*Over all 9 years of total IT experience including 7.

8 years in SAP as BI & BW Techno-Functional Consultant and SAP ABAP/4 programmer. *Over all Experience includes SAP BI 7.0 (Netweaver 2004s) Implementation, SAP BW 3.5 Implementation, Production Support environments and Security Upgrade. *Thorough understanding of SAP BW architecture including Modeling custom infocubes, Data Store Objects, and Data Sources using the BI 7.0 Visual Composer. *Thorough understanding of SAP ERP Functional areas - FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM. *Proficient with BW Admin Workbench, Data Extraction, Transformation (ETL) and Loading, Transport management, Bex 7.0 Analyzer, query performance tuning, and aggregates. *Worked extensively with Process Chains, ETL (LO & LIS Cockpit), Delta Initialization, performance tuning, and investigations with transfer/update rules and Open Hub Destinations. *Extensively involved in creating high End Reports using Bex Tool Kit and Crystal Reports. *Thorough understanding on integration to the SAP Netweaver Portals and SAP SEM (Dash board Management and Corporate Performance Monitor), and New Generation Products APO, SRM & CRM Skills. *Extensive experience in Classical and Interactive Reports, Transactions, BDC, Scripts, LSMW, ABAP/4.X Development Workbench, Data Dictionary Objects, User Exits, Performance Tuning, SAP Internet Transaction Server, Web Application Server. *Developed objects in the Domains of Manufacturing, Discrete, Finance, Retail and Supply Chain. *Exposure to ALE, BAPI, BADIs, IDOC *Good experience in java, j2ee/C++, Data Structures. *Good planner and organizer with demonstrated ability to master new concepts quickly, incorporate the latest technology, and develop business solutions that increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability

Specialties
Modeling,Extractions,Reporting on Bex,BI Security Upgrade, Perforamnce tuning and Production Support, ABAP Coding and Debugging and Reports for R/3

Balaji Donepudi's Experience

Manager
Consulting
Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Management Consulting industry

February 2010 Present (2 years 1 month)

Lead Development in SAP BI

Ness Technologies
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NSTC; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2008 February 2010 (1 year 4 months) I am working with the Client SAP,Germany fo the SAP BI at 3rd level support.

SAP AG
Ness Technologies India Pvt. Ind. Ltd November 2008 February 2010 (1 year 4 months) Responsibilities: Managing a Team of 14 Members in the Data Ownership level in the Different areas like Finance, Planning (BPS & IP), HR, SD, LSO,SRM, CRM- Marketing, and CRM-Sales. Presenting the performance statistics to the Management team. Involved in the Data Integrator project between SAP BI 7.0 and Business Objects XI. Actively involved in the Ticket Resolutions in the various areas. Initiated the handling mechanism of Service Requests (New Enhancements & Bug Fixes) in the existing system landscape.

Effectively Managed the Profile Handling in the vast 5 System landscape. Completed the Knowledge Transfer process between the SME and the Ness Teams in the Minimum Record time, and enabled the teams to achieve the 100% FTR in all the areas. Technically evaluated the Exit-Validation Score cards for all the various modules and established complete transparency in the Ticket Handling process and Knowledge Gap Analysis in the take over procedures. Took Part in the CRM Clear Vision Project (CRM 2010) in the spot checks activities. Conducted various trainings for the team for imparting knowledge on the SAP BI 7.0 and various functional Areas. Involved in Creating the Cross functional Reporting in the Finance and Sales modules. Designed the Effort Estimation Matrix and performance evaluation matrix for the new initiatives in the content areas.

SAP BI Lead Developer

IT People Inc. April 2008 November 2008 (8 months)

Technical Lead Consultant

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation April 2008 November 2008 (8 months) is the world's foremost manufacturer of guitars, basses, amplifiers and related equipment.

Security Upgrade of BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 with Analysis Authorization.

The objective of this project is to upgrade BW system from 3.5 to BI 7.0 SP13 and to migrate the existing reporting authorization to Analysis authorization using RSEC_MIGRATION.

Responsibilities Full Life cycle upgrade experience includes current system study, proposed the design of target database, Business requirement gathering, gap analysis, system design, configuration and upgrade, regression testing, Go-Live and Production support for BI 7.0 system and training to end users. Migrate the existing security (authorization objects for BEx) from 3.5 to BI 7.0 (Analysis Authorization). Designed and implemented analysis authorizations using RSECADMIN where new authorizations required. Implementing the BI 7.0 concepts of Transformations and DTPs using the existing datasource migration. Create the new BI authorization objects and assign it to users via roles, also direct assignment. Complete migration of datasource from 3.x to 7.0 and check the behavior of extraction and its recovery for the procurement cycle. Post Production support, which involves daily monitoring of data loads via process chains, trouble shooting and correcting the known errors and escalating the unknown to the SAP support team. Redefine the procurement process chain to schedule the load as per SAP's benchmark Redefine the queries based on the Procurement process and creating them using New NetWeaver 2004s Front-end tools - like report designer, Web Application designer etc. Co-ordinate with SAP support through Service marketplace (formerly OSS) for solving the high priority problems thought tickets. End user training in new functionalities of BI 7.0, Design of BW models, data flow involving DTP and TRFs, migration of datasources and its effects and new reports created using 2004s Front-end Tools.

SAP BI Lead Analyst

IT People Inc April 2008 November 2008 (8 months)

SAP BI Lead Consultant

Hewlett-Packard
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

July 2007 March 2008 (9 months)

Lead Integration Engineer / Customer Project Manager

Hewlett Packard India Pvt. Ltd
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

June 2007 March 2008 (10 months) Requirement gathering for Project Preparation, Business Blueprint phase, realization, Final Preparation, Go-live and Support Extensively worked on SAP NW2004s (Transformations & Data Transfer Process) and Bex 7. Worked on Data Store Objects and Rebuilding of the Info Cubes. Worked extensively on Advanced Planner Optimizer Transformations for pulling the data from the APO, SRM and CRM systems. Scheduled the data loading from APO systems in concurrence with the Planning Runs. Created Dashboards and web Reports Using Web Application Designer Actively involved in Transports, Troubleshooting and Data Validation Designed the Data capture Strategy from Demand Planning (DP) for accurate performance collaborative forecasting and Product Management Life cycles. Performance tuning of Queries by maintaining Aggregates, Compression, Partition of info cubes. Involved in Business Content Activation, Enhancement of data sources and writing user exits (Master data and transaction data) on R/3 and BW Developed a complex Bex Report for Warranty Parts Per Million and Shop floor Parts per Million Reports with drill down for material, Vendor, Purchasing Group & Time Characteristics Developed Aged Inventory Report for calculating age of the Finished product with Drill down for Plant, Storage Loc, Material and material Type Developed Days of Supply Report for measuring of the number of days of shipping can last with the current level of inventory with drill down for Plant, Material, Cal day and Material Type. Developed Safety Stock Days of Supply Report for measuring the number of days of shipping we can last with the standard level of safety stock. With drill down for Plant, Material Type, Cal Day, Cal Month & Material

BI Techno
Medha India Limited November 2006 May 2007 (7 months) Extensively involved in setting up of procedures for extracting data from SAP R3 by using Generic Extraction and Customizing LO Cockpit by using enhancements and writing User-Exit programs as per requirements. Extensively worked Bex 7.0 for Creating Dashboards & Web Reports Using Web items Like Tables, charts, Drop down Box, Radio button Check Group, Label, Filter & Text Elements. Created Process chains for Master data and transaction data loads. Developed Inventory Stock Statement Report with Drill down for material, Plant Material Type, Material Group and Storage using Bex 7.0 Query Designer and Bex 7.0 web application designer. Installed Business Content Sales Overview Cube (0SD_C03) and designed and activated Customer service cubes to meet user needs. Created several ODS objects which acts as data staging. Configured data sources in R/3 by using LO Cockpit (LBWE) initialized the setup tables. Scheduled and Implemented delta mechanism for periodic loads. Created Data Sources using the Function Module, Views & Tables. Gathered reporting requirements and designed the data flow from SAP R/3 to BW for specific functional areas like, FI-CO, Sales Distribution, MM, PS and QM. Developed Report for Project System report with Comparison Actual Cost and Planned Cost with drill down for WBS Element.

Developed report for Plant Maintenance for comparison of the cost incurred on material and labor Cost with drill down for Material, Functional Location, Plant & Cost Center Designed and developed process chains (RSPC) for master data loads and transaction data loads with the help of Info Packages. And these Process chains are scheduled for periodic loads. Involved in creating and maintaining Info Cubes, Operational Data Store, PSA, Info Objects, Info Areas, MultiProviders, Info Sources, Data Sources, and Info Packages. Involved in solving performance-related issues.

Senior Technical Consultant

IT People Inc. 2005 2007 (2 years)

BI Implementation Engineer
Westchester holdings Inc September 2005 July 2007 (1 year 11 months) is the leading Glove manufacturer in the USA having more than 200 types of Gloves for the industrial and house hold usages. They have tie-ups with all most all the retail chains across the USA. Responsibilities: Extensively involved in Activating Business Content for Standard InfoCubes, InfoSources & InfoObjects of S&D Module as per the Client Requirements. Created and Maintained Transfer Structures, Communication Structures, Transfer rules and Update Rules for InfoSources, ODS objects and InfoCubes Generated transactional Data Infosources and Master Data Infosources (Texts, Attributes and Hierarchies) Worked with Transactional Data InfoSources to load Data from SAP R/3 and Flat Files systems into SAP-BW. Worked on LO Cockpit and LIS Extractions Loaded the data from R/3 to BW. Created Info Packages and Info Package Groups and scheduled them. Worked with PSA in Monitoring the Data Transfer from Source systems into BW. Worked on activating the standard business content infocubes. Generated and Maintained Aggregates and Rollup activities. Involved in Designing the Queries and Optimization of the queries is taken care. Identifying the reporting Requirements by circulating the Requirement gathering Templates Conducted the Work Shop on Reporting requirements. End user training on making use of the reports generated by BW System

Senior Technical Consultant

IT People Inc. September 2005 May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

BW Techno
Westchester Holdings Inc September 2005 September 2006 (1 year 1 month) Functional Consultant (SAP BI 7.0 Implementation)

SAP BW Techno
Armstrong World Industries, Inc May 2004 July 2006 (2 years 3 months) Functional Consultant (SAP BW 3.5 Implementation); is a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings and cabinets with revenue of $3.5 Billion. Located in Lancaster, PA and Operated 42 Plants in 11 Countries. All being centrally operated, the Supply chain and Finance Divisions demanded a Huge Control. This project exposed me, the discrete industry Components. Responsibilities: Uploaded master and transactional data from flat files and SAP as the OLTP source. Worked extensively

on administration workbench (RSA1). Customized Info Objects, Info Sources and Info Cubes. Worked extensively on standard and custom defined LIS, LO-Cockpit, Installed relevant SAP business content. Used LO structures for extracting sales order, delivery billing information . Created and worked on daily basis with Extractors, Generic Extractors Designing of Info cubes and ODS objects by considering the different business scenarios. Modified Update rules, Transfer rules, Update routine, and Transfer routine as per client requirement. Extraction of data from SAP R3 for various info cubes including Sales Center performance data, Statistical Key Figures info cube, Regional Sales, Sales order Info cube, Customer Info cube, Material info cube and various other info cubes. Data upload for both Master data and Transactional Data from the source system into the SAP BW. Installation of Business Content from Production, Sales and Marketing areas, Activation of standard Info Cubes and definition of new Info cubes, & enhancement of Business Content Scheduling Info packages for loading Master Data and Transaction Data & Monitoring. Monitor data loading into the Info cubes with respect to BW Data. Process Chains Optimization and Meta chain Schedules. Query Designing and Processing Data to Present the Data at the Enterprise Portal level. Integration of Legacy Data Sources for Reporting at Real Time

SAP BW Techno Functional Consultant

Opusasia Technologies June 2001 September 2005 (4 years 4 months)

Senior Technical Consultant

Opusasia Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. February 2001 August 2005 (4 years 7 months) ABAP Consultant -> Senior ABAP consultant -> BW Trainee -> BW Techno-functional Consultant -> Senior Technical Consultant

Production Support
Penguin (group of Pearson) August 2004 June 2005 (11 months) is one of the world's great names in publishing. From literary prizewinners to commercial blockbusters from a child's first picture book to the classics of literature from fantastic fiction to beautiful reference works, Penguin publishes an unrivalled range of books in 100 countries. Responsibilities: Scheduling and monitoring of Info Packages. Maintaining queues related to system-generated tickets and customer generated tickets. Maintaining Rechecks for verifying the data in SAP R/3 and SAP BW or not after the data loads. Monitoring of Info Packages and Process Chains and analyzing the reasons for frequent failures of Info Packages and Info Package Groups. Involved in escalating prioritized tickets regarding extractions, performance issues and load failures. Involved in managing of InfoCubes, which includes compression, rollup, index management, aggregates and reconstruction. Receiving customer generated tickets and resolving them via E-mail and phone. To inform on-site people if there any dead locks. Interacting with the customer for clarifying queries regarding tickets posted by him. Maintaining history for all the tickets until they are closed.

BW Techno-Functional Consultant
Pearson (Penguin Group) February 2003 April 2004 (1 year 3 months)

BW Technical Consultant
Alghanim Industries
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry

May 2002 January 2003 (9 months) Responsibilities: Extensively worked on LIS and LO Cockpit including customizing Extract Structures and performing necessary procedures like setting up of setup tables, setting up of V3 updates and filling Cluster tables and enhancing Extract Structure. Involved in creating Customer Master data Info object with compounding characteristics and document characteristics as navigational attributes. Generic Data Source was created as master data attribute in R/3 to extract data from R/3. Developed the Data Sources for the CO-PA on basis of operating concern (Account based or Cost based) and developed ODS objects for the data sources. Extracted data from SD module of SAP R/3 and from flat files into SAP BW system using Generic Business Content and LO Extractors. Created custom Info sources & Info objects in BW and mapped them with R/3 fields using transfer rules and Generic Extractors. Used Delta Update process for loading the data to BW from R/3 in specific intervals. Designed, developed and modified Info objects, Info sources, ODS objects and Info Cubes. Loaded these objects with Master data and Transactional data from SAP R/3 and flat files by creating Info packages. Created MultiProviders for analyzing the data between different modules and ODS for store document level data and restricted the duplicate data. Various transfer routines, conversion routines and update routines were written for restriction and transformation. Monthly and weekly extractions are scheduled using Info Packages using after jobs and after events. Involved in performance enhancement features such as cube maintaining aggregates and compression. Designed and optimized queries (top customers, monthly incoming orders, returns), created reports using BEx Analyzer and Browser. Extensively used BEX analyzer and browser to build queries and worksheets to access SAP BW Info cubes etc.