Lakshmi Krishnachari

SAP-certified Technical Consultant with 10+ years of experience delivering end-to-end SAP solutions across Retail, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Consulting, and pharmaceutical sectors, the music industry, and TRM modules. Expertise in SAP BW/BW4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Finance, Native HANA, SAP DataSphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, ETL, and SQL scripting for data modeling, reporting, and analytics.

Experienced in full project lifecycle: requirement gathering, gap analysis, design, development, testing, migration, and documentation. Proven expertise in data integration, dashboarding, and migrating legacy BW objects to BW/4HANA using LSA++ architecture. Strong communicator and team player, known for leadership, analytical thinking, client focus, and delivering high-quality SAP solutions.

SAP Solution Architect - Wipro - Client: Apple

(2023-01)

• Automated Accruals generation and re-categorization workflows, allowing Finance to correct how artist advances and expenses were classified without manual journal entries.
• Reduced Finance's manual reconciliation burden by partnering with stakeholders on Tableau impact analysis and building dashboards tracking play data posting status across Revenue, AR, COGS, and AP, ensuring accuracy after system migration.
• Enhanced calendar-based visibility into royalty and reporting deadlines by designing XSJS services to integrate iCal event functionality.
• Reduced manual report preparation time by building and maintaining Unix shell scripts to automate recurring stored procedure execution for financial reporting.
• Ensured artists were paid accurately by building the recoupment and vendor summary logic that tracked each artist's royalty earnings against advances and expenses already paid out, incorporating opening and closing balance calculations to prevent over- or under-payment.
• Prevented financial loss when artist contracts ended by developing the termination process that automatically recalculated outstanding recoupment, amortization, and expense balances the moment a contract was closed out.
• Led a critical ERP modernization effort, migrating core finance systems from SAP ECC to S/4HANA (Native HANA) with minimal disruption to ongoing financial reporting and business operations.
• Reduced business risk during system migration by proactively identifying and remediating data compatibility issues like field length changes affecting Platoon objects in a parallel environment, ensuring no in-flight production changes were disrupted.
• Safeguarded data integrity and business continuity by rigorously validating all system changes through thorough QA testing cycles before production release.
• Increased efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting operations by combining stored procedures, shell script automation, and Python-based data validation.
• Expanded self-service analytics access for business teams by ingesting HANA data into Snowflake, building a Data Warehouse model using Wherescape, and delivering reports in Looker, reducing dependency on traditional SAP-only reporting.
• Built a trusted, enterprise-wide reporting foundation by designing SAP Datasphere data models (fact views, dimension views, analytical datasets) to support consistent business analytics.
• Enabled real-time, data-driven decision-making by integrating SAP Datasphere with SAP Analytics Cloud for live dashboards.
• Modernized legacy reporting infrastructure and reduced technical debt by migrating legacy BW models and Info Providers into cloud-native SAP Datasphere models.

SAP HANA Lead - Wipro - Client: LabCorp

(2022-01 - 2022-12)

• Led requirements gathering and full product specification for LabCorp, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to define business and functional requirements, technical specs, and application design, reducing rework and aligning delivery with business needs.
• Owned end-to-end analysis, design, development, and implementation of 30+ reporting models, sourcing data from PeopleSoft and Salesforce into Tableau and WebI reporting tools.
• Developed HANA models to support financial and quote-related reporting.
• Built ETL pipelines using IBM DataStage to extract and transform data from Salesforce and PeopleSoft legacy systems.
• Facilitated requirement-gathering workshops with business stakeholders, translating business needs into detailed technical design documents for each report.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams across multiple geo-locations to ensure aligned, timely delivery.
• Wrote SQL scripts for data extraction and testing, ensuring accuracy across reporting pipelines.
• Coordinated onsite-offshore team activities, delegating tasks and serving as quality reviewer for final deliverables.
• Maintained technical documentation, SQL scripts, ER diagrams, process flows, and workflow diagrams for SAP BW/HANA, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, and Tableau/WebI reporting tools.

Senior BW Hana Consultant - BIAnalyst GmbH & Co.KG

(2020-01 - 2020-05)

• Migration of old BW content (Transfer Rules, Update Rules, and Old Transformations) in V3.5 to Hana-compatible form in the areas of MM and SD.
• Created reports related to COPA, such as sales margin, sales growth, and sales trend.
• Involved in requirement gathering for Development, Data modeling, and designing reports as per the requirements.
• Involved in data migration from various corporate systems and interacted with end users and functional consultants.
• Involved in Data mapping workshops and gap analysis between legacy Sources and S4/HANA.
• Reviewed the functional specifications and technical specifications, and reviewed the existing mappings and redesigned the mappings to meet the perfect requirements.
• Data Migration of Master data objects like BP (Customer, Vendor), Material objects, and also Transaction objects like Open AP, AR, Sales Orders, OTC, Purchase Orders, PIR, GL Account posting.
• Loaded BP (Customer & Vendor) and Material master data in S4HANA 1709 Sandbox using LTMC.
• Built flat files from BODS to support LTMC, LSMW, BAPI, and BDC programs to load master data.
• Developed & demoed a prototype (POC) on the BOARD reporting tool to the users.
• Developed SAP Analytics Cloud Planning solution involving data wrangling, model set-up, input schedule, planning functionality, reporting, dashboards, allocation/calendarization, role-based access security. Performed admin tasks like add/delete/manage users & roles.
• Built embedded SAC queries, consuming data from the BEX query.

Senior SAP Consultant - CIBER, HTC Global Pvt Ltd - Client: Philips Lighting

(2018-09 - 2019-06)

• The project at Philips Lighting is a production support and implementation of new requirements on FI accounting operations on AP, AR, and FSCM reports.
• As an Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) (Specifically for FI accounting), key roles were to interact with the business, have discussions with the clients to understand their requirements, and create functional specification documents and design documents.
• Migration of existing BW solutions to native HANA solutions.
• Development of various HANA models like Calculation views, Attribute Views, Analytic views, and HDB tables.
• Extracted flat files using the BODS replicating tool.
• Created workbooks and Ad hoc reports in AFO in FI Domain: Account receivable, Account payable, and on FSCM reports. 0FI_GL_4, 0FI_AP_4, 0FI_AR_4.
• Worked on the GRIR: goods receipt and invoice receipt project implementation.
• Built a report on the SAC reporting tool on the FI accounting module, developed reports, and multi-tab dynamic data visualization dashboard stories.
• Extensively worked with the enhancement of existing data flow for the new requirements based on the CR on the FSCM report for Dispute management.
• Created stories and a dashboard on SAP Analytics Cloud using Bex queries and HANA views. Created fact models and consumption models for consumption in SAC dashboards on planning and budgeting.
• Developed complex end-to-end reporting solutions from BW to HANA to SAC story and performed admin tasks like add/delete/manage users & roles.
• BODS – Experience with DATA Extraction, Transfer Loading, and ETL for loading data from SAP ECC, Non-SAP, and flat files to the SAP HANA System.