SAP ABAP/Gateway/HANA CDS/AMDP/Forms Developer

10/2019 – 1/2021

PwC Luxembourg, one of the largest professional services firm in Luxembourg, provides audit, tax and advisory services including management consulting, transaction, financing and regulatory advice.
• Created new ABAP CDS views to improve performance of various financial reports that run over night and that are business critical.
• ABAP CDS with complex joins, associations and CDS Authorization using DCL where used when re-writing old classical reports.
• Design and implement new solutions and change request to accommodate any business changes which mainly involves introduction of new Tax codes and changes in the Interface files that are provided to the Luxembourg Tax department.
• Providing suitable solution options in helping them to take a decision to upgrade to S4 HANA. The solutions include BoH & S4 Hana (Cloud and On-premise).
• Developed output forms using Smart forms for Invoices, Vendor payments, Sales order & Purchase order which was previously built using SAP Scripts.
• Design and implementation of Interface solutions between SAP and external CRM system facilitating the creation of Sale orders and Projects/WbS in SAP.

ABAP

2/2019 – 8/2019

Mercadona (the End-client), a family company, is one of the leading physical supermarket and online shopping companies in Spain. With 1632 stores across Spain, it uses SAP F&R to forecast and replenish the products in their stores from various Distribution Channels.

• I have been involved in the design and developments of various custom solutions that are required specifically for Mercadona.
• The developments were carried out in the areas of Scheduling and Order forecast and this includes inbound and out bound file processing.
• Developed various AMDPs (ABAP managed database procedures) to improve the performance of reports that were running slowly. By developing AMDPs the running time of the reports were reduced significantly.
• CDS Views with Authorization functionality where developed that allows querying of data based on User authorizations.
• Mass data processing reports where developed using Parallel processing functionality that allows the reports to run using multiple tasks.
• Created Reports that run as background jobs during the night which creates Schedule plans.

ABAP, SAP ABAP, SAP HANA SQLScript, SAP Retail

12/2014 – 1/2019

I was part of various SAP Implementation/Roll out projects and also assisting in the proof of concepts that are needed for pre-sales.


CRM Customer portal October 2018 – Dec 2018
Xerox – Keytree Ltd.
Integration Lead (ABAP)

Xerox supports its contract customer base (approximately 170,000 customers in Europe with requirements to support 12 languages) using an SAP Portal and SAP CRM 5 system. Due to incompatibility issues with the modern browsers approach was to reuse the existing SAP solution, by creating a set of UI5 applications on SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Portal to reuse the existing ABAP code and support modern browsers.
• Creating new APIs based on the existing solutions that were build using Webdynpro.
• Designing appropriate solution to integrate the APIs with the UI5 applications.


S/4 HANA Transformation June 2018 – October 2018
National Grid (Warwick) – FICO/MM/SD - Keytree Ltd.
ABAP Lead / Adobe Forms Designer

National Grid a British multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in Warwick, where running their Utility/Billing solution on SAP ECC and with this S/4 transformation project we were bringing the Logistics and Finance solution into S4 1709.

• Initial set up of the output management functionality in S4 (BRF Plus) and activation of ICF services.
• Solution designing for various output forms using Adobe Forms Technology and ODATA Services. The forms include Remittance Advice,
Cheque printing, Advisory notes, Billing document and Cheque paying in slip.
• Adding customer fields to the new S4 Finance tables (ACDOCA) by extending the CDS views.
• Implementing BADI enhancements for some of the Finance processes.
• Activation of Fiori apps by activating the necessary SICF services and assigning the right authorization to the users.
• Configuring the catalogues and groups using Fiori launch pad designer and adding new tiles to it.
• Creating custom Fiori apps for SAP transactions if they are not already available as part of the standard version.



S/4 HANA Transformation August 2017 – June 2018
First group (Aberdeen) – FICO/MM/SD - Keytree Ltd.
ABAP/Interface Technical Lead

First group, a leading Bus operator in UK, where running their Logistics on SAP 4.6 and their Finance module on a non-SAP application and with this S/4 implementation we are bringing both Logistics and Finance into SAP.
• As an Interface lead my responsibilities where to design and implement various interface solutions using Idocs, implementing Enhancements
and developing Adobe forms.
• Activation of Fiori apps with SICF services and assigned the right authorization to the users. Configuring the catalogues and groups using Fiori
launch pad designer and adding new tiles to it.
• Creating custom Fiori apps for SAP transactions if they are not already available as part of the standard version.
• Created and implemented custom Idocs to move all the POs from SAP 4.6 to S/4 Hana. Other Idoc interfaces include posting Financial
documents and creating goods movements in S/4 Hana.
• Various Adobe forms were developed for PO, Vendor remittance, Dunning letters, AR invoice and customer statement.
• Implemented enhancement spots to customize the standard solution for idoc processing.
• Created workflows for Purchase order approval process.
• Extended and implemented ODATA/Gateway services for Purchase Order output and AR Billing Output.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.




ECC/CRM Implementation/Roll out (Consulting) August 2016 – August 2017
Severn Trent Waters (Coventry) – CRM / IS Utilities / Gateway
ABAP/CRM/Gateway Technical Lead - Keytree Ltd

• As a technical team lead I get involved in the design phase analyzing and sizing the various business requirements in the area of CRM/ECC.
Apart from designing the solution I also assign tasks to my team members based on priority and other factors pertaining to the time of the
project.
• My responsibility as a team lead also includes communicating with the client’s technical team when it comes to delivering solution both
technically and functionally, running demo sessions for the client to explain them the solution we build and carrying out technical quality r
reviews of my team.
• Involved in the technical design and implementation of various business requirements in CRM/ECC. This includes design and development of
the Gateway layer along with the developments in BOL/Genil API’s in the areas of Customer account search, Interaction records, Service
Notifications, Work orders etc.
• Implementing Gateway services to read, create and query data from the backend CRM which includes creation of projects, entities and
redefining controller classes.
• Some of the functionalities that are implemented as part of the Gateway services are ETag (Timestamping the data), Pagination, sorting the
data and also error handling mechanism.
• Various developments were carried out in the areas of IS-Water Utilities (ECC & CRM) which includes transactions – Interaction Centre, Work
orders, Service notifications & Email notifications.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.



ECC/CRM Implementation/Roll out (Consulting) Nov 2015 – June 2016
Greggs - ECC Implementation (Newcastle) – Gateway and IS Retail
S/4 HANA ABAP/CRM/Gateway Technical Lead Consultant
Keytree Ltd

• Being a ECC on HANA system with ABAP 7.4 the development was carried out using most of the new features that SAP introduced as part of
ABAP 7.4 along with object oriented programming.
• Involved in various developments in the IS Retail domain and also in the development of various Gateway services to read and query services
from the backend ECC for custom procurement applications.
• Implemented BADI Enhancements to adjust the time series of the stock projection as part of the posts goods issues process of Forecasting
and replenishments.
• Function will be used when it is necessary for a shop to add product to the forecasted order to enable them to fulfil a customer order (order
placed in advance – Day 1 for Day 4).
• Developed various Adobe forms for Invoices, Billing document, Customer statements, Dunning letters etc.
• BADI implementations, using various BAPIs in the area of MM Procurement.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.
• Design and Implementing Gateway services to read, create and query data in the ECC backend system was part of my responsibility.
• This includes creation of new GW entities, designing the data model for the Gateway layer to access the data in the ECC backend.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.

SAP S/4HANA, SAP ABAP, SAP Adobe Interactive Forms, SAP Fiori, SAP HANA SQLScript, Idoc, SAP WF

6/2010 – 11/2015

• As an ABAP developer I was designing technical solutions, implementing business requirements and supporting various releases throughout the year in the FI-CA module for residential customers.
• Used BAPI’s, Workflows, Idocs, BRF+, ABAP Proxys & OOP’s in the developments that were carried out.
• Worked on Smart metering projects in the finance & debt space as one of the government’s vision is for every home in Great Britain to have smart energy meters by 2020.
• Carried out Month end activities which involve closure and transfer of Reconciliation keys from FICA to FICO, making sure critical month reports like Trial balance, Aged Debtor, Payment lot clarification are executed and the figures are balanced.
• Developed new frame works and efficient applications in the finance module that are critical to the business and customers for managing the customer accounts effectively.
• Also improved the performance of various existing services that run in the foreground and background which are used by the online customers and agents who deal with customer queries. This is part of Business as usual.
• Involved in automation of services that are currently being processed and managed manually – Automatic credit/debit posting into Customers account that are identified by the business. Automated refund process for a certain group of vendors who supply energy to BG (Feed in tariff).
• Customer Payment scheme & pay as you go is my area of expertise in the industry specific utility solution. Also gained an insight on the Finance account and receivables module.
• Carried out developments to facilitate customers to access and manage their account via Online (web). This was carried thorough multiple project phases.
• Carried out developments to add, manage and report Green deal plan and collections. Green deal is a government driven project to promote and support consumers/bill payers to get energy efficient improvements without having to front up the cash.
• I was functionally trained by SAP on some of the core topics in SAP Sales & Distribution (SD).
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.

SAP ABAP, SAP FI-CA

12/2004 – 12/2009

ECC 6.0 Implementation/Rollout Jan 2010 – June 2010 Siemens Energy Germany
ABAP Technical lead

• Carried out data migration of Material BOM from legacy to SAP system using BAPI’s, developments In PLM modules, developed workflows for setting Release limitations based on the approval and rejection of change masters.
• Created methods in Business object repository to change the plant status of the Material, Material BOM and Document BOM that are attached to a change number.
• Carried out enhancements using BADI’s.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.



ECC 6.0 / SRM 5.0 Implementation & Support May 2009 – Dec 2009
Naizak (for KAUST) - Saudi Arabia
(Onsite ABAP/SRM Technical Consultant)

Naizak is an IT solutions integrator that caters to the specific uptime and robustness requirements of industry clients throughout the Middle East.

My responsibility:
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• Provide technical solutions for change of business processes and new requirements.
• To gather requirements and assign it to the offshore consultants.
• Carry out developments that are critical to the business process and also to assure that the developments and Issues that were raised where attended based on Priority.
• Trained the Technical core team members.

ECC Developments:

• Created BDC for data migration of Material Master, Purchase orders, Sales Orders and Inventory from the legacy system to SAP system.
• Implemented BADI's and user exits in Purchasing.
• Developed Smartforms for PO, Invoice etc.

SRM Developments:

• Used ABAP Proxys for BID invitation and response.
• Sending Bid Invitation as XML message to XI system for subsequent creation of Bid Invitation in another SRM system.
• Customer/Scenario Specific development: Automatic Replication of Bid Invitation from customers SRM system to vendors SRM system.
• Enhanced Standard Screens, by adding customized Input Fields (with F4 help, where the values were retrieved from Backend R/3), removed standard buttons using BADI Implementations or by changing standard ITS Templates. Customer Logo, Username, Server time display were made to display on the Welcome screen and in Shopping cart screen.
• Transferring SRM registered Vendors to backend ECC.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.



SRM 5.0 Implementation & Support Dec 2008 – Apr 2009
BEML – Bangalore
ABAP Developer

BEML Limited (formerly Bharat Earth Movers Limited) is a Public Sector Undertaking for manufacture of Rail Coaches & Spare Parts and Mining Equipment at its Bangalore Complex.

Responsible for the Following Development in SRM.

• Enhanced the Price determination process in Shopping cart creation by making the IPC (Internet Pricing Configuration) on and at the same time determined the Last Purchase Price (LPP) from backend R/3. Used BADI’s for this purpose.
• Enhanced Standard Screens, by adding customized Input Fields (with F4 help, where the values were retrieved from Backend R/3), removed standard buttons using BADI Implementations or by changing standard ITS Templates. Customer Logo, Username, Server time display were made to display on the Welcome screen and in Shopping cart screen.
• Integration of Digital Signatures in C-Folders for Users to digitally sign, encrypt and decrypt documents that they upload into C-Folder area using BSP Applications.
• Customization of C-Folders Authorization for Users based on Bid’s Technical end date, Quote Deadline date.
• Created a report that shows all the Follow on Documents with respect to an PR or Shopping cart or Bid or a PO.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.



ECC 6.0 Implementation/Rollout Oct 2007 – Nov 2008
ZIMMER – U.S, Contract Employer: SAP India – GDC
ABAP Developer

Zimmer is the global leader in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of reconstructive orthopedic implants and trauma solutions.

Responsible for the following developments in MM, SD and PP.

• Responsible for data migration from Legacy to SAP. Short term / Long term consignment loans that were placed at the Customer locations where converted from Legacy to SAP by creating inventory records (using BAPI) and then Consignment Fill up orders where created (using BAPI).
• Enhanced Inbound IDOCs that are used to create Consignment Issue Orders.
• Applied Enhancements for transactions HU02 (Handling Units) using Enhancement Framework technology.
• Created Smart forms, and used BAPIs to create Purchase Requisition for a suggested restock order when a goods issue is processed.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.



ECC 6.0 Post Go-Live Support Phase May 2007 – Oct 2007
LAPP INDIA – Bangalore ( IS – CABLE)
ABAP Developer

My responsibility:
• To assure that the developments and Issues that were raised where attended based on Priority. Responsible for maintenance and developments in FI/CO, MM, PP and SD modules. Gained insight knowledge of FI/CO module. To increasing the performance of all the critical reports. Providing support in ABAP/4; technical team leadership; coordination; documentation.
Key Developments:
• FI/CO: Carried out developments which includes Creditor / Debtor ageing, Daily Sales Outstanding, Debit Memo and Credit Memo, Payment Voucher printing.
• SD: Developed reports for Sales status, Pending orders and Open Sale Orders.
• Development are carried out using ABAP OO methodology where applicable.


ECC 6.0 Implementation IS Cable Jul 2006 – Apr 2007
LAPP INDIA – Bangalore
ABAP Developer

LAPP INDIA is a 100% subsidiary of the LAPP GROUP manufacturing cables, connectors, cable glands, conduits and accessories.
Responsible for the following developments in MM, PP and SD modules and also gained a fair knowledge in those functional modules.
• Responsible for Setting up (ALE / EDI) to send IDOC’s of Purchase Orders to the vendors which would create Sales orders in their system.
• Configured ALE to upload Master data from Development Client to Production Client which includes Material Master, Customer Master, Vendor Master, Routing Master, BOM Master and Pricing Master.
• Developed various reports with the functionality of the output being sent as e-mail, Smart forms, Module pool programs, user exits etc.
• Used BAPI’s to change existing Sale Order Details and provided training for core team members on ABAP.



R/3 Upgrade & Performance Tuning Projects Dec 2005 – Jun 2006
Contract Employer: SAP India – GDC (ABAP Developer)
Nortel – Canada, Telecom Italia – Italy, Co-operative Bulk Handling - Australia.


• Analyzing and resolving the impact of the custom objects including Data Dictionary objects, Transactions, Reports, Function Groups and BDCs in the Development system.
• Analyzing the code for Unicode errors and making it Unicode compatible programs.
• Performing syntax and compliance check as a part of R/3 Upgrade and maintaining documentation for the modifications made according to standard templates.
• Analyzed the code with transactions Sql trace & code inspector.
• Technically redesigned ABAP reports that had a bad performance and increased it by 70% based on its processing time.

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