Candidates About

 

Pavan K Tiwari

Professional Summary

10 years of SAP Technical proficient and a zealous resource who has been involved in highly challenging developments and projects and has always guaranteed strong client satisfaction.

• Extensive working experience as a Technical consultant in various functional areas ranging from FI/CO, Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), WM, PP, PM, HR.
• Experience in Designing/ Implementing and supporting with third-party tool like Brainware, Esker, Paymatrics, Vertex, Internal B2B website, Dolphin, Mobius and Middleware like TIBCO/SAP Process Integration/ IBM WebSphere,.
• Executed more than 4 SAP End to End Implementation, Upgrade, Rollout and Support projects in Various Industries like Pharma Life science, CPG.
• Proficient in analysing and translating business requirements to technical requirements.
• Extensive Knowledge of business processes in SAP FICO (Record to Report end to end Process).
• Experience in FICO concept of Banking Interfaces and Enhancement (extensively part of Design, development and testing), like Knowledge of Classical Payment setup (DME) and Advance Payment medium workbench DMEE. 
• Expertize in Understanding the R/3 System and Experience in ABAP Programing Techniques, SRM ABAP, ABAP Web Dynpro, PI/XI Configurations, Workflows using Quality driven Methodologies.
• Experience of working and managing Data migration team using Back Office Associate’s tool.

 

SAP Expertise:

• Extensive in trouble shooting, performance tuning, code optimization, reusability techniques, designing unit test scenarios and integration testing.
• Extremely efficient in coordinating with functional teams and client team to gather requirements and driving development activates across multiple locations and time zones.
• Excellent understanding of Technical as well as functional knowledge of SAP R/3, SAP SRM and SAP PI/XI systems for designing, Implementing and enhancement of the system with experience in ABAP programing and testing using quality-driven methodologies.

 

• Expertise in SAP-ABAP are Report (classic, Interactive, ALV and Dynamic ALV, Report Painter, Report Writer ), Enhancements (User Exits, BADIs, FI Validation & Substitution, BTE, Enhancement ( Implicit and Explicit ), BDC, DME file generation, Data Migrations, Smart Forms, SAP Script, Webdynpro, Adobe Form, module pool ( Dialogue Programming ), Interfaces (File to File, ALE IDoc,  ABAP Proxy, Bank Statement Upload ), LSMW, BAPI, ABAP Queries, Note Implementation, ABAP Debugging, SQL trace analysis, STAD report analysis, RFC and Authorization trace analysis and SAP Workday Integration (SAP HR was replaced by Workday).
• Experience in SAP PI/XI configurations and Message Mapping of ABAP Proxy, file to file, IDOCs. In addition to that worked on Application and Process controlled Workflows.
• In-depth knowledge on FI Functional topics like AP, AR, Banking (Statement upload and DME generation), FI-Payment, Sp. Ledger and Treasury.
• Experience in FSCM Credit and Dispute Management developments.
• Experience as an external code reviewer for several projects of IBM.
• Experience to manage the none sap system like Paymatrics, Vertex, Esker ( High Speed Printers)

 

 

Tools:

·         HP Quality Centre, BMC Remedy (Ticketing tool), Autosys (Scheduler), SAP Solution Manager(Document Management),, Ascendant Tool (Document Management),, Vertex (Tax), GxPharma (Document Management), Brainware (OCR Integration), Paymatrics ( Payment), TRAX (Search Add on), Esker ( High speed printing Solution), Mobius ( Content Management), Dolphin ( SAP Add-on), Workload Control Center (WCC), Sharepoint.

                       

Education and Background:

·         Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Jalpaiguri Govt. Egg. College, West Bengal India, 2006. (Secured CGPA 8.44).

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Professional Experience:

July 14 2006 – Till Date,                     SAP Consultant,               IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India     

 

Awards & Achievements:

• Design & Develop Error Monitoring Dashboard which collect and display the entire error of system. This tool is used by several clients in IBM
• Design & Develop the RFC tracker which display the RFC starts of the system, used by Basis teams.
• Design & Develop a plugging between GRC and SAP system to avoid the Super user access violation. This is useful for Pharma Clients.
• Design & Develop a tool to track whether SAP client is open or not, if open inform the Admin Team. Important tool for Pharmaceutical Company.
• IBM Bravo Award in 2008
• IBM-PMI Star award 2008
• IBM E&E award in 2010
• IBM OTA award in 2011 for designing Error Monitoring Dashboard
• IBM SEA  Award 2013

 

Training/Certifications Details:

• Functional training on SAP FICO, IBM India Pvt Ltd Duration: 40 Hrs
• IBM SAP ABAP at IBM India Pvt Ltd, 160 Hrs
• IBM Internal training of SAP PI/XI, Workflow, CRM, APO
• Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA , Introduction to Mobile Solution Development, An Introduction to SAP HANA by Dr. Vishal Sikka, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA and ABAP Development for SAP HANA from Open SAP.
• Introduction to Finance and Introduction to Financial Accounting from Courseera.

 

Professional Experience

Experience and Accomplishments:

 

Project Name                         : Abbott Manage Services

Client                          : Abbott

Role                            : Onsite Co-ordinator/Sr. ABAP Developer/ BoA Developer

Version                      : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration:                   : March, 2013 – Till Date

 

Description: Abbott Laboratories was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois. It engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. It has four core businesses Diagnostics, Devices, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.

Process Area:  Order to Cash (OTC), Supply chain management ( MM, PP and QM), Account Receivable, Purchase to Procure (PTP: Account Payables and SRM) and Record to Report (RTR)

Environment & Tools: SAP EEC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager, SAP PI, TIBCO, Share Point, BOA Tools, TAC tools, HP Quality Center, Workload Control Center (WCC), Autosys, SAP BI.

Team Size:  200

 

Responsibilities as Onsite Co-ordinator / Senior Developer:

 

• Work with GIS People, User and Functional owner to understand the issue and explain it to offshore.
• Analyse the issue to understand whether its defect or Change Request and follow the SDLC accordingly.
• Work on all critical issue at onsite, and if require arrange the call between all parties involve in the issues.
• In case of new requirement, gather the information, prepare the design, get it approved by Architect.
• Monitor all the interfaces two times in a day; I’m responsible for RTR and SCM Interfaces only, so monitor RTR and SCM interfaces.
• Actively involve in the Disk Space management for the SAP with Unix Team.
• Create a JIL file for Autosys Job which is a scheduler for this Project. All jobs are executed from Autosys .
• Based on the demand, force start, hold and off-hold the Jobs of Autosys.
• Plan the outage for quarterly maintenance from technical side:  this involve prepare the Job forecast list, Discuss with business which need to be run earlier and which needs to run after Outage.
• Send the status report to Project Management team every week about status of Enhancement request and Defect.
• Review all the deliverables related to defects/ER across the Team .

 

Responsibilities as Data Migration Developer

• Review the Ticket received from the User.
• Prepare the Report in BOA tool if its related to only data extraction.
• Follow the process lead out by Abbott to provide the report, once all approvals are in place generate the Information report and deliver to user.
• If its related to Mass change in SAP, follow the Data change process (DCR) setup by the Abbott.
• Once all approval in place, generate preload report, get it verified by Data SME and business users.
• Once approved, load the data into sap using BOA tools and generate Post Load report.
• Get it verified by the Data SME, SAP Functional Consultant and Business user.
• Prepare the weekly report for the Management

 

 

Project Name                         : Pfizer SAP (Core Team)

Client                          : Pfizer

Role                            : FICO/FSCM Lead

Version                      : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration:                   : May, 2010 – Feb, 2013

 

Description: Pfizer is the number one pharmaceutical company in the world in terms of sales. The company has its corporate headquarters in New York and its research headquarters in Connecticut.

 

Process Area:  Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Distribution and Packaging.

Environment & Tools: SAP EEC 6.0, SAP Solution Manager, SDMS, TAC tools, HP Quality Center, GX Pharma, ARIS and Share Point.

Team Size: 25 to 30

 

 

Responsibilities as Site Data Lead:

• Attend workshop during Solution and confirmation phase.
• Work with BT People, BPLs and Functional owner to write the EZMAP rule. I was not involve in initial mapping but join the team during Mock 2 load.
• Main responsibility is on defect area, analyze defect, review the defect, decide whether its need to assign to Core team, local BT team or BPL.
• In Pfizer project, Data loading schedule comes from the Core data team, so send across to the site and check if any thing need to adjusted and inform the Core data team/Regional Data Lead in advance.
• Publish the daily defect status dashboard
• Based on the defect trend, prepare the check list of missing configuration/ Construction file issue/ Mapping rule issue. And request the responsible person to check these before the next load.
•  Publish daily Data load status report during the Integration Load for site BPL and Integration team
• Chair the defect call with core data team process area lead/BOA developer and Site peoples during Integration to watch the defects more closely.
• Follow up with BPLs regarding the Data Verification

 

Responsibilities as Interface lead at Singapore Plant (Worked only 2 Months):

• Attend workshop for all process area during Solution and confirmation phase.
• Prepare the RICEF List during the Solution confirmation phase
• Design Interface and application Diagram
• Attended Service delivery meeting with Singapore Project team

 

Responsibilities as FICO/FSCM Offshore Lead

       

• To understand and analyze the business processes and requirements and implement SAP ECC as per these requirements.
• To make sure that the best practices for Global SAP ECC implementation are followed and also identify the potential risks of SAP implementation.
• To use tools in SDMS and IBM SAP TAC (Technology Assembly Centre) for Planning/tracking and to expedite the delivery of Global Delivery Service Offerings
• Design the cross-system integration process by working on the interface of SAP ECC with other systems – Legacy system, web portal etc using SAP ALE/ IDoc, BAPI.
• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design for team
• Prototyping of complex technical designs.
• Quality review for team
• Performance tuning for developments
• Developed a cockpit to display all kind of error message occurred in Production and it has ability to download and prepare the dashboard also. Now this development is going to be part of the IBM GD asset also.

 

    

Project Name             : PepsiCo Global Roll Outs

Client                          : PepsiCo International

Role                            : Senior ABAP Consultant

Version                      : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration:                    : May, 2007 – May, 2010

 

Description: PepsiCo decided to kick off their SAP implementation PI in 2007 in their markets Netherlands, China, Mexico and Egypt. The PIRT 1.1 template was successfully implemented in all of these markets with IRC (Saudi Arabia) being the last extension. PI then migrated to the PIRT 2.2 template which has been rolled out to Germany, China (Phase II), Egypt (Phase II), the remaining industries in Mexico and Brazil. Being an implementation in the distribution sector, PI poses several challenges in the business areas of procure-to-pay, production planning, inventory and warehousing, indirect sales, etc. Following two enormous implementations in Germany and Brazil, PepsiCo has now migrated to PIRT4.2, the DSD module being the latest addition to the template. All throughout, have been key technical resources who contemplated and implemented crucial technical changes to enable this evolution of the PepsiCo roll-out template.

 

Was FICO lead for PepsiCo Germany, Egypt, Saudi and Brazil. Worked as onsite-coordinator for 3 months for Brazil Market during the most critical integration testing phases and returned with encouraging letters of appreciation from the client and the project management.

 

Involved as a dedicated technical lead in the challenging DSD (Direct Store Delivery) implementation for PepsiCo International that will be simultaneously rolled out to 3 major markets across the globe. Was specifically congratulated by the PepsiCo management for proactive contribution that accelerated the project deployment.

 

Responsibilities

       

• Gap analysis and design of technical solution to business requirements.
• Integration of non-ECC components (like XI, HHBE, etc) and third parties with ECC during implementation blueprint. Design of entire FI interface landscape in Brazil including complex credit management and Nota Fiscal functionalities.
• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design for team
• Prototyping of complex technical designs.
• Quality review for team
• Involved in FICO and OTC developments which involved development of reports, Smart Forms/Script, Enhancement, Interface, Report Painter, ABAP Query and DME. The key focus is on operational reports and sales cycles (with OTC forming the backbone of the implementation).
• Gained knowledge of complete OTC cycle of Pepsi CO Market including the integration with DSD and FICO.
• Worked in China to support the Go-Live Phase of China Market and co-ordinate with Offshore.
• Performance tuning for developments
• Co-ordinating the offshore team and worked as Onsite coordinator whenever in China and Brazil market implementations.

 

 

Project Name : Thomson Finances+. 

Client              : Thomson.

Role                : ABAP Consultant

Version          : SAP R/3, ECC 6.0

Duration         : July, 2006 – May, 2007

 

Description: Thomson is one of the largest organizations providing Financial Accounting and Business Solutions. They mainly deal with the improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of finance function enterprise. Thomson has standardized a common process across market groups and a single suite of applications based on SAP and built an effective HR strategy.

 

Mainly involved in DME file generation from Sap Automatic Payment Run, FI Validation and Substitution, LSMW, Enhancement (BADIs, BTE), Report.

Responsibilities

• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design
• Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing
• Conducting Peer to Peer Quality Review
• Liaising with onsite team

 

 

Project Name             : P1 European Roll Out

Client                          : Philip Morris International

Role                            : ABAP Consultant

Version                      : SAP R/3, ECC 5.0

Duration                      : July, 2006 – May, 2009

 

Description: Philip Morris International, part of Altria Group, Inc., based in Lausanne, Switzerland, is one of the world’s leading and largest tobacco companies. It holds a 15% share of the International cigarette market and produces many of the world’s best-selling cigarette brands, including the most popular brands worldwide i.e. Marlboro, L&M, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Parliament and etc. 

 

PMI’s global SAP implementation program was named P1 and the process areas involved are Logistics, P2P, P2Y, PMT, FICO, and OTC.

 

Responsibilities

     

• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design
• Worked for Wave2, Wave3 and Wave4 of PMI implementation. Involved in FICO and Plant Maintenance developments which involved development of ALV reports and Smart Forms, Interface, Bank statement Upload, Automatic Payment related development.
• One of the key responsibilities was to develop Banking solution for PMI affiliates.
• Travelled on-site and attended blueprint workshop for technical design of FI developments
• Worked as a workflow consultant for 3 months
• Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing
• Conducting Peer to Peer Quality Review
• Co-ordinating the offshore team.

 

 

Project Name             : Akademibokhandeln IS-Retail

Client                          : Akademibokhandeln

Role                            : ABAP Consultant

Version                        : SAP R/3 Retail

 

Description: Akademibokhandeln is a big book retail shop. It has more than 4 million books in a single store. The Retail process area was the key focus. Involved in creating a report to handle their daily sales and on the basis of their sales, create PR and PO.

 

Responsibilities

• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design
• Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing
• Liaising with onsite team

 

 

 

 

Project Name             : Sodexho-Support

Client                          : Sodexho Australia

Role                            : ABAP Consultant

Version                      : SAP R/3, 4.6 B

Duration                     : July, 2007 – May, 2010

 

 

Description: Sodexho is world wide market leader in Food & Management Services. It employs 324,000 employees across 76 countries and 26700 sites. In 2006 it generated a consolidated annual revenue of around USD 15 billion. Sodexho Australia is part of the Sodexho Alliance, the group company. Sodexho Alliance was founded in 1966 in Marseille, France and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse. The sphere of activity includes support services management and consultancy services for industry, commerce, government, venues, educational establishments, defence forces, remote on and off shore operations and healthcare organizations.

 

The process areas involved are FI, CO, MM.

 

Over and above his usual involvement as an ABAP consultant, used to handle all process area tickets in absence of that area consultant.

 

Responsibilities

• Review of functional specifications in order to validate the Estimates and Design in case of any change request.
• Problem solving- investigation, analysis and resolution of support issues (principally related to FI).
• Technical Design, Construction and Unit Testing
• Liaising with Super User.