Candidates About

 

Mani Ramamoorthy

                       SAP ABAP  Consultant                                           

Profile

·         SAP ABAP Consultant with 12+ years of experience in SAP ERP Software Design, Development and Implementation and upgrade projects. Worked on technical aspects of various functional areas such as Sale and Distribution(SD), Material management(MM), Financial accounting(FICO) , Travel management(TM) ,  Project  systems(PS), Production planning(PP), Warehouse Management(WM) , Human resources(HR), Funds management(FM) ,Grants Management(GM),APO,SCM,GTS and others

·         Have worked on seven full life cycle implementation projects in SAP system and involved in Global ERP implementation projects for  UNICEF /Merck Business, DCT/HACT financial custom product developments , multiple  Upgrade projects,Conversion and cross box projects etc

·         Designed and developed   RICEF objects in SAP system across major functional areas

·         Worked on developing  custom business applications using Dialog programming/Selection Screens

·         Development of interfaces between SAP systems using ALE/IDoc Technologies for Master data

·         Designed and automated custom business processes using SAP workflow design environment

·         Designed and developed webdynpro components/Applications for various business areas

 

SAP Development/ABAP Programming:

·         Adept at analyzing functional specification and designing technical specification

·         Experienced in ABAP programming, Reports design using ALV/ Classical/Smart forms/SAP script/Adobe forms, Dialog Programming,BAPI,BDC, LSMW,SAP Workflow ,ALE, IDOC, RFC, BDT tool , Webdynpro,Webservices,OData Services,ADOBE forms and  Object oriented ABAP and have worked on  RICEFW objects in SAP

·         Designed and developed various reports using classical/interactive reports, ALV, SAP Script, Smartform, ALV object oriented, Microsoft word custom template reports, Microsoft excel sheet

·         Enhanced Standard SAP systems to include the custom requirements using SAP enhancement methods such as User exits, Customer exits, BADI, Implicit/Explicit enhancement and BDT tools

·         Designed and developed numerous ALV reports for various business processes  using object oriented concepts/ABAP Objects

·         Designed and developed custom  financial product called HACT application which handles major processes of public sector  organizations using ABAP Webdynpro

·         Having strong debugging/trouble shooting skills in Standard SAP system code as well as Custom programs  and have resolved numerous defects production exceptions/errors for mission-critical applications

·         Designed and developed various LSMW data migration tool for vendor master data and customer master data upload into the SAP system

·         Worked on inbound/outbound interface in ALE/IDoc Implemented data migration across SAP systems for material/vendor master data migration

 

SAP Workflow

·               Collaborated with team of subject matter experts, decision makers and acted as a liaison person between business users and developers while making the business decisions using workflow.

·               Draw up functional and technical specifications for the business process automation

·               Actively participated in designing, developing and implementing approval process of funds commitment documents

·               Configured basic workflow settings and workflow pre-requisites

·               Enhanced standard Workflow provided by SAP System for FM/FR to include express work items and deadlines

·               Configured the various workflow environment in addition to the automatic customizing

·               Implemented various business scenarios such deadline monitoring

·               Worked with BOR for using standard business object types as well as creating new business objects for various scenarios

·               Experienced in development of tasks/containers/containers bindings/routing/modelled deadlines

·               Worked on workflow even linkage/terminating events

·               Actively created events using SAP provided standard wizards

 

ALE/IDoc:

·      Developed Customer Distribution Models and distributed master data to the    Other logical systems using RFC Destinations

·      Developed  tools which will be used for converting IDoc into XML formatted data and  store them in presentation/application servers which would be used by  third party applications for Mobile apps and other applications

·         Involved in ALE Configuration for the Message types  ( Master Data distribution )

·         Configured Partner Profiles, Port definition, Process code and logical destination

·         Involved in IDoc Segment Mapping

·         Debugging in ALE /IDoc to execute root cause analysis  and fixing the issues

·         Used Segment Filtering and reduced IDoc to filter out unwanted data to be transferred.

·         Worked and Used Change pointers to make changes in the transfer of the master data from one system to another system.

 

Academic Qualification

• B.S in Computer science

 

Technical Expertise

ERP                               : ECC 6.0, SAP R/3 Release 4.6C & 4.7,

SAP                           :  ABAP programming, Workflow, ALE, IDoc, Classical report, Interactive reports,

ALV reports, Enhancement techniques, User exits, BADI, Data   Dictionary objects, BDC, LSMW, SAPScript, Smartforms, ABAP Objects, BDT, Webdynpro ABAP, Generation of reports in Microsoft formats using OLE, BAPI, Function modules,  SAP mobile app development platforms Neptune,Webdynpro and SAP WebIDE

Functional Area       : FICO, SD, HR,TM,SCM, MM, PM, PP,GTS,SCM,APO, WM and GM

Operating System : Microsoft Windows, Linux

Lagunages                 : ABAP/4, Java, C++, C, DHTML, PHP

RDBMS                       : Oracle and MS Access

Query languages   : PL/SQL, MySQL

Packages                    : MS Office, VB 5.0

 

 

 

Project Experience

 

Role     : SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                           Duration:  Oct’16 – Till date

Client   : Merck Millipore, MO

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Development of ABAP reports,Custom application developments using dialog programming  and Selection screens, Enhancement of Standard SAP systems, Utilities developments,  interfaces supporting ALE/IDoc, Form developments using ADOBE, conversions, Workflow developments and supporting the SMEs/Functional Analysts in functional areas such as Sales and Distribution(SD) , FICO ,TM(Travel Management),MM(Material Management),WM, APO, SCM, GTS, MDG and  other functional areas

 

• Design and development of Mass Purchase requisition/PO deletion program program which can be used to set deletion parameter individually and mass entries based on text files
• Designed and developed applications for cross box scenarios which would involve various functional areas such as Sales and distribution,GTS, APO and Transportation management
• Enhanced standard inbound delivery applications to split the delivery based on storage location of preceding purchasing document created at various plant levels
• Involved in development of biling plan validation for auto populating items based on header details found in billing document
• Involved in development changes  to print the content of forms for foreign languages using SAPScript forms
• Involved actively in SAP Upgrade process to include latest support package , which involves SPAU/SPDD exercises for various functional areas
• Design and development custom application using dialog programming for quality departments to maintain the products across various plants
• Designed and developed ALV report to list out travel related expenses by employees across various regions/countries
• Design and development of utility program for setting deletion indicators based on sales order item details
• Worked on interfacing between SAP systems which involves setting up new partner profile/port definition/output type for various documents sent across systems

• Enhancement of standard Webdynpro components  to include custom requirements for Engineering record process for master recipe/inspection/BOM processes

·         Design and development of business webdynpro component/application to maintain various engineering components based on various selection criteria

·         Development of various  webdynpro based ALV component  for keeping the track of  pricing for products across regions/country and other parameters

·         Developed various search options using OVS and freely programmed search help and embedded  via UI elements of various views of webdynpro components

·         Designed and developed webdynpro component to monitor shipment process which will involves ALV component developments, View/windows development,OVS helps, Drill downs across various views

·         Designed and developed Webynpro component which will display the view of components in ADOBE based forms for various plants

• Design and development of forms for extended warehouse management to print HU/Delivery/HBL based forms  using ADOBE live cycle designer

 

• Design and Development of DMS workflow which automates approval process for the retirement process. It involves approval process at various levels, rules to determine agents and HTML based emails to users
• Design and development changes to change the workflow for ER process which has comprehensive process to automate the approval process. It include agent determination using class/methods, Sending corporate emails and changing status at various levels
• Development changes to function modules which will be used for material document posting

 which will include creation of Goods issue for delivery.

• Design and development of custom application which will process inspection planning and scheduling. It does include selection of inspection lot and inspector data and material planning a
• Development of interface for integration between FedEx Ship Manager and SAP Next System and  modified the IDOC segments with custom logic
• Design and development of Billing Document/Invoice output forms for various documents types. It involves incorporating custom logic, interface change and for design change
• Designed and developed batch program which would create quotation in legacy SAP system using RFC and outputting result in classical report. Selection for this report will be based parameters such as  sales organization, Distribution channel and quotations
• Development of wrapper program simulate/create/change orders for web commerce
• Design and development of Intercompany Invoice Output form output using ADOBE which would be used as  one of the global templates across various regions
• Enhancement to the standard material master data screen(MM01/MM02) to include custom fields and   enabling change document history for those fields
• Designed and developed batch program which would automatically send emails to the user as new transaction codes are created in the system which would enable basis team for authorization process
• Development of BADI implementation changes to include production memo text into the process order

 

 

Role     : SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                           Duration:  Jun’14 – Sep’16

Client   : Freshdirect, NY

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Development of ABAP reports, Custom application developments using dialog programming, Utilities developments, Development of Webdynpro components/applications, Workflow developments , Enhancement of Standard SAP systems, interfaces supporting ALE/IDoc, Form developments, conversions  and supporting the SMEs/Functional Analysts in functional areas such as MM,SD, TM,WM and  other functional areas

 

• Development of material master data price mismatch report which would be run periodically to get price mismatches for the valid material master data and sending emails to distributed list
• Development of Utility programs for achieving the custom  transaction data  dynamically which generating files  in application servers
• STO creation Reconciliation report developments for listing out STR/PR line items  and entries with discrepancies which would be used by  used for failed ATP Check ,it include ALV generation, auto refresh functionality and sending out PDF outputs to users
• Custom enhancement developments to default the  Purchase order item data  on PO creation using transaction code ME59 which creates STOS from PRs
• Development of dashboard to monitor shipment of material master data for the various orders of the day  which would run all times in plant  which would enable printing of labels and  PGI creation, Auto refresh and custom shorting process
• Development of program which would print the pallets using zebra printers for various license plate methods being used  for shipment process
• Development  of STO Drop shipment summary which would be scheduled in background to give details on shipment details for processing orders from the various departments
• Development of price exporting utility  which would be periodically run in the background to send the  price master data and material master data into other systems  using remote RFC call
• Development various print programs which would produce labels such as pick labels,HU labels to be printed from zebra printer and other print printers
• Development of custom application for creation and maintenance of price master data  such regular , promo and customer  price , it involves pricing condition creations using BDC  programs in back ground and send them across various storefront applications using RFC calls
• Worked on implementing new plant  in various applications such price entry creation programs, other material master data based  tools such as DDPP(Data Driven president pick) custom application which is run everyday
• Extending major tool for maintain the promotions to create the price master data using BDC which  involves data conversion, Data dictionary extensions and developments, developments of new  BDC programs
• Development of dialog  application which  would be used by loading  facility to load the shipments into the truck for various STO received for the day
• Development of RF Transaction for case put away  which would used to move SU to single bins
• Development of RF transactions to facilitate bin to bin transfer of entire SU in plant facilities and

Replenishment activities from RST to reserve facilities

• Development of RF Transaction for case put away  which would used to move SU to single bins
• Development activities to convert existing SAP dialog application for RF transactions  into ITS mobile apps which will be used by plant facilities

• Designed and developed custom Webdynpro component/Application for pricing module for maintenance of prices across various plants for various zones present across regions
• Designed and developed  views for maintaining reflecting activities related with regular prices, promo prices for products  across system
• Development assistance class/methods to be reused for implementing business function which will be called across various methods of controllers
• Developed various search helps such as OVS help/Freely programmed search helps which to be used for search options for various UI elements of views
• Designed and developed Webdynpro components/application for maintaining custom specific prices for products based on various categories such as regular customs/corporate customers
• Developed webdynpro component/application to upload MIME images for products which would consumed by various components
• Designed and developed webdynpro component/application for STO reconciliation for showing STR/PR items which are failed from creating shipments. It uses custom ALV component usage.
• Designed and developed Shipment Dashboard Webdynpro components/application which would list shipment details for a given shipment data. It has option to drill down to STO level/material level/item level details
• Development of webdynpro component for Backhaul PO report which would generate both classical reports as well as sending out the  PDF document as attachments to the distributed list  maintained
• Designed and developed Webdynpro component to display orders received through storefront for various selection parameters such as zones,regions and timeslots

• Design and development of workflow that would trigger the business process flow on receiving the sales order via store front and informing the production departments. If order contains products to be produce in house. This concept is achieved through check function module before workflow trigger
• Worked on various trouble shooting/Debugging options to analyze and fix the issues within workflow system debugging SAP events, Container content analysis, debugging in background task
• Worked on integration of workflow system with outlook integration using program exits making use of interface classes, developing mailto links to agents and processing response in system
• Custom development of business objects for pricing with attributes, methods and events which would be used for wf which would be triggered from custom applications
• Design and development of workflow system to approve the pricing  when created from custom pricing application and forwarding the work items into various departments
• Development  utility program to triggers the business object events using  standard FMs provided by SAP for pending sales orders which are not yet approved

 

 

 

Role     : SAP ABAP Consultant                                                                                           Duration:  Jan’12 – May’14

Client   : UNICEF, NY

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Development of ABAP reports, Custom application developments, Utilities developments, Enhancement of Standard SAP systems, Development of Webdynpro components/applications, Workflow developments ,interfaces, Business process automation using workflow and Webdynpro component developments and Supporting the SMEs/Functional Analysts/Technical Analysts in resolving the service manager calls/Production issues for global post-implementation of global vision project for UNICEF across functional areas FICO,TM(Travel Management),HR(Human Resources), MM , SD  and  public sector modules such as grants management/funds management

 

• Development of forex revaluation BS adjustment account assignment matching report
• Development of G/L account  open line  item list display based on G/L acct and purchasing entities
• Development of fixed asset listing report which to be used by asset maintenance section to list and maintain the assets globally  for carrying value to be consistent  for both migrated and new assets
• Development of donor statement program which produces the MDTF report on Microsoft excel sheet report

·         Development of grant  monitoring report to include  new G/L account

• Development of BDC program to display the trip which to be called by ALV donor template programs
• Development of trust fund report which combines traditionally used  procurement services and trust account report, trust funds report , contributions received or pledged report
• Development of utility program  to update expenditures  summary table based on legacy data available from presentation server
• FI: US Govt. Donor Reports :  FSR Report which needs to be generated as donor statement in Microsoft Word processor custom template
• Repairing standard SAP objects for Asset master data Creation/Maintenance screen to include customer requirements for proposed objects
• Making layout changes in standard SAP objects to modify custom program  in  Vendor master data Creation/Maintenance screen

•        Developed a FI  report to list of open commitments in FMIOI in ALV output to show documents with open items for different grants and showing them in a specific color, drill downs to other business documents

•        Utility development  to fix bugs in the AR clearing program FI postings using special G/L

•        Development of program to be used by budget department to download the data from SAP to application server and vice-versa

•        Development of donor statement report which is run for every donor annually for various purposes

•        Development of custom utility  program to change the data which are incorrectly updated  by the SAP system for accounts section

•        Development of grants closure report  which to be used by head quarters

•        Development changes to  UNICEF expenditure list program to include the  payroll posting information from  SAP HR payroll posting, using both ALV object oriented and  procedure oriented approach

•        Development of Fixed asset inventory report for all  new York HQ and field offices

•        FI: Expenditure matrix report  to show expenditure to show index number(s) for staff-related expenses and making it an interactive report

•        Worked with bank reconciliation report  to fix the incorrect display of current amounts

•        Development of procurement services and trust account report to fix the issue of incorrect display of Japanese currency display

•        Being involved in supporting and troubleshooting the production environment  errors and defects

•        Involved in providing solutions for SAP Technical disabilities and  dump to bring production environment active running on the track

·         Developed Sale order documents flow report called ZFLOW, can query any document number in the supply chain and get the complete overview of all linked documents from sales order through to the final acknowledgement of receipt by consignee

·         Designed and developed sales order process workflow which automates from creation of sales order, authorizing the same, which includes various decision makings including if  LPA required before the Procurements and process start. This change in status automatically transmits the

        Sales order through workflow to the relevant staff in the supply function for review

·         Developer report for monitoring  the sales order once it  is created there are several

        Monitoring reports that can be used to view the status and other details

·         Developed a report to print an Invitee List for a solicitation. An Invitee List is the list of suppliers invited to tender.

 

  

SAP Webdynpro  (HACT Financial Webdynpro application development)

• Implementation of new functionality in HACT application: Adjustment from FI change of key field (addition of fiscal year) for FI document which is required for 2013 transaction processing which needs changes  of all HACT financial application which being used globally, SAP ABAP objects such as functional modules, Custom BAPIs, FI reports
• Designed and developed major financial product called HACT application ( Harmonized approach cash transfer )  using SAP Webdynpro
• Designed and developed a consumption history which to be called from within the system which would give the detailed map of the documents flow
• Designed and developed an Webdynpro application which  stand alone utility  to create Down payment request (DPR) with single/multiple line items
• Developed various custom BAPIs  to be used for creating various FI Documents of various documents type such DPR (Tcode: FMDPREF)  and other FI Documents
• Assistance class is  used within Webdynrpo application  whose methods to be widely used  by the system
• Developed Various types of search helps  were created such as  OVS , freely  programmed search helps
• Implemented an internal workflow process  to approve a FACE/Payment Request for DCT which are of different types

 

Workflow:

• Developed a workflow to automate the approval process for funds Commitment/Funds reservation screen for delegated budget
• Developed a custom business objects to be used by major financial application  for direct cash transfer project
• Involved in debugging environment of  workflow to find, in most cases, agent which are missed
• Developed proactive workflow utility to determine the approvers, budget owners and other agents prior to start of work flow process for multiple business documents such as funds commitment, fund reservation, purchase documents, sales documents and trip documents
• Developed reactive workflow utility to determine the status of triggered workflow process for a various document types using the same utility

•     Used agent determination rules to determine responsible agents for various steps based on    different criteria

•     Developed Organizational Plan for Workflow and assigned agents to organizational units.

•     Developed a Workflow for notifying the accounting department when the status of a Production    Order is changed.

•     Configured the various workflow environment in addition to the automatic customizing

• Implemented various business scenarios such deadline monitoring
• Worked with BOR for using standard business object types as well as creating new business objects for various scenarios
• Experienced in development of tasks/containers/containers bindings/routing/modelled deadlines
• Worked on workflow even linkage/terminating events
• Actively created events using SAP provided standard wizards

 

 

 

Role     :  SAP Developer/ABAP Consultant                                                            Duration:  Jan’10 – Dec’11

Client     : UNICEF, NY

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

Development of ABAP reports, Custom application developments, Utilities developments, Enhancement of Standard SAP systems, interfaces, Business process automation using workflow and Webdynpro component developments and Delivery of SAP development objects that include reporting and dialog programming and enhancement of SAP standard objects in FICO, Development of product HACT, DCT (Direct Cash transfer) in FICO, Travel webdynpro component development, Implementation of IPSAS project to enhance HR reporting

 

·         Involved in the development of HACT  product which deals with  handling of  financial and accounting processes of UNICEF using SAP Netweaver  technology

·         Developed report for  partner summary to list out Vendor details and FACE Document list details with  country specific currency

·         Development Classical Tree report using custom approach for listing consumption history of FACE Documents which would  have detailed information on FACE Documents, Funds commitment Document, Down payment request , Down payment document and Vendor invoices

·         Development of Interactive FACE consumption history