SAP solution architect at Tata Consultancy Services
United States
Sai Siva Kumar Pavani
Council Member
Sai Siva Kumar Pavani is a Project Manager and Solution Architect with more than 20 years of SAP techno-functional experience, including more than 9 years in project management. His work covers S/4HANA sourcing and procurement, sales and distribution, SAP technical development, and program delivery for business transformations, upgrades and rollouts.
Since August 2015 he has worked at Tata Consultancy Services, where he is currently a Project Manager and Solution Architect. Since January 2018 he has served as Solution Architect on the Apple Inc account. He gathers requirements, sizes level of effort, and plans and leads projects through each implementation phase. He has also completed impact assessments and feasibility studies for multiple RFPs. He led the business transformation from the PMW2 system to the MOSAIC product and designed a shipment exception management tool for sales and distribution. He also handled a parts and extension project that extended sales organizations through an event framework, and managed a custom tool that builds product hierarchies and updates them in the material master. More recently he designed and implemented a machine learning project, a Generative AI process using Model Context Protocol within an existing application, and a Snowflake integration process in SAP.
From August 2015 to December 2017 he was Project Manager on the SAP SE engagement at Tata Consultancy Services. He was responsible for staffing, billing, performance appraisals and promotions, and guided the team through design thinking, build and SIT phases using agile practices. He managed the business transformation from the Country India Version tax to the GST product. He proposed, designed and delivered the S/4HANA GST solution and enabled it on the S/4HANA Cloud 1805 platform using cloud BAdIs, SSCUIs and CDS views. He configured the Fiori Launchpad and catalogs, exposed CDS views through OData using the SADL framework, and redesigned existing CIN transactions such as J1IIN and J2IUN as Fiori applications. He also worked on an Output Management tool built with CDS, the BOPF framework and BRF+. During this period he handled complex data migrations from ECC to S/4HANA, including programs for TATA Steel and Mahindra and Mahindra.
From November 2009 to July 2015 he was a Project Manager at HCL AXON Technology. On the Lloyds Banking Group account, from August 2012 to July 2015, he led a ten-person team on Project Verde and completed impact assessments and feasibility studies for several RFQs. He gathered requirements from platform leads and trained the customer's subject matter experts. He demonstrated SAP integration with other systems to the finance business services team and delivered the transfer of general ledger and accounts payable data from SAP to a third-party system. He also delivered the transfer of employee bank account and sort code data to the YourPay system, and wrote root cause analyses for repeat production incidents. As Project Lead for Rockwell Collins from June 2011 to July 2012, he delivered enhancement projects covering gap analysis, data migration, configuration, testing, user training and post-implementation support. He documented procurement processes from purchase requisitions through invoice verification and payment clearing, identified RICEF objects with the business, and ensured deliverables met CMMI standards. Between July 2010 and June 2012 he also worked as an SAP Consultant on the Deutsche Bank change request team. There he set up FI validations and substitutions, tuned report performance and resolved Level 3 issues through root cause analysis. As Lead Consultant for Royal Mail Group from November 2009 to June 2010, he assigned and tracked development objects, mentored junior team members, and worked on Smart Forms, WebDynpro and HR payroll, personnel administration and appraisal objects.
Since August 2015 he has worked at Tata Consultancy Services, where he is currently a Project Manager and Solution Architect. Since January 2018 he has served as Solution Architect on the Apple Inc account. He gathers requirements, sizes level of effort, and plans and leads projects through each implementation phase. He has also completed impact assessments and feasibility studies for multiple RFPs. He led the business transformation from the PMW2 system to the MOSAIC product and designed a shipment exception management tool for sales and distribution. He also handled a parts and extension project that extended sales organizations through an event framework, and managed a custom tool that builds product hierarchies and updates them in the material master. More recently he designed and implemented a machine learning project, a Generative AI process using Model Context Protocol within an existing application, and a Snowflake integration process in SAP.
From August 2015 to December 2017 he was Project Manager on the SAP SE engagement at Tata Consultancy Services. He was responsible for staffing, billing, performance appraisals and promotions, and guided the team through design thinking, build and SIT phases using agile practices. He managed the business transformation from the Country India Version tax to the GST product. He proposed, designed and delivered the S/4HANA GST solution and enabled it on the S/4HANA Cloud 1805 platform using cloud BAdIs, SSCUIs and CDS views. He configured the Fiori Launchpad and catalogs, exposed CDS views through OData using the SADL framework, and redesigned existing CIN transactions such as J1IIN and J2IUN as Fiori applications. He also worked on an Output Management tool built with CDS, the BOPF framework and BRF+. During this period he handled complex data migrations from ECC to S/4HANA, including programs for TATA Steel and Mahindra and Mahindra.
From November 2009 to July 2015 he was a Project Manager at HCL AXON Technology. On the Lloyds Banking Group account, from August 2012 to July 2015, he led a ten-person team on Project Verde and completed impact assessments and feasibility studies for several RFQs. He gathered requirements from platform leads and trained the customer's subject matter experts. He demonstrated SAP integration with other systems to the finance business services team and delivered the transfer of general ledger and accounts payable data from SAP to a third-party system. He also delivered the transfer of employee bank account and sort code data to the YourPay system, and wrote root cause analyses for repeat production incidents. As Project Lead for Rockwell Collins from June 2011 to July 2012, he delivered enhancement projects covering gap analysis, data migration, configuration, testing, user training and post-implementation support. He documented procurement processes from purchase requisitions through invoice verification and payment clearing, identified RICEF objects with the business, and ensured deliverables met CMMI standards. Between July 2010 and June 2012 he also worked as an SAP Consultant on the Deutsche Bank change request team. There he set up FI validations and substitutions, tuned report performance and resolved Level 3 issues through root cause analysis. As Lead Consultant for Royal Mail Group from November 2009 to June 2010, he assigned and tracked development objects, mentored junior team members, and worked on Smart Forms, WebDynpro and HR payroll, personnel administration and appraisal objects.
From March 2006 to November 2009 he worked at KPIT Cummins Info Systems, finishing as a Senior Consultant. He began as an Associate Consultant on the company's in-house implementation, working on RFCs, SAP XI integration from third-party systems, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, BDC programs and ALV reports, and configuring plants and storage locations. In 2007 he moved to client projects, first as an SAP Consultant for Sasol-Sastech, where he built a web services interface to a third-party system. At DeLaval from September 2007 to August 2008, he helped estimate effort, developed ALV and interactive reports, and delivered demos to global business teams. He also completed functional specifications, UAT and regression test documents, and training manuals and sessions for customers. At Wagon Automotive in 2008 he tracked development objects and mentored new team members. As Senior Consultant at Wilo Gmbh from November 2008 to June 2009, he was part of the gap analysis team for an upgrade from a 4.6 legacy system to 4.7c with an instance merge. He reviewed more than 300 legacy developments to determine which should carry forward, and reworked RFC and IDoc interfaces for the new enterprise structure. He also designed BDC upload and download interfaces for master and transactional data.
He holds the Project Management Professional certification from PMI, PRINCE2 certification and S/4HANA sourcing and procurement certification. Sai Siva Kumar Pavani earned a Master of Computer Applications from Bangalore University.
His technical expertise spans S/4HANA 1511, 1610 and 1909 and S/4HANA Cloud 1805, the SAP Activate, ASAP and ASAP Focus methodologies, and the MM and SD modules with integration to PP and FI. He also works with RFCs, BAPIs, BAdIs, user exits, enhancement points, ALE/EDI, IDocs, CDS views, the BOPF framework, OData services, BRF+ and Fiori, along with project and service management tools including JIRA, SAP Solution Manager, BMC Remedy ITSM and HPQC.
He holds the Project Management Professional certification from PMI, PRINCE2 certification and S/4HANA sourcing and procurement certification. Sai Siva Kumar Pavani earned a Master of Computer Applications from Bangalore University.
His technical expertise spans S/4HANA 1511, 1610 and 1909 and S/4HANA Cloud 1805, the SAP Activate, ASAP and ASAP Focus methodologies, and the MM and SD modules with integration to PP and FI. He also works with RFCs, BAPIs, BAdIs, user exits, enhancement points, ALE/EDI, IDocs, CDS views, the BOPF framework, OData services, BRF+ and Fiori, along with project and service management tools including JIRA, SAP Solution Manager, BMC Remedy ITSM and HPQC.