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United States

Successfully implemented over 5 BW/BI full software-development life-cycle related to SD, MM, QM, PP, FI and APO modules that resulted in increased quality of service and business values.Provided Solution delivery included gathering business requirements, translate business requirements to functional requirements and technical design documents, data analysis, data modeling, data-flow ETL design and Report solution validations.• Spend Analysis Project displays top-down visibility detail… Show more Successfully implemented over 5 BW/BI full software-development life-cycle related to SD, MM, QM, PP, FI and APO modules that resulted in increased quality of service and business values.Provided Solution delivery included gathering business requirements, translate business requirements to functional requirements and technical design documents, data analysis, data modeling, data-flow ETL design and Report solution validations.• Spend Analysis Project displays top-down visibility detail level of overall company-spend, giving insight and visibility into different cost-saving opportunities. • Contract Tracking & Analysis Application provides predictive insights to help procurement managers analyze past history and better forecast future demand and vendor sourcing mix, which in turn helps reduce inventory cost and improve service levels. • Freight Cost Analysis reporting solution interfaced data between external Oracle DBMS, SAP Accounts-Payable, General-ledger and Procurement modules, giving insight to reducing Freight-costs saving opportunities. • Designed and Developed KPI focused BW applications resulting in end-to-end visibility across functions and global regions, resulting in reduced procurement, sales delivery, and production defects and improved forecast accuracy.Performed solution architectural review, consult and approve design specifications prior to the actual development, focusing architectural governance, compliance to Global Corporate BW development standards and guidelines. • Provided SME “Subject-matter-expertise” for SCM “Supply Chain Management” applications, enabling optimal efficient software designs, including reuse of existing software capability instead of developing brand new capability, adoption of pre-built SAP BW business content – data sources, transformations, info-providers, multi-providers and Bex queries. Show less

United States

Leveraged SAP ECC cross functional modules and SAP BW technical knowledge to troubleshoot complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions quickly.• Optimized ETL data load processes that resulted in on-time report availability and reduced weekly forecast-accuracy ETL data load time from 36 hours to 18 hours, enabling European & African users to review their reports by Monday Morning, instead of Tuesday. • Shrunk Bex query response time to less… Show more Leveraged SAP ECC cross functional modules and SAP BW technical knowledge to troubleshoot complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions quickly.• Optimized ETL data load processes that resulted in on-time report availability and reduced weekly forecast-accuracy ETL data load time from 36 hours to 18 hours, enabling European & African users to review their reports by Monday Morning, instead of Tuesday. • Shrunk Bex query response time to less than 30 seconds, increasing client usage and consumption, utilizing SAP BW (Business Information Warehouse) technologies such as Business Warehouse Accelerator.• Led team of 4 onshore and offshore external consultants to support SCM BW applications effectively and efficiently, resulting in reduced production incidents, problems and outages • Collaborated with North America, Latin America, Europe and African Business clients during SAP release-cycle validations, resulting in improved software quality as well as increased client satisfaction. Show less

United States

• Coordinated, designed, developed and deployed GPS – Global Procurement System, which eventually transitioned to Mind-flow application.

Master Of Technology (M Tech), Industrial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering