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ROOPESH WALAJA RAJENDRAPRASAD

BANGALORE

Summary

Manager SAP Tech & Architecture

  • Seasoned Technical Architect and Manager with 12 years 8months' expertise in Enterprise infrastructure and architecture conceptualization, design and Manager of SAP Technical professionals.
  • Professional communicator focused on innovative solutions to meet the technical and business operations needs of Business.
  • Solutions-driven and personable team leader with attention on accuracy and effectiveness.
  • Meticulous coder providing quality assurance on all projects.
  • Attentive in working collaboratively with Business stakeholders during project planning, implementation and delivery to meet objectives.
  • Present working as SAP Technical Manager in Owens and Minor India Pvt. Ltd., at Pune-Remote from past 1 years 3 months.
  • Worked as SAP Enterprisewide Program Analyst Lvl4, in Varian Medical Systems, a Siemens Healthineers Company, Pune for 5 years 9 months
  • Worked as Associate Consultant in Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd., India for 5 years 8 months.
  • Worked in 4 End to End New SAP Implementation projects
  • Worked on 3 SAP S/4 Migration and Upgrade projects
  • Worked on multiple new Projects, Releases and Enhancements

Present Role Resposibilities and Professional Expertise

  • My Present responsibilities as SAP Technical Manager in Owens and Minor India, include following
  • Ability to translate Business Requirements, Design and Build Architecture, Roadmap, Instance Strategy and Business Process flows for new Transformational planned projects and review within the Organization.
  • Ability to lead new projects in SDLC right from Preparation, Blueprint, Design, Implementation, Testing, Go-Live and Support
  • Ability to drive, mentor, coach, supervise and guide the 10+ SAP Technical resources suitable for Architecture and Design for different applications, processes and interfaces of SAP with Vendors or customers using PI/RFC/Webservice/API.
  • Be in charge of operations, solution delivery, budget, hiring, and terminations for the the efficient operation and successful completion of SAP systems and transformational projects
  • Have Strong problem solving and analytical skills to provide technical recommendations based on Profitability, Risk, Security and Constrains in Business and IT perspective
  • Build robust relationships with leadership and teams in business and IT architecture for building and supporting enterprise software ecosystem teams to ensure design, process, methodologies, and requirements align with organization priorities.
  • Understand new SAP innovations, technologies from Quarterly/Monthly SAP Cadency meets/SAP Learning hubs and provide reviews to Corporate Applications and CIO for preparing SAP ROADMAP and Landscape for future scalability to align with latest technical upgrades and Innovations for improving current and future Business processes
  • Engage in business collaboration to define the project's scope, create key project schedules, assign resources and oversee entire SAP implementation project Lifecycle and also colloborate with other Technical and product Managers, Architects, Leads in SAP Basis, SAP PI/ABAP, Functional teams and other non -SAP systems like Salesforce, JDE, Snowflake, Oracle, EDI, Azure, Network Architects with mutual respect and collaboration for a collective goal of Organization
  • Have strong analytical, quick learning and problem solving skills that helped myself to learn new innovations happening in SAP.
  • Good verbal, Written communication skills and Strong presentation skills to present both Technical and Business Users
  • Ability to provide solutions in ambiguous environment and lead team with good relationship building, collaboration, and negotiation skills
  • Have strong Technical and Functional skills in areas of SAP
  • Have good experience in consuming external APC's and also develop new API’s using OO ABAP Others.
  • Well-organized in approaching problems to investigate causes and determine optimal solutions. Detailed understanding of organizational and regulatory expectations to drive performance.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager SAP Tech & Architecture

Owens and Minor India Private Limited
Bangalore-Remote
05.2023 - Current

MEDICHOICE- Ross Channel Sales

  • Leaded a team of 15 people in both SAP technical and non technical(functional,ROSS,EDI) for enabling channel sales of Medichoice out of Halyard North America Business
  • Organize and collaborate with Business Leadership - Supply Chain, ROSS, Integration and technical teams to understand the feedbacks and execution of project
  • Delivered this project by preparing timelines, budget, contributed and reviewed SAP, EDI and ROSS application architecture, design, build, testing and training
  • Identifed 21 RICEF developments along with 5 integrations and guided, and mentored them for choosing EDI and IDOC best solutions, integrations and methodologies for Purchase Order, External send, EDI 850,855,856 and 810 Invoices
  • Review all the designs in weekly and one to one team meetings.

Indirect Procurement implementation with Coupa

  • Leaded a team of 11 people for implementing Indirect Procurement in Coupa application during Requirement Gathering, Design, Build and implementation state.
  • Organize and collaborate with Procurement and Accounts Processable Leadership team to understand the feedbacks and execution of project within Budget
  • Identifed 27 RICEF developments along with 8 integrations and guided, the team for SAP Proxy and API Interfaces for sending Harmonized Suppliers, Chart of accounts Company code, Plant, Purchasing Organization, General Ledger, Cost Center, Assets, Taxes, Invoice and payments

Channel advisor Sales for Amazon and Walmart

  • Leaded a team of 4 people for implementing Channel Advisor API integrations for Amazon and Walmart during Requirement Gathering, Design, Build and implementation state.
  • Organize and collaborate with Finance Leadership team to understand the feedbacks and execution of project
  • Identified 6 RICEF developments along with 3 integrations and for sending Sales orders, Consignment orders and Settlement program file

New Vertex Implementation

  • Leaded a team of 6 people for implementing Vertex tax engine for calculating taxes in both Account Processable and Account Receivables module
  • Helped the team to understand vertex tax accelerator tool and shown them the new design aspects of configuration of tax within accelerator tool and able to deliver and Golive Vertex tax engine within project timeline

New Data Center Migration

  • Driven the SAP Data center migration project.
  • This project is to migrate the SAP applications hosted in external service provide NTT Data to the new in-house data center
  • Driven the project team of 30 people in both SAP Technical, Functional and non SAP like VM Infrastructure and Networking team within the production outage of 48hrs continuously
  • Organized and driven multiple system validation and confirmation meetings with Business team members working in Australia, Japan, Thailand, Belgium, Mexico and United states

Senior Enterprisewide Program Analyst

VARIAN, A Siemens Healthineers Company
Bangalore
07.2017 - Current

Backlog and Order Receipts

  • Main requirement of this project is to implement as new Data warehouse in Snowflake which will provide One source of truth of data to all GEO's, Business units and their teams for their Analytical reports of Order Receipts, Backlog
  • Understood their Business process and painpoints through workshop, prepared a Business Requirement Document for the new Backlog and Order Receipts process for all the Org and Teams
  • Prepared Technical Architecture and ER Diagram and provided a Strategic plan with different use cases to our BI team for Building Datawarehouse in Snowflake & new Reporting tool in Qlikview

Quote to Cash

  • Our Business Transformation Office done analysis for present Business process and came across multiple pain points and process improvements which result in many Key performance indicators and Cost Saving.
  • With this agenda we started this project and my responsibility is to propose and streamline the Quote to Cash process in Finance and integration with SAP Order process and Project System sync
  • Prepared BRD document for SAP- Project systems and Service Worked order sync with SAP orders
  • Done multiple Enhancements, Reports, Interaces in FI, PS, FSCM & SD

Data Structures - Product Hierarchy

  • Main agenda of this project is to build a Data structure to bring all the Varian Businesses including Products & services into a single Data Source
  • Data structure mainly helps CFO team to build Gross Profit Margin across all Business Units

Automating Order receipts

  • Implementing Account based COPA and switch to Account based COPA from Cost based COPA
  • Build new Product Hierarchy for all the Products
  • Migration of Product and Sales Document data to Data Structures based on new Product Hierarchy
  • Build CDS views and BI Query views for Analytical teams
  • Objects worked – OO ABAP, BRF Plus, AMDP method, CDS views, ODATA webservice, substitutions, COPA, USEREXITS & parallel processing

Treasury Management

  • This project initiated to utilize the standard SAP Treasury functionality which help a lot for Treasury Management
  • Designed and Implemented many EBS Interfaces for more than 20 Banks with different file formats like MT940, BAI, XML
  • Implemented FXALL integration for Corporate settlement Center
  • Implemented automated lockbox and payment processing from Customers Receipts using Document Information Extraction
  • Built custom apps and customized many standard apps for bank operations
  • Also managed the project with Business and both technical and functional team from different Vendors for this project for various milestones
  • Objects worked: CDS Views, BOPF, Workflows and OO ABAP

New Jedox Implementation:

  • This project is replacement of standard SAP BPC tool
  • Designed new CAPEX and OPEX report CDS views for consuming in Jedox Planning tool
  • Designed Master and Transactional CDS Analytical Views for consuming in Jedox
  • Designed and implemented new automation process of monthly Facility Cost Allocation through Cycles from Jedox to SAP through API
  • Designed interfaces to gather REvenue allocation and Revenue Recognition, Simulated Cost and Actual Cost from SAP

Intercompany Reconciliation

  • Designed new Intercompany report to show detailed and summary of intercompany balances across all company codes that provides reconciliation of Group Currency , Company code Currency and Local Currency

Spain SII VAT Implementation & France eDocument Implementation with eDocument and AIF

  • Implemented custom ABAP proxies with Application Interface Framework(AIF) integration with SAP eDocument solution for sending edocuments of FI & SD Invoices which will be sent with PI & RFC for Spain and France Government website to report electronic Invoices
  • Designed To be Architecture Framework based on Business process flow of eInvoice submission, cancellation and status management for France eInvoice with ChorusPro application
  • Objects/Tools worked– eDocument, AIF interface, Proxies
  • India eInvoice and eWayBill Implementation:
  • Designed To be Architecture Framework based on Business process flow of eInvoice submission, cancellation and status
  • Done a POC to Business and leaded Agile project with 5 members for consuming all required API interfaces from NIC India Government portal with SAP for both eInvoice eWaybill
  • Translated Business requirements to Blueprint, Design and Solutions(RICEFW)
  • Spain eInvoicing with Document Compliance and Cloud Platform Integration:
  • Configured Document Compliance with Cloud Platform integration & AIF for send eInvoices to Spain Government for sending Public customers
  • Objects/Tools worked– Document Compliance, Proxies and CPI

RAR Implementation and support, SP5 Upgrade and Enhancements:

  • This project is one of the legal requirements to recognize the revenue in new US GAP3
  • Worked in this RAR project from end to end implementation
  • After RAR Go-Live, immediately worked on Service pack 5 Upgrade project and Implemented new enhancements for RAR Service pack 5 Upgrade and commented Obsolete enhancements
  • Delivered many SOX Compliance Reports for Audit and Legal requirements and Forecast and Planned revenue Reports with CDS views
  • Objects worked- BRF Plus, BADI, Implicit, Explicit Enhancements, Order User exits, OO ABAP, CDS views, AMDP methods

Secure all PI Finance interfaces

  • This project was initiated in securing all PI interfaces to SAP with https protocol
  • Main objective was to receive encryption files from any third-party interface to PI and place the decryption in PI and process them in SAP with PI proxies immediately without any mapping structures
  • In this initiative, I have implemented more than 20 Inbound & Outbound Proxies for all the banks and different Vendor service applications
  • Objects worked –PI Proxies, BRF Plus and Enhancements
  • Most of the external API interfcaces are consumed directly with in ABAP without any PI interfcace
  • Utilized [Software] to create team deadlines and track steps taken toward project resolution.
  • Proposed cross-functional strategies to improve cross-company communication.
  • Reviewed established procedures to assess areas in need of improvement.

S/4 Migration and Upgrade Project

  • S/4 On Premise 1709 Migration
  • S/4 1909 Upgrade project
  • Activated more than 30 standard Apps in Fiori, configured workflows and ODATA services for FICO area which are identified and deployed from S/4 package based on Business requirements
  • Done many code changes in all custom ABAP Programs, Enhancements, CDS views, Function modules, Smartforms, Adobeforms, BRF Plus and Workflows because of Obsolete structure and Table changes
  • These above changes in custom code is also done for new Functionality changes like Business Partner, Credit Management, Treasury Management, Dispute Management and Material Ledger in S/4
  • Implemented many custom Reports for Data validation and Consistency checks for before and after S/4 Migration
  • Objects worked – All kinds of objects for custom code changes and SPAU and SPDD adjustments
  • S/4 1909 Upgrade- Worked with Basis and other architects in smooth upgrade process of S/4 HANA 1709 release to S/4 1909 release
  • Strategized and planned this upgrade project within 2months including Planning, Upgrade, Adopt new SAP process changes, Testing, Go-Live and Support with highly skilled Technical resources
  • Redesigned all RAR custom transactions based on constructive hypothesis gathered based on 1909 Upgrade recommendations from SAP

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES-VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Hyderabad, Bangalore
03.2016 - 07.2017

Enhancements in SAP RAR and Finance, EWM

  • Worked on EDI Invoice enhancements and substitution enhancements and BTE for parked document
  • Worked on custom enhancements on oDATA service in Gateway system for interfacing Front end Fiori application
  • Developed custom RFC's in ECC for posting GL park document which will be called from Gateway oDATA service and enhanced standard workflow for park document approval
  • Worked on many PDF Adobeforms for printing labels in Logistics process
  • Worked on Custom RF transactions related to Logistics Execution
  • Worked on RF ITS HTML Templates
  • Technologies, ABAP, RF ITS, HTML, , oDATA and Workflow

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES- GE LIGHTING NA Implementation
Hyderabad
01.2015 - 02.2016

GE NA LS implementation and EMEA AMS Support,

  • GE Lighting has a North America Lighting Solution- business needs to transform current Main frame application to single SAP Landscape with current GE Lighting EMEA business
  • Involved in blueprinting of North America Deployment with current EMEA Deployment process
  • Involved in FS preparation for North America Deployment process and Billing Forms
  • Developing the code as per the standards , and Unit testing based on the daily meetings with both US and India development team and assisting offshore team on developments and updating Business on Delivery and supprot issues at Budapest
  • Updating RICEFW’s Tracker weekly to publish it to Businesss
  • Analyze the support issues whether it is bug or enhancement and provide efforts estimate to Business Architecture team for approval of enhancements
  • Developed custom transactions for North America SKID Deployment process for Finished products and components from Production Plant to MMDC/ Warehouse
  • Developed RF transaction for creating Pallets based on Production process at site
  • Developed bilingual (English/French) Invoice and Credit Memo adobe forms
  • Developed Pallet labels using Bartender Software and integrated ITF file to SAP
  • Developed both Inbound and Outbound proxies for sending Payment information to multiple non-SAP systems
  • Technologies, ABAP, RF ITS, Adobeforms, Proxies, ALE IDOC

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, GE LIGHTING EMEA Phase 2
08.2014 - 12.2014
  • GE Lighting Solutions Release 2 includes enhancements that are required to fulfil GAPS of regular operations and support after SAP is live
  • Reviewing the enhancements requirement FS and discuss with the Business on the FS walkthrough and raise issue tracker for any clarifications
  • Prepare TS and send for Business approval and then Design objects after Technical Specification approval
  • Scheduling Weekly meeting to discuss on the current week deliverables and coming week targets with team leads and other team members
  • Encouraging the team to take up the new objects and target those as per the time lines and helping them wherever my support required
  • Few Objects Developed- Enhanced MDM workflow and performance tuning for ECC workflow using program exits
  • Developed custom transaction for annual stock update of Physical inventory in External Warehouses
  • Developed SEPA notification Adobe Form
  • Developed custom transaction for Project Labor entry for users to post project efforts spend on a week

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES - GE Lighting EMEA Implementation
Bangalore
07.2012 - 04.2014
  • GE Lighting has a business need to transform non-SAP application and current SAP 4.7 ECC to single SAP Landscape
  • Reviewing the FS and discuss with the Business on the FS walkthrough and raise issue tracker for any clarifications
  • Prepare TS and send for Business approval and then Design objects after Technical Specification approval
  • Developed many custom ITS RF transactions for loading H.Us to Truck based on Shipment, Group picking, H.U. Movements from Production to Warehouse and Internal H.U. Movements within Warehouse
  • Developed many custom transactions for Plant to Plant process ie, creation of Handling units, Packing H.U. based on Production and Shipments creation
  • Developed Group/Shipment report using SAP script for Plant to Plant shipment process
  • Designed Handling units and Storage Units Labels using Bartender software and exported ITF file from Bartender to SAP script
  • Developed custom and also Enhanced many Standard Inbound and Outbound IDOC interfaces in areas of Material master, Production Planning, Logistic Execution and FI-AP
  • Developed custom RFCs for creating Quotation, Sales Orders from External system to ECC
  • Did enhancements for mapping external data from ECC to GTS Custom Declarations and also developed adobe forms in GTS
  • Developed routines to modify the data from Data Source to Infocube during Demand Planning process in SCM-APO system
  • Developed Customer statement adobe form and implemented BTE for sending Adobe form as attachment in Email and also to other external application using SAP PI
  • Developed Quotation, Invoice, Vendor Confirmation and consignment invoice forms Layouts and done alignments for printing this form in multiple predefined Languages

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD - NSN ERM Implementation
02.2011 - 07.2012

NSN ERM OPP AT RISK DURATION

  • This is an implementation Project for Enterprise Resource Management system, basically used in service-based company where human is the key resource for the organization. Through this system, right resource is allocated in right demand according to their Qualification and this project will help an automation way to manage the resources and fulfilling the demand in Services industry.
  • Created LSMW to transfer huge number of IDOCs from X23 to X76 system and also to process IDOCs based on IDOC sequence dependency for HR interface data.
  • Created a new ABAP Report to process the inbound IDOCS and also an error log to provide failed HR interface IDOCs and a HR dependency list for failed IDOCs to X23 system

Software Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore
11.2011 - 02.2012

SAP ABAP Training

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Anantapur
04.2011

Intermediate Education -

Sri Chaitanya Jr.College
Tirupati
04.2007

Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SSC

Prathibha Vidyalaya E.M.High School
Tirupati
03.2005

Skills

Professional Skills

  • Strategic Planning Abilities
  • Roadmap Planning and Prioritization
  • Risk Assessment Expertise
  • Problem Resolution
  • Active Listener
  • Critical Thinking
  • Training & Development
  • Team Building and Management
  • Collaborate with multiple teams
  • Technical Documentation and Reporting
  • Troubleshooting and Diagnosis
  • Business Communications
  • System Testing
  • Technology Best Practices
  • Relationship Building
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Supervision & Leadership
  • Design Specifications
  • Technical Support and Assistance

Awards and Rewards

CFO Q4 FY20 CBIA- Surpass Award

  • Continuous, Customer-Focused Improvement-
  • Award for integration, Design and implementation of FY Annual plan in Jedox tool

Succeed Award -Count on Me: Drive for Results 

  • Outstanding contibution towards Q2C Design, implementation phase
  • Poland project implementation, Golive and support
  • Continous support in Oder Management Group,
  • Interfacing Pitney Bowes Addressing tool
  • Implementation of Spain and France eInvoice
  • FSCM - Treasury Management system
  • Surpass Award for implementing Varian Product Hierarchy

Act as One - Exceed Award 

  • Order Receipts implementation project

Operational Excellence/Productivity 

  • Revenue Accounting Recognition(RAR)-ASC606 Project implementation

Accomplish Award 

  • Code quality as per SAP and Varian Coding standards

Feather in My CAP, Feather in My CAP Team and Center of Excellence awards 

  • Award recieved at Wipro Technologies at SAP All Hands Meet 2013 and 2014, Hyderabad.

Technical Skills

SAP ABAP

  • Enhancements
  • Object Oriented ABAP
  • ALE IDOCS
  • ALV/Classical Reports
  • Module Pool Programming
  • Data Dictionary
  • Forms- Scripts, Smartforms, Adobeforms
  • RF Programming

SAP Interfaces Development and Integration

  • API Development and Integration
  • ODATA
  • ALE/IDOCs
  • Proxies
  • AIF Interface
  • RFCs

SAP HANA

  • CDS Views
  • AMDP methods
  • BOPF interface
  • Database Analytic, Attribute and Calculation view

SAP BTP

  • API Hub integration
  • CPI Interface
  • RPA
  • OCR Document Service Integration
  • Web IDE Fiori Integration
  • Conversational AI Integration

SAP Functional Knowledge

  • Quote to Cash
  • Procure to Pay
  • Logistics
  • EWM & TMS
  • FICO, FI-AP/AR
  • FSCM - Collections, Dispute Management
  • APO - Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning overview
  • Project Systems

SAP Systems

  • S/4 Hana- 1709, 1809, 1909
  • SAP EHP 7.0, Netweaver 7.5 and EHP 6.0
  • SAP SCM 7.0
  • SAP GTS 7.0
  • SAP BW 7.0

Knowledge on other tool integrations

  • Jedox
  • Qlikview and Power BI
  • Snowflake
  • HVR
  • Service Now

Timeline

Manager SAP Tech & Architecture

Owens and Minor India Private Limited
05.2023 - Current

Senior Enterprisewide Program Analyst

VARIAN, A Siemens Healthineers Company
07.2017 - Current

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES-VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
03.2016 - 07.2017

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES- GE LIGHTING NA Implementation
01.2015 - 02.2016

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, GE LIGHTING EMEA Phase 2
08.2014 - 12.2014

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES - GE Lighting EMEA Implementation
07.2012 - 04.2014

Software Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
11.2011 - 02.2012

Associate Consultant

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD - NSN ERM Implementation
02.2011 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Technology -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Intermediate Education -

Sri Chaitanya Jr.College

Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SSC

Prathibha Vidyalaya E.M.High School
ROOPESH WALAJA RAJENDRAPRASAD