BALAJI VENKATASAMY

Project no 6 - SAP LABS, Bangalore

Period - October 2024 to till date

Role - Developer

Technical Skills - OOABAP

Functional Area - SAP MM

Business Area - Production Engineering and Operations (PEO)

Responsibilities

• Update day to day tasks on the customer incidents assigned to me in the daily SCRUM meeting.
• Giving solutions to customer queries and clarifications for the issues in the incident tool.

Tasks handled

• Developed a new program using ABAP OO to convert Planning BOM(PBOM) to Shopfloor BOM (EXBOM) for a specific requirement related to STVKN_VERSN numbers.
• Debugging of SAP API class for PBOM to EXBOM conversion to provide a solution for a customer incident on the parameter effectivity of components.
• Creation of test data from material creation in MM01 for main and phantom components, creation of version BOM(EBOM and PBOM) to Update Shopfloor BOM (EXBOM) in the app for analyzing the issues.
• BOM recursive issue analysis and solution.

Project no 5 - Nippon Electric Company, Japan

Period - October 2021 to September 2024

Role - Developer

Technical Skills - OOABAP, S/4 HANA Cloud, CDS, ODATA, Fiori and BTP

Functional Area - SAP S/4 HANA FI, MM and SD

Business Area - Manufacturing & Hi-Tech Engineering

Responsibilities

• Development and Support of applications in S/4 HANA Cloud Environment using ABAP Cloud, CDS, ODATA, Fiori and BTP.

Tasks handled

• WBS Project Intercompany Report for WBS costs using CDS views to get data from DB tables such as PROJ, PRPS and MAR.
• Fiori for report output with input selection options, search help and drill down functionality for columns such as Product code and description.
• SAP BTP integrations to the backend system S/4 HANA for applications such as Service Order using API_SERVICE_ORDER.

Project no 4 - British Telecom, UK

Period - June 2016 to August 2021

Role - Developer and ABAP Lead

Technical Skills - OOABAP, S/4 HANA and BTP

Functional Area - SAP FI, MM and SD

Business Area - Telecom

Responsibilities

• Coordinated with a team of 60 consultants during the project transition from IBM to TCS.
• Built a new ABAP team during the KT process.
• Managed the team by giving training, tasks assignments and delivering objects within timeline.
• Development of new custom ABAP objects.
• Debugging of programs to fix technical or functional issues.
• On call support during the go-live time window.

Tasks handled

• Validation of custom ABAP objects during the project transition.
• Development of new ABAP programs for encryption and decryption of GDPR compliance data using PGP method before transferring to the 3rd party applications.
• Development of new ABAP programs for archiving the data of Z tables that falls under GDPR compliance.
• Monitoring of workflow process in SAP FI, MM and SD.

Project no 3 - Lloyds Bank, UK

Period - June 2015 to May 2016

Role - Developer and ABAP Lead

Technical Skills - Core ABAP and OOABAP

Functional Area - SAP HCM

Business Area - Banking

Responsibilities

• Managed a team of 5 members by giving training, tasks assignments and delivering objects within timeline.
• Development of new custom ABAP objects.
• Debugging of programs to fix technical or functional issues.

Tasks handled

• Creation of enhancements for the addition of custom fields in the infotypes and its corresponding transaction.
• Monitor workflow processes in SAP HCM in the leave approval process.
• Creation of new function modules and executable programs for new development requirements.

Project no 2 - H&M, Sweden

Period -October 2014 to April 2016

Role - Developer

Technical Skills - Core ABAP and OOABAP

Functional Area - SAP Retail

Business Area - Retail

Responsibilities

• Development of new custom ABAP objects.
• Debugging of programs to fix Technical and Functional issues.

Tasks handled

• Creation of Z tables in Data Dictionary to maintain global parameters.
• Enhancements implementation using BADI for custom requirements in the Purchase Order views and SAP standard progams.

Project no 1 - WorldBank, Washington DC

Period - January 2012 to September 2014

Role - Developer

Technical Skills - Core ABAP

Functional Ar - SAP FI and Travel Management

Business Area - Banking

Responsibilities

• Development of enhancement implementations for the transformation of existing Business processes.
• JIRA status update on completion of tasks.

Tasks handled

• Development of new Function modules and ABAP programs to post GL open items (cost object issue) during the financial year end activities.
• Development of ALV reports using OOABAP to produce report output of the above process.
• Monitoring of Daily, weekly and monthly background jobs to make sure it is finished in green.

Value additions and Contributions

• Developed custom reports for enhanced data analysis, enabling better decision making.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of emerging trends in the IT landscape to inform innovative approaches in SAP ABAP development.
• Delivered high-quality solutions under tight deadlines without compromising on attention to detail or accuracy.
• Provided technical support to end-users, resolving issues in a timely manner and ensuring minimal downtime.
• Designed user-friendly interfaces, increasing productivity and reducing errors in data entry.
• Automated repetitive tasks through the creation of batch jobs, improving efficiency across departments.
• Ensured compliance with industry best practices for coding standards and documentation quality throughout projects.
• Improved system performance with comprehensive code reviews and debugging efforts.
• Traveled to client locations to implement SAP solutions and offered post-installation support services.
• Delivered SAP training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation.
• Multitasked and managed multiple deliverables and projects concurrently and facilitated use of SAP for enterprise resource planning.
• Contributed to cross-functional team collaborations leading to improved communication between developers, analysts, and end users.
• Integrated third-party applications with SAP systems using various interface technologies such as IDOCs and RFCs.
• Streamlined business processes by analyzing and optimizing SAP ABAP applications.
• Collaborated with functional teams to develop efficient solutions for complex business requirements.
• Implemented performance tuning measures to optimize database queries and improve response times.