Ramana Murthy

 

Summary

Senior Consultant with 10+ years of SAP (BW/ABAP/BOBJ/HANA) with extensive experience in all aspects of design, implementation, production support, upgrade. Worked on 3 complete life cycle implementations. Worked in different verticals like Supply Chain, Retail, Insurance and Health care.

My main focus for the last 7 years was to design/implement SAP BI applications to handle complex business requirements in SAP SD, MM and FI. I have strong SAP BI/BW and ABAP techno-functional skills which enables me in transforming business requirements to business solutions to fit client needs. Worked as a team lead with on-site and off shore coordination. Have strong analytical, excellent communication and presentation skills.

 

SAP– Summary

·              7 years of SAP BI/BW Extensive experience in BEx. Reporting, Modeling, Extraction, Enhancements, Transports, Authorizations, BI Production Support, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, End-user Training that includes BEx.Analyzer, BEx.Query Designer, Visual Composer, User exits, Open hubs, APD’s, Multi Provider, Info Providers, DSO’s, Info Sources, Aggregates, Transfer Rules, Update Rules/Routines, Info packages, DTP’s, Info Objects, Hierarchies, Transformations, Start/End/Expert Routines BI Technical content, Process Chains and BI Accelerator.

·              Experience in migration to BW on HANA and optimizing BW data models for HANA.

·              Extractions from R/3, LO-Cockpit, FI (GL, AR, AP), CRM, SRM, APO and Generic extractions.

·              Integrated and configured BW with SAP R/3, SD, FI, MM and CRM.

·              4 years of ABAP/4 Extensive experience that includes in SAP Reports, BDC, ABAP/4 development workbench, RFC Function modules, Data Dictionary, Transactions, Menu painter, Screen painter, SAP Scripts and Smart forms.

·              Worked on SAP-BW Authorizations, Transports, User admin, CCMS and Back ground Jobs.

·              Worked extensively on BEx. Analyzer, Query Designer, Calculated & Rest. Key Figures, Filters, BEx. Variable Enhancements and Data Source Enhancements, Currency conv. & RRI.

·              Worked extensively on data loads with deltas and Generic Delta extractions.

·              Experience in Process chains design, Production Support, Troubleshooting and Fixing.

·              Worked extensively on Start Routines and Update Routines/Rules for business calculations.

·              Experience in Performance tuning, Aggregates, Compressing, Indexes and Cache.

·              Worked in Enhancing Data sources, BAdi and BTE to create generic data source.

·              Worked in SAP Administration, OSS Notes, Support Packs, Patches and all its related issues.

·              Upgraded from BW 3.5 to Net Weaver 2004s (BI7.0) and handled all the issues across.

·              Integrated Planning (IP): Experience in creating Planning functions, Function types, Aggregation levels. Planning sequences and filters.

·              Quick study who rapidly assimilates into organization and employs new ideas, concepts, methods and technologies to support business objectives. Ability to absorb complex business scenarios and thrive in both independent and collaborative environments.

 

Technical Skills

SAP BI/BW/HANASAP BW 7.3, Net Weaver 2004s (BI7.0), SAPBW 3.5, , Business

BW Integration with SD, MM, FI and CRM, SAP-XI, BPS, IP

Informatic              WAD, ETL, Data Modeling, Data Extraction, User Exits, DB Connect,

Business Objects          BOBJ, SAP Integration with SAP BO XI 3.1, Crystal Reports, Web 

                                        Intelligence, Xcelsius, SAP Lumira

SAP EnhancementsBEx. Step 2 User Exits, R/3 User Exits, BAPI, BADI

SAP ABAP                    ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, Data Dic, BDC, SAP Scripts, Smart forms

                                        ABAP/4 Develop Work Bench, Lists & Interactive Reports

Languages                     Visual Basic, PL/SQL, C, HTML, CSS, Java Script, Active Server Pages

Environment/Dbase  Windows, UNIX, HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Excel, Word, Visio

Qualification:                Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics

Client	Scotts Miracle-Grow Company, Marysville, OH, www.scotts.com
Role	SAP BW/ABAP/BOBJ/HANA Consultant
Industry Type	Retail and Manufacturing
Duration	Apr 2011 – Till date
Environment	SAP BW/HANA, BEx. Query Designer/Analyzer, ABAP, Control-M, BI Accelerator, Business Objects, Integrated Planning, HANA Design Studio, Web Intelligence, Crystal reports, SAP Lumira, Micro Strategy

Responsibilities:

·              Worked on transforming business requirements to technical specs.

·              Projects: Designed and implemented Custom solution for Point of sales for BIG 4 customers like Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot and Costco. Design accounted for errors in Master data with provisions for restatement. Eventually applied the same design template to 16 other customers across North America, Europe and Asia Pac.

·              Designed and handled projects for new acquisitions assimilating historical data while accommodating specifics for the new businesses.

·              Developed/optimized complex ABAP routines fulfilling business requirements.

·              Developed and optimized 50+ process chains scheduling BW jobs with appropriate alerts.

·              Designed a utility to identify/monitor impact of transports on production system.

·              Handled data stabilization project for 6 Canada customers and resolved all issues.

·              Worked with Basis upgrading HANA with Rev 82 patch and created all test scenarios.

·              Re-designed existing data model replacing cubes with HANA optimized DSO’s.

·              Mentored team to effectively handling BW Production Support.

·              Ensured data available for cross leads meeting.

·              Automated complex BW data loads to save manual effort.

·              Handled BW Quality refreshes, month end and year end activities.

·              Implemented a tool to check quality of Production system by checking objects across

development, quality and production systems to increase organizational productivity.

·              As part of regular production support and change request process, worked with data flows of sales orders, deliveries, billing, purchasing and inventory.

·              Worked with functional team developing planning functions, layouts, aggregation levels and sequences.

 

Client	Bacardi Limited, Miami, FL, www.bacardi.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Retail and Manufacturing - Wine and Spirits Industry
Duration/Location	Oct 2010 – March 2011 / On-site
Environment	BI 7.0, BEx Query Designer, ABAP, BEx Analyzer, Solu Manager, APO, IP

 

Responsibilities:

·              Designed the data flows for Europe and involved in the process of OTC, FTS, PTP and RTR.

·              Handled issues due to modification of source system connections with deep product knowledge.

·              Prepared functional, technical and Unit test specifications for the requirements.

·              Designed and developed the data flows from R/3 => BW => APO => BW.

·              Designed and developed four generic extractors for data requirements.

·              Developed and modified the BEx. Queries to meet the business requirements.

·              Designed and developed History data loads (BW => APO) for Orders/Returns/ Market Intelligence.

·              Developed open hubs to avail data from SAP BI to Microsoft BI.

 

Client	Diversey Sturtevant, WI, www.diversey.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Retail and Manufacturing
Duration/Location	Mar 2010 – June 2010 /Offshore, July 2010 – Sep 2010 / Onsite
Environment	BI 7.0, BW 3.5, BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, ABAP, WAD, Portals, IP

 

Responsibilities:

·              Project: US Chemicals: Enhanced the transactional data flows (Invoices, AR and Inventories) from ETL to SAP-BW-Regional (US Country and NA Regional Cube) and Global. Handled all project issues associated with data flow routines, master data, Authorizations, process chains, DTP’s and Info packages. Translated all the business calculations to coding and coordinated with the ETL team. Debugged the complex ABAP routines to ensure business functionality.

·              Designed four data quality monitors to enable the business users to perform checks at a faster and more efficient way. It provides more visibility and reduces the errors in the current SAP-BW reporting data by alerting business and support. Proposed landing slot monitors to business which captures and alerts all the modifications of both process chains and data flows to the support team.

·              Project: BW Outbound interfaces for Logility:  Designed and developed two outbound interfaces called History and descriptive for the Logility system. Handled all the activities like fetching the data from info cube, cross checking/identifying tables of attributes/text, look-ups with SAP R/3 data and added the flow to month end process chains. Involved in the landing slot activities.

·              Intergrated Planning: Scheduled data loads ensuring the functionality of planning layouts.

 

Client	VF Corporation, Greensboro, North Carolina, www.vfc.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Retail and Manufacturing
Duration/Location	June 2009 – Feb 2010 / Offshore
Environment	BI 7.0, DW Workbench, Query Designer, ABAP, ESP Scheduler

 

Responsibilities:

·              Handled the activities of both ‘Production Support’ and ‘Project Development’ together during the tenure of this project including onsite/offshore coordination.

·              BI Production Support: Resolved and handled all the issues like missing data packets in the stream of total packets, delta load failures, selective deletions, repair full loads and performance tuning.

·              Project: ‘BW Count Cross Check’:  Designed a utility program to find the missing documents from SAPR/3 to SAP-BI in the functional areas of sales, delivery and billing. And this interface generates an email with the record counts of both SAP-R/3 and BI.

·              Enhancement: ‘Title transfer date’: Handled all activities starting from analyzing the requirements to delivery.  Coded complex ABAP extractions involving the tables of billing and document flow.

·              Project: ‘Preview Date’:  Handled the manipulation of preview data DSO’s new data table to match the business’s inventory data.

·              Handled the mass changes of update rules across many data flows due to the addition of new sales organizations and credit control areas. Resolved all un-expected issues with global update rules.

 

Client	Johnson Diversey Sturtevant, WI, www.johnsondiversey.com,
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant, Business Analyst / Onsite coordinator
Industry Type	Retail and Manufacturing
Duration/Location	Oct 2008 – May 2009 / On-site
Environment	BI 7.0, BW 3.5, BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, ABAP, WAD, Portals

 

Responsibilities:

·           Project: ‘SAP BI New Data Elements’. Analyzed the business requirements/impact analysis of associated master data info objects, across all BI systems. Implemented all the activities without affecting the existing developments associated with Info cubes of 26 countries includes APAC, LATAM, NAM, DSO’s, Navigational attributes, Transformations, DTP’s, Corrections, Missing objects, UAT, Production transports, Process chains and Data loads.

·           Project: ‘BI Benefits Hierarchy’. As ‘Business Analyst’ collected inputs from Global Marketing team and analyzed the impact of ‘Product Hierarchies’ slotting with existing business across 12 different systems from SAP R/3 Vanilla, SAP-BW, JD Edwards to SAP-BI Reporting. Handled presentations, scheduled meetings, time lines, resource plan with detailed implementation plan.

·           Project: ‘BI AR Aging Reports’. Analyzed and developed reports for the bad debtor buckets (31-60, 61-90, 91-130, 131-365) and top ‘N’ customers for the outstanding receivables to sustain in recession. Handled all BI back-end activities including data modeling, SAP R/3 extractions, start routines and process chains.

·           Project: ‘New Price Forecasting System’: Analyzed the ‘New Price Forecasting System’ to build table level relationships between BOM and finished goods across BI, SAP-R/3 and JD Edwards.

·           Fixed the root cause of few issues in BI-Production, Performance Tuning and Landing Slots.

 

Client	Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Morgantown, WV, http://www.mylan.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Pharmaceuticals
Duration/Location	June 2008 – Aug 2008 / On-site
Environment	BI 7.0, BW 3.5, BEx Query Designer, BEx Analyzer, Informatica and SAP-XI

 

Responsibilities:

·           Analyzed the ETL- Informatica Chargeback/Adjudications application to migrate the data with the combination of SAP-XI (3.0) and SAP-BI (7.0). Identified the Deltas, Master data equivalent BI Tables, Business Logic, Transformations, Tables with fields of Input/Output/Lookups, Staging Structures, Router and Mapping Designer.

·           Developed a utility to track the changes in Initialization’s, Delta’s, Process Chains and Data flows.

·           Handled issues like reconciliation of data between R/3 and BI, LO-Cockpit setup table issues, adjusting data base tables and  BI Steps before and after apply R/3 patches etc.,

·           Trained client site team on Delta management in R/3 <-> BI to effectively address the issues and Resolutions related to BTE’s, Start Routines, ODS Lookups, Production Deltas and Generic Deltas, Error DTP’S and selective data deletion.

 

Client	Sony Electronics, San Diego, CA, http://www.sony.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Manufacturing, SD, MM
Duration/Location	Feb 2008 – May 2008 / On-site
Environment	BI 7.0, BW 3.5, DWWorkbench,  ABAP, Query Designer, Analyzer, EWM

 

Responsibilities:

·              Developed Functional and Tech. Specs (Mappings) to extract data for Inventory Adjustments, Deliveries, Shipments and Billing from the systems of BW, R/3 and EWM for the Sony G1, G2 and G3 requirements.

·              Familiar with complete business cycle of the ‘Sony Logistics processes.

·              Proposed and implemented strategies for extractions (Full/Delta) from Multi Provider, Info Cube, ODS change log, Staging ZTABLES and RFC calls to other systems.

·              Adopted changes to fulfill the business requirement in the modeling.

·              Supported the system landscape with optimized solutions in process chains with automatic corrections rather manual interventions.

·              Developed the BEx. Demand planning reports for different requirements many calculations like dynamic growth with step 2 variables, Virtual Key Figures and Aggregations of Qty and Amounts.

·              Handled periodic moving of BEx Query results from spool to other systems for backup.

 

Client	ADP Tax & Financial Services, Los Angeles, CA, http://adp.com
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Tax & Financial Services,  FI-GL, FS-CD
Duration/Location	August 2007 to Jan 2008 / On-site
Environment	BI 7.0 & BW3.1C, DWWorkbench, Query Designer, Analyzer, ABAP, RevTrac

 

Responsibilities:

·              Developed data flows with Info Cubes, ODS, DTP, Transformations for Info Areas like Cash Flow (ACH, CASH, WIRE), Pay Roll, GL, BP Retention, Monthly GL and Outstanding Checks.

·              Added Secondary flows strategy for the best performance and optimization.

·              Designed Process Chains for Master data (Friday, Non-Friday), Transactional Data, Index and Maintenance.

·              Designed to load info package programmatically for Business calculations from Cash Flow to Cash Balance with TVARVC entries and Update Routine.

·              Developed utility programs for AL11 folder management, overcoming excel sheet limitation by Reporting Agent Spool Conversion, Package Routines, Email notification & Mass data deletion.

 

Client	Fender Musical Instruments Corp. (FMIC), Phoenix, AZ, http://fender.com/
Role	SAP BI/BW Consultant
Industry Type	Manufacturing – Logistics (SD,MM), FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, CO-PA
Duration/Location	May 2006 – April 2007/ Offshore, Intelligroup
Environment	BI 7.0&BW3.5, DWWorkbench, Query Designer, BEx. Analyzer, ABAP, WAD

 

Responsibilities:

·              Analyzed the Client/End user reporting requirements and identified the Standard Business Content.

·              This project Fill Rate can be defined from the Supply chain management stand point as Order fulfillment rate / order life cycle span till invoiced.

·                KPI’s involved are Customer request date vs. Actual available date, Customer request date vs. Delivery date, Customer request date vs. Billing date etc., attaining global picture of the supply chain at Orders – Delivery – Billing level- Forecast-Picking.

·              Converted the SAP std. BEx. User exit methodology   to dynamic function module capability.

·                Appended and populated fields to standard logistics structures/Extractors/Data source like 2LIS_11_VAHDR, 2LIS_11_V_SCL, 2LIS_11_VASCL, 2LIS_11_VAITM and 2LIS_11_V_SSL.

·              Worked extensively on FI/CO (General Ledgers, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Profitability Analysis)  at BW perspective with data sources, Cubes, ODS and Reports.

·              Worked extensively on MM Purchasing, Inventory with its data sources, Cubes, ODS and Reports.

·              Designed the Profitability analysis to report Actual data and Planned data with the Multi Provider, Info Cube and ODS. Used Info set for the ODS level detail reporting.

·              Worked extensively and implemented with the design guide lines of the following.

·              BI  DW Workbench	·              Process Chains	·              Authorizations
·              BEx. Reports, Queries	·              Extractor Debugging	·              Transports
·              Business Content	·              Aggregates/0DS	·              Performance Tuning
·              BI Backend Coding	·              Enhancements	·              Production Support

·                Worked on BI7 new features of BEx Query Designer, BEx Report Designer, BEx Broadcaster.

·                Developed Inventory Extraction program to send 3 files from R/3 to BW Application server.

·              Designed BW InfoCubes with Info Sources, Info Object, ODS Objects, Multi providers,           Update rules, Transfer rules and Currency Conversions.

·              Designed and developed programs for BW functionalities like file validations, data check, sending emails, conversion of currency file format, utility programs like AL11 file backup and identification strategy, calculation of effective date for currency, displaying spool list.

·              Involved in the Integration testing for quality of objects, checking Unit testing results.

·              Designed the strategies for transporting the objects between dev, quality and production.

·              Developed Customized InfoCubes, InfoSource and Info Objects.

·              Involved in extracting data from custom data sources i.e. Generic Extraction.

·              Loaded Extractors for NON-R/3 Source Systems handled Transfer rules and Update rules.

·              Customized delta built up for the data sources, update/transfer rules creation.

 

Projects: SAP-ABAP

Clients	Skill Set	Duration
1.                     GE Insurance, Kansas 2.                     Bristol- Myers Squibb, USA 3.                     Panasonic Singapore Pte. Ltd., 4.                     The Coca-Cola Company, North Atlanta, USA 5.                     Hitachi Home Electronics America, San Diego 6.                     Medpointe Pharmaceuticals, NJ	ABAP Reports, SAPScripts, Samartforms, Inbound and Outbound Interfaces, BDC, SAP Administration, SD, MM and FI	May ’2002 to April’ 2006

 

Responsibilities:   Outbound, Inbounds, Reports, Interactive Reports, SAP scripts, BAPI

·              Developed generic programs with all possible options for inbounds and Out bounds which reduce 80% of development time, Testing time.

·              Developed outbound interfaces for Purchase order, Job master, Model accumulate quantity for the requirement of HIMEX and CHASIS plants.

·              Developed inbound interfaces for the Purchasing view of vendors and vendors creation.

·              Worked on the SAP script bar codes, labels, logo resolutions and Tree reports, Excel typical downloads, OSS, Patches and sending emails to SAP users.

·              Fixed many issues on various Reports, SAP Scripts, Transactions, BDC, and ALV by extensive debugging in all possible ways to analyze and fix issues.

·              Did performance tuning to handle the data in reports for fast process.

·              Implemented the OSS notes manually and with system transactions.              

·              Developed report to verify the data values across all plants, Distribution Channels and Sales Organizations are kept in synchronization for a material. It displays all the error records with details.Verified performance/data quality in the coke production reports before data modifications and the after data modifications.

·              Converted the functional documents to the technical specifications by debugging the standard transactions as part of the onsite-offshore co-ordination.

·              Involved in activities of FS to TS, TSR, CWT, UTD, ITP, FTP and PODC.

·              Developed the RFC function modules to support the sales details for the web application server.

·              Developed the reports for SPOT- Sales performance optimization plan.

·              Developed module pool programs for the Share tracking system to alott the shares and inserting the right to the R/3 through BDC program to FB01. Adopted many data validation procedures.

SAP Smart forms

·              Designed two smartforms for the Bank transfer form and Payment advice terms of OTF & PDF.

·              Designed the generic driver programs to trigger the smartforms as per the requirement.

·              Developed two smartforms with output type ZCF2 and ZCF3 for CREDIT NOTE (FORM #62) and DEBIT NOTE (FORM #62). Almost all data to be printed for layout extracted from driver program.

·              Encountered the problems in smart form and solved concern to templates, loops, tables, windows, debugging, dot matrix printer, laser printer etc.,

SAP Administration Exposure

·           Background Processing: Defined, Scheduled, Analyzed, Maintained jobs.

·           User Authorizations: Prepared set of transaction codes for the set of users with appropriate user menu to restrict all possible unauthorized access.