Vijaya Ramireddy

Experience

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  BroadLight Info Solutions Pvt Ltd

  Jun 2004 - Jul 2006

  Senior SAP SD/MM/AR Configuration Consultant

  Provided SAP solutions to clients across the United States, primarily focused on sales and distribution, logistics, material management, accounts receivables, and financial accounting.•Developed end-to-end configuration in sales (inquiry, quotation, contracts/scheduling agreements, and sales orders), Pricing, deliveries and billing, outputs and text determination, credit management, material determination, material replacement, and material exclusion.•Configured billing document types, Invoice-based deliveries, and services, periodic and milestone billing, collective processing of billing documents, invoice lists, revenue account determination, and integration of SD with other functional modules of SAP. Designed new SO-PO and PO-SO for Inter and Intra Company.•Worked on ABAP queries and built metric dashboards and reports to monitor and track management reporting. Show less

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  Nestle S.A.

  Jul 2006 - Jun 2007

  SAP Senior Systems Analyst

  A key member of the technological infrastructure upgrades implementation team for ERP systems, providing customers the flexibility to change requirements, improving customer services, and faster-to-market new products.•Championed implementation software development projects using ASAP methodology (project preparation, business blueprint, realization, final preparation, go-live, and post-go-live support).•Analyzed existing business process requirements, determined organizational structures, and classified business units/locations as company codes, business areas, and profitability centers, working on organizational structure from sales organization, distribution channel, and division.•Created the AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow using Visio and PowerPoint Microsoft tools. Show less

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  Warner Bros.

  Jun 2007 - May 2010

  Business Systems Analyst

  A vital member of the IT organization tasked with implementing complete life cycle projects leveraging waterfall/agile methodologies for project delivery of SAP systems, legacy systems, and SaaS solutions.•Designed and developed solutions to support the vendor-managed inventory (VMI) process for strategic customers based on the point of sale and mitigated the bullwhip effects.•Identified specifications to build integrations for transmitting point-of-sale data across multiple internal systems for forecasting and processing sales orders, deliveries, and invoicing.•Created functional and technical specifications, and designed interfaces to send information to downstream systems.•Other responsibilities included requirements gathering, development, testing, end-user training, data migration, developing management reports and executive dashboards, monitoring of project and organization health, and leading the change management process. Show less

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  McKesson

  Jun 2010 - Mar 2012

  Business/Functional Team Lead

  Managed client-vendor relationships, eliminated roadblocks, and resolved conflicts and concerns among multiple project teams. Managed a team of 10+.•Engaged in designing, developing, testing, training, and rolling out a new business model to distribute novel cancer drugs. This drop shipping model extended a patient's lifespan by two years and boosted revenue by $14.4 million annually.•Implemented a pricing project that issued credits to customers returning items without an invoice reference, resulting in a 5% cost-saving in systems and resources.•Pioneered pedigree optimization through inbound integration, reducing processing time by 20%.•Champion for IT best practices throughout the product lifecycle, focusing on code quality, configuration management, testing, and change and release strategies. Show less

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  Sabre Airline Solutions

  Apr 2012 - May 2020

  Manager, Software Engineering & Product Delivery

  Provide guidance, leadership, and execution strategy to a team of 20+ professionals for implementing and reporting to Sabre executive leadership team.•Directed a billing modernization initiative using SAP HANA, Digital Route, Hybris, and Callidus Cloud. Executed a greenfield BRIM system deployment via agile methodologies, streamlining revenue management, mitigating revenue loss, and increasing operational agility. Significantly reduced manual processes, ensured quicker market launches, and projected a 20% ROI.•Coordinated with project stakeholders and scrum teams to identify dependencies, offer optimal solutions, bridge gaps, and manage and mitigate risks.•Partnered with various business units to develop and centralize master data management governance for critical elements. Integrated systems to maintain a single source of truth and designed reporting capabilities for key performance indicators to ensure master data sustainability.•Successfully automated the billing process for Sabre's Airlines Solution (AS) $823M business unit, automating nearly $700M of annual billing for complex AS contracts and pricing.•Transitioned Sabre's data infrastructure from a self-hosted to a cloud solution, leveraging S/4HANA and a simple finance platform. Improved user experience and reduced processing steps by 10%.•Provided guidance to all SAP configuration and development teams during SAP implementation. Minimized system customization, optimized costs, and reduced contract processing time by 50%.•Developed reports and executive dashboards to monitor project and organization health. Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Sept 2020 - now

  Global IT Leader

  Report to the business unit CIO, providing leadership and strategy execution for S4 BRIM implementation. Manage five System Integrators and a team of 100+. •Lead world-class IT enterprise application function spearheading the implementation and adherence to Project Management framework and SDLC, ensuring global coverage for the 60K+ organization.•Responsible for the BRIM (everything-as-a-service) implementation and integration of the Silver Peak merger, accounting for $135M+ in annual revenue, into the HPE ecosystem.•Trusted strategic advisor to the C-Suite, developing plans to effectively communicate complex ideas to all stakeholders.•Lead IT Planning and PMO, responsible for IT portfolio management, business analysis, and application architecture.•Lead the development and standardization of IT solution delivery practices, procedures, and methodologies to ensure consistent delivery across the organization.•Driving digital transformation strategy, fostering innovation, collaborating with cross-functional leaders, managing project costs and vendor relationships, overseeing portfolio milestones, and upholding IT best practices across product lifecycles.•Built and led a 50+ member team focused on EAAS development and operations, overseeing in-house enhancements and solution delivery excellence for successful outcomes.•Established a QCOE that focuses on testing transformation and fosters an environment and trust that empowers individuals to make testing-based release decisions. Show less