Hi Partners,

Name: Ram

Skill: SAP BI BW

Location: CA

Available: Immediate

Rate: Open

Visa: H1

RAMAKRISHNA POTLA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 I have 11 years of total experience in IT industry. Working in SAP from last 9 years and have
rich Implementation & Support experience in Enterprise data warehousing, Enterprise reporting
solutions.

 Certified in SAP BW3.5 version.

 Proficient in Documenting business requirements, performing application design activities

includes script functional specifications & technical specifications, cut-over activities, Post
implementation support.

 Worked extensively in Extraction, Data Modeling & Query Designing in BW stream.

 Have excellent programming skills and performance tuning skills in ABAP.

 Good knowledge in RDBMS (MS-SQL server & Oracle).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SAP-BI 7.0, BW3.5, SAP-ABAP and Core Java

Databases: Oracle8, MS-SQL server

GUI: Query designer, Bex Analyzer and SAP Portal

OS: Windows NT, 97, XP and Vista platforms

 Tools & Utilities: Remedy, TRIOLE (Incident/Problem tracking tools)

Domain Knowledge: Retail, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Client: Oakley, Lake Forest, CA Nov 2012 – Till Date

Role: SAP BW/BI lead

Project: Oakley (Enhancements & Upgrade)

Project Description: Oakley, Inc. is a sport and lifestyle brand, the company manufactures and distributes high
performance sunglasses, apparels & accessories. SD, MM, FICO, APO, BI and BO are implemented to integrate
the business needs.

Responsibilities:

 Completed System upgrade testing to HP servers

 Developed a program for dynamic reporting & file generation

 Enhanced customer master to populate Kanji text

 Master data objects are upgraded from 3.x to 7.0

 Worked on data flow design and report generation of retail comparison reports

 Created Transformation Routines, Start Routines, End Routines as per the requirement and
for the lookups from one DSO to other. Testing and Debugging of routines.

 Created analysis process and used ABAP routine as a transformation for the analysis process
design.

 Worked extensively with Sales Order, Billing, Delivery & schedule line objects
Client: Nissan, Franklin, TN Jun 2010 – Oct 2012

Role: SAP BW/BI lead

Project: Cost forecasting Project (Implementation)

Project Description: Nissan is one of the largest manufacturing company in building cars and trucks. Objective
of Cost Forecasting Platform (CFP) is to provide accurate forecasting of current and future cost reductions for
Nissan Americas Production Purchasing and Cost Management.

Responsibilities:

 Functional/Technical design documents are produced based on the requirements gathered and
collected in high level design

 CFP provides the detail view of calculating the performance of cost reductions at a part level
considering the goods receipts, price fluctuations, and manual adjustments.

 Forecast receipts are calculated based on Actual receipts for material category MP, RM & AS

 Base price has been derived from GTOP Latest price for Actual, visibility, and opportunity
variants

 Fluctuations are considered in defining the performance of the part

 Turnover has been calculated for each part

 Impact percentages has been formulated in WEB-I reports

 Data load Performance & Report performance has been taken care

 Manual Adjustments that have already been processed in the G-Top system to account for
turnover and performance for a part outside of price fluctuation.

 MPC Validation report has been implemented to validate the material price change

 Forecast reports are developed to view forecasting data for current fiscal year

 MPC Summary reports are developed to View the material information in precise

Client: BirdsEye Iglo, Bangalore, India Nov 2007 – May 2010

Role: SAP BW/BI Developer

Project: BEiG Project Pioneer (Implementation)

Project Description: BEIG is the Leading European Frozen Food Business, No. 1 Player in Europe with Iconic
brands in major markets. SAP modules FICO, SD, MM, PP are configured along with new dimensional
products like BI, APO, XI and Net weaver Portal are developed as a part of global implementation.

Responsibilities:

 Implemented several custom reports for Phase1 & Phase2 countries, and worked on following
activities:

 Gap analysis of the functional specs to understand the requirements evidently to provide
complete solution by verifying the objects in ECC/BI system.

 Collected additional information to fulfill the requirements and updated the same in
functional specs.

 Preparing technical specs with clear information based on the requirements mentioned in FS
for different work streams OTI(Order to Invoice), PTI (Purchase to Invoice) and LE (Logistics)

 Interacted with functional teams in project to get the clarifications for several issues to fulfill
the design gaps.

 Developed several complex reports and tested the reports in quality system with proper test
cases.

 Proactively worked on code reviews and development reviews to maintain the quality of
deliverables in the team.

 Prepared test cases as per the business scenarios provided in functional specs.

 Travelled client site to work on cutover activities and issues raised on hyper care period.

 Helped team members to understand the requirements while preparing the technical specs as
well as in the development.

 Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures in the project.

Client: Shell Downstream, Bangalore, India Feb 2005 – Oct 2007

Role: SAP BW Developer

Project: Shell AMS (Implementation & Support)

Project Description: Shell is global group of energy and petrochemicals companies. SAP modules SD, MM,
PP and FI/CO, BW have been implemented as part of global SAP implementation to maintain accurate
transactions as business grow every year.

Responsibilities:

 Worked on data modeling and designing of different objects in several releases (Release 1.1,
1.2 and 1.3) of the project in functional areas like SD, MM, PM and HM.

 Created several custom Data Sources in R/3 system to extract data to BW system and also
enhanced the DS with new fields required for reporting.

 Created Info-providers like ODS objects, Info Cubes and Multi Cubes as per the requirements
to store data and display in reports.

 Created formula variables and use exit variables where the date needs to be restricted or
calculated in required format using Key figure.

 Designed Queries using Info providers, and also developed several Web templates according
to the requirements given in the TS.

 Responsible for End-To-End testing of different clusters.

 Trained new shadow resources in the project to make them understand the requirements and
develop the objects. Suggested many coding practices in the team to avoid performance issues.

 Worked extensively in development reviews to maintain the development standards in the

project.

 Traveled to client place for Go Live support to work on immediate production issues by
interacting with MI Designers.

 Worked on several Incidents, Change tickets and provided the complete solution to the issues
raised by user with clear understanding.

 Worked on several backlog tickets by spending extra time and working in second shift for
effective communication.

 Taken the initiative for Code review and object review activities in the team.

 Worked as post go-live support critical resource to resolve the production issues immediately.

 Responsible for data loading activities to BW from different source systems.

 Worked as one of the Rotational On-call support team member in the TSO BW team.

 Responsible for cut over activities of Support Rev Tracks, like Pre transportation and Post
transportation activities.

 Learnt best analyzing practices by resolving some critical issues.

Client: Johnson & Johnson vision care, Bangalore, India Feb 2003 – Jan 2005

Role: ABAP Developer

Project: ATLAS (Implementation)

Project Description: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. is a leader in the research, development,
manufacturing and marketing of contact lenses. SAP modules SD, MM, FI, PP and BW are implemented as a
part of global SAP implementation.

Responsibilities:

 Interacted with Users, Functional Designers, and Team Leads to arrive at new requirements
and documented it.

 Worked as ABAP developer in developing the code for the requirements mentioned in
technical designs.

 Interacted with Team Leads to understand the requirements in detail.

 Supported Pre and Post Go-Lives until the run team has taken the support from development
team.

 Created several test plans based on the scenarios required to test the technical objects and
document the test results with provided test data

 Wave I: Responsible for developing BDC programs to load data into R/3 system, ALV
reports and also SAP Scripts in the first phase of development.

 Wave II: Responsible for the implementation of SMARTFORMS and ALV Reports.

 Responsible for resolving the problems of TPRs and SCRs at the time of Integration testing.