Anindya Bose       Certification Id: 0011623118

SAP Certified SAP HANA / BW/BO Consultant

Profile

·   SAP Certified HANA ( SPS6) Consultant with Hands on project Experience in SAP HANA 1.0

·   Over 7.3 years of extensive techno-functional experience in SAP BI/BW in 3.x, 7.X  versions.

·   Two large scale migration of SAP BW to SAP BW on HANA and optimization of LSA

·   Redesigned LSA to LSA++ for optimization of cost intensive memory footprint in HANA DB

·   Implemented SAP BW Accelerator to improve reporting performance

·   Excellent BW ABAP skill and expert in writing Start Routine, Field Routine, End Routine

·   Expert in creating Function Module Based custom extractor for complex requirement.

·   Sound knowledge of SAP BASIS with very good understanding of BW overall architecture.

·   Expert level knowledge on BEx query designing and performance tuning

·   Huge experience with performance tuning of  loading and reporting via different optimization techniques like Database Aggregate , optimization of Dimension Design and ABAP routines

·   Extensive experience in extracting data from SAP application modules such as Logistics ( LO), FI-AR,FI-AP, FI-GL ,  CO-PA , Vistex , HR , PS etc.

·   Upgrade experience of BW 3.x to 7.X

·   Extensively worked in Data Modeling, Data Provisioning ,Optimization, Reporting

·   Extensive experience in Trigger Based Replication technologies like SAP LT replication

·   Good knowledge of In memory database concepts like in memory column store , row store, attribute vector , delta merge functionalities

·   Experience in using  Event based filtering and Parameter Based Filtering in SAP LT

·   Worked extensively in creating Attribute Views, Analytic Views and Calculation Views

·   SQL scripting experience to write Stored Procedure in SAP HANA Studio

·   Expert in frond-end reporting with Web Intelligence, BO Explorer, BEx , Analysis for Office etc

·   Working knowledge of SAP Business Object Design Studio

·   Extensive experience in SAP BI application management and support.

·   Involved in monthly reconciliation of finance data ( General Ledger)  and Materials Stock..

·   Proficient in designing logical data models based on functional requirements and load strategy specifications to capture source data, data consolidation mechanisms, and integration scenarios for reporting purposes.

·   Competency in all phases of the project from analysis, design, development, configuration, testing, as well as documentation, and providing end-user training

·   Involved in Unit Testing, Integration testing , post Go-Live hyper care

·   Technical and functional expertise well augmented by excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interpret business requirements and transform into technical deliverables.

·   Worked closely with Business Users, Managers and Technical Architects.

·   Worked as Technical Team Lead and excellent in Mentoring  team members

 

 

EDUCATION

Master of Technology – Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (2005-2007)

Bachelor of Engineering –Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah (2001-2005)

 

 

Experience/Project Work :

 

Industry: Printing and Imaging Solution, Lexmark International , KY

 

Project Description/Scope: Goal of Annuities Management Program is to find out customer loyalties in terms of usage of supplies against the installed printer base at customer location. This project aspires to integrate data from different sources to give a consolidated view on printers and supplies use. This would also indicate if there is a possible bid abuse.

 

Role: SAP BW HANA Senior Consultant -     DMI                               Duration: Sep,2014 –   Present

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 

·   Solution design for Annuities Management Program

·   Integration of different sources in SAP BW on HANA to determine customer loyalty

·   Implementation of Gamma Distribution model to predict current install base

·   Integration of SAP BW and Teradata via SAP BusinessObjecta Data Service

 

 

 

Industry: Printing and Imaging Solution, Lexmark International , KY

 

 

Project Description/Scope: SAP ECC system is implemented in the areas of Finance and Controlling, Financial supply chain management, Sales and distribution, Material management, Production planning, APO and SRM. SAP BW system aspires to consolidate and integrate data posted in the transactional SAP ECC system, MDM, CRM, and SCM to provide insightful reports which will support decision making and drive efficacy in business operations at Lexmark. Lexmark also implemented SAP HANA Stand-Alone for real time reporting and migrated SAP BW solution to SAP BW on HANA.

 

Role: Architecture and Strategy Professional ( Lexmark International)        Duration: Feb,13 – Jul,14

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 

·   Migration of SAP BW system to SAP BW on HANA DB and optimization of data flows

·   Redesign of current Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA) for BW on HANA to LSA++

·   Defining loading strategy to load historical data from old BW system to New system

·   Connecting One Source ECC to Multiple BW systems for parallel system running and testing

·   Defining Logical System Mapping to work with two target systems at the same time

·   Creation of new providers like Semantically Partitioned Objects for improving performance

·   Integration of new modules ( VISTEX, Deals Management) with SAP BW

·   Automation of Complex Business Process via extensive ABAP coding

·   Creation of  BI 4.0 Web Intelligence Report based on BEx query

·   Developing SAP HANA Information View (Attribute Views, Calculation View, Analytic view etc)

·   Creation of  SQL Stored procedure for complex requirement

·   Real –time Data replication via trigger based  SAP Landscape Transformation ( SLT)

·   Selective  Data Load via Even Based and Parameter Based filtering in SLT

·   Transforming data via SLT (IUUC_REPL_CONTENT)

·   Creation of BO Universe on top of HANA models for reporting in Web Intelligence

·   Involved in unit testing, regression testing and reviewing of objects

·   Conducted in-house training for colleagues from other technology area in both SAP BW and HANA stand-alone.

 

 

Industry: Manufacturer of Medical Equipment , Medtronic , MN         Duration:   Aug,12 – Feb,13

 

Project Description/Scope: Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) is the global leader in medical technology - alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world. Medtronic has chosen SAP BW as their analytical tool. During this project, Medtronic moved its Sales Module to SAP BW on HANA .

 

Role: Package Solution Consultant, SAP BW  ( IBM India Pvt. Ltd)  

     

 

 

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

·   Developing and transporting BW specific Objects for HANA for new system

·   Creation of HANA Optimized InfoCubes and HANA-Optimized DSO for faster loading and reporting performance

·   Optimizing ABAP codes to be able to use HANA advantage

·   Review and change old  design to better use in-memory database technology

·   Worked to reduce redundancy to lower memory footprint

·   Worked on creating and adjusting new process chain in HANA environment

·   Tracking Project Plan and communicating progress to business in regular interval

·   Mentoring junior team member on new technology

·   Received appreciation from top management and business for efficient and timely delivery

 

 

Industry: Healthcare , CareStream Health , NY                                     Duration:   May,12 – Aug,12

 

Project Description/Scope: CSH, formerly Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group, is an independent subsidiary of Onex Corporation, Toronto, Canada.  It provides dental and medical imaging systems; healthcare information technology; non-destructive testing x-ray systems; and advanced materials for medical imaging .

CareStream Health embarked on a major upgrade for their Enterprise IT landscape on the following towers as part of the overall SAP Transformation program and Wipro helped CareStream team to ensure a smooth upgrade/Transition.

SAP BW 3.1 to SAP BI 7.0 Upgrade and Merger

SAP R/3 4.7 to SAP ECC 6.0 Technical Upgrade

Data stage ETL to BODS Migration

 

Role: SAP BW Project Lead ( Wipro Ltd)

 

 

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

·   Adjusting system and resolving post-upgrade issues

·   Creation of  BW 7.x Process Chain from InfoPackage Group

·   Managing conversion of BW 3.1 queries and workbook to BI 7.0

·   Adjusting Custom Visual Basic code after migration of queries and workbook

·   Creation of new queries as per customer requirement

·   Tuning performance of queries after upgrade

·   Resolution of missing Mappings for Jump Queries ( RRI)

·   Adjusting Data Model for better loading and reporting performance ( dimension redesign)

·   Leading the BW project team

·   Maintaining project plan and updating on progress to business

 

 

Industry: Imaging Solution, Lexmark International , KY                            Duration: Aug,10 – May,12

 

 

Project Description/Scope: SAP ECC system is implemented in the areas of Finance and Controlling, Financial supply chain management, Sales and distribution, Material management, Production planning, APO and SRM. SAP BW system aspires to consolidate and integrate data posted in the transactional SAP ECC system, MDM, CRM, and SCM to provide insightful reports.

 

Role: SAP BW Tech Lead (Wipro Ltd.)

       

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 

·   Worked as SAP BW Lead of  both development and support team (AMS) team

·   Implementation of new flows in SAP BW and change of design

·   Worked on defects and post-Go-Live issues.

·   Help solving regular critical tickets as well as issues related to new developments

·   Providing recommendations for system performance tuning; both loading and reporting

·   Interaction with Key business users and managers to understand functional specification and prepare technical specification from that

·   Created and maintained planning applications using BI Integrated Planning ( BW-IP)  Planning

·   Configured Aggregation Levels, custom filters, custom functions, and Planning Sequences

·   Monthly reconciliation of CO-PA, FI, SD, MM data and resolving issues with reconciliation

·   Implementation of BWA NetWeaver Accelerator 7.20

·   Upgrade of BW 7.01 to BW 7.3 and unit and regression testing

·   Build Efficient Aggregates on Stock Overview, COPA and GL line item and summary cubes to drastically improve the runtimes of queries running on top of these cubes

·   Efficient aggregate helped in improving reporting performance from 8 minutes to less than 40 seconds

·   Redesign of cube dimension helped reducing cube loading time from 3 hours to 20 minutes

·   Worked extensively on G/L reconciliation in addressing the issue of G/L totals not getting summed up to zero for certain periods and profit centers.

·   Worked with the new G/L extractor like 0FI_GL_20 and 0FI_GL_14

·   Experienced in LO extraction using 2LIS_11_VAHDR, 2LIS_11_VAITM, 2LIS_12_VAITM etc

·   Built BEx queries with Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures and Variables which would be utilized to build the Business Objects OLAP Universes.

·   Developed End to End solution for GR/IR reporting and LCM ( Least Cost Material) reporting

·   Worked in resolution of a myriad of BW issues like TRFC errors, delta breakages, failure in IDOCS, failures due to short dumps, delayed data loads, invalid character entries and troubleshooting missing documents in BI etc.

·   Wrote ABAP codes for automatic correction of  invalid character issues

·   Grooming/Training  new team members via formal and informal training

·   Writing technical specification document

·   Played role of  onsite coordinator and managed offshore team

·   Helped in Roll Out and overall stabilization of the system post Go-Live

 

 

Industry: Chemicals and Petroleum, British Petroleum North Sea , UK      Duration: Aug,09 – Jul,10

 

Project Description/Scope: This was an End to End implementation project for SAP FI and Sales & Tariffs reporting. Key objective was development of BW data model to support reporting requirement of BP’s Exploration and Production unit in North Sea.

 

Role: SAP BW Developer  (IBM)

       

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

·   Requirement gathering after discussion and workshop with business group

·   Propose and recommend roadmap for implementation of the SAP BW solution with demo and examples

·   Fit-Gap analysis of the requirements

·   Creation of BW data model from custom ABAP reports

·   Designing query for AP/AR bucket scenario

·   Enhancement of standard DataSources like 0FI_AR_4 and 0FI_AP_4

·   Designing Function Module Based Extractors

·   Dimension Designing of InfoCubes

·   Coding for complex calculation via Start , End and Field Routines in transformation

·   Customer Exit for variables via CMOD coding

·   Creation of BW hierarchy flat file from customer provided hierarchy data

·   Design for queries and Data Model needed to cater the high priority requirements

·   Creation of Process Chains for automation of Data Load

 

 

Industry: Chemicals and Petroleum, British Petroleum Group BW , UK     Duration: Sep,07 – Aug,09

 

Project Description/Scope: BP Group BW initiative covers the support, enhancements, and upgrade services of different Business Intelligence applications across the different phases of oil exploration, refining, marketing and retail operations. We were responsible to manage seven BW systems.

 

Role: SAP BW Administrator ( IBM)

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

 

·   Process chain monitoring and tuning the data load performance

·   Daily System monitoring and daily issue solving related to Data Load

·   Created Custom InfoCube and ODS( DSO) to meet specific customer requirements

·   Implemented Start Routine, End Routine and Field Routine to transform data

·   Creation of Database Aggregate to enhance reporting performance

·   Designed Query via BEx Query Designer

·   New System building and System refresh (homogeneous database copy)

·   Maintaining connection with Informatica power centre and various other source systems

·   Database Administration and performance tuning by creating aggregates , Database Indices and updating Database Statistics

·   Created and maintained planning applications using BI Integrated Planning ( BW-IP)  Planning

·   Configured Aggregation Levels, custom filters, custom functions, and Planning Sequences

·   Kernel and Support Pack Upgrade in different BW Versions.

·   Implementing and enhancement of  SOX/SOD (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) evidences  and providing SOX training to other team members

·   Managing daily transport and monthly release to propagate new changes to Production

·   Implementation of  SAP Notes correction via SNOTE

·   BIA ( BI Accelerator) blade server monitoring and building new BIA aggregates

·   Maintaining and restoring source system connection with other systems after system refresh

·   Database Reorganization ( Oracle) to reduce database size

·   Writing  ABAP codes to automate error correction in process chain

 

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

 

 

SAP Academy Training

·   HA300 and HA100

·   SAP BI ( TBW10,TBW20,TBW42_1 , TBW42_2, TBW_45)

·   SAP BW Administration ( BW 360)

·   SAP Enterprise Portal

 

Other Trainings

·   Email, Conference and Meeting Skill

·   Communicating Effectively  in Global Environment

 

Certification :

·   SAP Certified Application Associate HANA 1.0 ( 2013 Edition, SPS6 )

 

 

 

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