Arun Aravapalli
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Dickinson + Associates, a Navisite company
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Solution Architect - Analytics
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Dec 2019 - Present
Hyderabad, India • Involved in requirements gathering for Dashboards and their development. • Developed Analytical Applications using SAP Analytics Cloud. • Worked on the creation of users, roles, and teams. • Worked on the transport mechanism using the content network storage option. • Imported content from our internal SAC tenant to the client SAC tenant. • Made use of Live and Import connections to get data from source systems. • Trained users on how to navigate and develop objects in… Show more • Involved in requirements gathering for Dashboards and their development. • Developed Analytical Applications using SAP Analytics Cloud. • Worked on the creation of users, roles, and teams. • Worked on the transport mechanism using the content network storage option. • Imported content from our internal SAC tenant to the client SAC tenant. • Made use of Live and Import connections to get data from source systems. • Trained users on how to navigate and develop objects in SAC. • Created Dashboard story in SAC using Canvas, Responsive pages, and Digital boardroom. • Successfully display the story in the Mobile SAC app using Responsive pages. • Implemented stories using different features of SAC. • Developed Operational, Yield, Sales, Finance, and Inventory dashboards using SAP Analytics Cloud. • Made use of a Live connection to get data from S/4 HANA. • Used import connection from flat file to pull the data for GEO plotting for the Financial analysis dashboard. • Worked on an upgrade project from BW 7.3 to BW 7.5 SP20 • Worked on multiple enhancements for a BW client. • Implementation of Embedded Analytics within S/4 HANA. • Activated Embedded SAP BW Client, Specified BW Client for Configuration, Assigned the Logical System Client, and Set BW Namespaces to Changeable. • Activated Business Content InfoObjects. • Activate Content Bundle for New Financials Planning and BW Reporting. • Resolved multiple issues related to the Analytical Fiori apps. • Worked on Plan/Actual Fiori apps by changing the infoprovider variable in RSPLAN. Show less
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itelligence
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Germany
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Senior Manager Analytics
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Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Hyderabad Area, India
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Delivery Manager - Analytics (US Projects & Support)
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Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Hyderabad Area, India
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Senior SAP BI/BW Consultant
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Jul 2014 - Dec 2016
Hyderabad Area, India • Involves implementing SAP SFIN Fiori Apps for initial Client Evaluation for FI, SD, MM, PP, and PM Modules. • As an offshore lead, I have been part of all client communications, status reporting & tracking, and prepared Business Blueprint Documents. • Fiori App Configuration (SAP Gateway & ECC System). • As an offshore lead, I’m Involved in Business Blueprint, High-level Design Flows for every report, and High-Level Design Specification documents based on the implementation. •… Show more • Involves implementing SAP SFIN Fiori Apps for initial Client Evaluation for FI, SD, MM, PP, and PM Modules. • As an offshore lead, I have been part of all client communications, status reporting & tracking, and prepared Business Blueprint Documents. • Fiori App Configuration (SAP Gateway & ECC System). • As an offshore lead, I’m Involved in Business Blueprint, High-level Design Flows for every report, and High-Level Design Specification documents based on the implementation. • Installed Standard BI HANA Optimized Content for SD, MM, and FI. • Created Advance DSO’s, Transformations, and DTP’s for History Data Loads. • Resolved 0BALANCE issue for new GL & Hierarchies short dump issue. • Enhanced 0PRODORDER_ATTR and 2LIS_04_P_MATNR Datasources and worked on the Setup table’s deletion and filling and execution of V3 Jobs. • Involved in SAP HANA with SFIN and other ECC modules. Implemented Fiori Apps for initial client evaluation for FI, SD, MM, PP, and PM Modules. • Created reports like Scheduled Attainment, Yield, Scrap, Volume Absorption, Material Variance, Cost per KG, and Labor per KG. • Worked on BW HANA Optimized cubes and DTP’s with direct access to pull the data from the source system. • Provided end-user training on BI ETL Data stage objects and on how to schedule, load, and monitor the process chains. • Worked on Lumira Visualization to capture data from social media websites like Linkedin, Facebook, etc. • Requirement Gathering: Understand and gather requirements by interacting with Business Analysts, Department Heads, Directors, and Project Managers. • Involved in Handling change requests, and tickets & solved performance-related issues.
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP BI Consultant
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Jul 2011 - Jul 2014
Hyderabad Area, India • Function as a technical expert and provide management leadership in the design, development, and delivery within SAP BI. • Responsible for providing solutions to technical issues and responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements. • Liaison between functional and development teams for gathering and executing requirements. • Created & followed up with SAP on the OSS message raised against the… Show more • Function as a technical expert and provide management leadership in the design, development, and delivery within SAP BI. • Responsible for providing solutions to technical issues and responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements. • Liaison between functional and development teams for gathering and executing requirements. • Created & followed up with SAP on the OSS message raised against the COPA aggregates issue. • Performed COPA Datasource enhancement for new value fields with init and delta loads performed to populate those fields. • Developed back-end enhancements to existing BW processes in COPA & Cost Center Accounting. • Designed summary and detailed Sales Margin Reports with RRI functionality. • Maintain the Work History for all the tickets until it is closed down. Involved in both the Activities monitoring and Production Support. • Supporting DPS(Deloitte Professional Services) Application on various Reporting Issues & monitoring the process chains of all major ECC modules SD, FI, HCM, and PS on daily, weekly, and monthly cycle • Actively participated in BW Support Pack upgrade. • Created aggregates on various cubes to improve query performance. • Worked on Cache Checkpoint for different servers and BWA TREX Memory. • As an Offshore Lead, prepared many Understanding documents from the knowledge gained from interacting With Client Team members to other team members. • Regular analysis of the Early Watch Report sent by SAP and suggests better solutions/approaches to the client. • Performed annual cost center hierarchy maintenance and other HR Fiscal year-end activities. • Guiding the new team members in Understanding the Criticality and Scope of the Project • Tried to make the Onsite and Offshore stand on the same line by continuous status updates on a daily, and weekly basis. Show less
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Bristlecone
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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SAP BI/BW Consultant
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Sep 2007 - Jun 2011
Bangalore, India • Analyzed business-reporting requirements that could be satisfied by Business Content targets of SAP-CRM and activating the business content objects. • Involved in the design, development, and implementation of customized info cubes and ODS objects for CRM and transportation of requests to different BW systems. • Developed queries on CRM Sales, Services, Contracts, and Opportunity Data Targets. • Creation of Multiproviders and Infosets with Inner & left outer joins based on the… Show more • Analyzed business-reporting requirements that could be satisfied by Business Content targets of SAP-CRM and activating the business content objects. • Involved in the design, development, and implementation of customized info cubes and ODS objects for CRM and transportation of requests to different BW systems. • Developed queries on CRM Sales, Services, Contracts, and Opportunity Data Targets. • Creation of Multiproviders and Infosets with Inner & left outer joins based on the requirements • Managed and monitored several data loadings. Optimized the load performance by adjusting the packet sizes. • Creation of Generic Datasources in CRM from R/3 Tables & Views and modified the transformations for scheduled loading of CRM data to BW. • Developed flexible queries using filters, and navigational attributes in BEx Analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill-down or summarized way to give different levels of detailed information. • Worked on SAP CRM Info Cubes i.e. CRM Sales, Services, Opportunities & Contracts. • Created custom objects and activated standard Info Cubes, ODS’s Info Sources, Multi-Providers, Transfer structures, Transfer rules, Communication structures, and Update Rules (both ODS and Info Cube level). • Uploaded master data and transactional data from SAP R/3 via data staging to PSA, ODS, and Info Cubes. Worked with data flows from R/3 to BW. Used V3 update for delta for uploading data from R/3 to BW in specific intervals. • Used delta update mechanisms for uploading the data to BW from R/3 in specific intervals • Mainly deals with the Sales & Distribution (SD) and Finance (FI) related data sources and does the deletion and filling of the setup tables for logistics. • Involved in the performance tuning of info cubes, BW statistics, BEx query reporting, and Post Go-Live Support. • Extensively involved in Designing and creating Processes Chains to automate the process of loading data into data targets. Show less
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INEL Power System Engineers Private Limited
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India
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Electrical Engineer
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Jul 2004 - Jul 2007
• Commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of Variable Frequency drives. • Commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of up to 3ph, 150HP, AC induction motors. • Final testing of metering instruments such as ammeters, voltmeters, energy meters, frequency meters, etc., both analog and digital instruments. • Inspection of control and relay panel, preparation of Test Report, and cable schedule for sub-station, power plant, and process plant. • Responsible for all Breakdown Calls… Show more • Commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of Variable Frequency drives. • Commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of up to 3ph, 150HP, AC induction motors. • Final testing of metering instruments such as ammeters, voltmeters, energy meters, frequency meters, etc., both analog and digital instruments. • Inspection of control and relay panel, preparation of Test Report, and cable schedule for sub-station, power plant, and process plant. • Responsible for all Breakdown Calls and escalation management. • Developing, implementing, and standardizing processes. • To ensure that the panel and all other equipment connected to it should be safe and eligible for further processing. • Testing and commissioning of power control center and motor control center. Show less
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Education
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Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education
MBA, Project Management (PM) -
University of Madras
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering