SUMMARY:

• 7 Years of experience in SAP Technology, worked on Energy, Pharma and Retail Domain applications.
• Hands - on development experience in SAP BPC 5.1 MS, SAP BPC 7.5 NW, SAP BPC 10 NW, SAP MAP and SAP SEM (BPS/IP) and is planning consultant within the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Infosys.
• Currently working as Business System Analyst (client role) in SAP MAP for a major retail client in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Involved in understanding the business user’s requirement and mapping into SAP MAP. Primary contact for business users for all Planning related activities.
• Vijay has good onsite work experience in SAP BPC & Merchandise Assortment Planning (MAP). He has good experience working in SAP projects ranging from Development, Enhancement and Support for various planning module. At Infosys, Vijay is working as a Senior Associate consultant.
• Vijay has good expertise in Planning (Sales Planning, Inventory Planning, Seasonal Planning, Cost center Planning, Capex planning & HR planning). He has working experience in various SAP Modules like MAP-IP and BPC (5.1 MS, 7, 7.5 & 10 NW)
• He has good exposure to business understanding and experience working on top-down and bottom-up, financial and operational planning. And also worked on various reporting application, configuration, testing and preparing users documentation.
• Strong business engagement and client interaction capability. Has good exposure working at client place, providing necessary to the end users on the tool. Bring in experience working with different domain and has excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a good techno- functional background and good interpersonal skills.
• Experience in managing Onsite/Offshore work and have the ability to get/understand the holistic view at Enterprise level. Have good client interaction skills.
• An MBA Finance & Marketing Professional with rich functional experience and has good understanding of business processes in Finance. Has handled projects to ensure processes work to the Delight of Customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP: SAP BPC5.1, 7, 7.5 & 10 NW, BW, BI-IP, BW-BPS, SAP BOBJ

WEB RELATED: HTML, WAD, SAP PORTAL

OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS 7/XP/2000/98, MSDOS

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE: Energy, Retail and Pharma Industry domain experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary contact for all business issues/queries and clarification.(Queries on Reporting / Business Planning Process/Planning Modeler issues which reporting is getting impacted for business users)
• Providing necessary support for SAP MAP Business users who plan at various hierarchy levels (Concept, Category, Product type & store level)
• Proactive monitoring of all the application related process chains. Work with Technical team in fixing the backend issues which need immediate attention for business to continue without any impact.
• Cross component knowledge in BI/MAP reporting and understanding of business processes in providing necessary solution to business users.
• Managing the team of 5 and coordinating all the Onsite/Offshore work.
• Responsible for all enhancements, and preparing functional specs and interacting with technical developers for any coding and technical issues.
• Taken additional responsibility and received appreciation in streamlining the Nike Business Planning Processes. (for Strategic planning, Merchandise planning & location planning)
• Provided necessary on Merchandise and Assortment Planning. involved the full MAP solution including various planning processes like Strategic plan, Merchandise plan, Store plan and inventory planning.
• Handling incidents and tickets due to various error which business users face like (inaccurate data in reports, report is not fetching data correctly etc.)
• Perform Reclassification of articles activity periodically. One of the major activity in Nike which occurs quarterly.
• Support on Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Business planning activities for Merchandise and location users (new retail product type opening, new store opening etc.)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Business process flow process each month. In this process, tasks for each month are done in the planned order e.g. for Actual & Rolling forecast process - sites first, then functions, finally Tech Ops total.
• Security authorization for each role by distinguishing editing, reading and approving roles.
• Executing the performance overview, KPI trend reports periodically and extracting all the KPI and supplier related data to publish the same in the BO dashboard.
• Managing the distribution list by creating distribution wizard.
• Maintaining the security and adding new roles and stakeholder information.
• Periodic updates of the master data information in the dimension and adding new supplier in the Dimension
• Maintain various report on Expenses, Headcount and Capex planning
• Periodic update of data from BW to BPC and BPC to BW system
• For Expenses and Headcount planning, performing regular extraction of actual data from BW system to BPC.
• Regularly updating the relevant cost center and cost element Master data from BW to BPC Dimensions.
• Exporting all the budgeting/RF cycle planned data from BPC system to the BW system periodically

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing business requirement, and implemented the same in the BPC system by developing Environments, Model, Dimensions, reporting, BPFs and configuring the security and work status.
• Worked on BPC Data manager to Import Transaction al Data from BW and Export of Transactional Data
• Provide necessary guidance and services for my team consist of 8 members.
• Managed the team by playing the lead role as needed by performing related tasks such as: scheduling, weekly and monthly status reporting, researching product and account issues, and monitoring team progress and performance.
• Verified the performance of the BPC 10 NW by testing the Admin/Excel/Web. Noted all the new features which are introduced as part of the BPC 10 NW compared to 7.5 NW. Like, (Server Architecture, New UI look for BPC web, New features in Data manager and transport flexibility which is introduced as part of the BPC 10NW)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing business requirement, and implemented the same in the BPC system by developing Application Sets, Applications, Dimensions, maintenance, reporting, Statuses, BPFs and information-security
• Worked with BPC Data Manager, loading and troubleshooting data into BPC Applications
• Created centralized web-based documents which is easier for the users to access their information through BPC web.
• Requirements gathering, design, build / test and deploy.
• Creating and Developing Budgeting Business Process Flows
• Develop the planning reports using the BPC reporting services and EVDRE
• Used EV Functions like EVGTS, EVSND to retrieve and send data to the Server.
• Reporting Applications worked on:
• Finance - store actual data from the SAP R/3 system; be used for planning and forecasting Other Expenses, as well as summarizing all planning and forecasting data from the ExpDetail, Headcount application.
• Exp Detail (Expense Detail): used to plan and forecast Other Expenses at a much more granular level than the Finance application such as Marketing and R&D expenses.
• Non-Reporting Applications worked on:
• Rate (Exchange Rates)
• Work closely with business users to design and extend functionality within BPC.
• Develop, test and implement input schedules, reports and custom interfaces.
• Work on complex reporting requirements and interface on BPC to design end-to-end reporting solutions
• Administer and oversee any changes to the application design and functionality Assist in troubleshooting technical and functional issues, work closely with end-users and technical support to resolve issues
• Users on BPC Application.
• Creating documentation/user guides/ material as required.
• Engage in end to end deployment lifecycle activities to enable the company’s end to end performance management cycle, including the following activities:

  - Documentation of business requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the team to achieve business targets.
• Testing of the created roles in various scenarios in BI 7.0 using various infoobjects, queries, planning objects like planning area, planning level, global planning functions and planning layouts.
• Creation of Planning Layouts on BW-BPS for Plan.
• Coordinating with the Onsite counterparts. Giving them all the requirements from Offshore.
• Coordinating with ABAP developer (Offshore), providing all the requirements and providing the logic to be implemented.Modeling of Infocubes and BEx query design.
• Identification of enhancements required for BW info-objects and info-cubes
• Creation of planning application involving planning folders, Planning areas, multi planning area, planning levels, packages, functions, parameter groups, characteristics relationships.
• Configured the InfoCubes, InfoObjects, InfoSources; created reports using BEx analyzer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identification of enhancements required for BW info-objects and info-cubes
• Expert consulting for realization of Planning application involving planning folders, Planning areas, multi planning area, planning levels, packages, functions, parameter groups, planning variables, characteristics relationships, Exits.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to accept responsibility and the determination to excel at the tasks undertaken. A good sense of direction, along with sincerity in approach.
• Strong interpersonal skills - leadership,, liaison and motivation.
• Ability to work with people, and harness organizational skills to achieve the preset goals.