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Sap Hana Senior Consultant

Location:
Merton, Greater London, SW19 3LX, United Kingdom
Posted:
February 24, 2025

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LUIS CANELA

+44-743*******

****.******@*****.***

UK/Spain

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I am an informatics engineer, certified in SAP BI/BW and in SAP HANA. I have worked as a consultant for over 16 years. My background in SAP includes more than 5 full life cycle implementations, where I've played a key role in facilitating smooth migrations from legacy systems to new, technologically advanced versions. I thrive in multicultural environments and have a proven track record of successful work in various countries, showcasing my adaptability to diverse settings.

SKILLS

BW4HANA / BW2HANA expert.

BW Embedded expert. (HANA Analytic)

SAP Analytic Cloud (SAC)

SAP Datasphere (Views, Analytical models, dataflows, DAC)

SAP BW Bridge.

ABAP programming.

SQL.

SAP CAR (former POS DM) knowledge.

HANA (CDS, Scripts, Views, Table functions, Procedures, PlanViz)

Design Implementation

Decision Making

Business Process Analysis

EXPERIENCE

SAP Datasphere/SAC senior consultant/designer.

Vivo Energy (Feb 2024 – Present)

Technology used:

Datashpere, SAC, SAC planning, Microsoft Lists.

Gathering of requirements from functional counterparts and translating them into functional requirements.

Design of the solution using Datasphere and SAC and SAC planning.

Creation of Views in Datasphere.

Creation of Dataflows in Datasphere.

Creation of Analytical Models in Datasphere.

Creation of Stories on SAC.

Data access control (DAC).

SAP BW4HANA/HANA studio Sr.Consultant/Architect (Part Time)

Essity, Jan 2024 - April 2024

Collaborated closely with functional teams to gather and comprehend project requirements.

Proposal and discussion of the technical design of the BW/HANA solution.

Development of the HANA views essential for extracting and transferring data to Datalake, implementing logic within these views to avoid duplicated storage of data.

Utilized data from diverse sources including ACDOCA, KEKO, KONH, KONP, CKIS, COSS, COSP among others to compute material costs, activity costs, overheads, PUP, Legal and Global prices (Actuals, Planned and Targets), and other critical metrics pivotal for KPI’s assessments.

Technology used:

SAP HANA studio, BW4HANA, SQL, CDS Views,ABAP.

SAP BW4HANA/HANA studio Designer/SAC/Sr.Consultant/Architect

HILTI, Jun 2021 – Dec 2023, Switzerland

SAP HANA studio, HANA 2.0 SQL, SAP BW4HANA 2.0, Sap Analytic Cloud (SAC), BW Embedded, Jira, ABAP, Confluence

Redesign existing flows built in BW 3.7 into new solutions for BW/HANA

Gather the requirements from the functional side to add new functionalities to the old solutions.

Design the new solutions to achieve better performance on BW4HANA

Responsible of quality management area/reports

Designing reports on ECC embedded BW.

SAP Analytic Cloud SAC Reporting.

Migration of BW models to datasphere (BW bridge).

Creation of new Datasphere models to replace BW models.

Use of CDS views to improve performance and push down the logic to HANA

Performance Analysis on bex queries and HANA views using PlanViz to find bottlenecks and make faster reports.

SAP HANA studio Designer/Sr.Consultant, BAYER, Jun 2021 - Sep 2021, Barcelona (Part - time).

SAP HANA studio, RoiPE

Migration of bex query reports to HANA views.

SAP BW4HANA/ HANA studio Designer/Sr.Consultant, Kering, Sep 2019 - Mar 2021, Milano, Italy

Used: SAP HANA studio, HANA 2.0 SQL, SAP BW4HANA 2.0, SAP CAR, BW Embedded, Jira, Kanban, Confluence, CHARM, SNOW

Gather functional requirements and create a technical design

Responsible of Sales Billing implementation on BW4HANA 2.0 and HANA 2.0

Responsible of Sales Order flows BW4HANA 2.0 and HANA 2.0

Responsible of POS (billing, tender and discount flows) on BW4HANA 2.0

Designing reports on HANA CAR embedded BW (Sales item, discounts, tender)

Designing reports on ECC embedded BW

Use of PlanViz to improve performance of queries and HANA views.

(Sales item, discounts, tender)

Use of CDS views to improve performance and push down the logic to HANA.

BW/HANA Designer/Architect/Scrum Master, Nestle, Oct 2016 - Sep 2019, Vevey, Barcelona, Switzerland / Budapest, Spain

(SAP HANA / SAP BW/ SAP design Studio, ABAP)

Technology used: SAP HANA studio, HANA SQL, SAP design Studio, SAP BW, SAP MII, DMO

Daily contact with business to understand new requirements and translate those into technical solutions that must meet the architecture principles

Designed/Co-designed solutions at Nestle like (Contract Manufacturing Reports, FEAT reports, OSD reports, AMM reports)

Worldwide roll out of FEAT solution to connect SAP MII to SAP HANA and BW reports in over 380 factories

Help business to create meaningful KPI's based on the existing data in the systems, giving new ideas and helping them streamline their own ideas

Design of the “Contract manufacturing” dashboard solution for Nestle worldwide

Design of the “Milk Collection” Report for Mexico, used later as a template for Milk Collection solution around the world

Creation of POC's to check viability of new solutions developed using mixed scenarios HANA/BW/Design Studio

Involved with General architecture team in discussions to integrate new technologies to existing architecture principles

Assessing of offshore developments

Driving scrum meetings as scrum master

Creation of design documents and build specs

Managing of human resources assigned to my projects.

HANA Senior Consultant, Airbus Group, SAP, Jun 2016 - Sep 2016, Toulouse, France

Technology used: SAP HANA studio, HANA SQL, Lumira, SAP design Studio

Migration of the BW solution onto SAP HANA studio standalone

In direct contact with the business for the definition of the new KPI's

Creation of new SAP HANA models.

Creation of real time dashboards used for airplanes manufacturing

Use of CDS Views (Files)

Use of Lumira

Use of SAP Design Studio.

SAP BI/HANA Senior Consultant, Mark & Spencer, Jul 2014 - Mar 2016, London, UK

SAP BI 7.4, SAP HANA studio, HANA SQL, NLS

Head of sales migration to HANA data flow and reports

Liaising with the business to understand their requirements and suggest the best options and alternatives

Designing the Sales data flow on BW/HANA (LSA++)

Creation of HANA views (Attribute, Analytic and Calculated) in HANA studio

Creation of SQL script views and procedures in HANA studio

Use of Expert (HANA) Script in BW transformations

Working on NLS split solutions in order to save HANA memory space

Design and building of planning interface solution, to send data from BW/HANA system to JDA (Planning system)

Working on Merchandise planning project to consolidate planning data, Sales, Stock and Intake on reporting layer

Redesigning existing solutions in order to meet new requirements

Coordination of transport releases.

SAP BI/HANA Senior Consultant, Shell, Global Solutions, Jun 2012 - Apr 2014, The Hague, Netherlands

Technology used: SAP BI 7.3, SAP R3, SAP HANA studio, SAP BO, SLT, BODS

Leading the migration of Real Estate and PTW (Projects and Time writing) solution into BW powered by HANA

Contributing to the creation of the new LSA++ approach for the new system

Redesigning of existing data flows in order to fulfill the new standards of LSA++ for BW powered by HANA

Building the new solution on BW powered by HANA adding new providers as Composite providers and hybrid providers in order to push the calculations to the data base and therefore improve performance

Implementing the new ABAP standards to improve performance on BW powered by HANA

Use of Native HANA for the Creation of calculated, attributes and analytical views on HANA studio, to be published and used on SAP BI 7.3

Creation of HANA views (Attribute, Analytic and Calculated) in HANA studio

Creation of SQL script views and procedures in HANA studio

Identification of data sources to be migrated to SLT for real time acquisition data.

SAP BI/BW Senior Consultant, British Gas, Nov 2010 - May 2012, London, UK

Team/Dev

Lead)

Project “Catalyst” (Siebel replacement) - Reports creation for ISU

Technology used: SAP BI 7.0, SAP R3-ISU, SAP CRM

Systems: SAP R3-ISU, SAP HR, SAP CRM, Boxi3, Boxi4 and Non-SAP Sequel Server systems

Leading a team of 10 consisting of BW, Testing and BO resources

Responsible for the overall design and Architecture of the solution

Analysis of the User Stories (Business requirements in Agile methodology)

Interacting with the business to flush out any outstanding requirements

Time estimations and Sprint planning

Analysis and Activation of CRM and ISU data sources

Enhancement of the data sources when needed by using BADIs

Use of LSA to the whole design in BW data flow

Universe creation (BOXI4) and Reports creation (BOXI4)

Data Services data extraction

Methodology: Agile, LSA (Layered Scalable Architecture).

SAP BI/BW, POS DM Consultant, TITAN warehouses, Mar 2010 - Oct 2010, Panama City, Panama

Technology used: SAP BI 7.0, SAP POS DM, SAP Retail, Non SAP POS (Point Of Sale)

SAP Retail Implementation

POS Analytics (SAP BI) Business Content Activation

POS DM, PIPE (Inbound, Outbound) installation and Setup

BI Retail: Customizing and Master Data Extraction Delta Extraction MARM and MEAN for POS Analytics Content

PIPE configuration

BI Retail: Merchandize and Assortment Planning configuration, OTB (Open to Buy) and PPW (Price planning workbench)

Analysis of the Tlog (Transaction Log Coming from POS).

SAP BI/BW Consultant, COBECA, Nov 2009 - Feb 2010, Maracaibo, Venezuela

Project: “Sinergia phase 1B”

Technology used: SAP BI 7.0, SAP R3 (HR, FI, SD, and MM), ORBIS, E3 (Sales and purchase)

SAP BI BO technical designer for SAP BI 7.0 Full life cycle implementation (SAP: HR, FI)

Technical design for the Business blue print for Sap BI 7.0 and supporting the Sap SM (Pilot) and SAP BO design

Data extraction test, data sources identification and activation

Business content (BC) Activation

LO-Cockpit Extractors

Identification and configuration of relevant KPIs for the Balanced Score Card.

BI/BW Consultant, EBSA, Boyacá Electricity, SAP, Jun 2009 - Oct 2009, Colombia

MARA”

Technology used: SAP BI 7.0, SAP CRM 7.0

BI 7.0 implementation for CRM 7.0 Implementation (services, analytics, sales)

Analysis of client indicators, and Business blue print adjustment

Business content activation

Data sources identification and activation (Source system and BI)

Infoproviders activation: DSO, Infocubes, Multiproviders

Update rules, transfer rules, DTP, data packages creation/ Activation

Design and Creation of info providers and reports used to achieve client needs not included in the SAP standard

Process chains creation and reports creation

Standard reports activation and standard data extractors activation

Creation and enhancements of customized data extractors

ABAP routines development

Data loading tests

Investigation, creation and application of OSS notes

Inside CRM 7.0 and 6.0 Configurations:

Installed Base, Service orders, service contracts

0CRM_TSS_PKYF => Timestamp Service: Performance Key Figures

0CRM_TSS_DTRACK=> CRM Tracking of Document Processing Lifecycles

Other Operations configurations.

SAP BI/BW Consultant, AC Hotels, Jan 2009 - May 2009, Madrid, Spain

SAP BW 3.5, SAP R3

Creation of new reports, and analytical tools needed for AC Hotels that will help with future decisions

Creation and design of Calculated and restricted key figures, reports, process chains, APD, Data mining (ABC Clustering) Infocubes, multiproviders

Managing of daily data loads, and integrity of data on the reports for AC Hotels Spain, Italy and Portugal

Analysis of the new requirements and designing possible solutions

Making changes on the existent web applications

BW Authorizations, transports, development, and unit test

Customizing, support and development of minor enhancements on BW, Process Chains, Queries, ABAP routines, user exit, Business Explorer, Web Application Designer, creation of new calculated and restricted key figures and reports For AC Hotels (Italy, Spain, Portugal)

BI/BW Consultant, UNILEVER, SAP, Sep 2007 - Dec 2008

Project: “Sirius”

Technology used: SAP BW 3.5, SAP BI 7.0, and SAP R3

Analysis of new requirements and designing possible solutions

Interacting with Build, Design, Test teams to find root of the cause, fixing in development environment, transporting to UAT systems and subsequently to production systems thru creating change requests, live link tasks and transport request via change manager's channel

Gathering the work log information (remedy) to fix the business issues and communicating with client in order to solve/fix issues in a timely manner.

Also involved in discussing their concerns, enhancements, future changes and developments in the system thru GAP analysis and change management (ME's) in order to meet their deadlines

Creation and design of Calculated and restricted key figures, reports, process chains, Update rules, Infocubes, multiproviders, ABAP routines, Infospokes, web applications, ODS, DSO, user exits (in general ETL)

Managing of daily data loads, and integrity of data in reports for Unilever around Europe (over 15 European countries).

SAP BI/BW Consultant, ELECTRICIDAD DE CARACAS, Feb 2006 - Aug 2007, Venezuela

Operative continuity consultant, EMPRESAS POLAR, Jul 2005 - Jan 2006, Caracas, Venezuela

EDUCATION

Introduction to Python (online training)

Jan 2024

Datasphere (Open sap training)

Jul 2023

SAP HANA

Apr 2012

SAP BO (Excelsius, Web Intelligence, Universe designer) workshop

Nov 2009

ABAP (NCG consulting group)

Jul 2006

Academy SAP BIW 3.5 (Certified)

Mar 2006

ASP y SQL Server (40 Hours) (Mega Training IBM, Adecco)

Oct 2005

Engineer Informatics (B.S and Master): Information Systems

Universidad Centro-Occidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Jun 2005

Macromedia Flash MX (20 Hours)

Feb 2005

2nd Module CCNA (Cisco Networking Academy)

1st Module CCNA (Cisco Networking Academy)

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