SAP BI-BW Lead / BO Developer-Dallas _HP

SAP BI-BW Lead / BO Developer - Hewlett-Packard

Dallas, TX
Over 7 years of experience in SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), and SAP Business
Objects (BO) experience which includes 3 Life Cycle Implementations following ASAP methodologies
in various domains like pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and manufacturing.
Experience working as a Project Lead to retire a custom program ZPROCESS link between Cisco
Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and BW production systems resolving issues with 10 interlock teams.
Proficient in OLTP extractions of SAP LO-Cockpit, SD, FI, MM, HR, CO-PA, generic extraction, flat
files.
Hands on Experience in migrating queries, data sources and all other objects from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0.
Extensively worked on designing and configuring back-end components including Extractors,
Infosources, Update/Transfer rules, Transformations, DSOs, InfoCubes, InfoSets, MultiProviders.
Expertise in Creating, Scheduling and Monitoring Process Chains.
Used Infospokes / Open Hub Destination to send data from SAP BI to different partner systems like
Servigistics, Clickparts, Fireplace, DHL, UPS and many more via HPSB and FTP.
Knowledge on SAP BW 7.3 migration features, Hybrid, Transient info providers, BWA objects,
Semantically-partitioned objects (SPO's)
Worked on Creating Calculation, Analytical and Attribute views with hierarchies, variables and
measures in SAP HANA 1.0.

Work Experience
SAP BI-BW Lead / BO Developer
Hewlett-Packard
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Houston, TX
July 2013 to Present
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI 7.0/7.3/7.4, HANA 1.0, HANA Studio, BOBI 4.1, MM, PP, SD, FI,
BEx Query Designer, HP ALM, Cisco TIDAL.
Hewlett-Packard Company is an American multinational information technology corporation
headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to
consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers
in the government, health and education sectors.
Involved in complete E2E implementations of various projects at HP right from Estimates, Analysis,
Design, Development, SIT, UAT, RtP and Post-Go Live warranty support.
Interacted with business users, outbound partner teams to gather information about the
requirements and created Technical, Product requirements for the corresponding BRs in HP ALM
Tool.
Worked as a Project Lead to decommission a custom program ZPROCESS link between Cisco Tidal
Enterprise Scheduler and BW Production systems to trigger process chains.
Involved and led various collaborating and working sessions with 10 teams that had an interlock with
ZPROCESS Decommission for successful implementation the project.
Optimization of outbound file delivery times to different partner systems like Fireplace, Clickparts,
Servigistics, GETOT, iReturns.
Extensive support as a Project Lead to partner system teams for two years while they migrated from
Clickparts to Servigistics planning tool, a PTC product.
Involved in discussions and meetings of various projects such as Servigistics, PPS Split, Spend
Management, Rapid Tool Deployment, ZPROCESS Decommission.
As part of many project requirements, created and enhanced generic datasources like
ZEKES_TRAN, ZEBAN_TRAN, ZEINA_EINE_ATTR, ZZBUMAPP_ATTR, ZMDMA_ATTR etc.
Enhancement of standard datasources such as 2LIS_02_SCL, 2LIS_18_I3HDR, 2LIS_02_ITM etc.
Good understanding of various components of SAP HANA Data Modeling using Attribute Views,
Analytic Views and Calculation Views & SAP HANA Data Provisioning.
Good exposure on Schemas, Table definitions, Attributes, Measures & Hierarchies in HANA.
Designed SAP HANA data flows compatible with SAP HANA standalone virtual tool provided
by SAP.
Developed many complex ABAP enhancements like User Exit Functions, ABAP enhancements in
ECC generic extractions and also in BI data modeling like Start Routines and End Routines.
Extensively worked on BEx reporting and workbooks using RRI, cell definitions, variable offsets,
exceptions, conditions, RKF's and CKF's.
Worked on Central Management Console (CMC) in configuring BO environment.
Defined BO Classes, Objects in the Universe, defined Cardinalities, Contexts, Joins and Aliases and
resolved loops in Universes using Table aliases and contexts.
Experience in designing, developing, maintaining and optimizing the Universes using both Designer
Tool and Information Design Tool (IDT 4.0)
Created connections to BEx queries and BW Info providers using Business Intelligence Consumer
Services (BICS) in IDT.
Extensively worked on Infoview to create Web Intelligence Reports over the Universe created.
Worked on creating Variables, Prompts in Webi.
Checked the Universes for Integrity and exported to the Repository to make resources available to
the users and groups and Created Adhoc Reports by accessing the Universe.
Developed WebI Reports (on demand, AdHoc Reports, Summary Reports, Sub Reports, Drill-Down,
Cross-Tab)
Worked on various Business Object Reporting functionalities such as Slice and Dice, Master/detail,
and different Formulas.
Experience connecting Dashboard with SAP BI Service, QAAWS and Live Office and then creating
Dashboards.
Good experience with advanced Xcelsius concepts like What If Analysis, Dynamic Visibility,
Narratives, Interactive Charts, Hierarchies.
SAP BI-BW Analyst / Developer
Hewlett-Packard
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Houston, TX
July 2012 to June 2013
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI 7.0, FI, SD, MM, IM, BEx Query Designer / Analyzer, HP ALM
11.0
Hewlett-Packard Company is an American multinational information technology corporation
headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to
consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers
in the government, health and education sectors.
Responsibilities:
Gathered user requirements for analysis and reporting, identified Gaps and created Technical
Design documents.
Involved in impact analysis for various requirements in Finance and Logistics.
Migration of 3.5 queries, datasources and objects to 7.0.
Analysis of long running complex process chains and optimizing them by reducing the run times.
 Rebuilt MAT004 report to resolve business issues by enhancing 0MATERIAL_ATTR and
0MAT_PLANT_ATTR.
Designed Process Chains to have additional cycles during day time to reduce the volumes on the
daily cycle to meet SLA.
Responsible for job schedules for loading data and monitoring Process Chains to run periodic
loads.
Managed and monitored several data loads. Optimized the load performance by adjusting the
packet sizes.
Worked on user generated tickets like data inconsistency and other report related issues and fixed
the same with root-cause analysis via BBF releases each month.
Expertise in production support issues which involved debugging ABAP Routines, Process Chains
Monitoring, Data source Enhancement, Remote Cubes, MultiCubes, fixing errors and daily ETL Data
load (Full/Delta upload) Monitoring of the BW jobs and designed Process chains for Daily, Weekly and
Monthly data loads.
Involved in creating Generic Extractors using Table, Function Module and View.
Involved in analysis, design and development of Sales and Billing extractors for external systems.
Performed Inventory data refresh loads i.e. Setup the initial stock balances, loads to EMDMINV
Cube from Inventory datasources.
Developed flexible queries using filters, navigational attributes in BEX analyzer to facilitate data
analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed levels of information.
Customized LO cockpit by using enhancements and wrote User-Exit programs to populate the
enhanced fields for various requirements in different projects.
Extensively involved in creation of BEx Reports. Worked on Calculated Key Figures Restricted Key
Figures, Free Characteristics, Filters and Customer Exists.
Extensively used BEx analyzer, created queries with variables, filters and performed detailed
reporting, published several web reports and worked on InfoSet queries using BEx analyzer.
Created reports Workbook, and Queries for the required sales order queries with exceptions,
conditional formatting, restricted key figures and calculated key figures.
SAP BI-BW Consultant & SAP BI Tester
Merck Pharmaceuticals
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Lebanon, NJ
February 2012 to July 2012
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI 7.0, FI, SD, MM, PP, SCM, BEx Query Designer, HP QC 10.0
Merck Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. It is a global
research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a
broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint
ventures.
Responsibilities:
Involved in requirement gathering including interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders
and created requirement specification artifacts around reporting needs.
Worked on activating Business Content for Standard Info Objects, DSO, InfoCubes related to FI,
CO, SD.
Developed the data flow to extract the Sales and Delivery data from the extractors 2LIS_11_VAITM,
2LIS_11_VASCL, and 2LIS_11_VASTI, 2LIS_12_VCITM for the countries Japan, Korea and Australia
from different source systems to develop dashboards in TIBCO CIM Spotfire tool.
Developed write optimized DSO's for EDW layers and standard DSO's for consolidation layers and
created direct update DSO's and APD's for creating history data and for snapshot scenario reports.
Worked extensively on customization of Sales and Delivery Info Cubes as per the user
requirements.
Enhanced the standard datasources for adding new fields in the extraction structure according to
requirement and populated the fields by writing CMOD exit.
Uploaded Master and Transactional data from flat files and SAP R/3.
Configured daily, weekly, monthly Process Chains for loading master data and transaction data into
business warehouse.
Enabled few fields for the extractor 0FI_AR_4 and brought them all the way to AR Ageing Report.
Created Routines to bring the billing item data DSO based on extractor 2LIS_13_VDITM and also to
bring the Collection specialist details from DSO based on 0CLM_BPARTNERS.
Created custom Master data info object and added Credit related objects as attributes and mapped
to 0FI_AR_9.
Created process chains to load data for custom master data infoobject ZCRE_DATA from
0FI_AR_9.
Created Bex report with time line buckets to show the AR receivables for Ageing and prior to Net due
date.
Worked on Process Order Report enhancement which is based on the extractor 2LIS_04_P_COMP.
Worked on transporting objects between BW system environments and corresponding SAP R/3.
Participated in Cut over Transports, Data load Execution, Go-Live Cutover plan and Post Go-Live
support with BI support Team.
Worked with project teams to understand business processes and specifications to develop test
scripts and test data strategies.
Created and executed manual Test Cases/Scripts and Test Sets using HP Quality Center 10.0 for
both Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
SAP BI-BO Consultant
Hasbro Inc
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Pawtucket, RI
October 2010 to December 2011
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BI 7.0, APO, SCM, FI, SD, MM, BEx Designer, Business Objects
3.1, Xcelsius 2008, Crystal Reports.
Hasbro Inc, is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is
one of the largest toy makers in the world. Hasbro engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing
of games and toys.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for developing BI data models and designs, configuring custom and delivered BI
content, analyzing BI reporting requirements, developing detailed reporting specifications.
Analyzing the Function Inputs. Interacting with functional team to resolve the issues in the given
objects.
Ensuring a high quality solution for all the delivered objects to the client within the schedule.
Involved in activating Business Content for Standard Info Objects, DSO, InfoCubes related to FI,
CO-PA, SD.
Worked on Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP) and designed remote cubes
for APO Forecast analysis, and MultiCubes to facilitate reporting combining history and forecast.
Designed the Data flow for extracting Sales and Shipment Data from ECC to APO/BI and extracted
data from the Planning Area.
Worked on Actual inventory, Retail sales and Wholesale shipment flows for Current and Historical
data which involves all kind of Generic Extractors and was involved in the complex design of the data
flow.
Responsible for gathering requirements from Super Users and Functional & ABAP team and
provided the design options for generating custom extractors and various report design options to
meet the requirements.
Involved in creating many complex OLAP variables, DTP routines.
Generated CO-PA redesign which involves addition of more fields with complete different flow and
was involved in complete end to end testing for all the developments assigned.
Performed LO-Cockpit extraction for Sales Order, Sales Delivery, and Billings by extracting Standard
DataSources from the Business Content using LO-Cockpit extraction methods for Transactional data
and enhanced them to meet the reporting requirements.
Created process chains for periodic upload of master data, transactional data, and text data and
scheduled and monitored the data loads with delta update and full update mechanisms.
Worked on Partitioning of InfoCubes to meet the performance requirements.
Created BW OLAP Universes on top of BW Queries to access the BW data in Business Objects.
Extensively used Calculations, Variables, Prompts and Sorted inputs, Drill down, Slice and Dice,
Alerts for creating Business Objects reports.
Involved in customizing web templates to add multiple tabs.
Extensively Worked on SAP Live Office to create connections between Webi and Xcelsius
Dashboards.
Experience on SAP QAAWS used in mapping data directly from Universe to Xcelsius Dashboards.
Created Universes over BEx queries and InfoCubes of SAP BI using Universe Designer.
Created WEBI reports & Crystal Reports and deployed them through Info View with Universe as
Source.
Enhanced the standard universe for the Webi reporting.
Generated Webi Reports using the Universe as the main Data provider and also using the personal
data files provided by the users.
Designed Universes for Sales Order processing and Sales analysis by location, Sales Analysis by
country reports.
Build the new universes as per the user requirements by identifying the required tables from Data
mart and by defining the universe connections.
Worked on creating Variables, Prompts in Webi.
Created Xcelsius Dynamic Dashboards over SAP BI data with Complex Calculations to get Alerts for
Xcelsius Dashboards.
Worked on tickets and tasks such as load monitoring issues, user issues and enhancements of
existing objects.
SAP BI-BO Consultant
Smith & Nephew
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Memphis, TN
November 2009 to August 2010
Full Life Cycle Implementation & Support)
Duration: November 2009 - August 2010 Environment: SAP BI 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP BPC, FI, SD,
MM, HR, BEx, Business Objects 3.1
Smith & Nephew is a global medical devices company. It is one of the largest producers of
arthroscopy and clinical therapy products. It deals with research, development, manufacturing and
marketing technically innovative and advanced medical devices.

Responsibilities:
Involved in full cycle implementation, which includes Gap Analysis, Requirements gathering, Blue
printing, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support.
Activated Business Content for Accounts payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), General Ledger
(GL), Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Purchasing and customized them as per the client
requirements.
Migrated DataSources from 3.x to 7.0. Modified the business content update and transfer rules to
transformation rules.
Extracted Master and Transaction Data from Flat files and loading into InfoObjects, DSOs and
InfoCubes.
Worked on custom extractors as well as business content extractors for both master data and
transaction data.
Created custom InfoCubes for company wide Sales, Delivery, Billing and Purchasing with various
aggregate periods (business day of the year, business day of the month etc.)
Created and Maintained DTP and InfoPackage for Loading. Created, Maintained and Monitored
Process Chains for periodic loads of Master data and Transaction data from ECC system to Data
Targets using various process categories and process types.
Developed InfoSpokes using Open Hub service to extract data from BW into .CSV format.
Created Start routines and End routines using ABAP in transformations to update characteristics and
key figures in the InfoCubes to facilitate various reporting requirements like the Price Purchase
Variance and Foreign Exchange Exposure reports.
Enhanced the business content data sources by appending structures, User Exits and customized
delta built up for the data sources
Reviewed system statistics and other measures to identify the need for aggregates, indexes,
compression and other performance improvement techniques.
Improved query performance and data load using OLAP livecache.
Used APDs to perform several look ups to tie the transaction data to specific master data attributes.
Generated Cost Center "Internal Order" report for an overview of the incurred costs and
consumption quantities on an internal order group during the reporting timeframe and the fiscal year.
Also developed reports such as Actual costs, Plan/Actual, Target/Actual.
Created Variables, Restricted Key figures, Calculated Key Figures, Filters in the BW Queries. Built
code for specific User exit variables and replacement path variables to capture the requirement for
Year-to-date, Quarter-to-date and Month-to-date.
Created BW OLAP Universes on top of BW Queries to access the BW data in Business Objects.
Extensively used Calculations, Variables, Prompts and Sorted inputs, Drill down, Slice and Dice,
Alerts for creating Business Objects reports.
Converted SAP BI COPA, FICO and MM reports from query designer into SAP BO report using
Webi.
Defined BO Classes, Objects in the Universe and defined Cardinalities, Contexts, Joins and Aliases
and resolved loops in Universes using Table aliases and contexts.
Created Master/detail reports, cross tabs, charts and implemented different levels of hierarchies for
drill techniques.
Designed dashboards using Xcelsius and developed detailed level reports using Webi. Exported
XML output for BW queries as a source for Xcelsius dashboards.
Involved in validation of BI reports at various stages of testing such as Unit Test to validate data
load, report testing and delta verification and detailed Integration Testing for various test case
scenarios.
Performance tuning of Webi reports was performed for all the reports developed.
Worked in coordination with the basis team to Transport (DEV to PROD) the objects.
Extensively worked on SAP Life Cycle Manager (LCM), transported objects from one environment to
another using this brand new tool.
SAP BW consultant
Respironics
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Murrysville, PA
October 2008 to August 2009
Environment: SAP BI 7.0, SAP ECC 6.0, SD, MM, IM, FI.
Respironics is a leader in the global sleep and respiratory markets with offices throughout the US and
subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
Responsibilities:
Created data sources using generic and application specific extraction (LIS) for SD and MM
modules and loaded the business content.
Analyzed business reporting requirements that could be satisfied and activated/modified
corresponding Business content infocubes.
Extracted Data for Purchasing and Inventory Management outbound files.
Extracted data from MM and uploaded the data into the procurement cubes.
Developed and scheduled Business Content data extraction from SAP R/3 Source System and data
load procedures.
Have worked on SD cubes to track the shipment details of the product and details regarding the
stock value available.
Activated Sales, Profit Center Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable cubes as a part
of cross-functional requirement.
Modified Update rules, transfer rules, update routines and transfer routines as per client
requirements.
Created different Reports in MM, SD, FI module such as product stock value available based on the
product type, Best-selling products, Billed selling orders based on territory etc.
Worked on Performance Improvements in areas like Change Run, Aggregate analysis, Compression
techniques, Query Parallel processing.
Created reports using BEx Reports, Workbook, and Queries for the required sales order queries with
exceptions, conditions, restricted key figures and calculated key figures.
Interacted with business users to analyze the requirements of reports.
SAP BW Developer
Watson Pharmaceuticals
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Corona, CA
October 2007 to September 2008
Environment: BW 3.5, SAP R/3 4.6C, FI/CO, SD and MM.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a leading integrated global pharmaceutical company engaged in the
development, manufacturing, marketing, sale and distribution of generic, brand and biologic
pharmaceutical products.

Responsibilities:
Involved in the design, development and implementation of Business Warehouse using extended
star schema.
Worked extensively on Business Content installation, Data cleansing in PSA, Query development &
Reports.
Coordinated with SAP OLTP and Basis teams on various developments and involved in
transportation issues.
Implemented extraction, transformation and loading of data into Business Warehouse objects
from SAP R/3, flat files for COPA and Sales Cubes.
Activated Business Content cubes for Financial Accounting (FI-AP, FI-GL and FI-AR) module and
customized the targets and data sources with old account numbers, loaded data from R/3 and worked
on Unit testing.
Created BEx queries to facilitate reporting on InfoCubes, InfoSets, ODS and MultiProvider
Followed the FDA regulations and involved in validating the same.
Customized SD cubes (Direct and Indirect cubes), enhanced the extractor, extracted the data from
R/3, CARS database and filled custom fields through ABAP routines.
Designed and implemented custom objects Price Group ID and Material batch expiration date that
were populated by data from various sources.
Created Interactive Report (ALV) to display all the Materials which are not sold during the selected
range of period and created a transaction code for the same.
Extensively used BEx Analyzer to build queries and workbooks on InfoCubes, ODS and
MultiProviders.
Worked on performance tuning using aggregates and physical partitioning of the cube.
Created reports with Restricted Key Figures, Calculated Key Figures, Exceptions, Conditions,
Variables and Filters.
SAP BW Developer
Asian Paints, India
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Mumbai, Maharashtra
August 2006 to September 2007
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6, SAP BW 3.1C, SD, MM.
Asian Paints Limited is an Indian chemicals company headquartered in Mumbai, India.It manufactures
paints for decorative and industrial use. Asian Paints is India's largest paint company and Asia's third
largest paint company.
Responsibilities:
Actively involved in requirement analysis, data modeling and technical implementation.
Setup Flat file extraction for legacy data, Assigning Data Sources to the InfoSource, Defining
Transfer Structure, and Metadata maintenance for the InfoSource and Source system. Configuring
Metadata in the Administrator Workbench for replication and Updating of Data Sources from the
source system.
Designed InfoCubes with daily, monthly granularity and extraction from PSA.
Worked on InfoSet Query extraction on tables from SAP R/3.
Stored data from R/3 tables into ODS objects through PSA to perform detailed level reporting.
Managed and monitored data loads with full update and delta mechanism.
Created master data InfoSources for uploading attributes, texts and hierarchies.
Modified update rules, transfer rules, update routines and transfer routines as per client
requirements.
Created process chains for periodic upload of master data and transactional data and monitored
data loads with delta update and full update mechanisms.
 Improved the query performance by creating aggregates.
Created reports using workbooks and queries for the required sales order reports with exceptions,
conditional formatting, restricted key figures and calculated key figures using Business Explorer.
Involved in job scheduling and monitoring of info packages using SAP BW Administrator Workbench.