Dinesh Mohan

Bangalore, Karnataka - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Dinesh-Mohan/ecae8484a4e9beba

Total 17+ years of experience in IT and over 15+ years of experience in SAP which includes 6+ years of BPC/
BOBJ planning and 10+ years in SAP BW/BPS/IP.
In-depth experience in implementing multiple full life cycle SAP projects involving SAP BPC 7.5, [] IP,
BPS & BW.
Experience in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing, prototyping, testing,
defining support procedures, and implementing practical business.
Develop BPC & BI roadmap & strategy aligned with the companys business goals and objectives; identify
opportunities to further leverage and benefit from BPC & BI platforms.
Drive architecture & design conversations regarding BPC & BI solutions, and exercise authority and vision
in decision-making.
Experience working in multiple geographies including North America, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Europe,
China, Thai etc.
Educate and influence IT and business stakeholders on how best to leverage the BPC & BI platforms and
maximize business benefits.
Closely working with Business Analysts to ensure that all core business requirements are satisfied, new
business needs are proactively supported and new BPC functionality delivers business benefits
Ensure successful completion of all deliverables: specifications, walkthroughs, product development,
unit integration and regression testing, defect resolution, technical documentation. Ensure quality of these
deliverables
Responsibilities include applying best practices, rapid deployment, using ifrs starter kits, sizing within the
business planning cycles, including Planning, forecasting, budgeting, and periodic projection.
Deep experience with all aspects of BPC: Epm Addin (Input Schedules, Reports, workbooks, vba macros),
Admin (Master Data, Script Logic, Business Rules, BPF, Security), Bw Backend and Data Manager (Importing
data, creating packages, master data automation).
Experienced in identifying performance issues and demonstrate improved response times for all the
planning applications - BPC,IP and BPS.
Have been a speaker at some of the SAP conferences like SAP-Interactive & SAP Teched 2006 at Las
Vegas. Click Session Info
Experience in migrating SAP TPM BPS Planning to SAP TPM In-memory planning and incorporating new
features such as TPO and accelerated Trade Planning.
Excellent analytical abilities, good verbal & written communication, team working, self-motivated & self
starter.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere

WORK EXPERIENCE

SAP EPM/BPC Practice Lead

SFJ Computers - Dubai - December 2015 to Present
Responsible for Blueprinting & Solution Design Activities
Architect BPC Projects In line to Business requirements.
Responsible for building advanced SAP BPC Planning, Consolidation and Reporting solution to support the
Budgeting / Forecasting process and integration with SAP ECC, BW through BADIs(ABAP).
 Core Objectives include Standardized Process, Provide Predictive Analytics and Drive Business Decisions
related to Finance and Compensation Functions. The process empower users, regardless of skill level, to
access and interact with financial data for timely and effective decision making.

Senior Advisory Consultant

IBM - July 2015 to December 2015
Responsible for implementing SAP BPC - Budget and Forecasting solution to various clients.
Responsible for preparing functional specifications, technical specifications, gap analysis efforts estimation
and allocation of Work to team members.
Build BPC planning application to meeting business needs in revenue forecast, P and L and BS planning, cost
center planning, data allocation areas.
Configuration of conversion, transformation files and data manager for extracting data into the application,
setting up users, teams, data access profile, member access profile, business process flows, bpf instances,
enabling controls,
Create, Maintain custom dimension/ info object, dimension property, dimension hierarchy for entity, account,
product, time.etc
Setting up user authorization and access to perform specific tasks using Security profiles, journals, work
status etc
Provide guidance in developing and modeling BPC planning templates to follow best practice.

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SAP BPC Hana Architect

LUMBINI ELITE - Bangalore, Karnataka - November 2014 to June 2015

SAP Planning Application Manager

PEPSICO - January 2008 to October 2014
Jan 2008 - Oct 2014 ~ 7 Years
USA SAP Planning Application Manager
SAP BPC/IP/BPS & CRM TPM

SAP Planning Application Specialist

Global Center of Excellence Team - March 2013 to September 2014
Sales Planning, Budgeting, Legal and Management Consolidation for Australia, Mexico, USA, China, Thai
sectors in BPC 10, BO, BW 7.3
PEPSICO INTERNATIO NAL - Plano/Chicago

Responsible for implementing and successful delivery of Legal, Management consolidation, Sales planning
& Budgeting application
Responsible for preparing functional specifications, technical specifications, gap analysis, efforts estimation
and allocation of Work to team members (onsite and offshore model)
Responsible for setting up the Legal, Ownership and Rate application, building the respective dimensions,
member formulas, script logic. Setting up the Entity groups and dynamic hierarchies for defining the ownership
Configuring application parameters, work status, currency translation rules for standard and historical rates,
setting up the validation and elimination rules for consolidation and the business process flow for the Legal
Consolidation application.
Input schedules for entering the exchange rate for standard and historical rates, defining the process for
loading and processing the Trial Balance to the Legal Application, reports for checking the data submission,
BS, PNL and Cash Flow statements using EVDRE
Lift and shift the Legal and management consolidation application for various sectors with small changes.
 Design and develop BW & BO objects - Infocubes, extractors, datasources, Webi reports, XCelsius
Dashboards.

SAP Planning Application Specialist

Global Center of Excellence Team - Badi, West Bengal - April 2012 to February 2013
Mexico Profit and Loss Planning - BPC 10
PEPSICO INTERNATIO NAL - Plano/Chicago
Responsible for implementing and successful delivery of functional and technical components of profit and
loss
planning for Mexico sector.
Understanding the PL business process and reporting requirements by interacting with Sr. line Managers,
Business heads Sr. Business analysts.

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Responsible for preparing functional specifications, technical specifications, gap analysis efforts estimation
and allocation of Work to team members.
Designed and configured currency translation logic, rate application, rate dimension, business rules,
dimensions,
script logic, badi, input schedules, etc.
Configuring manpower cost schedules, reports, BADI for manpower cost calculation and movement of data
between applications using custom BADI
Configuration of conversion, transformation files and data manager for extracting data into the application,
setting up users, teams, data access profile, member access profile, business process flows, bpf instances,
enabling controls,
Create, Maintain custom dimension/ info object, dimension property, dimension hierarchy for entity, account,
product, time.etc
Track and report project status on a regular basis including identifying, categorizing and escalating project
issues
that need management attention.

SAP Planning Application Specialist

PEPSICO INTERNATIO NAL - Plano, TX - May 2011 to March 2012
Responsible for the successful delivery of functional and technical components of legal and management
consolidation
solutions using SAP Business Objects Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 7.5. Gather the
requirements for consolidation, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting functionalities.
Skills involving Business Process Flows, input schedules, reports, data manager packages, BPC menu
commands,
system architecture, applications, dimensions, categories, hierarchies, master data processing, and script
logic, are
required.
Develop business rules and custom script logic based on experience with various types of logic packages:
account
calculation, cash flow, allocation, financial consolidations and inter-company eliminations. Comfortable with
writing
MDX script logic, business rules, validation tests, ABAP coding and BAdi coding.
Set up data load routines including BAdi scripts over data validation and routines for loading data. Experienced
in loading data from ECC/BI or Oracle.
 Perform configuration of SAP BPC functions such as setting up applications, dimensions, dimension
hierarchies,
properties, work status, controls, journals, evdre reports, data extraction from external systems, data retraction,
business
rules, script logic, badi etc.
Skills involving configuring and maintaining business rules for Currency translation, intercompany elimination,
ownership calculation etc

Sr. SAP TPM

PEPSICO - January 2008 to April 2011
BPS Analyst

Sr SAP BW/BPS Consultant

SAP BW - Irvine, CA - August 2005 to December 2007
Project: NW2004s Upgrade - August 2006 - till date.

Responsible for providing a strategy for upgrading existing BW3.5 system to 2004s, converting the reports,
workbooks and web objects to the new environment with minimum downtime.
Identifying the issues with the new front end tools, understanding the impact of the new tools over the existing
ones and fixing the issues by escalating to sap.
Responsible for defining the Front-end upgrade strategy for Workbooks, queries, variables, exits, CKF, RKF,
variants,
roles and authorizations.
Responsible for cleaning the production system before upgrading to 2004s. Cleanup process involves
removing unused
reporting objects such as queries, variables, RKF, CKF etc
Identified the new features in 2004s reporting tools and defining reporting guidelines for upcoming projects
in 2004s.
Responsible for creating prototypes and showcasing the features of the 2004s reporting tools such as BEx
Analyzer,
BEx Web, Report designer and Visual composer.

Sr SAP BI Consultant
KNACK SYSTEMS - January 2005 to December 2007
USA
SAP BI 7.0/ECC/CRM, Visual Composer, Excel VBA

SAP Trade Promotion Management

TPM/TFM/TCM - Chicago, IL - 2007 to 2007
Responsible for full lifecycle implementation of SAP SEM BPS for SAP CRM Trade Promotion Management
for North
America - QTG division.
TPM Ramp up Customer: Responsible for working with SAP to customize and implement SAP TPM
integrated
solution.
Responsibilities include: Requirements definition, Implementation of redesigned trade promotion planning
and forecasting processes in an SAP environment, applying knowledge of leading Trade Promotion planning
and forecasting
practices.
 Acting as a functional team member using formal implementation methodologies to design and deliver
redesigned Trade
Promotion planning/forecasting processes supported by Sap SEM Bps.
Developed and Configured SAP BI planning including planning functions using the BPS workbench, FOX
language,
BEX reports, cubes and user interfaces with Web Application Designers.
Configured CRM 2007 and BW/BPS to integrate planning layouts enabling Trade promotion planning.

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Configured Planning Services, Planning Area, level, package, layouts and responsible for enabling advance
planning
services through upx_mntn.

Sr SAP BW/BPS Consultant

SAP BW - Irvine, CA - February 2006 to July 2006
As a business analyst evaluated the business process and reporting requirements and accordingly designed,
developed
ODS, Info Cubes, multi providers and process chains.
Responsible for overall data design of the bw project, including bw info cubes, Logical models, process
models for
CRM & AFS Modules
Responsible for developing a custom reporting solution that provides access bw metadata repository.
Business/power
user's use the tool to search list of available bw frontend objects such as workbooks, queries, variables,
calculated key
figures, restricted key figure, user exits etc attached to a query.
Developed complex queries both in Bex query designer and web application designer with cell level
restrictions,
exception aggregations, user exits etc.
Designed restricted key figures and calculated key figures that are used in most of the queries and reused
by the business
team. Provided Formatted reports / workbooks with vba Macros
Involved in consolidating reporting objects used in Midas 1 using Object Management Tool and reusing the
objects in
Midas 2.
Lead the reporting team by guiding them in building reports, applying reporting guidelines, reviewing reports
and creating test cases for different reports.

Sr SAP BW/BPS Consultant

SAP BW - Irvine, CA - August 2005 to January 2006
Environment: SAP BW 3.5, R/3 4.6c

As a business analyst evaluated the business process and reporting requirements for FI, CO and HR Modules
Responsible for setting up the Web environment, evaluating reporting tools and proposing reporting strategy
based on the complexity of requirements.
Enhanced BEx Analyzer output with custom macros adding the functionality of retaining formats. The custom
macro

Senior SAP BW Consultant

KNACK SYSTEMS - May 2005 to July 2005
Bungee North America - St Louis
Environment: SAP BW 3.5, R/3 4.6c, CRM 4.0 Middleware

As a business analyst evaluated the business process and reporting requirements and accordingly designed,
developed
ODS, Info Cubes, multi providers and process chains.
Developed various BEx reports and web cockpits enabling Sales volume/sales revenue analysis, Contribution
margin
analysis, Periodic operating profit and Early warning information
Developed pre calculated web templates and web reports for offline use with reporting agent and download
scheduler.
Generated the CO-PA data source, transferred them to BW system and extracted the data from R/3.
Improved the Performance of Queries and web report by building aggregates, indexing, and compression.
Switched the BW statistics cubes and the reports to capture the usage of BW system that is later used for
various
performance tuning activities.
Enabled BW system to extract data from CRM system and analyze the data in BW.

Sr SAP BI Consultant
Infineon Technologies - Bangalore, Karnataka - January 2004 to December 2004
1 Year
Munich, Germany & Bangalore, Sr SAP BI Consultant
India SAP BI 7.0/CRM, ECC, Excel VBA

Trade Promotions Management Project

SAP Labs India - Bangalore, Karnataka - September 2001 to December 2003
Bw Specialist
Environment: SAP BW 3.0A SEM-BPS, CRM 3.0 Middleware and Portals.

Trade Promotion Management deals with the complete planning scenario of (but not restricted to) Consumer
Products
Industry right from the Headquarter planning to Field Sales planning. I have worked on various mySAP products
for this
solution such as CRM (Sales Marketing), BW (COPA, Sales Planning and AC Nielson data), and SEM (BPS
- Business
Planning and Simulation)
As a Specialist I was responsible for the following
To directly interact with a number of senior business consultants and product development people from SAP
America and SAP - AG (Germany) right from the specification phase.
Developed and configured all the different systems in order to integrate them according to solutions'
requirement.
Modeled BW Objects such as Infocubes, ODS, Infoobjects, Infosources, datasources for Trade Promotion
Management Scenario and published as business content.
Collected BPS planning requirements and compiled functional requirements into BPS technical design.
Designed BPS cubes and planning areas to integrate R/3, BW data models.
Configured data flow from Mobile sales to CRM, validation in CRM and flow of data from mbdoc to SEM/BW
via planning objects.
Configured BW Adapter in CRM for data flow between BW and CRM
Wrote FOX codes to implement complicated planning functions.
o Rolling forecasting, Multiple Distribution method.
Wrote ABAP codes for Exit Variables and Exit Function.
o Customized ABAP function to conduct currency conversion.
o Derive variable value from a user-entered variable.
o Derive time-dependent master data.
Performance tuning for BPS layouts and reports
o Refining planning level and packages to minimize record locking.
o Add aggregates and conduct compression to BPS cubes to speed up records retrieval.

Senior Developer
Speech & Software Technology - Chennai, Tamil Nadu - October 1999 to January 2001
E-commerce, webhosting, asp & asp.net, dhtml, javascript, excel vba

Software Engineer
RPG Cellular Services Ltd - Chennai, Tamil Nadu - June 1998 to July 1999
1Year
Chennai, India Software Engineer
Visual Basic, Sql server, Oracle

Software Engineer
Uniport Computers - January 1998 to June 1998
Visual Basic, Sql server, Oracle

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS
SAP Modules: BPC 7.5, 10, 10.1 IP, BW 7.3, BW Hana, Hana Cloud, CRM TPM, TPO, BO, FI CO (PA,
PCA), FI (AP, AR), SD.
Software: NW 2004s, Microsoft Visual Studio, IIS, FrontPage
Reporting Tools: BI BEx Analyzer, Query Designer, BO, WAD, Report Designer & Crystal Reports
Languages: ABAP, VBA Macros, Visual basic, XML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL
Utilities/Databases: HANA, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 7.x and 8, MS Access, Microsoft Office tools