Techno-Functional Consultant Sap Mdg

Lakshman Daggupati

Senior SAP MDG Techno-Functional Consultant

Phone: +1-201-***-****

Email: ******************@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmandaggupati/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Enthusiastic and dedicated professional with demonstrated ability with overall 10+ years of experience as Senior SAP MDG Techno-Functional Consultant in SAP ERP design, development, performance tuning, Configuration and Testing. Involved in many full cycle implementations of SAP projects by developing and testing the application. Experience with different types of SAP MDG projects like Implementation, upgrade, maintenance, Integration and Support for reputed clients into different business sectors. Experience in industry solutions for Government, Retail, Manufacturing & Logistics, Consumer Goods. An excellent team player, Technology enthusiast with a positive and can-do attitude with extensive experience in agile and scrum methodologies and strong written and verbal communication skills.

SKILLS:

Experienced in implementation of Master Data Governance and Master Data Management solutions in end-to-end manner. Worked on various aspects of MDG Solution like configuration, Data Modeling, UI Modeling, BRF+ Tool, Data Replication.

Expertise in BRF/BRF+ Framework, developed very complex BRF+ rules for MDG-Finance, MDG-Material, MDG-Customer and MDG-Supplier CR processing.

Expertise in designing Master Data Management Solution including SAP MDG with SAP ECC.

Good knowledge to FIORI Launchpad configuration and on SAP BPC HANA environment and SAP BTP.

Experienced in MDQ Fiori Configurations & inbound and outbound Web Service calls.

Expertise in Data Mapping with legacy System.

Hands-on experience in creating Tables, procedure, Decision table, Table Function and Various objects.

Strong experience in WebDynpro, XML, IDOC, SOAP and REST based web services technologies.

CHARM – Transport Management

Win shuttle – Data Migration Tool Suite.

Good ABAP knowledge on HANA programming. Worked on ABAP CDS View, HANA View.

Functional Areas - OTC, P2P, PP, CRM, MDG and BRIM.

Good Exposure of SAP NetWeaver Gateway and OData Services development

Good experience of inbound and outbound Web Service calls.

Gateway Services debugging, analysing error logs.

FPM Enhancement & Webdynpro

Workflow configuration and Monitoring.

Good knowledge on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) MDG integration.

Enhancement Spots, BADI, User-exit BAPI, RFC, FM, BTE, OO ABAP

BDC, LSMW

MDG with MDQ, BRF+

SOAP/ALE/IDOCS

Reports: Classical, ALV, Interactive

Data Dictionary

Data Quality and Analytics work experience.

OSS Notes Implementation

Good knowledge on BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation(BPC)

SAP Solution manager

SAP Concur

Agile and Scrum experience, SDLC and ASAP business model, Onsite and offshore Process.

Defect tracking using HP Service Centre, SharePoint, Remedy, JIRA, Automation Testing using QC tool.

Oracle PL/SQL, HTML, XML, NodeJS, Java, Python

Positive attitude, good communicator, excellent team player, leadership qualities.

PROFESIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client: Old Castle Building Envelope [OBE], Texas

Role: SAP Sr. MDG Techno-Functional Consultant 07/2023-Tilldate

Responsibilities:

Successfully designed and defined specific business solutions

Working on MDG-M,MDG-BP, MDG-F

Support and implement auto price conversion to local currency during DIF and single process

Worked on fixing defect in current solution and puposing new solution

Worked on derivation and field validation

Worked on creating custom BRF+ for new process for finance supplier. Agent determination with BRF+ and rule with responsibilities.

Configure Customer Master Data Integration along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms.

Created Design document for MDG custom solutions.

Worked on validation and derivation rules implementation.

Implementation of stored procedures to retrieve data from HANA database schema.

Client: Signify, New Jersey

Role: SAP MDG Consultant 02/2022-06/2023

Responsibilities:

Implemented Consolidated MDG for a Hub-deployment system.

Worked on Finance, BP, and Utopia data models.

DATA REPLICATION FRAMEWORK(DRF) filters applied to the cMDG master data and replicated to the appropriate S/4 instances.

Configured Joint Venture Accounts, Managed General Ledger and Performed Fixed Asset Accounting.

Worked on implementing Finance Master data & integration between regional ERPs to Central Finance instance.

Responsible for validation of Finance Master data mapping and replication between the regional ERPs and Central Finance instance.

Involved in SOA enhancement for custom entity for BP customer and Supplier.

Set up SAP MDG system for Base configuration. Activated business functions and configured Baseline configurations.

Worked on enhancing and adding functionality to the existing SAP BPC HANA landscape, with a specific focus on Financial Planning.

Configured EAM MDC MDQ Solutions by Utopia For S/4HANA.

Worked on SAP EAM master data like Equipment, Functional Location, Work Center,Bill of Material, Tak List, Measuring Point, Maintenance Plan/ Item.

Expertised in Master Data Quality applications(MDQ) by assigning roles and ODATA Configurations for MDQ.

Worked on Key mapping the Functional Location and Maintenance Item.

Created new services to create and send notifications to the agents including Email notifications.

Experienced in working in finance or with company financial data.

Configured rule-based workflow for single level, multi-level and parallel workflows using BRF+ decision tables.

Set up dynamic agent determination based on material types through BRF+ decision tables. Configured derivations and validations through BRF+.

Customized and implemented BADI’s on need basis – dynamic agent determination, email notifications, follow- up change requests, etc.

Configured the HANA search for all domains and worked with security team for all authorizations and roles.

Configured Data Replication Framework (DRF) settings for data replication to other systems. Configured value and key mappings.

Used SAP ChaRM tool to move tasks from development to quality server.

Configured extended workflow notifications for work items. Configured side panel in NWBC for business information display.

Conducted workshops for requirement gathering, understanding business processes and scope, and define a common understandable process. Led sessions explaining to the business users the purposed design.

Prepared functional unit testing documents. Performed unit and integration testing.

Successfully designed and defined specific business solutions for migrating business partner (MDG-BP), customer (MDG-C), supplier (MDG-S) governance, and material governance (MDG-M) with S/4 HANA

Client: Zoetis, New Jersey

Role: SAP MDG Consultant 04/2019-12/2021

Responsibilities:

Worked on BRF+ (ABAP webdynpro) decision tables. (Single value decision table, User agent decision table and non-user agent decision table for the Rule based workflow and Check and Derive for BP_SALES, AD_POSTAL and other entities as well for BP Model)

Worked on master data integration and also data migration using LTMC, LTMOM for cost center, legacy data into SAP S/4 system.

Worked on CVI config for MDG-C implementation.

Worked on Check and Derive BADI's). (USMD_RULE_SERVICE- We have implemented the derivation and checks in the Derive entity and check entity methods. Also, worked on interface programming using BAPI’s.

Worked on API’s, Governance API, change request API and External Model API for creation of change request using Remote function call.

USMD_RULE_SERVICE_CROSS_ET-- Derivation of data based on cross entity. The company code data has been derived based on AD_POSTAL data. So, whenever the country is changed from US to Canada the company code data is changed accordingly.

Worked on troubleshooting Duplicate search functionality. Since the number of entries shown on duplicate search was displaying fixed number of values.

Worked on the API's- Governance API, change request API and External Model API For reading the entity data and creating new change request using Remote function module.

Worked on the Rule based workflow BADI’s as well. USMD_SSW_RULE_CONTEXT_PREPARE to check whether the approval process is two step or not.

Worked on the rule-based workflow Badi USMD_SSW_SYSTEM_METHOD_CALLER to notify the requestor based on the service name to send an external email after successful creation of change request.

Worked on the BADI USMD_SSW_DYNAMIC_AGENT_SELECT to identify the agent if the change request is created by system user id, then the email should be sent to MDG group.

Worked on Feeder classes in the FPM to display OVS search help and worked on FORM UIBB as well to display the field on the UI.

Resolved issues in transport logs while performing transport of copies from Dev system to Quality system and later fixed the transport issues caused while moving object from QA to Production.

Client: Parker, North Carolina

Role: SAP MDG Consultant 05/2016-03/2019

Responsibilities:

Worked on SAP MDG Custom Objects development. Designed custom Data Models for POC Product Hierarchy, Classification – Class, Characteristics & BOM

Config Entity Types, UI Modelling, Process Modelling, Business Activity, BO types, Change Requests, BRF+, Workflow, Enhance/Adapt UIBBs

Analyse Root Cause to provide fixes/solutions for daily tickets, FFID updates, ongoing CR issues, PPOME roles, PFCG assignment. Perform fit gap of business rules, data maintenance processes, roles and SLAs.

Develop OVS search helps, context base adaptations, implemented enhancement spots for systems caller methods to add filters, custom logic.

Configuration of Master Data/ Business Rule Validation and Data Quality.

Python Integration on Data Model and all Raw/ Flat files data feeds pipeline setup.

By reading the Change documents. The workflow sequence is determined Whether the workflow should be a single step or 2 step.

Worked on context prepare BADI, Dynamic selection of Agent BADI in the rule-based workflow.

Getting the requirements from business (Product Owner) and creating user stories in agile.

Adding technical details to user stories in agile.

Worked on end-to-end configuration for customer master.

Worked with business users to gather requirements.

Worked on customer master setup from end-to-end by configuring the system.

Worked on activation of Web Dynpro functions, activating business functions, BC sets, setting up number ranges for role assignment from BP to customer & customer to BP, CVI integration.

Worked on Integration between SAP MDG, ECC, third Party systems using SAP PI.

Data quality & search - enabled database search for the address fields& worked on duplicate check functionality.

Process modelling - worked on configuring the new change requests, activated event type linkage for the workflow configuration, defined reasons, and priorities.

Enabled rule-based workflow for three step approval process depending online on business.

Worked on production support for data loads for each location by carrying out CVI settings according to the account group.

Worked on mass Processing and updating custom program developments to take the feed from different systems and to run in background for z-fields & standard field updates.

SAP Data Quality Management, microservices Integration with SAP Master Data Governance

Established data replication framework using ALE/IDOC setup for syndication to downstream systems

Worked on reduced message type by blocking segment data etc.

Implemented validations sing BADI's and various defaults using BRF+.

Handled initial load data for vendors & Employees in production.

Worked with ECC team for business requirements on account groups for various validations.

Customized and configured MDG and ECC Logical system definitions, backend system definitions for products/ materials, and BRF+ configuration for workflow processing.

Gather functional and business requirements from customers, evaluate their needs and create a system design and resultant configuration while working closely together with Concur PM and Technical resources

Perform Project Implementations according to Concur's Project Management Methodology.

Adhered to Concur SOP's to transition customers from implementation to Production Support.

Provided contributions to Concur's project methodology and document library which includes development of new documents/processes as well as updates to existing documents/processes.

Managed third-party systems and SAP Concur integrations to create work plans, monitor and track the work schedule for on time delivery as per the defined quality standards

Worked with security team on MDG roles.

Worked on configuration for Customer UI.

Client: Stryker, Michigan

Role: SAP MDG Consultant 08/2014-02/2016

Responsibilities:

Development and implementation of MDG-S (Supplier Governance) and MDG-M (Material Governance).

MDGIMG Configurations for Material and Supplier.

BRF+ Configurations for Material create approval process.

Configurations for DRF (Data Replication Framework), FPM (Floorplan Manager) for Webdynpro ABAP.

Worked on SAP ECC 6.0 Implementation. I was Key project team member involved in all the phases of upgrade from SAP 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0.

Workflow Development of Create Supplier, Change Supplier, Block/Unblock Supplier and Deactivation Supplier (Object type BUS2250 - MDG Change Request).

Workflow Development of Create Material, Change Material, Extend Material and Material Mark for Deletion.

Created custom UI screen by using UI Modelling and custom change request type by using Process Modelling and Configuration Workbench.

MDG Enhancements for Material Mandate Class, Defaulting Industry Sector.

MDG Enhancements for Supplier Bank data validation, Mask Tax and Bank Numbers.

Worked in DIF (Data Import Framework for Material) to load material into MDG.

MDG Enhancements of add Requester Notification E-Mail field in Vendor and Material UI.

MDGIMG Configurations changes for Material and Supplier.

Workflow changes on Create Material, Change Material, Extend Material and Material Mark for Deletion.

Education

BE-EEE in Electrical &Electronics Engineering

Anna University, Chennai, India – 2012

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