Senior SAP ABAP Technical Lead & Architect

Vinod Mony

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Senior SAP Technologist & Consultant

High-impact, IT manager and technical architect, offering 20+ years of demonstrated industry experience in providing innovative, leading-edge SAP technical solutions across multiple industry verticals Insurance, retail, consumer products, and city governments. Held various roles as SAP Lead Developer, Release Manager, and Architect. Able to take over failing projects, hit the ground running, and directly impact the bottom-line. Deep, broad-based SAP R/3 expertise in application development in SD, MM, PP, QM, FI-CO, FS-CD, and WM environments, using ABAP.

Certified SAP consultant in ABAP/4 from SAP Partner Academy. Proven success in leading global SAP initiatives from inception through implementation: successfully championed 8 full lifecycle SAP implementation projects in the US, France, Germany, Japan, and India. Assisted global client companies in implementation and support of SAP solutions; improve business processes in areas of finance, operations, IT services, governance, risk, and compliance.

Adept at improving enterprise business performance, responding effectively to crisis situations and executing against clients’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) custom needs using SAP and ABAP. Providing hands-on guidance to cross-functional teams of business users and key stakeholders in delivering substantial revenue, productivity, and quality improvements.

Well versed in leading global technical teams to deliver critical projects on-time and within budget. Worked extensively in cross-functional SAP applications like ALE, IDOCs. Delivered multiple full life-cycle projects integrating SAP R/3 applications with Cloud based front end .NET applications using ODATA. Proficient in HANA Modeling using Calculation

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CORE COMPETENCIES

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project Management Continuous Process Improvement

SAP Implementation SAP Hana Modeling ODATA Development Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Data Analytics Cost Reduction Change Management Solution Manager Resource Planning

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies Jira S4 Hana Client Relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quidel Ortho; SAP Development Lead 02/2020 – Present

Key Projects:

S4 HANA Implementation(2022 Present):

· SAP S/4HANA system Design, participate in BRD document process for critical business design in OTC.STP,ITD,RTT and STM streams which required special attention; Reviewed and signed-off 100+ of technical specification for all project steams ensuring overall solution integrity and completeness

· SAP Green Field Implementation using RISE, Created Custom Fields using CFL . ATO setup

· Created RAP Report with read only application. Created RAP application with Managed and unmanaged Service

· Worked on EWM with Actions and action profile and Action Badi

· Designed integrated cross module solution involving (SD, MM, FI, EWM, PP. QM). Special focus on whole supply chain flow and OTC processes; various costing processes (overhead, standard and actual) in finance. Multi region greenfield (USA, LATAM, EUROPE, ASPAC).

· Deep dive workshops on integration between SFDC and SAP SD Order fulfilment. Prepared in-depth solution document for interface build and system remediation

· Coordinated cross functional Teams to deliver the Project against aggressive deadlines

SAP ECC system Projects and Support(2020 Present):

Worked on Projects and support for QO in multiple ECC SAP systems

Project lead of ECC upgrade to EHP7; Code remediation, testing and cutover activities for SAP upgrade

Applexus Technologies; SAP Technical Architect 08/2019 – 08/2020

Key Projects:

Hudson Group, Rutherford, NJ (08/2019 – 08/2020):

SAP Pilot Project project of Hudson Group. Leading data migration effort of Master Data: Vendor Master, Article Master, etc

AIG, Parsippany, NJ; Senior SAP Developer/Technical Architect 09/2007 – 08/2019

Key Projects:

Appian/SAP Integration at AIG (2018 2019):

Integrated Appian with SAP to improve efficiency of accounts receivable system and management oversight. Adopted OData messaging to provide real-time access to SAP data.

Coordinated cross functional Teams to deliver the Project against aggressive deadline

SAP Hana Analytical Reporting/Decommission of Datawarehouse (2016 2017):

Migrated analytical reporting from SAP BW DW to SAP ERP transactional system, leveraging SAP Hana. Reimplemented BW Cubes in R3 Transactional system using HANA Calculation views. Decommission of SAP BW saving $5M and improved report performance by 75%.

First SAP Business Suite on Hana customer to go live with analytical reporting directly on the ERP application

SAP ERP upgrade to Hana DB, migration to AWS hosting (2015 2017):

Supported the upgrade of SAP to EHP7, migrated database from DB2 to Hana database, migrated hosting from on-premise mainframe to AWS cloud hosting in private VPC.

Code remediation, testing and cutover activities for SAP upgrade and migration to Hana DB / AWS cloud-based hosting. $1.5M savings in hosting costs and 40% improvement in performance.

Transition of BAU support to offshore team(2011 –2013):

Conducted and coordinated KT for the transition of BAU support to offshore Manila-based team, eliminating 3rd party vendor resources, reducing costs and improving knowledge and skills retention.

SAP FS-CD Implementation for UK (2010 2012):

Led offshore vendor development teams for SAP accounts receivable development, completed a successful go-live of SAP CD solution for AIG UK. We implemented automated receivables posting, billing, cash application, clearing, dunning, write-off and workflow approvals for disbursements.

SAP FI-CO Implementation (2009-2010):

Designed and developed Interfaces and Enhancement for FI-CO Module.

SAP Application Support and Enhancement (2007 - 2009):

Designed and developed multiple enhancements in CD module, with focus on Cancellations, Dunning, Master Data, Billing, Commissions and Payments processes.

Key Projects with other clients:

Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, NJ:

Championed SAP implementation project (Supply Chain Order Management Accounts Receivable -SOAR) team member of Sony Electronics Inc.

As Solutions Manager, prepared functional and technical Specifications for R/3 and APO development. Served as Lead Developer for data conversions, interfaces, enhancements, and APO development.

Continued…

COACH, NY, SAP Consultant

Technical team member in SAP MM and SD. Supported technical implementation of interface between CSI and CML business objects. Analyzed, designed, and configured computer software and systems in accordance with client needs.

NIKE SUPPLY CHAIN, Portland, SAP Consultant

Oversaw debugging AFS Order Management Production issues. Leveraged development using BAPIs – Sales order creation and update, Invoice update via function modules, for tax classification.

Designed events to trigger Change documents and Change Pointers; and created Idocs for changes and distributed to Partner systems via ALE.

Created Generic Table extractor using ALE: Created events for tables via Table maintenance generator.

NEUTROGENA, Los Angels, CA; SAP Consultant & Lead Developer

Order-Shipment Interface with APO and Pathfinder: This task involved Analysis, Design, and implementation of Order-Shipment Interface between three systems- Pathfinder, R/3 and APO.

GL Interface: Designed and implemented General Ledger Interface to post Revenue detail from Pathfinder into SAP.

Built Smartforms (Bill of Lading, Purchase Order) and mentored 3 junior developers: Advisory role to mentor junior SAP developers of Neutrogena.

VOLKSWAGEN, Auburn Hills, MI; SAP Consultant & Technical Lead/ Lead Developer

Cross-Docking: Developed system to Cross-dock back orders at Regional warehouses as well as Parts Distribution warehouses. Back orders are pre-allocated for dealers using custom transaction.

Achieved results using User-exit for Palletization and putaway strategy - EXIT_SAPML03T_002 and user exit for update task in TO creation - EXIT_SAPLL03T_001 .

Built and facilitated multile systems including many customized tables that hold back order data as well as the links between Transfer orders and back orders. Linking is done in User-exit: EXIT_SAPLL03T_001.

Leveraged batch scheduling to change sales order (via BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE) and create deliveries for X-Docked parts. Picked transfer orders for above-mentioned deliveries and ensured automatic generation.

Physical Inventory: Created a new transaction for physical inventory - for creating and printing inventory document with distinct odd-even separation within the same aisle.

PANASONIC CORPORATION, Secaucus, NJ

Configured Inbound Vendor Partner profiles for Despatch advice and Invoice. Configuring the allocation of company code to EDI vendor. Configuring program parameters for EDI invoices. Coding in user-exits for manipulating invoice information and storing factory invoice number and details.

Developed user exit for IDOC_INPUT_INVOICE to update application. Enhanced standard idoc type ORDS02 logical message type ORDERS for client business requirement by creating new segments, segment fields. Attached custom created functional module to the process code.

Data Conversions: price master conversion, open purchase Orders, Purchase Info records.

Previous Experience: TDS, Wisconsin; SAP Consultant; SLOAN VALVES, Chicago, IL; SAP ABAP Consultant; ARVIND MILLS, India; SAP ABAP Consultant; SIEMENS TELECOM, Paris, France; ABAP Consultant; ESSAR STEEL, India; SAP Consultant; CITY OF LEVERKUSEN, Germany; SAP ABAP Consultant; CITY OF ESSEN, Germany

EDUCATION, TRAINNG & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TRIVANDRUM, India

Bachelor of Technology in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation

Professional Certifications & Training:

Certified SAP consultant in ABAP/4 from SAP Partner Academy, Boston

Technical Summary: SAP Versions 2.2D, 3.0D, 3.1H, 4.0, 4.6C, ERP ECC 6.0 EHP7;SAP Development(ABAP, ODATA, CDS View, SAP Gateway, SolMan, ALE / EDI, IDOCS, Smart Forms, SAP Script, BAPI, BADI, Interactive Reporting, Batch Scheduling, Data Dictionary, Lock Objects, Function Modules, Screen Painter, Step-loop, Table Control, ALV, ABAP Objects, Info Cube reading in BW and APO) SQL, JSON, Python, XML, HTML, Jira, Eclipse

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