Vittal Kothapalli

Mail ID: vittalprasad.kothapalli@gmail.com

Mobile:+91 9986648119

Professional Summary:

4+ years of hands on work experience with SAP NetWeaver BI7.0 & BW3.5
Have a good conceptual Knowledge in SAP ABAP/4.
Have a good experience in Production Support and implementation Environment.
Sound Technical knowledge and excellent Communication Skills.

BI / BW Expertise:

SAP

Excellent working experience on SAP BI 7.0/BW 3.5.

Good understanding of ABAP/4 and R/3 Applications.
Extensively worked in Administrative Work Bench for defining Info Objects, Info
Cubes, Info Sources, ODS objects, Update rules and Transfer rules.
Implemented data extractions from SAP R/3 using LO Cockpit, Generic Extractions
and Extraction of data from Flat Files.
Knowledge in Installing Business Content for Standard Info cubes, Info Sources and
Info Objects of Logistics Applications.
Proficient in Data Modeling using MDM and BW Extended Star Schema Models as per
the Business requirement.
Experience in BEX Analyzer, Variables, Structures, Exceptions, Conditions. Free
characteristics, Work books, Filters, restricted key figures, calculated key figures.
Good knowledge in Web Application Designer and BEx Web analyzer.
Expertise in Scheduling and Monitoring of data flow to Info cubes, ODS objects.
SLA monitoring, incident management and control.
Excellent working experience in improving the Effectiveness for query performance as
well as loading of data to the data targets by using Indexes, compression,
Aggregates, partitioning, Maintaining Data packet Sizes.
Have a good exposure on Transformations, DTP, DSO, Remodeling and knowledge of
direct access of data, Real time data acquisition and BI Accelerator.
Analyzed data load failures, ACR issues and short dumps.
ABAP/4 Conceptual Knowledge:
Have a good knowledge in creating ABAP Programs and Modularization Techniques
(Function Modules, Includes and Sub routines).
Have knowledge in ABAP Dictionary and Control Structures.
Have a good knowledge in enhancements.
Have a good knowledge in Open SQL statements, internal tables and creating
Transaction Codes.

Experience:

Have been working As a SAP BI / BW Consultant in Mahindra Satyam Computer

Services Ltd, Bangalore [From August 2007 to Till Date].

Education:
MSc from SK University,Anantapur.

Technical Skills:
Data warehouse
:
SAP ERP Applications :
Operation Systems :
Languages
:
Databases
:

SAP BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5

ECC 6.0
Windows 98/2000/XP.
C, SAP ABAP/4
DB2

Achievements:

Awarded StarClub recongnation award from MahindraSatyam.

Received Nestar Award Twice as part of the Best Team by Nestle Client.
Received POB award in MahindraSatyam.

5. Project Profile:
Project Name
Role
Organization
Duration
Team Size

Nestle Globe
Team Leader
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd
Jan 2010 To Till Date
90
Module
SAP BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5

4. Project Profile:
Project Name
Role
Organization
Duration
Team Size

Nestle Globe
Team Member ( Functional Support Team)
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd
May 2010 To Till Date
15
Module
SAP BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5

Client Description: Nestl is the Platinum Client of SAP. Nestl is the worlds largest food
company that operates 500 factories, in 85 countries, across the five continents and
employs over 250,000 people worldwide. Nestl global operations are organized into three
geographical Zones namely Zone AMS (North and South America), Zone AOA (Asia, Oceania
and Africa) & Zone EUR (Europe).Nestle has implemented LSA architecture. Nestle has
implemented BW classified widely under six business areas (Finance Control, Generating
Demand, Demand Planning, Procure to Pay, Technical & APO systems in order to complete
the business requirement of Nestle.
Project Description: Functional Team works on Incidents and Requests raised by markets.
Followed the SLA and reaching the average KPI of 99% in IM and RM resolution.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Involved in Functional support team for tickets involving issues related to reports
like, Case and Line Fill Rate, Sales summary Report, Dispatch schedule assignment,
Material Usage Variance etc, PFME etc.
Interacted with the users and helped them to understand the report functionality and
navigation.
Also Worked on Functional Tickets related Realignment, Reconciliation, Snapshot, Flat
file loading of MUV Repair, MSA flat file load, Uplift Load and Weather Index.
Worked on tickets related to Selective deletion and reloading of data in to the
Targets.
Worked on debugging of update rules and performed simulations in the entire flow of
the reports to identify the erroneous data.
Worked on loading of Flat files in to Planning cubes of APO systems.

Worked on reconciliation of data in SEM systems.

Participated in knowledge transfer sessions, given BI-Training and Nestle KT to new

associates.

3. Project Profile:
Project Name Nestle Globe
Role
Team Member( Incident Management and Development Team)
Organization
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd
Duration
April 2009 To May 2010
Team Size
15
Module
SAP BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5
Client Description: Nestl is the Platinum Client of SAP. The project involves improving the
performance and operational efficiency of Nestl business worldwide.
Project Description: Incident management team works on Incidents raised by production
and preproduction monitoring team during failure of daily loads, Requests raised by Onsite
team to perform ad-hoc activities, Preparation of Quality check list for the weekend
activities, Follows the SLA and reaching the average KPI of 98% in IM and RM resolution.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in the Incident Management (First Level Support for tickets involving Data
load Issues) like Flat File Loading, Set-Up Table Filling and Deletion, Setting up Delta
Mechanism, Maintaining V3 Jobs in R/3 Boxes, Selective Deletions.
Manage master data, text and hierarchies.
Worked on recovery of data procedures of due to the loss of data and inconsistencies
in data.
Worked on tickets related to adding the info objects to the info providers and data
sources as per the client requirement in the BW system.
Re-initialization of business area in case of inconsistency in data targets.
Worked on different Tasks related to Change requests and importing Transports.
Performed pre-manual and post manual actions while importing the transports.
Helped in Re- Designing of Chains based upon the Changing requirements.
Worked on Creation of BIA indexes and Worked on Pre and post checks of BIA weekly
restarts of blade servers.
Providing technical support to resources in addition to Production and Pre-Production
monitoring teams for the problems in data load monitoring.
Worked on creating Transport request and bundling objects in to Transport Requests.
Worked on data source enhancements.
Reviewing tickets before resolving and reassigning

2. Project Profile:
Project Name
Role
Organization
Duration
Team Size

Nestle Globe
Team Member ( Production Support )
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd
April 2008 to March 2009
42
Module
SAP BI 7.0 and SAP BW 3.5

Client Description: Nestl is the Platinum Client of SAP. The project involves improving the
performance and operational efficiency of Nestl business worldwide.
Project Description: Production monitoring team monitors daily data loads from R/3
systems, SEM-BPS, APO, CRM and flat files. Need to monitor the BW and SEM-BPS
production boxes of three Zones AMS, AOA and EUR. Follow the SLA of 98% of Report
availability every week. Update the status of Reports to Onsite BW team and markets
providing all the technical details
Roles and Responsibilities:

Monitoring of Data Loads (Master data & Transaction data) from various source
systems like R/3, CRM, SOS and APO into BW and SEM.
Analyzing the problems in Attribute and Hierarchy change run.
Data cleansing - Editing data in PSA and reconstructing the requests to data targets.
Worked on Error Handling and analyzing the errors in the data loads and raising
requests or incidents to the corresponding team if the issue is not in the scope of the
team.
Managing master data, texts and hierarchies.
Well experienced in Administration of the Data Targets (DSOs and Info cubes)
Reconstructing the data requests from PSA in case of data load
failures.
Roll up of data from Info Cubes to Aggregates
Compression
Updating of Report availability for each market as per documented instructions.
Scheduling and monitoring of Process Chains according to client requirement.
Monitoring the system performance and taking corrective actions if the performance
is bad.
Monitored the jobs related to APO, SEM/ TPM and V3 jobs.
Client Discussion, Co ordinate with the onsite team to resolve issues to meet client
defined SLA's.

1. Project Profile:
Project Name

Birds Eye Iglo (BEIG) Implementation

Role
Organization
Duration
Team Size

Team Member
Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd
September 2007 to March 2008
6
Module
SAP BW 3.5 and BI 7.0

Client Description: Birds Eye IGlo (BEIG) is a leading food supplier under frozen food
category in Europe. In the year the 2006, the company was acquired by Permira which is a
4th largest Private Equity Fund in the world. Permira established Pioneer for the purpose of
implementing SAP to cater various businesses needs. The company's main products include
fish, vegetables and ready meals, in addition to their famous fish fingers and Schemers
Filets. Iglo Birds Eye Frozen Foods also has operations in Germany, Ireland, France,
Portugal, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Project Description: Involved in implementation of functional module sales & distribution.

The aim is to generate BI standard and custom defined reports as per the specifications
given by the user and also involved in production activities.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked on Implementation of Function module Sales and Distribution.

Installed Business Content Objects and Business Content Data sources.

Customized and maintained Data Sources such as Sales Order, Billing and Delivery

Order for the SD module.

Worked with functional consultant for mapping the source data (R/3) to target Data

Sources in BI.
Customized primary LO Cockpit structures and set the extraction process using LO

cockpit and V3 updates.

Created Generic Data sources using Tables and views and set the Delta extraction

process.
Customized and Created info objects, Info sources, info Cubes, DSOs and
Transformations as per our requirement.

Created Events and Jobs required scheduling the jobs.

Created Process Chains for all data loads.

Designed Reports on Multi Provider & Info cubes.

Worked on Filters, Restricted key figure, calculated key figure, Structures, Conditions
Exceptions and Variables of BEX Queries.

Analyzed report performance for statistics and implemented proposals for aggregate
creations and indexing. Tuned queries using Partitioning, Aggregates and Multi
providers.