

End date : Apr 2019

Role : Sr. Developer

BP Lubricants - Nike Transformation Program is a project to deploy common global business processes and any legal and regulatory requirements related changes in SAP. A key aspect of the Nike Transformation Program involves replacing the existing JDE system with SAP, collecting business requirements for data and design, mapping the existing business processes, converting the data from legacy system to the format required by SAP, delivering the required enhancements, testing the changes to confirm the design and data integrity.

The system requires multiple custom configurations tailored to the specific requirements of BP Lubricants, specifically in the areas of warehouse management, supply chain planning, manufacturing, order processing, purchasing, invoicing, and communication with 3rd party warehouses. Integration of SAP with other Legacy system like EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), OpenText, Fusion.

Involved in Wave2 UAT cycle and hyper care after go-live

Analysis of defects raised during testing cycles and providing the solutions.

Estimate, implement and delivery of new change requests related to SD, MM and QMN

Introduced Fill&Kill and tolerance threshold concept in delivery due list program

Convey work around solution and decide new ways of working for the business.

Checking feasibility of the defects whether or not to make the change to the system.

Coordinate with change management team and prepare the Transport requests to capture the correct sequence of objects to be transported

Validate objects between Development, Quality and Production servers post transport

Performing manual tasks for those changes which cannot be transported to system.

Monitoring the system health during early life cycle phase. So the proactive action could be taken.

Monitoring incident tracking system (Service-now) to look for new incidents raised by end users.

Resolving the incidents in the Service-now tool with proper resolution steps for future use.

Perform peer review for the technical objects before final delivery.

Environment: ECC 6.0

Team Size : 60

Project 4 : Name : Mercury Program

Client : Ernst & Young

Start Date : Oct 2013

End date : Jun 2018

Role : Sr. Developer/Workflow Lead

Ernst & Young (EY) is one of the largest professional service firms in the world and one of the "Big Four" accounting firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PWC. Program Mercury is a large, multi-year, enterprise-wide process transformation that will replace more than 1400 EY business systems and related processes with an integrated, SAP centric platform that will standardize and harmonize activities throughout the organization and significantly improve how EY manages its business. Program Mercury is a key enabler of EY’s Vision 2020, directly supporting the efforts of a number of transformation initiatives across the Firm by streamlining the application portfolio, reducing operating costs and providing a platform to deliver services more efficiently.

Responsible for the developments related to Workflow and Treasury in Finance module

Developed complete custom workflows and integrated with SharePoint using ODATA services

Automated payment run process by combining three activities (Payment run, Batch creation, File generation)

Analyze and Review Business Requirements/Functional Specifications.

Help functional team in completing technical details in functional specification

Help functional team in prototyping

Quality Coordinator.

Track progress of the development & update Project manager proactively.

Escalate issues, risks and changes to the respective Escalation Managers for resolution

Participate in review / status meetings.

Maintain and communicate weekly status reports.

Determine the complexity, provide the estimations to Functional/Process team

Monitor team and provide technical guidance in delivering Objects on time

Review the deliverables and ensure everything is delivered with good quality.

Environment: ECC 7.0, SRM 7.2, Duet Enterprise 2.0 and ABAP Programming

Team Size : 100

Project 5 : Name : PAMS CANADA

Client : Multiple Clients

Start Date : Nov 2011

End date : Sep 2013

Role : Sr. Developer

PAMS stands for Package Application Management Services. PAMS provide services to Clients across Canada. Services are Application help desk, Functional configuration management, Delivery process management and competency, Application management and operations, Infrastructure support, Transition services, Development and testing and Network and hosting design. Canadian Package Application Services Organization provides onsite, remote support, and shared support models with service delivery centers located in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal.

I have been assigned multiple clients to support Technical area in different modules like SD, MM, WM, FI and HR. My role is to gather requirement details from Business Analysts or customer and estimating the task, getting approval for the estimation, proceeding with the development and delivering.

I have been involved in customized SMS system design and development to handle ADR (Asset Disposal Requests) for BCGov. Developed SMARTFORMS for AIR type PO and ADR sales receipt and ADR Summary reports. Developed Reports and Enhancements for Cash and Carry Sales. Developed WEB Services for Internal Order and PR creation using BAPI.

Involved in BCGov and BCLC System upgrades ( Unicode and OSS Note Corrections )

Performed the Runtime Analysis and SQL trace and analyzed the performance of Programs, Screens and Function modules created in ABAP/4 Workbench

Monitoring short dumps in Production systems and fix them by finding root cause.

Developed Inbound Account Payable and Account Receivable interfaces for BCLC

Developed Customized QM Notification Interface for Prinoth using BAPI’s. Implemented BADI’s ‘NOTIF_EVENT_SAVE’ and ‘WORKORDER_UPDATE’.

Developed complex pricing routines to calculate condition values in Sales.

Developed and modified all kinds of RICEFW objects as part of AMS support.

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Project 6 : Name : SAP Implementation

Client : Alberta Treasury Branches

Start Date : Jan 2011

End date : Nov 2011

Role : Sr. Developer/Team Lead

ATB Financial ("ATB") is a full-service financial institution headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ATB is the largest Alberta-based financial institution, with assets of $26.5 billion. Some 5,000 associates provide Personal and Business Financial Services, Agri-Industry, Corporate Financial Services, and Investor Services to more than 670,000 Albertans in 242 communities.

Ensure support tasks are completed and objectives met consistent with service level objectives.

Maintain and modify support processes defined in the transition phase.

Manage the quality of the personnel assigned in support roles.

Ensure support personnel are trained according to job requirements.

Worked directly with the ATB program manager to establish the overall framework.

Assign and coordinate IBM resources in accordance with the Resource Plan.

Tracks Knowledge Transfer status against the plan, takes action to ensure timely completion of tasks.

Reporting KT progress daily and cutover risks weekly before Go-Live. Keeping the customer contact, project employees and offshore team informed.

Confirming all project information is being centrally stored, shared and available to team.

Prepare a monthly status report which will identify the status of knowledge transfer activities to date, any issues encountered and recommendations.

Participated in four Dress rehearsal cycles before Go-Live. Provided technical solutions for the issues identified in EOD process and Application log.

Provide visibility to management of service delivery issues.

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Project 7 : Name : LaGov ERP Implementation

Client : Louisiana state

Start Date : Feb 2009

End date : Nov 2010

Role : Cell Lead

The LaGov project is a statewide implementation of SAP 6.0. The implementation is a phased approach that includes Financials, Logistics and Linear Assets. The project has a potential impact to approximately 12,000 end users and 450 million constituents statewide.

Responsibility: Technical solution design, Specification documentation, coding, testing and UTP

Major Developments Involved:

Custom program to redistribute House Bill-1 appropriated Project related-expenditures posted in one Fund across multiple Funds based on criteria.

Extensively involved in development of module pool programs for RF devices in WM.

SMARTFORM for Customer Invoices. Credit memo, Pick list and barcode labels for WM.

Conversions for Non-FI Business Partner, Internal Order, Settlement Rules and etc.

Interfaces for Internal Order, Site Manager PO Create and Change and etc.

User Enhancements, customization of standard Reports.

Provided technical and investigative support for functional users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues, testing, service pack upgrades and adhoc report requirements

Continued support for production issues as third level production support specialist.

Incorporated code instrumentation in select transaction with Application Response Measurement (ARM) API to enable performance monitoring and tracking.

Supported user community in defining Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Investigated causes of SLA non-conformance with profilers, Oracle traces and SQL-LAB.

Performance tuning, SQL query enhancements, code enhancements to achieve performance targets

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Project 8 : Name : Trading SAP

Client : Shell

Start Date : Apr 2007

End date : Jan 2009

Role : Team Lead

As a Team Lead responsible for Design, development, testing and implementation of customized ERP solutions for new implementation and upgrades for Shell Trading and Shipping International Company.

Responsible for leading a team in offshore delivering solution to our customer in the Oil sector.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control of technical issues.

Responsible for effective communication between the team and the onsite. Provide day to day direction to the team and regular project status to the customer.

Translate customer requirements into Technical design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Utilize in-depth knowledge of Technical experience in ABAP programming skills to deliver solutions to customer.

Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Major Developments involved:

Developed “FI only (Non-PO) Invoice Workflow” to automate Invoice processing.

Developed “LIV (Material) Invoice Workflow” to automate Invoice processing.

Developed Purchase Requisition Approval workflow using Release strategy.

Developed Purchase Order Approval workflow using Release strategy.

Developed FI related Inbound interfaces as per requirement.

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Nov 2004 – Jan 2007, Consultant Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd, India

Project 1 : Name : AMS Project

Client : Hitachi Global Solutions

Start Date : Oct 2005

End date : Jan 2007

Role : Technical Consultant

As a Consultant Venkatakrishna involved in Preparing technical specification preparation, coding, code walk through and testing activities. As a developer, responsible for developing and changing reports using ALV, SAP scripts, User Exit’s, function modules, interfaces, batch data communication (BDC) programs in SD, MM,FI modules for one of the world top Home Consumer Electronics, Medical Solutions, power and industrial development company Hitachi.

Coding, testing, analyzes and implement applications (and changes to existing

Applications) and evaluate performance

Supports existing SAP systems and continues to rollout future releases

Works with Business Analysts and Customers to understand business user requirements

for new reports, interfaces, conversion programs and forms

Technical issue identification, resolution, and status reporting. Determine root cause and

potential solutions.

Responsible for the creation of complete technical documentation and Perform Testing

and QA activities

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Project 2 : Name : AMS Project

Client : Steelcase

Start Date : Mar 2005

End date : Sep 2005

Role : Technical Consultant

As a Programmer Analyst for developing and changing the SAP Reports and handling production support issues in module WM for one of the largest furniture manufacturing company steel case. Some of the important tasks carried out in this project are: As part of the Support Team for Steel case Warehouse management, I used to monitor and support the activities carried out at the customer end. And provide online solutions to the customer’s problem and carryout the development and change activities for the customer requirements.

Report Program to Display the Bin Stock Details.

Changed Reports to add new functionality.

COPA SAP to BW Audit Report.

Added new Data Dictionary Elements

Maintained existing ABAP Programs

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Project 3 : Name : AMS Project

Client : Stanley Works

Start Date : Nov 2004

End date : Feb 2005

Role : Technical Consultant

Stanley Works is 150-year-old company, which is a global manufacturer in Tools, Hardware, Doors and Home Decor Products. It offers about 54000 different products for professional, Industry and consumers.

Some of the important tasks carried out in this project are.

Function Module to build table with Material information.

Report program to display the list of IDOC’s based on a selection criteria along with its current status.(Same as WE05)

Developed FI Check and CD Check layout and driver program.

Developed Screen Exit for Purchase Order By adding four custom Screen Fields accordingly changed the Purchase Order header table to hold these values.

Done changes in Layout’s like Purchase Order, Sales Order, Invoice and Packing Slip.

Environment: SAP-ABAP

Sep 04 - Oct 04, Consultant Conifer Information Technologies, Inc.

Project 1 : Name : AMS Project

Client : Thomson multi media

Start Date : Sep 2004

End date : Oct 2004

Role : ABAP Consultant

In this project mainly involved in Enhancements, Maintenance and Development. The specifications and objects developed followed strict coding, naming and performance tuning guidelines according to TMM norms. Each object went through at least 3 levels of review before being delivered to the client THOMSON MULTI MEDIA.

Change Material authorization group for range of materials: Developed BDC programs to change material authorization group for range of materials using MM02 transaction.

Purchase Order Report: Modified the layout set for purchase order information to add company address and included standard text according to the user requirements.

RFQ Report: Modified the layout set for request for quotation.

Delivery Challan Report: Modified the layout for populating the values in the preprinted format of delivery challan.

As a part of MIS Reports: Developed reports for MM, SD modules. Daily, monthly and yearly – Production, Consumption, Dispatches & Closing stock

Jan 02 - Aug 04, Software Engineer Prosoft Programs (India) Ltd.

Project 1 : Name : COBOL to JAVA

Client : Internal

Start Date : Apr 2003

End date : Aug 2004

Role : Programmer

This project involves the conversion of MF COBOL application into JAVA using third party tools like MF Mainframe Express. It involves analyzing the existing COBOL application and reengineering the system as of a whole. Other efforts goes into conversion of flat files, in which existing applications holds some part of the data, into RDBMS form. New system contains JSP/Servlet components which holds the COBOL application's business logic. All the screen sections of COBOL code has been converted into Web based screens using technologies like JSP, JavaScript & HTML. This project also used some third party tools to convert COBOL flat files into XML Documents.

Contribution: Involved in GUI Interface, coding Servlets, JSP’s, Development of components.

Environment: JAVA

Project 2 : Name : Company Build

Client : Internal

Start Date : Jan 2002

End date : Mar 2003

Role : Programmer

The main aim of this project is Application provider. When any company registering in this. Then the company structure is formed. The structure is from main branch to the dealers, manufacturing unit and go downs. The dealer will give the purchase order after that main branch or nearest branch will make the Quotation. Based on this Quotation manufacture or go down will deliver the products. Based on this delivery Invoice will generate. Like this total communication will flow.

Contribution: Writing EJB Components, coding Servlets and JSP’s, mainly worked in Invoice module.

Environment: JAVA

Trainings Completed:

Advance Workflow.

Adobe Forms.

ABAP Web Dynpro Programming

SAP Solution Manager

SAP Gateway Services

ABAP Object Oriented Programming

ABAP HR

ABAP for HANA

Certifications:

SAP Certified Development Specialist - ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0

References: Available upon request

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