RAMU POTHARAM                (: (678) 938-6786        *: ramu.potharam@gmail.com

                                                             

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 

·  Results-oriented techno-functional professional having 8+ years of experience in SAP HANA BI/BW BO and ERP Implementations looking to join a growing entrepreneurial organization.

·  Extensive experience on SAP BOBJ 4.1, 3.x, Tools – Web Intelligence, Design Studio, Crystal, Analysis for OLAP, Excel and Lumira.

·  Solid experience working on the Information Design Tool and the Central Management Console.

•                  Solid experience working on SAP BI 7.4 on HANA platform.

·  Interacted with Clients to understand the business processes across various SAP functional areas like SAP (SD): Sales Order, Delivery and Billing, SAP (MM) Material Management: Purchasing and Inventory, SAP FI-CO (General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable), SAP PP : Production Planning (Manufacturing), SAP PM: Plant Maintenance, SAP CRM : Sales Contract Analysis, SAP IS-U and SAP PS : Project Systems (Manufacturing).

·  Experienced with ABAP models in BI/BW.

·  Experienced in BPC integration with BI/BW.

·  Worked on new Tableau Software – Reporting tool for Visualizations.

·  Excellent analytical skills, proficient in analyzing data, solid domain knowledge of Health Care, Finance, Food and Beverages, Supply Chain and Sales environments and with a strong Manufacturing background.

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

 

·  Master of Science in Computing from University of West London, London, United Kingdom in November 2010.

·  Bachelors in Electronics and Communications engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in May 2005.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES:

·         Data Warehouse      :           SAP BI 7.4 on HANA, BI 7.3, BI 7.0, BW 3.5, HANA

·  ERP Integration        :           SAP R/3 4.7, ECC 6.0 – SD, MM, FI, PP, PM and PS modules.

·  BI Reporting Tools   :          SAP BEx, WEBI, Crystal, Design Studio, AOLAP, Excel and Lumira.

 

SAP EXPERTISE:

 

·  Involved in 3 full lifecycle implementations for different modules in SAP BI.

·  Involved in all phases such as gap analysis, blueprinting, realization, data extraction, data modeling, data loading, production support, testing, documentation, requirement analysis, end user documentation, reporting and go-live check.

·  Modeling: Experienced with creation and maintenance of Data Sources, Info Packages, Info Objects, DSO’s, DTP’s, Info Cubes, SPO’s, Multi Providers, Open Hub, APD’s and Composite Providers.

·  Extraction: Proficient in data extraction from SAP ECC, flat files and BW using extractors such as LO Cockpit, CO-PA, FI, Generic Extractors and legacy systems.

·  BEx Reporting: Experienced in BEx Designer, Analyzer, Variables, Conditions, Exceptions, Formulas, Calculated and Restricted key figures, Structures and Filters.

·  Performance tuning: Involved in the evaluation of statistical performance, data load improvisation and query performance using compression, aggregates and partitioning techniques, BI accelerator for index maintenance.

·  Business Content: Involved in evaluating Business Content and activating appropriate for the business solution as per client requirement.

·  Process Chains: Involved in developing new process chains and experience in scheduling, monitoring and handling issues of Process chains.

·  HANA: Experienced in creating attribute views, analytic and calculation views, data profiling and security administration in HANA studio.

·  Designed and supported many critical Universes by using Universe Design Tool and Information Design Tool with BOXI 4.1.

·  Expert in creating database semantic layers (Universes) and developing Decision support Reports using Business Objects, Desktop Intelligence, Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports and worked on various migration projects.

·  Worked on various SAP BO 4.1 tools like SAP Lumira, Explorer, design studio, Webi and dashboards.

·  Experience in designing and developing the Universe developing canned/ad-hoc reports, scheduling   the processes and administering the BO activities.

·  Migration projects: Involved in migration from BW 3.1c to BI 7.0 (NW 2004s) and from BW 7.0 to BI 7.3 (NW 2004s) With HANA.

·  Involved in importing the BW models from SAP BW system (using HANA DB) to the HANA Studio.

·  Production Support: Experienced with REMEDY and HPQC tools for Incident management and ticketing issues and also involved in debugging data loads and process chains.

·  Integrated Planning: aggregation levels, Filters, Planning functions and planning sequences in Integrated Planning.

·  Created Web Intelligence Report and Analysis for OLAP reports on the BEx Queries using BICS connectivity.

·  Created Dash boards using Design Studio by using various visualization techniques.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Client: Memorial Health Care, Fountain Valley, CA                                                                        April 2015 – Present

Role: SAP BOBJ HANA Analytics Developer                                                

Health Care Domain

 

·  Advises and assists in data modeling from legacy systems like Epic and Hyper wave.

·  Creating the dashboards for patient survey in hospital management using design studio.

·  Worked on creating universes and HANA views for Health Care Industry.

·  Designed Logical Data Model and database objects and developed Semantics Layers with UDT/IDT, Dashboards and Reports.

·  Created data visualizations and Dashboards using SAP Design Studio for the health care industry.

·  Creating patient detail reports using Web Intelligence in the front end.

·  Creating different visualizations by using charts and graphs for healthcare industry.

·  Creating models in the backend for Hospitality billing.

·  Prepared various Testing Technical Documents, and User requirements.

·  Worked on various data models according to the requirement.

 

Environment: SAP HANA, WEBI, Design Studio, IDT, Crystal, Data Services, Epic, Hyper wave

 

Client: FTS International, Dallas, TX                                                                                 July 2014 – March 2015

Role: SAP BW/BI BO HANA Consultant                                               

Manufacturing – Oil and Gas

 

·  Advises and assists in data extraction, data cleansing, data mapping, data harmonization, data enrichment, data consolidation, data loading and data reconciliation.

·  Checking the Info Cube performance and report performance. 

·  Worked on creating Real time info cube, aggregation layers, planning functions, planning sequences and Input enable Queries for Integrated Planning scenario in the manufacturing Industry.

·  Prepared various Testing Technical Documents, and User requirements.

·  Experienced in Testing in SAP Extractors and Generic Extractors.

·  Created data visualizations and Dashboards using SAP Design Studio for the Profitability model and Finance.

·  Developed and modified Universes using BO Universe Designer to get data from BW Info Cubes and Queries, and created reports using WEBI.

·  Created multiple Universes for ad-hoc and canned reports based on the relational data model that will replace the existing Stored Procedures as the data sources.

·  Validate the data in data targets against the source tables.

·  Worked on creating Real time info cube, aggregation layers, planning functions, planning sequences and Input enable Queries for Integrated Planning scenario in the manufacturing Industry.

·  Worked on transports to different environments till production.

·  Worked on different update modes for uploading data from SAP ECC to BW.

·  Designed SPO DSOs based on Fiscal Year and included the SPOs in the Multi Provider.

·  Worked on Installing the Business Content.

·  Transported the BW Object from Development to Quality systems and tested the Business flows.

·  Solved the Data and Performances issues raised by the Client in HPQC.

·  Used HPQC TOOL in rectifying the issues in the data loads.

·  Designed the Process Chains for the Flows for Master and Transaction Data.

·  Designed the WebI and AOLAP Reports based on the BW BEx Reports.

·  Involved in the End- User Training on the BEx Query Designer, BO WebI and BO AOLAP Tools.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BI 7.4, HANA, ABAP, BPC, JOB PILOT, WEBI, Design Studio, OLAP, BEx, BO.

 

Client: BB&T, Greensboro, NC                                                                                    June 2013 – May 2014

Role: SAP BW/BI BO HANA Consultant                                               

Banking – Finance

 

·                       Worked on business requirements gathering and gap analysis to identify gaps that existed from standard business content.

·                       Involved in BW system pre and post migration activities from BW 7.0 to BW 7.3 on HANA platform.

·                       Involved in SAP data modeling by new HANA models and data analysis by building standard and custom BW solutions such as Info Cube design and creating custom semantically partitioned objects (based on Info Cube and DSO), DSO’s and Info Objects.

·                       Installed business content and worked on FI data sources 0FI_GL_14, 3FI_GL_0L_TT, 3FI_GL_DL_TT and 3FI_GL_SL_TT.

·                       Involved in data loading, job monitoring and created process chains for automating the process.

·                       Worked on in/outbound interfaces.

·                       Developed and modified Universes using BO Universe Designer to get data from BW Info Cubes and Queries, and created reports using WEBI.

·                       Created interactive dashboards and reports to users in Tableau by connecting various data sources.

·                       Designed Logical Data Model and database objects and developed Semantics Layers with UDT/IDT, Dashboards and Reports.

·                       Utilized Open Hub service to distribute data to other systems (Hyperion and BPC).

·                       Collected all the developed objects and released the TR’s.

·                       Created queries using BEx and then generated universes and reports using Webi.

·                       Created BI reports and BEx reports on Business Objects tools such as Webi, Crystal and Design Studio and see to the performance issues on both of them.

·                       Enhanced FI-GL data sources and populated the data from them.

·                       Involved in performance tuning by creating indexes and aggregates.

·                       Write the start, end and expert routines and field routines as per business logic.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, BI 7.3, HANA, ABAP, BPC, ETL, HPQC, WEBI, BEx, BO.

 

 

Client: Mondalez, NJ                                                                                                  Jan 2013 – June 2013

Role: SAP HANA BW/BI BO Consultant                                               

Food and Beverages

 

·                    Understanding the existing SAP BW Models and documenting the business flows in SAP HANA.

·                    Involved in migration from BW 7.0 to BI 7.3 (NW 2004s) With HANA.

·                    Involved in developing the Attribute Views based on Master Data Tables in the SAP ECC.

·                    Created the Analytic Views based on the Info cube models in SAP BW/BI system.

·                    Involved in creating the Graphical Calculation Views by including the analytic views using Unions, Projections and Joins based on the business logic.

·                    Worked on designing SAP BW data Flows (DSOs, Transformation, and DTPs) on the BW on HANA database Scenarios and imported them to the HANA studio tool.

·                    Involved in importing the BW models from SAP BW system (using HANA DB) to the HANA Studio.

·                    Knowledge in SQL, PL/SQL, HANA SQL Script, Stored Procedures.

·                    Worked on assigning Analytic Privileges to Views in HANA.

·                    Knowledge in triggers, sequences and synonyms in HANA studio.

·                    Knowledge in HANA authorization concepts.

·                    Knowledge in creating Users and Roles in SAP HANA.

 

Environment: SAP HANA1.0, SAP ECC, ABAP, BI 7.3, WEBI, BEx, BO.

 

 

Client: Kraft Foods, NJ                                                                                                  Feb 2011 – Dec 2012

Role: SAP BW/BI BO Consultant                                               

Food and Beverages

 

·                    Developed several standard and customized master data Info Objects/texts, Info Cubes, DSO and Multi Provider according to specifications provided by the clients.

·                    Performed LO-Cockpit extraction to extract the header and line item data from SD module (Sales Order, delivery and billing (2LIS_11_VAHDR/VAITM, 2LIS_12_VCHDR/VCITM and 2LIS_13_VDHDR/VDITM).

·                    Extracted master data/transactional data into BI landscape (data from both SAP R/3 and external source systems) with custom extractors, modifications, enhancement of business content extractors, generic extractors, transports and process chains.

·                    Created multiple Universes for ad-hoc and canned reports based on the relational data model that will replace the existing Stored Procedures as the data sources.

·                    Developed SQL and PL/SQL scripts to implement business logics of database through Stored Procedures.

·                    Provided expert technical assistance with training, design and architecture tasks, and daily oversight of system processes and performance.

·                    Utilized Web Intelligence for web based query and reporting.

·                    Created BI reports on Business Objects tools including Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Crystal Reports and saw to the performance issues on both of them.

·                    Uploaded vendor master data from MM in SAP as OLTP source and worked with different tables data ECC in SAP project system as well.

·                    Enhanced customized data targets Info Cube, ODS and Multi Provider.

·                    Designed and developed process chains (RSPC) for master data loads and transaction data loads.

·                    Customized Multi Provider and added necessary object from different DSO’s and Cubes according to client requirement for generating reports.

·                    Wrote complex business documentation such as IDD and TTD.

·                    Used REMEDY Tool for the Production Support issues like Incident management and BI batch tickets.

 

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI.7.0, REMEDY, ABAP, KRONOS, BEx Designer, BEx Analyzer, SAP ECC 6.0, WEBI.

 

Client: Ispat Steel, India                                                                                                Aug 2005 – Dec 2008

Role: SAP BW Consultant                                               

Manufacturing- Steel

 

•        Developed several customized Info Objects, Info Cubes, DSO and Multi Provider according to specifications provided by the client.

•        Running the Process Chains to fetch Data and Emptying the RSA7.

•        Resolved many issues around the Upgrade. Created OSS messages for Upgrade issue.

•        Conducted the User Training on the New BEx Features.

•        Worked closely with the Corporate Consultants in providing Functional Specifications to enhance the current and develop new ODS and Info Cubes.

•        Defined Custom Cubes and Multi Providers for the business scenarios along with aggregates.

•        Configured Compensation Management, Organization Management, and Time Management.

•        Enhanced standard data sources and replicated into BW system.

•        Designed custom ODS, CUBES, and created operation and strategic reports in Personnel Management.

•        Developed several customized Info Objects, Info Cubes, DSO and Multi Provider according to specifications provided by the client.

•        Involved in data loading, job monitoring and created process chains for automating the process.

•        Installed business content.

•        Worked on different update modes for uploading the data from SAP R/3 to BW.

•        Configured data sources in R/3 by using LO Cockpit (LBWE) and initialized the setup tables

•        Created Process Chains to automate the data load and data target administration and monitored the processes.

 

Environment: SAP BW 3.5, SAP R/3 4.6, BW 3.5, BEx Designer, BEx Analyzer.