Chandana Reddy Boddam

I am an enthusiastic professional with a strong background in various SAP modules, having accumulated seven years of valuable experience in working Implementation, Rollout, Configuration, Testing and Production. My expertise in SAP has allowed me to become proficient in handling various critical issues, making me a valuable asset in streamlining business processes and enhancing organizational efficiency.

In addition to my technical proficiency, I have been demonstrating strong leadership qualities by successfully managing teams since three years. My ability to lead and inspire others showcases my commitment to fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.

With my extensive knowledge of SAP and proven leadership skills, I am well-equipped to tackle complex challenges and contribute significantly to the success of any organization in need of SAP implementation, optimization, and team management. My dedication to continuous learning and professional growth has undoubtedly been instrumental in my successful career journey, and it will continue to drive me towards greater achievements in the future.

WORK EXPERIENCE

The HomeDepot, Canada                                                    SAP Functional Configuration Manager

10/2022 – Now                                                                                                         Industry: Retail

• Being accountable for the project timelines, project reporting and directing and coordinating with the team, performing daily project management of SAP projects.
• Collaborating with business to understand the requirement and build accurate and appropriate solution by framing questions and planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones.
• Managing the project's financial plan, which involves allocating resources, estimating expenses, month-end invoicing and closely monitoring spending.
• Responsible for the overall end to end architecture for solutions associated to a business requirement and been serving as the principal designer for the portfolio.
• Managing team effectively from small to large sized projects ando attend client calls and present the solution and ensure that the business requirements are met.
• Identifying post go-live defects and performing gap analysis and assessing the impact.
• Preparing project documents for business users and conducting a session to provide knowledge transfer to end users.
• Working on providing functional design and permanent solutions to avoid recurring tasks.

Accenture, India                                                                            SAP WM/MM/IM TEAM LEAD

03/2018- 03/2021                       Industry: Automobile/Manufacturing & Utilities (Client – BMW)

• Led a team of 5 and coordinated with nearshore and onshore teams to communicate the daily status.
• Working for a project right from collecting business requirements to designing and creating user stories, coordinating technical code changes, testing, identifying and fixing bugs.
• Resolved customer issues around setting up the Warehouse Management master data such as Storage Types and Storage Bins, Putaway and stock transfer, removal strategies, movement types in Warehouse Management etc by creating and using LSMW for mass data updates. 
• Coordinated various offshore and onshore activities and trained business application users for new process implementations in BMW plant at Greenville in South Carolina, United States.
• Identified bugs in the SAP ABAP code and permanently fixed it by making changes using TRs.
• Gathered requirements for RICEF deliverables, prepared functional specification document, tested the developments, and trained business users on the new developments.
• Responsible for roll-out tasks and coordinated between team to ensure the post go-live and pre go-live activities are performed as planned.
• Supported day to day issue resolution in WM, including incident resolution, change management.
• Created test cases for automation of end-to-end functional processes and also was part of major implementation and configuration of SAP FIORI SAP Ariba processes.
• Efficiently worked and made decisions under pressure with time stringent SLA of one hour for critical 4 hours for high priority issues with 0% SLA breach.

Accenture, India                                                                Senior SAP SD/P2P/O2C/PM Consultant

08/2015- 03/2018                                                                           Industry: Retail (Client –Loblaw)

• Prepared Functional Specification documents for Change Requests and carried out System Integration Testing and Regression Testing. 
• Identified Gaps between the business requirement and SAP and fixed them in subsequent releases to get Business Sign-off.
• Worked on support production tickets and analyzed root-cause for the issues related to Mobile and Labelling applications and printers and achieved 100% user satisfaction by prioritizing issues.
• Identified bugs in the system by replicating the production issues in the lower environments and fixed the issues by getting code changes done.
• Created project documentation including process flowcharts,  test scripts, test plans, functional design documents, technical design documents.
• Worked using IDOC and BDOC processing methods, LSMW, SQL queries, BAPIs and work processes including order type maintenance, break-down process and configuration of master date for SAP P2P.
• Prepared documentation and provided training to the end-users and ensured they are comfortable working on new enhancement made in SAP P2P module.
• Developed ideas to increase the billable hours and also proposed enhancement ideas for automation of various routine tasks which increased efficiency and optimized project by 40%.
• Provided on-call support during after-hours and weekends and worked independently until resolution.
• Involved closely with tasks related to integration with various SAP Modules like SAP P2P, SAP QM, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP FI, SAP SCM and SAP TM.
• Managed the data flow using IDocs and files between other third party applications such as EDI, SPAB, EWM, ASL, BOB.

I hold a Post Degree Diploma in Business Administration Global Business Management from North Island College and graduated in the year 2022

I also hold a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from Osmania University, India and graduated in the year 2015.