Kishore Pinapati

More than 15 Years of progressive functional & technical support experience in configuration, customization, development, integration, and testing of SAP Finance and Material Management integration with focus on Accounts Payables module with Open Text's Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), along with integration with OCR solutions such as Open Text Core Capture a.k.a IES/IC4S/CC4S/ICC. Actively involved in decision making for re-structuring and re-ordering AP processes in order to best suit to shared service center model as well as a Business Process Outsourcing model. Worked on latest versions of Open Text VIM/Foundation 23.4 SP2 with SAP S/4 HANA, along with Open Text Business Center Suite.

Four full life cycle implementations at a Senior Expert/Solution Architect level which include three roll out projects and one Upgrade project.

SAP VIM Solution Architect - ExxonMobil - Houston, TX

(2023-03)

System Integrator - Deloitte & SAP. Environment: SAP S/4 HANA 2023/01; VIM 23.4 SP1; OCR - CoreCapture 23.2; External Tax Calc. Engine – Thomson & Reuters ONE SOURCE.

• Contacted Blue-printing sessions to gather requirements across various business units in ExxonMobil (Hydro-Carbon Value Chain, Non-HVC, Transportation, etc), and steered the discussions in a way, business requirements can be easily formulated to perform Fit and Gap analysis to build Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Implemented Core Capture, created multiple IES profiles, provided invoice pre-training plan for complex hydro-carbon invoices.
• Liaised between the implementation partners (Deloitte & SAP) and the client (ExxonMobil) in several key decisions for transforming the existing multiple SAP boxes (NAPES/IPES/STRIPES/XTO etc.) into two (U4 and P4).
• Identified and presented SAP clean core assessment along with the POV's for several WRICEFs without which Deployment-1 cannot be possible in the Accounts Payable area. Among the critical wricefs are VIM integration with SAP CPE (Commodity pricing engine) for provisional to final price scenarios, VIM Posting BAPI modifications, Auto-matching with incoming HVC invoices, Auto-posting efficiency Improvements, Integration with Thomson & Reuters' OneSource for Validating Indirect Tax, complex approval
• Re-designed the out-of-the box VIM BDC's and BAPI's to potentially automate the invoices for handling CPE (price fluctuation) PO based invoices, and Non-PO invoices.
• Worked closely with the in-house as well as external developers to accommodate for the complex sequence of calls that have to be made to the external tax calculation engine (Thomson & Reuter's ONE SOURCE) in order to calculate the indirect tax on vendor invoices.
• Heavily involved in meeting the existing deliverables (various WRICEF functional documents, configuration documents, Process design documents), along with making key decisions on the ever-evolving CPE-VIM integration.
• Made Key decisions integrating the highly complex SAP's Commodity Pricing Engine (CPE) module with VIM for handling primary product invoices for Hydro-Carbon Value Chain.
• Configured close to 42 VIM exceptions (17 PO/TM-based DP document type, 14 non-PO document type, and 11 Down Payment invoices) in VIM 23.4 SP1 with SAP S/4 HANA, out of which 15 custom exceptions were created with custom function modules.
• Implemented all latest Open Text Fiori apps including Capture Validation Workplace, Accounts Payable Workplace, Business Center Workplace, Invoice Reporting etc.
• Provided several Customer Enhancement Service (CES) requests to SAP and Open Text on the identified product gaps (because of which few additional features were released in Open Text VIM Invoice solutions.

SAP VIM Solution Architect - Phillips 66 - Houston, TX

(2018-04 - 2023-03)

System Integrator - SAP. Environment: SAP S/4 HANA 1709 & 2021; Upgrade of VIM 24.3 SP1 from VIM 20.4 SP3, SP5 on S/4 HANA; OCR - IBM DataCap.

Master of Science - University of Central Florida

Bachelor of Technology - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras