VAITHEESWARAN  KARUPPIAH                             Email:vaithees.sk@gmail.com              

Techno - Functional Lead                                       Mobile: 408 680 7636

Profile

·   Working as Techno-Functional lead with total IT work experience of 8 Years.

·   Dynamic and innovative IT Professional with extensive background in SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BO and SAP BODS.

·   Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Collaborates and works effectively in a Team.

 

Educational Qualification

Bachelor Of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering (2003 - 2007) – Anna University

 

Technical Skill Set:

 

Key Areas          : SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP BODS, SAP BO & SAP ABAP

Reporting           : BEx Query Designer, WEBI, BO Explorer & BO Design Studio

Functional          : GTS, FI-GL, SD & APO

Areas of expertise:

¨E2E Architecture for SAP solutions¨Co ordination with onsite & offshore teams

¨Project Implementation                       ¨BRD Analysis and GAP review

¨Performance Tuning¨IT, UAT and Production support

¨SAP ABAP Programming¨Technical Consultant

¨HANA Modelling          ¨Production support

 

SAP HANA Expertise:

·   Developed Attribute, Analytical and calculated views.

·   ECC data real time replication using SLT.

·   Data services based data replication to HANA.

·   Data integration between BW and HANA.

·   Objects migration from BW on RDBMS to BW on HANA.

·   HANA optimized BW objects development and Testing.

SAP BW Expertise: 

·   Extensively worked in business warehouse info cubes, Data Store objects, info objects, info source, Transfer rule, Update rule, Transformations, info packages, DTPs, data sources, data extraction, characteristics and key figures, business content, data marts, process chains and BEx Queries.

·   Worked extensively on APDs, Open Hub Destination, Logical path and Logical File for OHD.

·   Worked on performance tuning by creating indexes, statistics, compression of info cubes, aggregates and ABAP code optimization.

·   Extensively involved in Data Extraction from SAP R/3, Other BW systems, Flat files & Oracle systems.

·   Good experience in Star schema and multi Dimensional data modeling.

·   Have good experience in BEx Query Designer. Worked on creation of Queries, variables, calculated key figures, restricted key figures, Variable Custom Exits and Role assignment to the new queries.

·   Worked on BW related ABAP Coding for Start routine, Field routine, End routine and Info package/DTP Filter routines.

·   Involved in SAP Data source installation, SAP data source enhancements and Custom SAP Extractors development.

·   Data extraction from APO Demand Planning Books (APO DP) to BW

·   Strong experience in Process chain designing, Monitoring and bug fixes.

·   Worked on Information Broadcasting to broadcast various BW reports to user’s Inbox.

·   Participated in Production and warranty support activities. Helped resolving the production system issues.

SAP BO Expertise:

·   Good Experience with WEBI reporting.

·   BEX query based BO reports

·   BO reports development On HANA models

·   Dashboard Design and Development using BO Design Studio.

·   BO Explorer reports development.

 

SAP BODS Expertise:

·   Worked On client specific BODS based ETL Model.

·   Strong experience in ECC, HANA, BW and Terra data, based ETL using BODS.

·   Involved in data extraction using SAP Standard and custom Extractors.

·   Worked on the ETL tool BO Data Services 4.1 to pull data from SAP R/3 to file, which will be loaded to EDW.

·   Worked on BODS jobs, WF & DF creation.

·   Developed scripts to initialize delta with/without data transfer and worked on exception handling mechanisms.

·   Worked on Full, Delta and recovery loads from SAP.

Experience Profile: 

10. BI Reporting for Supply chain operations:

Role : Techno Functional Lead

Team Size: 2

Environment: SAP BW 7.3, SAP BODS and SAP HANA, SAP GTS.

Duration: May 2014 to till date.

Contribution:

·   Product development for Supply chain operations

·   Requirement gathering and functional analysis

·   Architecture Design and development of BI data models and reports.

·   Active participation in Sales

·   Product implementation and support

·   User training.

 

 

9. FIGL migration from SAP BW to SAP HANA:

Role : Techno Functional Lead

Team Size: 2

Environment: SAP BW 7.3, SAP BODS and SAP HANA.

Duration: Jan 2014 to May 2014.

Contribution:

·   New data flow design and development in SAP HANA

·   Bookmarks migration between different BW systems

·   File based extraction from EDW to HANA system using BODS.

·   Error handling.

8. Allocation Execution Metrics project:

Role : Techno Functional Lead

Team Size: 4

Environment: SAP BW 7.3, SAP APO

Duration: Aug 2013 to Dec 2014.

 

Contribution:

·   BRD Analysis & Requirement gathering.

·   Designing & Development of BW Objects

·   Custom data source development in APO system.

·   Involved in data Publishing to downstream systems.

·   Lead offshore team during Development, Testing & Warranty support phase.

7. Supply Network Collaboration Project:

Role : Techno Functional Lead

Team Size: 4

Environment: SAP BODS 4.1, SAP APO

Duration: Jan 2013 to Aug 2013.

Contribution:

·   BRD Analysis & Requirement gathering.

·   Design and development of BODS Jobs.

·   Business Content SAP Extractors installation and Enhancement.

·   Recovery job to process failed delta loads.

·   Error Handling.

6. Global Demand Visibility Project:

Role : Techno Functional Lead

Team Size: 3

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, DB connect

Duration: Jul 2012 to Dec 2012.

Contribution:

·   BRD Analysis & Requirement gathering.

·   Data extraction through DB connect source system.

·   Involved in BW object development and testing.

5.  Retail Expansion projects:

Role : BW consultant

Team Size: 2

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, ECC 6.0, DB connect

Duration: Jan 2011 to Jul 2012.

 

Contribution:

·   Involved extensively in IT & UAT for all the expansion projects.

·   Carried out Data Validation between Source system and downstream systems.

·   Solved issues occurred during data loads and UAT.

·   Co ordinated with other teams to process test data to BW system .

·   Analyzed user Tickets and proposed solutions.

 

4. iTunes Billing Booking & Backlog Project

Role : BW Consultant

Team Size: 4

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 4.7

Duration: Oct 2010 to Jan 2011.

Contribution:

·   Worked on Development of BW objects and reports.

·   Extensively worked on IT, UAT & production support.

·   Developed ABAP codes for transformations based on user requirements.

·   Worked on Information Broadcasting.

3. iTunes Space reduction Project

Role :  BW Consultant

Team Size: 3

Environment: SAP BW 7.0

Duration: Jun 2010 to Oct 2010.

Contribution:

·   Created info objects, DSO, Cubes, Transformations & Data sources.

·   Created process chains to delete and load data as per the business requirement.

·   Involved in IT, UAT and Production support.

 

2. Production Monitoring Team:

 

Role : Team Member

Team Size: 12

Environment: SAP BW 7.0, SAP R/3 4.7

Duration: April 2008 to May 2010

Contribution:

·   Level 1 Production support.

·   Worked on Auto tickets raised by the systems.

·   Helped the users to resolve data issues.

·   Data reconciliation between BW and other source systems.

 

1. SAP BW support Project :

Role: Team member

Team Size : 10

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, SAP R/3 4.7.

Duration: May 2007 to Mar 2008

 

Contribution:

·   2^nd Level support as member of Production monitoring Team (Offshore).

·   Monitoring of Data Loads (Master data & Transaction data) from various source systems.

·   Worked on the Data Load Failures.

·   Analyzing the errors in the data loads and report to the corresponding team.

·   Updating of Report availability for each market as per documented instructions

·   Scheduling and editing of Process Chains.

·   Error handling

·   Participation in knowledge Transfer sessions at the training duration time.