Pavithran Rao

Overall, 20 years of experience as both SAP TM Functional and ABAP Technical Lead Consultant, in the development and support of SAP Implementations, rollouts and supports. Expertise in numerous Functional & Technical platforms of SAP specially in SAP TM, SAP ABAP, Net Weaver Technologies, SAP Process Integration, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Fiori enablement and configurations, OData, S/4HANA standards and SAP Cloud Platform developments. Strong experience in End-to-End project Implementations and supports.

Excellent team management and customer facing experience. Good knowledge in SAP Event Management and GTS. Advance debugging skills along with Functional and Technical understanding irrespective of specific SAP Module.

Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers. Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and high level of focus and attention to detail. Strong work ethics with good time management with ability to work with diverse teams and lead meeting.

Expertise in development of custom Workflows involving Workflow template Designing, Standard Task Creation, Event linkage, event creation by status management, change documents & message control, extending business objects, development of custom methods, and trouble-shooting workflow related issues.

Experience in Team Handling, user co-ordination, Trainings and conducting workshops.

SAP Senior TM Functional at Maersk Global Services

• Supports the full lifecycle of multiple applications including planning, development, and maintenance.
• Forms a strong and trusted relationship with Product Owners and Business front line to understand user needs/concerns and the enablers technology provides across product portfolios.
• Understands how the application functions (e.g., workflows, interfaces, up/down steam dependencies).
• Understands how the Business uses the application and impacts from application incidents.
• Reviews production issues, assist in resolution and root cause analysis.
• Coordinate defect resolution and BAU backlog with the external deployment and build teams.
• Provides guidance to internal and external developers and drive performance and quality deliverables.
• Work collaboratively across the platform and truly evolve towards DevOps, target continuous releases, and reuse other enablers.
• Drives application continuous improvement.
• Remediate operational and cyber risks.
• Ensures application health and performance.
• Highlights risks and issues that affect the development or deliveries.

SAP TM Consultant at PROCTOR & GAMBLE (P&G)

• Implemented RAIL transportation scenarios for NA specific includes 8 scenarios like Origin Switch Carrier + Rule 11, Delivery Switch Carrier + Through
• Experience with TM charges, services, rates, settlement, billing, approval flow
• Experience in working with business process owners in understanding business requirement, analysis, prototyping of solutions, configuration, design, testing
• Have a good understanding of SAP architecture across it's multiple components
• Worked with Default Routes and developed custom query to upload in mass with error handling
• Involved in Instructions and Sets for Workflow handling for Forwarding Orders
• Well versed with P&G Business processes along with X-Squads teams like Workflow, Price Repository, Lane Repository and integrations
• Good problem solving, analytical & communication skills. Ability to work in demanding situations
• Efficient involved in giving internal trainings on business scenarios and showing demos
• Developed custom queries using WD configuration and build individual queries such as Distance for Distance upload, Default Route for Route upload, Freight Agreements Upload etc.
• Developed custom FIORI application Buyer Launch Pad (BLP) to check, communicate with Carrier on Rates, FA's, Freight Orders/ Freight Bookings, Sourcing Requests, Vendor Contacts, Zones and Dash Boards.
• Collaborative mindset across business functions with a clear preference of working as a team
• Enhancements and error handling in TM applications like Rate dimensions, custom fields in various tabs of FO and FWO as per business requirements.
• Performance improvements for existing custom programs like Rate based selection and Carrier base selection.
• To be successful you need to ensure deliverables match the needs of stakeholders
• Aggregate FO for bidding, Rate for Bidding based on user selections with validity dates, Shipping type, Source, Destination locations, DG, Source and Destination Countries.
• Experience in leading a scrum team and coaching team members is an added advantage

SAP TM Consultant at NILFISK

• Implemented Automatic carrier selection process based on client requirements
• Developed Short-cut Freight order and Customer Pick-up Freight Orders scenarios
• Involved in developing custom objects like Freight order notification email send to the carrier
• Efficient end-to-end order and process management including Order Tendering
• Strong interpersonal skills. Able to interact effectively both internally and externally
• SAP TM integration with other SAP systems and legacy systems
• Involved in developing multiple BRFPLUS conditions based on requirements
• Worked with Ocean Freight bookings and Road Freight orders cases
• Experienced in using Transportation Cockpit, page layouts
• VSR optimization for Auto carrier selection and Charge calculation
• Expertise in advance debugging, IDOC, Workflow, Adobe forms, RFC's, BAPI's, etc.
• Charge calculation involving Freight Agreements, Calculation sheet and Rate table
• Issues related to Charge lines, automatically popped up with incorrect price and total amount in case of Container Freight booking
• Developed enhancements for Freight Order Notification email, cancellation email etc.
• Stages determination in Freight Units using Default route
• Involved in discrepancies between Rate table and Freight Order currencies
• Expertise in using BOBT
• Strong analytical skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Worked on Calculation sheets, Calculation sheet Template, Rate Tables, Rate Table templates, scales, scale template.
• Experience in SAP TM configuration experience for Master data, Forwarding Order Management, Freight unit building rule, Planning, Freight Order Management, Charge Calculation and Freight Settlement.
• Freight planning and optimization
• Functional Specification and Test cases preparation
• Trained key Business users about Planning and execution.

SAP TM at SADAD Payment Systems, KSA

Worked in Onsite (KSA) for 1 year and currently working from offshore and performing below activities.

• Travel on-site to support technical Implementation activities as part of Max Attention
• Ensuring on-time delivery of solution by removing bottlenecks using expertise skills
• Comply to enterprise architecture, global template guidelines and product roadmap
• Performance of product including value delivery, user satisfaction, performance of the support process, stability of the product and deployment/roll-out performance.
• Transportation Charge Management and Settlement
• SAP Transportation cycle Solution – Consisting of order management, transportation planning, execution and billing.
• Standard transportation scenarios such as domestic inbound/outbound and international inbound/outbound process.
• Order Integration- Integration of ERP Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Purchase Order, Stock Transport Orders into Transportation Management.
• Delivery Integration- Integration of ERP inbound and outbound deliveries as TM Shipment Requests.
• Event Management with track & trace
• SAP TM Organizational Elements, TM Master Data & structural element requirements
• Analyzed the existing client business and proposed value added services
• Participated in error analysis, performance issues
• Developed RFC's as per business requirements
• Estimating the requirement effort.
• Setup of Charge calculation structure
• Freight Settlement configuration
• Support functional team with information regarding custom enhancements.

SAP ABAP Technical Lead Consultant at TELSTRA

• Worked User Exits and BADI's to enhance and update various Infotypes
• Creation of info types and Enhancements of standard info types
• Developed a Global Extraction program to extract the employee details into file which is sent to third party payroll processing for various countries.
• OSS Notes Analysis to fix process and code bug in standard transactions and implementation to resolve the issues.
• Handled code review and performance testing for all the developments and technical specification review before submission for functional Acceptance Testing
• Involved in Data Conversion activities including Extraction, Transformation and Loading
• Implemented parallel processing for fast uploading using classes
• Worked extensively on LSMW, parallel processing techniques
• Participated in error analysis, performance issues and comfortable in using HP ticketing tool

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