32M, Reading Road, Edison, NJ 08817

Rakesh Pandilla Mobile: +1 347 424 8019

Email: [email protected]

Dynamic and motivated SAP Senior Technical Consultant with total 16years of experience. Experience
includes custom developments, system testing, resolution of production issues/dumps and documentation of
project intensive data for implementation, support, upgrade and enhancement projects.

Experience Summary:
Certified Scrum Master 2019
SAP Certified Development Specialist - ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals - 2021
 Project Experience - 4 End-to-End Implementation Projects, 3 Production Support Projects, 1
Product development, 2 Upgrade Assessment, 2 Enhancement and Stabilization Project.
 Working experience on SAP ADT, Eclipse & SAP Web IDE.
 Trained in Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD), Agile & DevOps
methodologies. Considerable knowledge in HANA Side car, SAP HANA Modeling, XS Applications
 Experienced in managing problems related to services as the problem coordinator, performing root
cause analysis, proposing and implementing structural solutions, testing, and tracking the
resolution for problems.
 Accelerated ABAP Custom code using SQL Monitor (SQLM) , ABAP Test-cockpit (ATC) , SQL
Performance Tuning Work list(SWLT).
 Created CDS Views to Display Sales order header and item details , generated OData services
&Consuming OData service in Fiori App.
 Experienced in presenting POCs, development ideas and responding to RFQs for Projects
 Experience includes: Development, Support, Go live with very good understanding of business
processes in HANA EWM, SD, Service&Repair, MM/WM, PP/PM, QM, Fi-Co, IS-U, IS-A-VMS, APO, SRM,
PS, HR and Dispute Management Function Modules
 Experienced in conducting trainings for SRM-ABAP, ABAP using OOPs and Data Migration
 Experienced in requirement gathering and preparation of effort estimations, functional and
technical specifications based on the quality standards
 Experienced in Onsite Delivery team Leading (UK & US) Leading Implementation teams,
conducting team meetings, requirement gathering & coordination with offshore team, handling
quality related processes and documentation
 Experience in in-house development ERP using Oracle, D2k & VB, HTML/CSS, JavaScript,SoapUI.
 Excellent communication skills, profound problem solving and analytical skills, ability and eager to
learn new technologies and work on them.
 Worked on : S/4 ABAP HANA, ODATA, webservice SOAP WSDL in sap, CDS Views, SAP Fiori, Data
Dictionary, Internal tables, Subroutines, Function modules, Classical & Interactive Reporting, ALV
reports, SAP-Scripts, Batch Data Communication (BDC), Smart forms & Adobe Forms, PDF Forms
using Interactive forms solutions, BAPI’s, LSMW, Dialog Programming, Remote Function Call (RFC),
Lock Objects, Transport Organizer, RICEFW, OOABAP, Web Dynpro ABAP, Enhancements (User
exits, customer Function exits, Screen exits), Interfaces-IDocs.,EDI, ALE, ASAP Methodology, BADIs,
Enhancement framework, webdynpros and Work Flow. Performance improvement of developments.
 Experienced in BTF-Code Modernization from ECC to HANA ABAP.

Education:

 Bachelor of Computer Applications from Kakatiya University in May, 2003 with 78% in Distinction .
Technical Summary:

Organization Designation Duration

IBM, India Development Lead (02/2010) – (till date)
Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Sr. Software Engineer (04/2007) – (02/2010)
(Formerly Mahindra Satyam)
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Jr. Manager ( Information (11/2006) – (04/2007)
Systems)
Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd., ABAP Programmer (12/2005) – (11/2006)
Nizam Deccan Sugars Ltd., Programmer (06/2003) – (12/2005)

Professional Experience:
Project 1: Medtronic – : SAP-ECC-6.0, NW7, GTS, APO Apr 2020 to till date
Role: Onsite Senior Development Co-ordinator (RICEF)
Project Description: Medtronic plc is a medical device company that generates the majority of its
sales and profits from the U.S. healthcare system Medtronic has an operational and executive
headquarters in Fridley, Minnesota in the U.S. In 2015, Medtronic acquired Irish–tax
registered Covidien (a U.S. tax inversion to Ireland from 2007), in the largest U.S. corporate tax
inversion in history, which enabled Medtronic to move its legal registration from the U.S. to Ireland.
Medtronic operates in 140 countries and has SAP for its IT operations. Therefore support for the
Managed Services and Development.

Responsibilities:
• Manage delivery of ECRs/CIPs by co-ordinating with Medtronic BAs provide the optimized
solutions with estimates
• Translate the requirement to the offshore team and get the objects realized
• Attend Internal Meetings and Client Meetings to optimize custom developments
• Responsible for all ECRs on Service and Repair module of SAP
• Support the Developments till production hyper care period
• Experienced in working with Medtronic tools, Service Now, HPQC, Revtrack & QMS.
• Meet the Medical and Electronics industry Qualities in all technical deliveries of SAP as per
Medtronic guidelines
• Support SAP Production Stability developments by providing optimum solutions
• Responsible for preparing required technical documentations
• Understand/support SAP HANA developments
• Translate the requirement to the team and get the objects realized.
• Work closely with Medtronic Global Business Leads on all developments and support all Legal
printout developments from SAP as and when required

Feb2010 – Till Date - IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad India – Senior Technical Consultant

Project 2: Estee Lauder – : SAP-ECC-6.0, NW7, SRM, HANA EWM, APO Jul 2015 to Apr 2020
Role: Senior Technical Consultant (FRICE)
Project Description: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (Estee) is a manufacturer and marketer of skin
care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The Company's products are sold in over 130 countries
and territories under brand names such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Prescriptives, Origins,
M.A.C., Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Jane, Aveda, Stila, Jo Malone and Bumble and bumble. Strategic
Modernization Initiative (SMI) is an enterprise-wide program that will transform the Estée Lauder
Companies business processes and organizations enabled by an integrated technology platform.

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Responsibilities:
• Manage delivery of Incidents/defects without SLA breach
• Translate the requirement to the team and get the objects realized
• Attend Internal Meetings and Client Meetings to optimize custom developments.
• Manage the delivery dates and deadlines of the custom developments, defect & ENHs
• Report to the Project Manager/Delivery Executive on the status of the developments
• Manage Post Go-Live support on critical issues.
• Talk to Business directly in case of Business criticality and get the issues resolved.
• Motivate the team and direct the team to work with spirit towards one goal
• Manage work schedule and leaves within the team and met the deliverables
• Mentor team members to have progress in their career
• Co-ordinate with process teams, basis/security and Business.
• Understand/support HANA EWM developments
• Translate the requirement to the team and get the objects realized.
• Attend Internal Meetings and Client Meetings to optimize custom developments.
• Support configuration of Condition tables, Wave templates, Storage type creation and upload,
Condition records for PPF actions, Configure the RF Design, Design various PPF Actions for both
inbound and outbound.
• Work on CIF Interfaces for transferring master data like material, plant, customer data from
SAP ECC to SAP EWM
• VAS Order Creation and Label Printing using PPF Actions by developing Adobe forms to print on
zebra printers
• Work on the Enhancements related to Bill of lading forms (Master and Per Ship To), Final Load
Sheets, Drivers Manifest, Waybill for Transportation Unit
• Develop Custom RF Transactions such as Load by TU, Load by Delivery, Pick by Delivery
• Work on Warehouse Management Monitor for defining Custom Warehouse monitor, define
methods for Custom Nodes as dropdown or push button.
• Support developments (Analysis/coding/Unit Testing) on Custom functionality of PPF for Auto
GR, Load sheet, Pickup delivery sheet, Handling Unit and Vas order.

Project 3: Coke One Plus–(Coca Cola BIG AMS)Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0, SRM7.0 Jun2012 to Jun2015
Role: SME Technical Development for P2P(SRM) & FTD tracks
Project Description: The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company, refreshing
consumers with more than 3000 products including diet and regular sparkling beverages, and still
beverages such as 100 percent juices, juice drinks, waters, sports and energy drinks, teas and coffees,
and milk- and soy-based beverages. Along with Coca-Cola®, recognized as the world’s most valuable
brand, the Company’s portfolio includes 12 other billion dollar brands, including Diet Coke®, Fanta®,
Sprite®, Coca-Cola Zero™, vitaminwater®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid® and Georgia™ Coffee. Globally,
Coca-Cola is the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready-to-drink teas
and coffees.
The Application support team is responsible for the maintenance of this CokeOne plus SAP system and
the resolution of any defects which are present in the system. It also included carrying out new client
requirements and Change Requests (CR). As an Technical SME for PTP the following are few of the
activities I have performed over the span of time.

Responsibilities:
 Coordinated with client representatives for requirement research and accordingly created
use cases for various functional requirements. Prepared functional and technical requirements
 Provide the system test team with all scenarios that need to be identified to test the fix
 Providing timely status on the Pending requests and Report the findings to the client
 Responsible for analyzing and providing the solutions for all Production Issues (Technical and
functional Issues) within the deadline
 Responsible to interact with SAP Support as per the requirement to find the resolution for the
Issues related to standard objects. Aware with the OSS message creation process.
 Interaction with XI team to analyze why XML messages failed in XI

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  Handling technical User Requests and User Queries
 Experience to work with multiple Vendor project & computing platforms
 Analyzing critical problem tickets/issues/cases
 Serve as the key application subject matter expert and drive the implementation of the best
practices and standards for the team, defining the application scope and objectives and
providing thought leadership, solution architecture, and design for the application solution
 Work across architecture domains to identify and resolve issues and manage interdependencies
between all integration points
 Perform routine program modifications, performance tuning and optimization, problem solving,
debugging, and unit and integration testing
 Migrate integrations across development, test and production environments

Project 4: Jan’12 – May’12, Technical SME, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited (Audit Management)

Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0, Audit Management.

Team Size : 10

The India’s top pharma company in revenue terms, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, has put in place a
‘myDREEM’ project that is propelling its growth story. At the heart of ‘myDREEM’ is a proactive and
seamless IT network which aims to achieve excellence in the execution of projects and all activity that
the company takes up.

The Audit Management Module in SAP will aid in driving harmonization of the evaluation and
consequence management process across the entire manufacturing and supplier base. This would also
prevent duplication of work and different rating scales currently being used for similar vendors across
API and FTO’s. It helps in establishing an objective system of assessment of Vendors based on ICH /
Schedule M / USFDA / EU / WHO and other relevant regulatory guidelines.

Responsibilities
As a technical SME for this project responsible for providing required end-to-end technical solutions for
the new SAP module Audit Management.
 Collaborate with other team members on the development of SAP roadmap, including defining
and managing adherence to architectural principles, standards, policies and solution
governance
 Supported both technical and functional teams with expert solutions like interfacing SAP audit
management data with MS Excel Macros via XML mappings.
 Been responsible for successful go-live of the project, by providing the technical solutions
without any help from any SAP portals (as this is a new module released by SAP)
 Responsible for delivering all the technical solutions on-time with pharma quality guidelines
 Gather reporting requirements with the user community, create functional and technical
specifications and propose solutions that meet the requirements
 Prepare appropriate training documentation and ensure that new functionality is properly
transitioned to reporting users

Project 5: Dec’10 – Jan’12, Development Lead, Client : General Motor (Chevy Europe)
IBM India Pvt. Limited, Client location, London, UK

Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0, IS-A-VMS.

Team Size : 55

General Motors (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM), one of the world’s largest automakers, traces its roots back to
1908.  With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 209,000 people in every major region of the
world and does business in more than 120 countries. Chevrolet also known as Chevy is a brand of
vehicle produced by GM decided to move to implement SAP.Chevy decided to roll out the template to
15 countries of which turkey, Switzerland being the pilot countries

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Responsibilities:
Reporting to the IBM Project Manager, as the development team lead has overall responsibility for
delivery of the development scope according to the plan created and management of both onshore and
offshore team members.

Management
Engaging with the functional team leads and the functional solution architect to create the WRICEF
development list
 Supporting the development team lead to create and maintain effort estimates for the build
phase
 Managing the On-shore co-ordinators.
 Maintaining the detail WRICEF build tracker for SAP development and where required other
related objects
 Work with the Off shore PM to understand progress of the developments off shore
 Acting as the first escalation point for the off shore PM to discuss issues
 Tracking the status of work done on shore by landed resources
 Supporting the Development manager to keep the development plan updated
 Escalating risks, issues and dependencies to the development manager when appropriate.
 Working with the off shore PM to ensure the SDMS tool is maintained and track the days spent
by the off shore team against the total number estimated and report to the development
manager in order that progress can be monitored.
 Supporting the development manager in the planning of shift working when required.
 Supporting the development in the selection of landed resources as required
 Stakeholder management – communicating clearly with the client and the IBM team.
 Work with business partners and internal staff on resolving platform production defects and
performance issues
 Provide oversight and subject matter expertise to project team members and manage
enhancement activities

Delivery
 Planning and facilitating the interactive design sessions between the functional designers and
the On shore co-ordinators/SME’s
 As a SAP-Technical Lead analysing business requirements documents for IS-A-VMS
 Impact assessments and complexity estimates for new development requirements
 Working with the team to ensure that the QA process is carried out according to Chevrolet
standards for all developments
 Working with the team to ensure that all developments are fully unit tested before being
handed back to the functional designer for testing.
 Acting as the ‘gate-keeper’ to ensure that development scope does not creep. Approve all
additional development effort requested by the client or design team.

Project 6: Feb 2010 – Nov’2010, Technical Lead, IBM Global Services, Hyderabad, India
Client : Estee Lauder
Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0, SRM-7.0, APO.
Team Size : 60

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (Estee) is a manufacturer and marketer of skin care, makeup,
fragrance and hair care products. The Company's products are sold in over 130 countries and territories
under brand names such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Prescriptives, Origins, M.A.C., Bobbi Brown,
La Mer, Jane, Aveda, Stila, Jo Malone and Bumble and bumble. Strategic Modernization Initiative (SMI)
is an enterprise-wide program that will transform the Estée Lauder Companies business processes and
organizations enabled by an integrated technology platform.

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Responsibilities:
 Prepared Technical documents for new developments.
 Analysis, Coding, testing and delivered the objects in time with effective and efficiently.
 Reviewing the object of team members and mentoring the team members.
 Designed various forms using Adobe forms and provided assistance for other team members in
designing the forms.
 Worked on complex enhancements, as per client requirement to block the delivery creation
basing on the values in custom tables.
 Developed interface programs, as per client requirement by using update Function Modules,
BAPI and IDOC.
 Designed RFC FM to Transfer data from APO system to BI system.
 Enhanced SRM shopping cart as per the client requirements
 Worked on dialog programming and developed custom transaction codes as per client
requirement.
 Estimated the development objects and delivered the object as per estimations.
 Prepared unit test plan as per the SLA.
 Developed interactive object oriented ALV report to display the tree view of the customer
orders.

Apr2007 – Feb2010 - Satyam Computer Services Limited (Mahindra Satyam), Bangalore, India
Sr. Software Engg.

Projects Profile: 1
Jun’09 – Feb’10, Senior Software Engg., Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Bangalore India
Client : OPUS Maintenance KMD
Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0, IS-U.
Team Size : 20

The OPUS Maintenance Team has been formulated to support KMD in three areas of maintenance viz.
automation of manual test cases, fixing of bugs identified in production and creating SOLMAN
compliant documentation for products/ solutions currently in production by studying the business
scenarios received either for automation of test case or fixing bugs. The team consists of a blend of
SAP and Q-edge team members where SAP consults support the Q-edge members in understanding the
SAP business process and in effect help in building the scripts.

Contribution:
 Designed and Developed Data masking tool to Create Non Production Test environment system
 Leading the team, performing RBE tasks and performance tuning.
 All the development for handling the screen navigation using ABAP OOPS.

Projects Profile: 2
Feb’09 – Jun’09, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., Bangalore India
Client : Lighthouse, Sandisk, CA
Environment: SAP-ECC-6.0
Team Size : 40

 Worked on enhancements, interfaces and reports using OOABAP. Also, performing TDS and
Code reviews.
 Developed a Technology Transition Web Dynpro to update the Product Characteristics for
multiple years.
 Developed an interface to upload Signature Authority of a position from HR to SRM server.

 Developed a Supplier Portal Web-Dynpro which provides the following information to the user
Payment details of the PO’s that are paid

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 Open invoice for payment invoice report and
Open purchase order details

Projects Profile: 3
Project Name : Business Transformation
Client Applied Materials
Role Senior Software Engg.
Organization Satyam Computer Services Limited, India
Duration (04/2007) – (01/2009)
Team Size Conversion Team 20 plus
Environment SAP-ABAP ECC 6.0

Project Description
Applied Materials, Inc is the global leader in nano-manufacturing technology solutions with a broad
portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor
chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass.
Founded in 1967, Applied Materials creates and commercializes the nano-manufacturing technology
that helps produce virtually every semiconductor chip and flat panel displays in the world.

Contribution
 Lead Data Conversion team for both SAP & Informatica in off-shore.
 Involved in design of Go-live/Cut-Over Plan schedule and implemented the same for UAT, also
visited onsite (California, US) twice on client request to handle the same.
 Extensively involved in Preparing Technical Design Specifications.
 Involved in fine tuning both extract and load programs.
 Implemented few data conversions using Informatica. Added Parallel session processing logic to
handle huge volumes of data in a given period.
 Developed programs to handle dynamic cash flow statements.
 Developed Conversion programs for end-to-end Material Masters (all Views, ECNs, Long Texts),
PIRs, QIRs, General Ledgers - balances and open items, BOMs, Labor Hours (PS), Open
service/repair orders, consignment orders STOs/ICTOs etc.,) to Extract from legacy systems,
transform the data with new mapping files and then upload same into ECC 6.0.
 Developed program to handle Virtual GR postings in SAP4.7 system.
 Involved in Preparing Unit Test Plan, Integration Test and User Acceptance test Plans for Data
Conversion.
 Developed a conversion program to handle SRM POs from 5.0 to 6.0.
 Modified standard Sales Order Bapi and to add custom fields to customer orders/returns/Repair
in automatic order booking.
 Implemented the following Purchase Order Enhancements as per the client requirements.
FAI /FAQ and FAQC User Exit

Nov2006 – Apr2007 – Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hyderabad, India – Junior Manager IS SAP
Project Name : MYDREEM
Client Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.,
Role Team Lead - SAP Data Migration
Organization Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Hyderabad, India.
Duration (11/2006) – (04/2007)
Team Size Technical Team 30 plus
Environment (with skill versions) SAP-ABAP ECC 6.0

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Project Description
The India’s top pharma company in revenue terms, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, has put in place a
‘myDREEM’ project that is propelling its growth story. At the heart of ‘myDREEM’ is a proactive and
seamless IT network which aims to achieve excellence in the execution of projects and all activity that
the company takes up

Contribution:
 Implemented BADI: AC_DOCUMENT for excise grp to profit center mapping based on plant.
 Implemented BADI: AC_DOCUMENT for cash journal mapping based on plant.
 Created Infotype (Employee specific : 9005) in HR .
 Data Migration for HR basic data from Infotypes.
 Developed a program to create an ALV report showing person, transfer date, current
department code, department description, department titles and previous department code ,
department description , department titles This program will use the PNPCE logical database
and provides the capability to download the report data to an excel file.
 Developed a program to create an ALV report showing personal area, personal area text, and
company code. This program will use the PNPCE logical database and provides the capability to
download the report data to an excel file.
 Program to create an ALV report showing jobs, positions, employee and salary data. This
program was created reading Master Data info types, HRP1000 and HRP1001 Tables. This
program provides the capability to download the report data to an excel file (ALV Report)
 Developed Interfaces to transfer data from legacy system using BDC(Session method) to upload,
Address(0006), Bank(0009), Tax(0188) and Superannuation details(0220) in PA and Objects
(1000), Object relationships (1001) info types in OM.

Dec2005 – Nov2006 – Nuziveedu Seeds Limited, Hyderabad, India – SAP ABAP Sr.Developer
Project Name : SUBEEJ
Client Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd.,
Role Team Member
Organization Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd., Secunderabad, India
Duration (12/2004) – (11/2006)
Team Size Technical Team 15 plus
Environment (with skill versions) SAP-ABAP ECC 5.0

Project Description: The name Nuziveedu Seeds Limited, (NSL for short) has become synonymous with
quality seeds. It has, over the years, emerged as a leading quality seed and Agri - biotech Company,
commanding over 35% market share in the proprietary Hybrid Cotton Seed market in the Country which
speaks eloquently of the Company's strengths in Research, Production, Quality Assurance and Marketing
capabilities in a complex and competitive product sector like Seeds

NSL, while remaining committed to the healthy growth of its core business "Seeds", has also forayed
into other fields like Power, Sugar, Spinning / Textiles, IT Infrastructure etc., in a big way

Contribution
 Developments of Reports, BDCs, Smartforms, Screens
 Custom developments as the specifications provided
 Maintain Quality and optimization standards.
 Maintaining Documents, internal reviews of documents and Developments.

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Jun2003 – Dec2005 – Nizam Deccan Sugars Limited, Bodhan, Nizamabad, Hyderabad, India – Oracle
D2K - Programmer

Project Name : Inhouse ERP with Modules:

Cane Management System, Financial Accounting, Inventory Management & PP
Client Nizam Deccan Sugars Ltd.,
Role Team Member
Organization Nizam Deccan Sugars Ltd., Hyderabad, India
Duration (06/2003) – (11/2004)
Team Size 10 plus
Environment Oracle D2k

Project Description
The application has been built with enhancing productivity and competitiveness of the user
organization by adopting process maturity in each of the modules. It provides unique practices thereby
facilitating easy adoption at units without much of customization. The major of it comes under Cane
Billing including harvesting, transporting, Purchase Tax, Security deposit, Various Schemes extended to
Cane Growers on loan, subsidy and installment basis before Crushing Season. Payments are made
through Bank and Branch Net payable advices, generated through this package after the necessary
recoveries based on agreements.
To maintain the complete accounting transactions as online, which includes asset information, capital
works, repairs and maintenance, payroll management system. It provides MIS reports, Final Accounts,
Balance Sheets, Cash flows through cash and bank, day-to-day ledger information for the management
for the quick decisions. Corporate office and three different sites interlinked with LAN for the online
transactions to take place.

The system is designed to monitor the detail movement of Credit Society. This project has to code for
Member details, Loan Details (Long Term Loan, Hand Loan, Education Loan and Term Loan etc.),

Contribution
 Interacting with the client to inform any change Requests.
 Designing all the reports related to the modules using Report Builder.
 Coding of the said modules using Forms 6.0, Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures, database
tuning.
 Integrating Different Modules of the Software.
 Interacting with the client to inform any change Requests.
 Responsible for designing and coding for Loan Application Processing Module and Accounting
Module. (PL/SQL Stored Procedures, triggers)
 Loan Application approval processing component, Loan disbursement schedule component.

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