Balaraju Pandiri
Lead Consultant
+1-336-***-**** Email : *****.*****@*****.***
Professional Summary Location: North Carolina, USA
** ***** ** ********** ** SAP and good hands-on experience on ABAP, S/4 HANA, Workflow, APO, FIORI, BTP Integration and BTP-ABAP(RAP) and Conceptual Module experience on SD, MM, OTC, FI, PP, WM, QM, IFRS16, SAP-APO AND IBP. I have played different roles as an ABAP Developer, Team Lead, and worked on Implementation, S/4 HANA Migration and Rollout projects in SAP. I have very good exposure of working with critical deadlines, agile methodology techniques, Quick learning of new SAP technologies and worked actively with recruitment panel in profile screening.
SAP Expertise:
Expertise in handling Reports, OO reports, BADI’S, USEREXITS AND EEWB(APO), BAPI’s, LSMW, BDC ALE-
IDOC’s, FILE INTERFACE, Workflow, Transaction variants, ALV & OOALV’S, Scripts &SMARTFORMS, EDI, Web
Services, Module pool programming, Interfaces, RF screen programming (ITS) and ODATA Services.
Preparing BRD, FS, TS, Unit testing, SIT and UAT and Peer review of objects using SAP best practice check list
Experience on S/4 HANA, ABAP-HANA, CDS views, AMDP and S/4 HANA Code remediation.
Having knowledge on IBP Planning areas, MDT, attributes creation, time profiles, Key figures, Master data
upload through Data Integration APP and Excel UI, Created Statistical fore casting, and Demand planning
using S&OP operators.
FIORI: Creating Groups, Catalogs and Tiles in Fiori Dashboard and Apps using BAS and VB Studio
BTP Integration: iFlow Design, Monitor using SOAP and ODATA adapters.
ABAP RESTFul Application programming: Created view entities, Behavior definitions, Authorizations, Service definitions and Service binding.
Technical Expertise
Systems: SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, S/4 HANA 1.0, HEC, IBP 2105, BTP, ABAP Cloud
Programming Language: C, C++, ABAP, HANA UI5 and SQLM, HTML, CSS, UI5, Java Script
Tools: ALM tracker, Swift, ATC, SAP Solmon, BAS, VB Studio, ADT, GitHub, Eclipse
Education Qualification
Completed Graduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU, India 2005.
Professional Experience
Working as a Lead consultant for Wipro Limited from October 2019.
Worked as Lead Architect for Eland Systems from April 2018 to September 2019.
Worked as a Technical Manager for KPIT Technologies from Feb 2010 to April 2018.
Worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Pyramid IT from September 2009 to January 2010.
Worked as an ABAP Developer for Nelito systems from December 2008 to March 2009.
Certifications
SAP Certified Application associate – SAP-IBP for Supply Chain (2108).
SAP Certified Development Specialist - ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0.
International Exposure
Visited China for 1-week workshop and Co-ordinated team in India with teams in South Korea and China.
VF Apparel retail, North Carolina, USA February 2022 to till date
Implementer: Wipro
Role: Technical Consultant
Business area: S/4 HANA, ABAP, ABAP Cloud, FI
VF Corporation is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies connecting people to the lifestyles, activities, and experiences they cherish most through a family of iconic outdoor, active and workwear brands. It is in Greensboro, NC, United States.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Working as a Senior S/4 HANA ABAP consultant to handle the objects individually and coordinating with
Domain leads to analyses the gap between SAP Products and customer requirement.
Understanding Functional Design document and preparing technical design documents.
Implementing the functionality as per the requirement with best practices and perform the unit test.
Doing peer review and updating the tracker on status of code review.
Working with recruitment team to evaluate candidates as per project requirements.
Developed Objects:
Developed Travel and Booking App using RESTFul application programming model.
Established connection between ADT and BTP.
Implemented authorization for RESTFul application.
Developed IDoc Interface for vendor payments.
Vendor data creation using LSMW.
Developed the LSMW to upload the bank details.
Simplified currency conversion logic in report using CDS view and SQL functions. Report performance and customer experience have been improved after implementing CDS.
Developed LSMW to create the FI documents in S/4 HANA system for open AR items from ECC systems.
Developed the reports to download the credit notes of customer from the ECC system and upload the credit notes into S/4 HANA system.
Trouble shooting of IDOC’s and change the IDOC and reprocessing.
Developed the AMDP method to list out top 10 sales orders
Colgate-Palmolive Consumer Products, USA October 2019 to January 2022
Implementer: Wipro
Role: Lead Consultant
Business area: APO, IBP, FIORI and ABAP
Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It specializes in the production, distribution and provision of household, health care, personal care and veterinary products
Roles & Responsibilities:
Worked as a Senior ABAP consultant to handle the objects individually and coordinating with Domain leads.
Understanding Functional Design document and preparing technical design documents.
Coding with coding standards and implementing the functionality as per the client requirement.
Doing code review and updating tracker on status of code review.
Developed Objects:
Designed FIORI App for product and supplier details with Create, Update and Delete mode.
Master details app for browsing orders using FIORI.
Created Work list app for sales order header and item details using FIORI BAS.
Fixed CORS issue while connecting ODATA in FIORI BAS.
Developed the email functionality using routine that is linked to the output type of Delivery document.
Check the quantity availability in Alternative source during order creation and overwrite the plant for Edit and Merging order.
QM lot update to MD04 during good receipt using handling units.
Implemented Notes for CCR performance issue of inspection lots.
Making the available quantity invisible in MD04 if there is no quantity or negative quantity.
Added custom fields to alert monitor transaction /SAPAPO/AMON1.
Added custom fields to /SAPAPO/MAT1 transaction using EEWB.
Added custom field like planning group and transport planner to selection window of /SAPAPO/SDP94.
Shipping Calendar date change in /SAPAPO/RRP3
Uploaded the Time periods, Master data and Key figure data using Web UI Data integration App.
Created statistical forecasting with single exponential and double exponential algorithms.
Forecast Error Calculation and ABC/XYZ segment creation and scheduling Jobs using applications Job APP.
Copied data from statistical key figure to consensus demand using copy operator and created heuristic supply view.
E-Land Fashion Retails– Shanghai, China April 2018 to September 2019
Implementer: E-Land systems, India
Role: Lead architect
Business area: FICO and ABAP
E-Land Fashion is a subsidiary of E-Land group which is a South Korean conglomerate headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. E-Land Group takes part in retail malls, restaurants, theme parks, hotels and construction businesses as well as its cornerstone, fashion apparel business. It has operations worldwide through its subsidiary E-Land World.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Worked as a Project lead, coordinating with Domain leads and update object status to client weekly.
Lead the team of 16 members to deliver the objects and provide status to customer.
Doing code review and updating tracker on status of code review.
Understanding Functional Design document and preparing technical design documents.
Coding with coding standards and implementing the functionality as per the client requirement.
Working with recruitment team to evaluate candidates as per project requirements.
Developed Objects:
Worked on IFRS Disclosure report and Integration reports.
Worked on Swift configuration to do vendor payments through Swift server and approval process from SAP to Swift using F110 transaction and placing file using FTP connection.
Worked on IFRS 16 lease agreement objects and reviewer of delivering objects from creations of lease agreement program to delivering vouchers.
Created P/L and Balance statement using BDS document using object-oriented classes.
Avara Pharmaceuticals, Norman, Oklahoma, USA Oct’16 to April 2018
Implementer: KPIT, USA
Role: S/4 HANA- ABAP Lead consultant
Business Areas: ABAP, WM, MM, SD, FI, PP, EHS and QM
Avara Pharmaceutical Services is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) set up
Specifically, to focus on clients’ priorities and provide an exceptional outsourcing experience by delivering on
Commitments.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Worked with domain leads and business partners to give estimation for technical objects and technical
Possibility of functionality.
Worked as ABAP lead to coordinate team and getting daily status of each objects.
Doing code review and updating tracker on status of code review.
Understanding Functional Design document and preparing technical design documents.
Coding with coding standards and implementing the functionality as per the client requirement.
Ensuring the performance of the Programs by doing performance tuning.
Unit testing of objects and preparing unit test documents.
Developed Objects:
Provided customer group as mandatory field for BP transaction using custom enhancement. Customer group 4 and 5 are not mandatory in S/4 HANA BP transaction but user needs customer group 4 and 5 fields in reporting, so I have developed enhancement as per client requirement.
Developed Bank interface to create file for payments to be made to vendor.
Developed PR approval workflow using release code functionality and developed deadline monitoring to pass work item to next level approver if action is not taken in the stipulated time.
Worked on FIORI to workflow integration.
Developed workflow to review and approve for payment proposal through transaction F110 transaction.
Developed BDC program and designed report screen to transfer G/L amount from one account to another.
Developed RF interface to do goods receipt and confirm TO using RF device. Once Transfer order is confirmed, SU label will be printed by default. Developed module pool program, Internet service and ITS application for this application.
Worked on Check form for automatic payment to print forms in different trays of printer using F110.
Developed report to read XML file, creating handling units through packing instructions and posted through COMBHUWE. Then handling unit number is reflected in place of storage unit number for serialization process.
Developed transaction variant for MM02 transaction to give authorization to user specific fields using SHD0.
Worked on Smart forms and scripts for Debit and Credit invoice.
Worked on Enhancement for Auto TO creation and print SU label as soon as GR is done.
Spectrum Brands - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Oct’15 to Oct’16
Implementer: KPIT, India
Role: Senior Lead consultant
Business Areas: ABAP, MM, SD and PP
Spectrum brands is diversified consumer Products Company and a leading supplier of consumer products, personal care products, and small household appliances. Spectrum Brands' products are sold by the world's top 25 retailers and are available in more than one million stores in approximately 160 countries. Spectrum Brands Holdings generated net sales of approximately $4.43 billion in fiscal 2014.
Developed Objects:
Need to check ECC objects using HANA tool to migrate to HANA Date base to make compatible ABAP code to
HANA database and used ATC to do changes related to pool and cluster tables.
Created ODATA service for Employer details using SEGW and IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE TCODES.
Worked on EDI IDOC customer exit for sending freight data along with PO data to vendor using IDOC qualifiers.
Worked on production-controlled label design for goods movement between work centers.
Worked on commercial and Proforma commercial invoice by using shipping number.
Developed Cancel back-order report, screen enhancement for custom field and user exits for updating
Customer field when user changes plant in sales order and delivery deletion.
Developed Shipping OO ALV report.
Developed scheduled attainment report for planned orders.
Developed Inbound OO report for planning order creation form JDA file.
Developed reports for display confirmed planed orders and production orders.
Puget Sound Energy - Bellevue, Washington, USA June’15 to Sep’15
Implementer: KPIT, India
Role: Senior Lead consultant
Business Areas: ABAP, ISU
Puget Sound Energy is Washington State’s oldest local energy company, providing electric and natural gas service to homes and businesses primarily in the vibrant Puget Sound area. PSE’s service area is home to some of America’s most recognized and respected businesses, including the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Weyerhaeuser, Starbucks, Costco and Nordstrom.
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Senior Programmer, Worked on S/4 HANA ABAP Code Remediation objects in HANA migration project.
Worked on Simple finance objects related to HANA ABAP Code remediation objects.
ESI - Portland, Oregon USA Sept’14 to June’15
Implementer: KPIT, India
Project Type: Upgrade and Implementation
Role: Senior Lead consultant
Business Areas: ABAP, WM, MM, SD and PP
ESI is a leading supplier of innovative, laser-based manufacturing solutions for the micro technology industry. It was founded in 1944 ESI delivers world-class systems expertise, with global operations from the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Rim.
Developed Objects:
Developed report to generate positive pay outbound program
Developed report to list MRP Requirements for all materials in a plant
Developed credit memo report for auditing.
Developed Daily FI Journal Entry Report for Auditing.
Worked on exit to allow post goods a receipt 3 days prior to Scheduled Delivery .
Implemented material availability report.
Developed report for uploading purchasing data of new material using BAPI.
HP Services, Bangalore, India Aug’10 to Aug’14
Implementer: KPIT, India
Project Type: Implementation Project.
Role: ABAP Developer (2 years), Technical lead (1 year) and Project lead (1 Year)
Business Areas: ABAP, MM, SD and FI
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. HP was founded in 1939 and headquarters are in Palo Alto, California with global work force of around 300000. Its revenue for FY10 is 126 billion USD. It is fortune 10 in US and Fortune 26 in global.
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Team lead, I have done project management and Implemented objects.
Checking the requirement in ALM Tool and assigning requirement to team to analyze and prepare
Design documents in same tool to get approval from Business.
Make sure to get approval from Business team for all design documents which are uploaded into ALM Tool.
Analyzing FS (Design document) and TS Preparation from design documents.
Coding with coding standards and implementing the functionality as per the client requirement.
Performing code review for the objects and Unit test of objects.
Developed objects:
Implemented Two Web services for Automation of credit card functionality in learning management system .
Extract data from Legacy SAP (4.6C) into Spreadsheet to move it to third party LMS tool.
Report for consolidating Area menu reports from SE43N and create consolidated report in Area menu.
SERP tree report for pending quote updates using BAPI.
Created Routine through VOFM to propose price to material based on material group and Business Code.
Automation of creating Project definition, WBS element and planning activity (CJR2).
Developed BDC program that transfers the Material Data related to Basic data, MRP1, MRP2,
Work scheduling and storage views into the R/3 from legacy system through a Flat file .
Designed and coded a BDC program to migrate Vendor Master Data from legacy system to SAP R/3
Worked on material creation approval workflow to give updates on Material creation and change.
Sony - Bangalore, India Feb’10 to July’10
Implementer: KPIT, India
Project Type: Implementation
Role: ABAP Developer
Business Areas: ABAP, FI and CO
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational company, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media company with revenue exceeding US$77.20 billion (FY2010).
Developed Objects:
Created outbound interface for CO actual item data.
Developed an ALV Report for vat analysis and finished goods.
Developed an OOALV Report for Material Usage variance at subcontractor
Chevron, California, USA Sep’09 to Jan’10
Implementer: Accenture, India
Project Type: APO Implementation
Role: APO Developer
Business Areas: ABAP and APO
Chevron is one of the world's largest integrated energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, conducting business in more than 100 countries.
Developed Object
Uploading inventory data from OCS (Non-SAP system) to SAP APO for planning stock at distribution Center.
Lexmark - Lexington, Kentucky, USA Dec’08 to Mar’09
Implementer: TCS, India
Project Type: Implementation
Role: ABAP Developer
Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing and imaging solutions for offices and homes. Lexmark reported $5.0 Million in revenue in 2007, with approximately half of that revenue coming from international sales.
Developed Objects
Creating Payment file to the Bank and uploading Electronic Bank Statements into SAP using EDI
Interface
Data will be retrieved from SBB suppliers and transferred to SAP-APO by using IDOC.
Updating standard transaction ME22n with Order acknowledgement data using EDI-IDOCS.