1. SRIDHAR V Sr. SAP Techno Functional Consultant
(214) 403-7282
Sridhar.velagandula@gmail.com
Professional Summary:
• Over 11 years of SAP Technical and Functional experience specialized in ABAP, XI
and FI, SD and MM functional configurations with outstanding educational
credentials.
• Having worked in Financials, Supply Chain, Clinical and Medical Products
Manufacturing, Fabrication Industry, Petrochemicals, Mining, Manufacturing,
Automotives, Telecom, Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Process
industries, AFS and other industries on most of the R/3 versions.
• Application design expertise in MM, QM, FI/CO, SD, HR, PP, PM, WM.
• Exposure to SAP Best Practices and full life cycle project experience utilizing the
ASAP methodologies and also upgrades.
• Experience working on projects encompassing all the phases in the life cycle of
software development including requirements elicitation, design and analysis, coding
and implementation, testing, quality assurance, documentation, and end-user training.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent leadership, communication, organizational,
mentoring, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Extensively worked with SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI), Classical, Interactive
and ALV reports, Data Dictionary Objects, Dialog programs (Screen painter),
Interfaces, Conversion programs, Extraction programs, BAPI’s, BDC’s, User
exits, Dependency Rules & Variant Functions, VOFM routines, RFC, SAP SCRIPT,
SMARTFORMS, ALE, EDI, Idocs, Business Add-ins (BADI), Number Range Objects,
Print Workbench, SMOD, CMOD, OSS Notes, Object Oriented Programming, Data
transfer utilities like LSMW, Report Painter, CATT, SAP Quick viewer, Workflow,
SPDD, SPAU, Unicode.
• Strong Knowledge on Enterprise Portals (EP), Web Application Server (WAS), Web
Dynpro and other technologies.
• Well versed with client/server technology, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and
Relational database management systems (RDBMS).
Software Profile:
ERP : SAP R/3 (4.0B, 4.6C, 4.7, ECC6.0)
Programming languages : ABAP/4, C, C++, COBOL, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, VB
New Dimension Tech. : NW2004S, EP, XI/PI
RDBMS : Oracle 10G
Operating Systems : Windows, MS-Dos, UNIX
Other Tools : Bartender Label Designer, DSW (Data Staging
Warehouse Tool by Back Office Associates)
Academics: Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from Kakatiya University, India.
Experience Profile:
2. Client: Kellogg – Battle Creek, MI Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
May’14 – Till Date
Project Objectives:
CRM TPM Project Drive – The scopes of TPM (Trade Promotion Management) Project
Drive is to Migrate Planning Layout to the A-TPM Platform on HANA/BI Rates - Short Term
Promotion, EDLP and Lite and ensure all planning layout key figures are populating &
calculating as-is in BPS Layouts. Enable Excel Planning to create Short Term, EDLP and LITE
promotions.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Identifying the functionality and implementing during the design phase and Realization
phase.
• Time Estimation.
• Working with the END users for UAT. Conducted Knowledge Transfers to the Core Team.
• Status management.
• Integration of BPS layout with the Planning Profile (CRM planning).
• Code Reviews and Quality Reviews.
• Testing, Quality Assurance and Delivery.
• Performance Tuning as per Customer Standards.
• Responsible in solving defects in the Web UI.
• Responsible in advising solution for the Process team from Web UI perspective during
defect analysis.
• Responsible for maintaining the Customization for the Output Mediums and Partner
Profiles.
• Involved in developing a Custom Idoc (Intermediate Document) and Extended Idoc
(ORDERS05-Standard).
Client: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
May’13 – Apr’14
Project Objectives:
UCAAS Project– UCaaS (Unified Communication as a Service) is a new offering from ECS.
Unified Communications is a hosted private cloud solution designed for high levels of
availability and scalability for core business workloads. If offers a monthly per user
consumption model and helps to reduce the cost of IT ownership. In Unified
Communications (UC), voice is integrated with applications, such as messaging and
collaboration applications (Microsoft Exchange, Lync).
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Prepared functional and technical Canada and Switzerland Enhancements specification
documents.
• Modified the existing custom program ZMPC_CIT_SO_CREATE to override the ship to
party address details for Canada and Switzerland country specific enhancements.
• Modified the existing custom program ZMPC_BILLING_SUMMARY to populate the new
additional field (City, Postal code, Region and Country) values.
• Supported the System Integration testing and User Acceptance for CIT and COMPASS
interfaces.
3. • Developed a new custom report program ZMPC_OMNIWARE_RECON_RPT for
providing Sales order details.
• Populate OM ID from contract header text into IDOC custom segment using user exit
ZX050U07.
• Populate the line item display check from inbound idoc instead default to X for GL Master
data creation using in FM Z_IDOC_INPUT_GLMAST.
• Populate Sales Chanel Code into Renewal Quote. Populate billing plan in renewal quote.
Exclude IC conditions ZA88 ZA89 to generate renewal quote. Added Item Category Z4PL
and Z4TL for migration contract. Using the programs LZSW_CONSF01 and
LZSW_QUTOEF01.
• Change file name NGOM to NGOM_SW for SFDC interface using Tcode FILE.
• Develop the Detail Order Report for HP SWNGOM using Include MV45AOZZ and
ZINCL_UE_MOVE_FIELD_TO_VBAP.
Client: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Oct’12 – Apr’13
Project Objectives:
MADO Autonomy Project - Autonomy is the leader in the Meaning Based Computing space
with the Industry Leading IDOL Software. The Autonomy acquisition was closed on October
3, 2011. Autonomy will continue to operate as a standalone company and will be submitting
their financial results to the HP Corporate General Ledger (Lighthouse) which will provide
Autonomy’s financial results to the Management Reporting System (BW). Currently
Autonomy’s financial results are uploaded into LH1 using a JV Upload Tool. This project has
been undertaken to automate the process of loading Autonomy’s financial results into HP’s
LH GL.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Prepared the XI/PI Technical Design Specifications document for Autonomy to LH
GLI Transaction flow.
• Developed, configured and tested the new XI/PI interface from Autonomy to LH for
GLI transactions.
• Developed new ABAP program ZAUTOIDOCREPORT for LH IDOC failed Report.
• Set up the partner profiles with Message Function GLA and resolved the IDOC errors to
support the Autonomy to LH GLI transactions flow.
• Developed an Automatic Email notification and send to the Autonomy source system
when any IDOC fall out in LH system.
• Worked on ABAP change request to remove the invalid character from long text custom
table ZLNGTXT fields.
• Worked on ABAP change request to optimize the BKPF table performance of early
watch report program ZG3RFAITMADO_EDS_RECLASS_DOC03.
• Worked on ABAP change request to replace the READ_TEXT FM with ZLNGTXT
custom table and to improve the performance and implemented the change request to
sync EDW extract data with BW data for program ZBW_LHGL_TO_EDW_EXTRACT.
Client: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Jan’12 – Sep’12
Project Objectives:
4. MADO WebOS Project - The scope of the MADO WebOS project is to replace the WebOS SAP
instance with HP Light House SAP. 2 new fully functional company codes (USM7 and IEA6)
are to be setup to support a new business model for WebOS. WebOS setup supports rapid
retirement of Palm SAP, achieving a significant IT cost saving.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Prepared the Functional and Technical Design Specifications document for LH to
TPE confirmation Report.
• Involved the TPE to LH GLI transactions (Revenue postings, Settlement Postings and
Monthly Revenue Recognition postings) configuration, development and testing process
in LH systems.
• Developed new ABAP program ZFI_GL_PALM_EXTRACT to send the confirmation
report from LH system to TPE source system through HPSB and SFTP server.
• Set up the partner profiles with Message Function GLP and resolved the IDOC errors to
support the TPE to LH GLI flow.
• Implemented the Assignment field of BSEG table filled up with currency keys for TPE
Revenue/Settlement/Monthly Revenue Recognition GL postings.
• Provided the XI/PI mapping specification details to TPE source system.
• Developed an Automatic Email notification and send to the TPE source system when any
Idoc fall out in LH system.
• Set up the master data (G/L accounts, Business area, profit center, cost center etc.)
• Set up the TIDAL jobs with 2 steps (step 1 – Execute the confirmation report program
and send to the UNIX server. Step 2 – Pull the report from UNIX server and send to the
HPSB box.)
Client: Hewlett Packard, Houston, TX Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Jul’11 – Dec’11
Project Objectives:
EDS AUS Merge Project – The objective is to merge the financial transactions of EDS
company codes AU01, AU09 & AU13 to the pre merger HP company code AU00 on HP’s
financial transaction processing systems SAP 4.5 and Light House systems.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Gathering of requirements for the development.
• Held Knowledge-sharing sessions with the business (GBS) to work on BRD’s and
Functional Specification.
• Design and review of Functional Specifications in order to validate the estimates and
designs
• Send the AR/AP open items from EDS SAP to FI 4.5 box (R/3 4.5) through XI/PI
interface.
• Send the IC open items from EDS SAP to LH box (ECC 6.0) through XI interface.
• Changed the map programs to send the AR/AP/IC transactions from EDS SAP to FI/LH
systems.
• Responsible for execution and development of assigned tasks and deliverables within
specified time lines.
Client: Hewlett Packard, Roseville, CA Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Feb’11 – Jun’11
Project Objectives:
5. Kenobi Retirement – The objective is to migrate core GSSC business functions on to
strategic ERP applications within the HPS IT environment, enabling SWSC business to
leverage the capabilities standard HP platforms and existing support processes, ensuring
continued system availability for the business operations and scalability needed for business
growth. With the retirement of Kenobi SAP and migration of the SWSC business
functionalities on to HPS SAP, there is the opportunity to leverage existing support
processes, thereby driving down support costs within the EBIT organization.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Responsible to work on project encompassing all the phases in the life cycle of software
development including requirements elicitation, design and analysis, coding and
implementation, testing, quality assurance, documentation.
• Prepared the Functional Design Specifications document for IC Physical shipment
flow from HPS systems to PRMO system.
• Involved to configure the SD, Logistics and Finance transactions.
• Supported the Production tickets.
Environment: SAP ECC6.0, ABAP Workbench Tools, Windows XP.
Client: Amada America Inc., Los Angeles, CA Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Oct’08 – Jan’11
Amada America, Inc. has provided the fabrication industry with engineering and machine
tools that set the standard for both performance and reliability. Latest advances in
automation, laser cutting, press brakes, punching technology, robotic bending, software and
much more.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• I was part of IT Division of Amada which is responsible for implementing SAP
(SD/MM/PP/FICO modules) in various Amada group companies.
• Designed and developed various Reports, Interfaces, Data Conversion /
extraction programs, BDC, LSMW, Various Business documents by SAP Scripts &
Smart forms, enhancements, RFC’s, BAPI’s, Dependency Rules & Variant
Functions, Data Dictionary Objects, Number Range Objects, Custom codes in
User Exits and advanced applications by using ABAP workbench tools.
Environment: SAP 4.7, ABAP Workbench Tools, Oracle 10G, Windows XP.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are as follows:
• Developed a critical Tooling Order Planning Program to create ‘Planned orders’ (by
MD50) or doing ‘Transfer Postings’ (MB1B by Bapi’s) accordingly.
• Developed an ALV interactive program for Planned Order Conversions to convert
planned orders to Production Orders (by CO40 transaction) or to Purchase
Requisitions (by MD14 transaction).
• Designed & Developed Business Documents like., Shop floor docs, Billing Docs,
Shipping Docs by Smart forms & SAP Scripts. Viz., Sales Order Details, Work Slips
(for Finished / Semi-Finished / Specials), Pick Slip, Packing Slip, Invoice,
Commercial Invoice, NAFTA, Credit Memo, Debit Memo, Shippers Export Decl.,
Canada Customs Invoice, Order Conf.mail and many more.
• Worked on variant functions to select semifinished blanks for tools manufacturing, by
creating characteristics, dependency rules and variant tables.
• Developed an interface by Table Control to raise a Collective PO for ATLX process.
• Developed a program to copy BOM Sales Document type orders to NCT STD Tools orders.
• Developed an interface for Inventory Count Postings.
6. • Developed an RFC to Delete SO Line Item and Work Order, Planned Order & Delivery
if any.
• Developed extraction programs for Physical Inventory documents, Exchange Rates.
Client: Easton-Bell Sports, Dallas, TX Senior ABAP Technical Consultant
Jun’08 – Sept’08
Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. is a leading designer, developer and marketer of sports equipment
and accessories for numerous athletic and recreational activities.
The brands under the EBS umbrella are authentic to each sport within which we compete:
Easton, Riddell, Bell, Giro and Blackburn each hold #1 positions in baseball, football,
cycling, hockey, snow sports.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Giving technical support to the Easton-Bell Sports Business Processes world wide
• Developed various Reports, Data Conversion Programs(BDC’s), modified script
layouts, smart forms, dialog programs, enhancements(BADI’s), RFC’s, BAPI’s
and advanced applications.
Environment: SAP ECC 5.0, ABAP Workbench Tools, Oracle, Virtual Private Network (VPN),
Windows XP.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are:
• Sales Track Report, Reconditioning Invoice Summary report, Smart Form for
Consolidated Invoices, Service Contract invoice and delivery order smart forms
Client: BHP Billiton, Houston, TX SAP ABAP Technical Consultant
Oct’06 – May’08
BHP Billiton was created through the Dual Listed Companies (DLC) merger of BHP Limited
and Billiton Plc. BHP Billiton occupy industry leader or near industry leader positions in
major commodity businesses, including aluminium, energy coal and metallurgical coal,
copper, manganese, iron ore, uranium, nickel, silver and titanium minerals, and have
substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Giving all the support to the BHP Billiton Business Processes world wide
• Responsible for fixing the Trouble Tickets (TT’s) and Work Orders (WO’s)
related to all kinds of Reports, Data Conversion Programs, Scripts, Smart forms and
Advanced Applications.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.7, ABAP/4 Workbench, Oracle, Virtual Private Network (VPN),
Action Request System (Remedy), Test Director, Transport Express, Windows NT.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are:
• Active substitution for a User by ALV hierarchical List, IDOC Pegging Report, SSC Global
Automation Analysis Report, Sales order creation and PO creation using inbound IDocs,
Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Report, Report of manually released invoices, Purchasing
documents and smart form for purchase order, invoice.
Client: Vinmar, USA Software Design Engineer
May’06 – Sep’06
Vinmar is a leader in global marketing, distribution and project development in the
chemicals and plastics industries. Vinmar excels in catering to the unique and diverse
business needs of petrochemical producers and end-users.
7. Roles & Responsibilities:
• Giving technical support to the Vinmar Business Processes world wide
• Interaction with the business end-users to identify the business requirements.
• Analysis and Preparation of Technical Specifications for the Applications.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c, ABAP/4 Workbench, and Oracle, Windows XP.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are:
• Area Office Wise Dispatch Report, Quarter Sales Report, Sales Book Report, Smart Forms
for quotation, sales order confirmation, delivery note, and invoice and purchase orders.
LSMW for sales order updation, vendor master, customer master creations.
Client: Ericsson Cables, Sweden, USA Software Design Engineer
Jul’04 – Apr’06
Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related
services to mobile and fixed network operators globally.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• To provide AD/AM Support to MUS,CBS,EUS Applications
• Analyzing / Understanding the user requirements and giving solutions
• Responsible for Developing, Testing and Code Review
• Responsible for fixing the Tickets (i.e. Bugs) related to all kinds of reports, Data
Conversion Programs, script layouts, smart forms, dialog programs,
enhancements, objects with interfaces like ALE, EDI, BAPI.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c, ABAP/4 Workbench, Oracle, WIH Gold (Ticketing Tool),
Windows NT.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are as follows:
• Materials Used Summary Report, uploading GL account master data, Vendor account
balances report, credit limit report, Receiving/Collection slip smart form and layout
modification for goods receipt.
Client: RBAJ, Robert Bosch Japan Application Programmer
Apr’03 – Jun’04
Various Bosch Units in Japan and RBJI, Bosch Information Technology Japan, started the
project called JaNAS (Japan New Automotive Solutions) to replace the current
heterogeneous IT landscapes with a modern, state-of-the-art, integrated solution based on
SAP R/3 using harmonized business process.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Analysis of RFD / C-Form / B-Form & AS (Application Specification).
• Detail Design Preparation.
• Following Effort estimation in PC-2(Project Communicator) for Requirement
analysis, Design, Coding and testing for all the tasks.
• Coding after the DD approval.
• Responsible for preparing test documents(PCL-Programmer Check List),
Tagging Document, Translation Sheet, Quality Documents(CRH) and adding
Reviews in RADAR (Internal Site)
8. • Major Contribution towards delveoping Dialog Programs, Reports, Data
Conversion Programs, Scripts, SAP Mails, Bar code related work and using
Advanced ABAP workbench tools.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6c, ABAP/4 Workbench, Oracle 8.0, Windows NT.
Some of the developments which I was involved in are:
• Collective processing of Documents due for goods receipt, Valid Date Alarm for
Engineering Change, HAKEN booking process, Stock status report, Modified layouts
invoice, tax invoice & returns invoice, delivery note smart form, picking list.