Sugavanam Yogalingam

  • Sr.SAP Technical Architect
  • Chicago, IL
  • Member Since Mar 13, 2023

Candidates About

 

Sugavanam Yogalingam

                                                                                                                                                                                          

Experience Summary

·         Around 15 Years of IT experience ,in which 12 years of SAP experience in variety of roles including Technical Architect, Project Manager, Technical Lead and ABAP Programmer

·         SAP experience encompasses Six end-to-end implementations, two upgrades, one global rollouts and support projects in different capacities

·         More than five years of overseas exposure, working with customers in USA, Germany and Poland

·         Worked  in native language implementation and Support for languages like Polish,French,Germany and Spanish.

·         Experience on worked with various domains like Airline, Automotive, Retails, Travel, Manufacturing, Telecom, Insurance, Printing and Packaging industry

·         BI development experience includes – Multi Providers, Cubes , DSO , Indexing ,Reports design , query developments

·         Experience on working with SAP BI Pre-Hana upgrade project - SAP BI 7.3 to 7.4 Migration ,Unicode conversion Projects, BPC development Projects and COPA summarization process.

·         Experience in Supply Chain Planning Concepts and Processes include Designing, Developing, Testing, Implementing and supporting all aspects of the Core Interface (CIF), Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and Global Available to Promise (GATP), Production Planning and Detail Scheduling (PP/DS).

Skill Set

SAP Products

SAP ECC 6.0, 4.6B, 4.7 Enterprise Edition,3.1H,APO,SCM,SAP INS

ABAP Programming

ABAP reports , ALV BDC , OOPS, WDA, Workflow, Module pool programming, User Exits, BAPIs , BADIs, BDC Programming, LSMW,EFW,BTE’s.

Business Intelligence / HANA

BI Migration 7.3 to 7.4

Data Dictionary

Structures, Tables , Views, Locks and Match Objects

Forms & Scripts

SAP Scripts , Smart forms, Scree Painter, Adobe forms , GUIXT, Web Dynpro with FPM, BSP

Interfaces / Cross components

ALE / EDI / IDOC , Jco Connectors, Web services BizTalk, .Net  and Jco Connector,DME,RF Console,OER,File Interface

SAP Process

OTC,PTP,RTR,FTM,FSCM,CM,EWM

 

 

 

 

Employment Summary:

Duration

Position

Company

Jun 2015

Sr.SAP Technical Architect

Smartsoft International Inc

May 2007 – May 2015

Technical Architect – SAP

SYNTEL Consulting,USA

Mar 2004 – May 2007

SAP Technical Consultant

DSRC Pvt. Ltd Indai

Jan 2004 – Mar 2004

SAP ABAP Programmer

SYNOVA Innovative Technologies Pvt. Ltd,India

Mar 2001 – Dec-2003

Project Trainee/SAP ABAP Programmer

Ekalov Consulting,India

Project Experience Summary:

Sl. No

Project

Duration

Client

Role

1

SAP BUCORP Support

Jun’15 to till date

BOHLER-UDDEHOLM CORPORATION,Elgin,USA

Sr.SAP Technical Consultant

2

SAP BI 7.3 to 7.4 Upgrade/Pre Hana Upgrade/Unicode Conversion

Jun’14 to May’ 15

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook,USA

SAP Technical Architect

3

ACG Support and LOB-Home Implementation

Jul’13 to May’14

Auto Club Group, Dearborn, USA.

Sr. ABAP Consultant

4

SAP Production Support and Upgrade (ECC Upgrade)/Unicode Conversion

Jun’12 to Jun’13

Daimler Trucks North America,Portland,USA

Sr. ABAP Consultant

5

Project One

Feb’12 to May’12

Manitowoc Cranes, France

SAP WorkFlow Consultant

6

SAP Maintenance & Support

Aug’11 to Jan’12

Daimler Trucks North America,Portland,USA

Sr. ABAP Consultant

7

SIRAX Support

Jul’10 – Jul’11

Lufthansa System, Hamburg, Germany

SAP Technical Project Manager

8

MWV ABAP/BW/SCM/APO Support & ECC Implementation

May’07 to Jun ‘10

MeadWestvaco, Richmond,USA

SAP Technical Project Manager

9

Global Mission Excellence(Global rollout)

Jun’06 to Mar’07

Thomson Displays Polska, Warsaw, Poland

SAP Technical Consultant

10

KOSH SAP Implementation

Dec’05 to Jun ‘06

ITC Limited – Packaging & Printing Board(With SAP INDIA),Chennai

SAP Technical Lead Consultant

11

Mission Excellence(Rollout)

Sep’05 to Oct ‘05

Videocon Rollout(With SAP INDIA), Bombay

SAP Technical Consultant

12

SAARTHI SAP Implementation

Aug’05 – Sep’05

Pantaloons Retail India Ltd. (With SAP INDIA), Bombay

SAP Technical Consultant

13

SHRADDHA Implementation

Jan’05 – Aug’05

Dish net wireless ltd (With SAP INDIA), Chennai

SAP Technical Consultant

14

SCM/APO Implementation

Mar’04 – Dec ‘04

Mitsubishi Motors,Thailand

SAP Technical Consultant

15

SAP ONDEO NALCO Project

Jan’04 – Mar ’04

ONDEO NALCO(With IBM India Pvt. Ltd),Bangalore

SAP ABAP Programmer

 

Project Summary:

Project Name

SAP BUCORP Support

Client Name

BOHLER-UDDEHOLM

Role & Location

Sr.SAP Technical Consultant (ABAP/APO/BI)

Elgin, IL- USA

Duration

Jun 2015 - Present

Project Details

This Project is to support the BUCORP SAP system.

  • Developed process to update the COPA summarization level.
  • Developed ABAP query to display the batch level stock for the material.
  • Developed the Bex query to compare the budget plan report.
  • Developed I-button enhancement for the sales order to show customer revenue.

 

 

Project 2

Project Name

SAP BW Pre Hana Upgrade / SAP BI 7.3 to 7.4 Upgrade/Unicode Conversion

Client Name

Allstate Insurance

Role & Location

SAP Technical Architect (ABAP/BI)

Northbrook, IL- USA

Duration

Jun 2014 – May 2015

Project Details

This project is based on client’s infrastructure strategy to improve their technical landscape into HANA platform. First phase of the project is to upgrade the current BW system 7.31 into 7.4 and make it Unicode compliant on which my primary role is to develop and execute a technical upgrade strategy.

As a Technical Lead, ensured all the necessary fixes are done into various BI objects (Infospokes to OHDs, transfer rules fixes, data source conversions) and performed 3 levels of cycle testing to have a smooth upgrade.

Also part of this project we have created a list of recommendations to clients IT team to attain the best benefits after this upgrade once they move to HANA.

Environment

SAP BI 7.3 & BI 7.4

 

Project 3

Project Name

Home Claim Implementation

Client Name

Auto Club Group

Role & Location

Sr.ABAP Consultant

Chennai, India

Duration

Jun 2013 – May 2014

Project Details

This project is to include Home Claim management and relevant business processes into their existing SAP Insurance system and my role is to support this claim management module implementation from a technical front

Towards reducing the development life cycle time, Re-used the existing technical objects as much as possible from other insurance modules, such as changing the screens, programs, interfaces and forms and developed various complex new screens and programs using BDT (Business Data Tool Kit)

Designed & developed a critical exchange interface to transfer home claim information from the SAP ERP System's Claim's Application (FACTS) to  Plus & Nexus  via FTP

Environment

SAP ECC 6 & SAP INS - 6.

 

Project 4

Project Name

SAP Production Support and Upgrade/Unicode conversion

Client Name

Daimler Trucks North America

Role & Location

Sr. ABAP Consultant

Portland, OR-USA/Chennai, India

Duration

Jun’12 to Jun’13

Project Details

Responsible for Maintenance and support of DTNA’s SAP environments primarily manages client’s various business processes in the automotive domain. Some of the important contribution on this project are below:

·         Resolution to Day-to-Day support nature of issues, ensure all the critical business processes are running smooth

·         Monitoring critical Jobs , performance improvements to programs

·         Enhancements to SAP Solution manager

·         Upgraded the System from 4.6C to ECC

Unicode Conversion:

As part of ECC Upgrade,the present system is converterd to unicode system.While converting the system, the ABAP objects are activated with unicode check and required code change has been executed.

Environment

SAP 4.6C & ECC.

 

Project 5

Project Name

Project One

Client Name

Manitowoc Cranes

Role & Location

Sr. ABAP Workflow Consultant

Chennai, India

Duration

Feb 2012 – May 2012

Project Details

·         Developed a work flow to handle the Engineering change master changes. The ECM changes are flown from PLM System and these changes are applied to the change master in SAP to implement change in SAP by downstream functions.

·         A complex material master work flow to capture master data from different views managed by different users which  is triggered from Engineering change management process considering any new ECM created for any new materials.

Environment

SAP ECC 6.

 

Project 6

Project Name

SAP Maintenance and Support

Client Name

Daimler Trucks North America

Role & Location

Sr. ABAP Consultant

Portland, OR-USA/Chennai, India

Duration

Aug’11 to Jan’12

Project Details

Responsible for Maintenance and support of DTNA’s SAP environments primarily manages client’s various business processes in the automotive domain. Some of the important contribution on this project are below:

·         Web based tool development using ITS , Module Pool programming for users to create and track their return orders

·         Enhancement to automate the debit memo creation process from capturing the returns up to communicating to the customer through Fax

·         Corcentric Price Project – Design and development of a complex interface development for price management between SAP and a third party system called

·         EDI & IDOCS- Development of Customer Invoice (Detroit Diesel Reman) interface to GENTRAN

·         Critical Audit developments – GRC Compliance reports

Environment

SAP 4.6C

 

Project 7

Project Name

SIRAX Support

Client Name

Lufthansa Systems

Role & Location

SAP Technical Project Manager

Hamburg, Germany

Duration

July 2010 – July 2011

Project Details

·         This project is to support Lufthansa's Sirax Air Finance Platform - An integrated platform that supports and optimizes all the finance processes of an airline which benefits airlines by reducing costs and resources , also provides reporting and simulating features that helps airlines optimize their cost structure.

·         This module is completely developed in house and pattern rights with Lufthansa. Part of this project various new developments and enhancements are done across Sales and Finance modules

BSP Developments

Developed application, which will integrate the (OI) documents present in various systems into my SAP™ CRM. The solution is developed based on IC webclient, BSP based UI, so that the business user can seamlessly access all the documents across various systems.

Environment

SAP 4.7E

 

Project 8

Project Name