Raghu Duggirala

  • SAP Architect/Modeler
  • Fairway, KS
  • Member Since Mar 21, 2023

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Raghu Duggirala

                        

Professional Summary:

·         16+ years of Techno-Functional experience in SAP, focused on SAP HANA, B2B PI Integration, SAP GRC, SAP BI, SAP BO, SAP SLT, SAP DS & SAP EP, BIGDATA, Hadoop

·         Data Provisioning: Extracted data from ECC using SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT), Smart Data Integration (SDI)&   Business Objects Data Services (BODS) is used as an ETL from extracting data from external systems (Oracle, SQL and Flat File Sources)

·         BW on HANA Mixed Scenarios: Experience in Modelling on BW 7.5 on HANA mixed scenarios including creation of ADSOs, Composite Providers on generated BW infoproviders.

·         BW on HANA DB Migration: Experience including sizing, Planning, Migration, Pre and Post Migration activities, Testing and issue resolution

·         S/4 HANA Embedded Analytics: Implementation of S/4 HANA embedded analytics for Finance Reporting, Creation and Extension of CDS Views , Creation and Extension of Analytic Apps for FIORI & BOBJ front end consumption

·         S/4 HANA: Experience in Configuring S/4 HANA simple finance- GL Accounting & New asset Accounting, Migration - Cost Elements, Line items & Balances, data enrichment, preparing for Migration, Reconcile & Compare Migrated data

·         SAP Hybris : B2B E-commerce Accelerator , Billing, SAP BAPI/JCO Integration

Experience Summary:

 

Employer: Mandee Corp       Duration Feb 2014 - to-date

Company: Financial Industry, Fairway, KS

Role: SAP Architect/Modeler  Duration: September 2017 – To-Date

Roles and Responsibilities:        

·         Involved in BW 7.5 on HANA modelling of Mixed scenarios including creation of ADSOs and Composite Providers on top of generated HANA views.(For BW info providers)

·         S/4 Hana Migration preparation (Fit gap analysis Hana 2.0 , S/4 HANA 1709)

·         ERP integration for B2B e-commerce customers.

 

Company: Beauty & Skincare Industry, Stanford, NC

Role: SAP HANA Architect/Modeler/Administrator   Duration: March 2016 – September 2017

Roles and Responsibilities:        

Project GREEN Lift & Shift BWH migration (Native Hana , Mixed Scenario)

·         Finalizing the logical architecture with future source systems (S/4 Hana, ECC on HANA, SoH CRM).

·         Worked on HANA End to End Performance Tracing and issue resolution including -  Network Traces (Iperf) & Front-end tool Traces (AO traces & SAP client Plugin)

·         Involved in BW on HANA, Native HANA and BPC Implementation Projects

·         Designed and implemented SAP HANA data modeling using Attribute View, Analytic View, and Calculation View. Server side XS scripting and java scripting for custom dynamic authentication.

·         Data provisioning using SLT for SAP ECC source system, Smart Data Integration (SDI) for Flat file Source and SDA for Oracle DW and SQL source Systems.

·         SAP B2B ecommerce integration to improve the hands-free throughput of the EDI sales order transactions, improving the order fulfillment performance.

Company: Utility Industry Rosemead, CA

Role: SAP Solution Architect/Modeler                                  Duration: August 2014 – Feb 2016

Project: S/4 Hana and Suite on HANA (CRM) O.N.I project

Roles and Responsibilities:        

·         Facilitate requirements gathering and reconciliation of data definitions with business and IT experts.

·         Involved in S/4 HANA migration, Testing and issue resolution.

·         Involved in Fiori Implementation and deployment for S/4 HANA Simple finance

·         Involved in Configuring SLT, Loading ECC tables, Monitoring and Administration of SLT.

·         Creation of Stored Procedures and Calculation Views using SQL Script & CE Functions

·         Hadoop, Cloudera(Impala) Integration via SDI and Virtual Tables.

Project: BOBJ on HANA Clusters Consolidation

·         Bex reports to BOBJ reports conversion project

·         Consolidation of HANA production systems for resolving the HANA 1.74 memory issues (HANA merging project). Consolidation of SAP BW/BOBJ application clusters and HANA DB clusters (Adding/Removing nodes in production and non-production clusters)

·         POC of the HANA system for enterprise data warehouse (Teradata replacement initiative).

Company: information technologies, services and solutions Industry, Santa Clara, California

Role: SAP Solution Architect/Modeler                  Duration: Feb 2014 – March 2015

Roles and Responsibilities:        

Project: “Lift and Shift” to SAP BW on SAP HANA (Customer Valero San Antonio)

·         Facilitate requirements gathering and reconciliation of data definitions with business and IT experts.

·         Worked in Loading data into table definitions, suspending data loads, resuming data loads using LT Replication

·         Designed and Worked with Joins and Union functions of HANA DB tables to meet the business requirements and use cases

HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)

·         Setting up the HANA cockpit, HCP and Hana cloud connector for River IDE

·         Setting up authorizations, user management, cloud administration

·         Integration with on premise Hana systems (ECC on HANA, BW on HANA, Solution Manager on Hana).

·         Designing and Validating the Information Models for HANA, Setting Up and configuration of the Information Modeler (data sources JDBC, ODBO, ODBC)

·         Knowledge of setting up the cloud integration for S&OP, Ariba discovery.

·         B2B Integration with ERP systems and e-commerce Applications

Company: I.T Services Industry, Philadelphia, PA /NYC /Denver, CO /Minneapolis, MN /Cupertino, CA

Role: Principal Consultant                        Duration: Mar 2010 – Feb 2014

Clients: Geller & Co, DTCC, Apple, Harley Davidson, Novartis, Newmont Mining, Pepsi, Syngenta, Scope: SAP HANA migration projects (BW, S&OP, Cloud), End of Life projects (Solman upgrade, HCM EHP7/BSI Tubs upgrade, BW upgrade, BOBJ upgrade, etc.,), Business Transformation projects

 

Roles and Responsibilities:        

·         Facilitate requirements gathering and reconciliation of data definitions with business and IT experts.

·         Experience working with content models, attributes and measures, hierarchies

·         Involved in Design of SAP DS Jobs for Replication of Data to HANA DB with complex Data Transformations and Data Cleansing 

·         Worked in Loading data into table definitions, suspending data loads, resuming data loads using LT Replication

·         Designed and Worked with Joins and Union functions of HANA DB tables to meet the business requirements and use cases

 

Company: Software Product Development Industry, Pittsburgh PA/ Atlanta / Baltimore, MD / Santa Clara, CA / Las Vegas, NV / Skillman, NJ

Role: Senior Consultant                               Duration: July 2006 – March 2010                           

Clients: Johnson & Johnson /Clark County /Applied Materials /Johns Hopkins University /Coco Cola /Pepsi Cola/H J Heinz

Scope: SAP BOE XI implementation, SAP BO Access Control (formerly GRC)

Roles and Responsibilities:        

  • Technical Lead for BI, SAP BO Access Control (formerly GRC), BOE XI Implementations.
  • Single Sign on implementations for BI-Portal, PI-Portal (JAAS, Principal of propagation), designing the risk solution (rule set) for CRM, BI to suite the customer’s policies.

·         Extensive experience in designing and building Dashboards/Reports from SAP BI 7.0 Bex Queries by using Hyperlinks, Prompted Filters, sections and Breaks for providing Drill Down/Navigation to business users

Company: Pharma Industry, Pittsburgh, PA

Role: Sr. SAP Consultant                                                            Duration: May 2004 – July 2006

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

  • Lead consultant for SAP ITS upgrade and new ECC 5.0 technical upgrade implementation.
  • Using ASAP methodology conducted all tasks for Business Blueprint and Realization phases of project.
  • This included process definition; testing and configuration support for the areas of Developed the project plan for the Virsa SOX/AIS implementation.
  • Integration leads for SAP training module (Success Factors-Plateau LMS).

Company: Telecom Industry, Dallas, TX / Newhaven, CT

Role: Senior Integration Consultant                                       Duration:             Mar 2000 – May 2004

Responsibilities/Deliverables:

  • Responsible for planning and executing the coordination of technical environments, process readiness, user setup, transports, configuration dependency, backups, training, site readiness and organizational change activities.
  • Project coordinator for an SAP Integration Feasibility Study.

Company: Software Industry, Singapore/London, UK

Role: Integration Consultant                                                                      Duration: July 1998 – Feb 2000

  • Responsibilities/Deliverables: TIBCO
  • Development of web commerce applications (B2B EDI) and integration of WorldCom/cyber cash applications.

Trainings and Certifications:

·         Trained: SAP HANA, SAP America Inc, PA, USA

·         Trained: SAP S/4 HANA Simple Finance Migration 2.0 (On Premise) TechE Training

·         Trained: SAP HANA Development and Modelling, SAP Hadoop, SAP Hybris TechE training

·         SAP Certified Technology Professional - Platform Technology with SAP NetWeaver 7.0

·         SAP Certified Technology Specialist (Edition 2014) HANA

·         SUN Certified Java Architect

Education:

·         M.Tech in Ocean Engineering from Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai 1996