Technology Analyst

Srinivasu Cherupally

Senior SAP Technical Consultant

*** ******** *** ***********, ************ 15146

C 412-***-**** **************@*****.***

Summary

An accomplished and results-driven information technology manager and SAP consultant with extensive experience in implementation, data migration, system development and architecture, project management, interface programs, customer interaction, and code optimization. Leverages exceptional organizational and follow-through skills and an emphasis on details to introduce dynamic technical solutions to operational issues. An innovative performer who builds solid teams that deliver top-level projects within time and budgetary constraints. Collaborates with internal and external parties to ensure cohesion of goals, secure corporate visions, and propel global technology interactions.

Technical Skills

SAP Modules: Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Treasury (TR), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Service Management (SM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM), Collections and Disbursement (FS-CD), DIMP (Metals ECC 6.0), BW, BPC(Planning and Consolidation), LRM, Blackline[Recon. application]

Development: SAP R/3, ABAP/4, Workbench, BDC, LSMW, User Exits, ALE, IDOC, RFC, BAPI, ALV, SAP Script, Smart Forms, Jet Forms, Screen Painter, Report Writer, SAP CRM, LAM, GTS, Object Oriented ABAP, CRM Classes/Methods, Web Services, PI/XI, Workflow

Extensive working knowledge on R(Reports), I(Interfaces), C(Conversions), E(Enhancements), F(Forms), W (Workflow) and W (Web Services).

Professional Experience

Client: BB&T/TRUIST, Greensboro, North Carolina Nov 13 – Aug 22

WORKING AS THE IT ANALYST/Software Engineer III

List of projects at BB&T/TRUIST

Internal Project

Description

Start Date

End Date

R1

SAP GL Implementation

11/05/2013

06/30/2015

R2

SAP AP Implementation

11/05/2013

12/31/2014

R4

SAP BPC Planning Implementation

08/01/2014

12/31/2015

Hyperion Replacement

Implementing Hyperion system functionality in SAP

09/01/2015

12/31/2018

LRM [Liquidity Risk Management]

LRM Implementation

01/01/2018

08/31/2020

UDD Management

UDD Management

03/01/2019

12/31/2019

MOE - Finance GL Track Recon

Blackline Implementation for Reconciliation process

09/01/2020

08/31/2022

Client: Leprino Foods, Denver, CO Nov 12 – Oct 13

Role: Information Technology Analyst and Senior Architect/Developer

Responsibilities:

Working on Release2 phase of SAP Implementation.

Helping the Application services team to co-ordinate development efforts for the rollout strategy.

Developed an PI Interface to integrate with legacy application for the changes in Quality readings in Dairy liquids.

Developed a program to Combine Several Production Orders. Working on SCM/APO development objects. A new heuristic is developed to purge the Production Orders for a Surplus % of quantity. Worked on an enhancement to populate the Availability date on Material/Batch transaction.

Working on a User exit to enhance the pricing determination as per customer specifications.

Client: Bayer, Pittsburgh, PA Oct 07 – Oct 12

Role: Information Technology Analyst and Senior Architect/Developer

Responsibilities:

Worked on various ongoing projects, cycles of improvements, and enhancements using various ABAP technologies such as SAP Scripts, Smartforms, Workflow, Web Services, BDC, Reports, and Note Implementation to achieve business objectives.

Leveraged domain knowledge covering FI/CO, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Service Management modules.

Assisted support team with knowledge transfer of all project development.

Analyzed global business processes and procedures.

Collected business requirements and translated requirements into technical specifications.

Tested SAP technology processes, troubleshooting software or business problems. Participated in SAP project rollouts and enhancements as technical lead.

Used SAP development technologies to perform custom code reviews, analyzing impact of proposed technical solutions.

Led all phases of systems development, from analysis through implementation, production support, and project planning.

Specific Web services experience [part of PI/XI]: Function modules are created in SAP and defined as

RFC’s (Remote function call) in their attributes. It gets published as Web Service with WSDL on SAP server. The URL is obtained from the BSP Application or from SOA MANAGER. The obtained WSDL contains the methods, data structures and the connection parameters required for Interfacing between systems. There is individual security control on Web Services in WAS620 and are available at same folder on server. External application needs to be provided with Specific User/PW to SAP and this User ID should have S_RFC permission to execute RFC (and consequently BAPI’s) in SAP.

Consequently, we can also generate the XML structure with required parameters out of SAP and call the other system for Interfacing data on real time.

Developed the Web Services to Interface data between SAP and Non-SAP systems in the following projects.

I.Implementation of Pilgrim application. This Complaint management system is implemented at Bayer and is Interfaced with SAP for master and transaction data.

The following objects are created as Web Services (Part of Service Oriented Architecture SOA) to Integrate with Pilgrim Software to exchange data with SAP bi-directionally.

(a). Material Master (b). Vendor master (c). Customer master (d). Goods receipt(s) (e). Batch Serial look up (f). Product line and Product interface (g). Complaints.

II.Implementation of SIEBEL. This Customer Relation Management (CRM) system is implemented at Bayer and is Interfaced with SAP for master and transaction data.

Created Web services for the following objects to exchange data between SAP and SIEBEL, (a). Customers (b). Materials (c). Sales Orders (d). Inventory (e). FSR (Field Service reports), (f). Service Requests (Type S3) (g). Back bone program (Main driver program). (h). SMG Customers.

Consulting Industry

Client: Owen Industries, Omaha, NE 2002 – 2007

Role: Senior Analyst for Techno-Functional and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Oversaw new implementation of SAP metals solution.

Maintained involvement in data conversion from legacy BAI system to SAP for material master, bill of materials, inventory, routings, customer master, and vendor master.

Worked on interface for porting employee payroll particulars from ADP into SAP general ledger document.

Designed and developed shop-floor documents including order confirmation, delivery note, picking ticket, quote, invoice, purchase order, check, customer statement, goods receipt, and goods issue slips using Smartform technology.

Client: Charmers Sunbelt Group, Baltimore, MD 2006 – 2007

Role: Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Streamlined supply chain activities in distribution centers for inventory and sales activities.

Developed inbound interface for creating purchase orders in SAP.

Enhanced vendor master for BADI screen to update custom table.

Worked on Smartform for printing purchase orders.

Created report to verify customer sales order for minimum order requirements and automatically create or release delivery block for sales order.

Client: FMC Corporation, Philly, PA 2004 – 2006

Role: Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Incorporated transport management module in SAP as subset to sales and distribution activities.

Formulated new routed SNF transportation zones.

Completed custom transaction to handle variants, enabling pick up of deliveries for shipment route.

Configured batch jobs to run and pick open orders for assignment of routes, delivery schedules, and transportation details.

Used LSMW for data conversion for ship-to customers. Utilized user-exit for order processing to handle listings and exclusions for order types dealing with consignments.

Developed order status report in ALV format and configured new output types in IMG to handle client-specific requirement.

Created and configured legal forms related to bill of lading, delivery, order confirmation, and purchase order in IMG.

Activated inbound IDOCs for schedule agreements and sales orders of IDOC delineations and orders respectively.

Applied OSS notes to correct problems occurring during transaction run of FB08.

Client: Phillips Respironics, Pittsburg, PA 2002 – 2006

Role: Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Led team of four to effectively migrate and integrate acquisition of Novametrix and Children's Ventures.

Handled data migration using LSMW for material master and sales order transactions.

Created web interface for ITS involving portal web order creation. Developed quality management reports for listing out service orders with notifications and details of materials.

Implemented project to convert existing layouts and print programs of all Jet Forms into Smartforms and Sleeplab database, allowing internet access by sales force across country.

Completed upgrade project to SAP R/3 4.7 (enterprise version) from 4.6C and analyzed layout designs and accompanying logic available in Jet Forms, SAP Scripts, and print programs.

Converted numerous programs including invoice, credit memo, debit memo, rental invoice, delivery note and packing slip, commercial invoice, picking list, quotation, manifest, order confirmation, and e-commerce receipt.

Integrated internet access via ColdFusion for Sleeplab database project and generated reports.

Managed go-live issues, tuning performance in sales order creation and making report changes and enhancement changes related to inbound or outbound IDOC processing from GENTRAN EDI subsystem at client place.

Worked on IDOCs for sales order receipt and confirmation. Developed interface to enter sales order from WEB to SAP through BAPI in VB 5.0.

Completed data migration project to integrate acquisition into existing SAP system for finance, costing, materials, inventory, service management, production planning, and sales and distribution.

Designed BDC call transaction programs to load data into SAP for material, purchase order, inventory, equipment, and pricing data. Collaborated with offshore team of four during data migration for program testing and final delivery.

Modified sniper programs to correct data issues and change fields on SAP transaction screens. Provided “alternate unit of measure” user exit and related development in SAP.

Created data migration reconciliation report, extract programs, cross-reference programs, and tables. Assisted in dryrun, actual cutover process, and reconciliation process.

Generated reports for automatic reconciliation of all cash and general ledger accounts for profit centers, extracting data from general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivables, fixed asset management, and funds management modules.

Supplied onsite SAP production support for two months after go-live, creating and changing reports and correcting SAP copy programs for new functionalities.

Worked on service management tasks to fix serial number issue and generated reports to list out related service orders.

Client: Allstate Insurance, Chicago, IL 2005

Role: Techno-Functional Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Worked on insurance industry-specific implementation for integrating disparate systems into SAP[FS-CD] collections and disbursements solution.

Maintained involvement in project from design stage to go-live date.

Handled creation of first-party and third-party business partner payment plan procedures, running payment program for printing disbursement checks for insurance claims.

Coded new ‘payment program’ to handle specific requirements of company check printing, including business bi-fold, trifold, and duplex printing.

Client: Johnson Controls, Holland, MI 2004

Role: Senior Analyst and Senior ABAP/4 Developer

Responsibilities:

Transferred data from SAP to external systems through interface programs developed in SAP.

Worked with interfaces and conversions on new SAP Implementation for sales and distribution, materials management, and finance modules.

Performed segments mapping and conversion and defined partner profiles and EDI output types on materials management.

Used LSMW technology of SAP for data conversion objects in open sales orders, bank master, vendor master, asset master, and material master, creating condition records for pricing. Worked on ALE, IDOC, and BAPI technologies for interfaces.

Set up environment including connection to source system, ALE, and IDOC settings in BW and source system with distribution model and partner profiles.

Troubleshot problems in materials management and sales and distribution functional modules.

Activated self-billing process through inbound IDOC available in SAP IS-AUTO, modifying inbound function module to meet business requirement of client.

Created partner profiles and port definitions to handle communication between WBI layer and SAP for single-item creation.

Managed error handling, error notification, and administration of IDOC status.

Client: IBM, Armonk, NY 2002 – 2003

Role: Analyst and Leasing Specialist

Implemented product development under SAP CRM for leasing and asset management solution.

Worked extensively on development objects related to end-of-lease activities.

Constructed report to capture errors for corrective actions during creation of contracts and offers.

Used object-oriented ABAP and CRM function modules to create report.

Interfaced program to download all contracts and offers data including asset, pricing, vendor, customer, invoice, and payment from CRM system to DB/2.

Utilized CRM classes and methods to write programs.

Developed requests for comments to communicate between systems.

Created customer-specific data elements, domains, and structures to handle screen and report transactions.

Additional Experience

GATX TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, Tampa, Florida, Senior ABAP/4 Developer, 2000-2002. Implemented SAP R/3 modules and supported Terminations-2 project to optimize process for 100% match of lease-returned terminated assets with established criterion. Led team of four in data migration, reporting, and acquisition integration. Produced reports for contract balance, active and continuing leases, lease origination cost, and fast asset and equipment mass transactions. Created report for quality department to validate material for inspection lot. Executed full-blown dry run, rollout plan, and migrated system while maintaining 100% uptime. Wrote equipment fast-load program using BAPI to increase data load performance by ten times.

NATIONAL CEMENT, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Senior Programmer and Analyst, 2000. Led SAP implementation and developed product-costing report on profitability analysis and customer accounts and reconciliation statements.

TISCO IRON & STEEL, Calcutta, India, Programmer and Analyst, 1999-2000. Rolled-out SAP R/3 finance, materials management, and sales and distribution modules. Developed debit note program and modified voucher printing.

RELIANCE CYBERTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, Hyderabad, India, ABAP/4 Developer and Systems Analyst, 1998-1999. Modified SAP standard layout sets and prints programs. Developed reports for Country India Version per legal requirements. Interfaced program for transferring general ledger account numbers from legacy system to SAP. Extracted document types to flat file to provide consolidated reports. Used SAP Script to modify system defined layout sets, reports, and letter generation.

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES, Brisbane, Australia, Systems Analyst and ABAP/4 Developer, 1998.

GEO SOFT TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Bangalore, India, Systems Analyst and ABAP/4 Developer, 1997-1998. Created new transaction for automatic clearing of invoice verification. Created new transaction for form with issue, print, display, and summary report functionalities. Modified layout set, reports, and dialog programs and related documentation. Conducted master data migration from legacy to SAP. Developed new transaction for processing billing documents.

Education:

INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, M.B.A., 2009

OSMANIA UNIVERSITY, Hyderabad, India, B.S., Engineering, 1989

Professional Development

SAP Web Service Applications, 2008

SAP Workflow, 2007

SAP Customer Interaction Center, 2005

SAP Smartforms, 2004

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