Bhavin Shah

Team Lead SAP EWM Engineering

Essen, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
2 years 3 months

Team Lead SAP EWM Engineering

Swisslog GmbH

  • Managed a team of 8 engineers, responsible for target settings, yearly compensation reviews, training, skill development, onboarding, and conducting interviews for new positions.
  • Implemented agile product management practices such as product roadmaps, kanban boards in Microsoft Team Planner, product backlog definitions, and release cycles.
  • Designed and developed high-level architecture for reusable Swisslog's standard product based on SAP EWM MFS, integrating automation subsystems like pallet conveyors/cranes, lights goods conveyors/cranes, autostore, monorail, and star robots with SAP EWM.
  • Integrated third-party subsystems like A-frames and KBS Pick by Light via TCP/IP or REST-based APIs.
  • Set up development processes with quality gates based on continuous integration and improvement principles.
  • Led technical process workshops in customer implementation projects, prepared business blueprints, designed specifications, and executed integration tests between MFS and PLC subsystems.
  • Successfully integrated light goods cranes with SAP EWM MFS, achieving double deep storage capabilities and a total storage capacity of 9600 boxes.
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
10 months

Lead Enterprise Architect

Metro AG

  • Conducted high-level impact analysis for S4HANA implementation on various processes.
  • Managed 5 teams across Migration, Change and Release Management, Basis, Development, and Test Management, including weekly status reporting.
  • Led team integration and people management.
  • Coordinated communication with implementation partners, ensuring timely delivery with required quality and compliance.
  • Designed and supervised the overall architecture, guaranteeing adherence to standards.
Sep 2016 - Sep 2021
5 years 1 month

IT Systems Architect

Schenker Europe GmbH

  • Owned the EWM Platform, ensuring zero downtime for non-HANA and S4HANA EWM platforms.
  • Participated in SAP Customer network meetings yearly to understand and leverage EWM roadmaps.
  • Conducted market research on SAP EWM trends to enhance current platform capabilities.
  • Designed architectures and governance for new user experiences, including Fiori, Screen Personas 3.0, and Handheld devices for the S4 EWM platform.
  • Defined guidelines for API-based integrations, microservices documentation, troubleshooting procedures, and development standards.
  • Implemented embedded analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud for operational and management reporting.
  • Led technical roll-out of EWM S4 template globally across 10 sites, managing more than 30 customers and processing over 60,000 order lines daily.
  • Managed teams comprising 13 members plus external suppliers, allocated resources, and adhered to project deadlines.
  • Developed and integrated various APIs, custom frameworks, microservices, technical guidelines, and apps for operations, reporting, and performance analysis.
  • Migrated technical documentation onto GIT for streamlined updates and reviews.
May 2014 - May 2016
2 years 1 month

Senior Consultant - ABAP

Nihon Technology Pvt. Ltd.

  • Set up the development environment for Fiori development using Eclipse Kepler and Fiori toolkit.
  • Configured Fiori Launchpad, including roles administration, theme design, services, and applications.
  • Designed and developed advanced transactional Picking applications for pickers.
  • Conducted training sessions for consultants and business users.
  • Developed complex OData models, routines, telegrams for tracking equipment, and IDocs for integration between MFS PLC and SAP.
  • Created custom enhancements and conditional actions for automation processes.
  • Developed integrations for data exchange between ECC and EWM using qRFC.
Dec 2008 - Mar 2014
5 years 4 months

Associate Manager

Accenture

  • Developed tools for creating conditional tables, inspection lot cockpit functionalities, and global BOM management reports.
  • Delivered complex DMEE trees for banking interfaces.
  • Created multiple cockpit solutions for modules like order-to-cash, quality management, sourcing, maintenance, and data management.
  • Enhanced plant maintenance processes, integrating with SAP DMS.
  • Successfully implemented innovative solutions for automating sales order processing, quality management, and reporting processes.
Sep 2007 - Nov 2008
1 year 3 months

Software Engineer

Siemens Power Group

  • Migrated old SAP system code from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 intelligently using OOABAP concepts.
  • Improved application performance by optimizing database queries and processing.
  • Developed impactful solutions including hierarchical ALV reports, vendor evaluations, flexible global parameter clusters, and personalized notification enhancements.
  • Initiated user exits and framework enhancements for dynamic project creation and tracking budgets.
Jan 2005 - Mar 2007
1 year 3 months

Senior Software Engineer

Mincells Solution Pvt. Ltd.

  • Analyzed and mapped client business requirements into viable IT solutions.
  • Facilitated smooth knowledge transfer to development teams.
  • Formulated business and software requirement documents, ensuring alignment with business use cases and operational needs.
Jan 2003 - Dec 2005
3 years
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Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Master of Science in Information Technology

Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
4 years
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Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Summary

  • Over 19 years of experience in solution design, development, software integration, and optimization within the SAP ecosystem, as well as line management and project delivery.

  • Experience with end-to-end architecture design and governance (standards, policies, quality gates, etc.).

  • My expertise includes a wide range of development and integration technologies, tools, and frameworks, such as S4HANA EWM, EWM MFS, Embedded Analytics, API-based integration, SAP Cloud platform management, WebIDE, Fiori, SAP UI5, OOABAP, and Classical ABAP Development.

  • Experience in integrating numerous automation subsystems, including ASRS, light goods cranes and conveyors, monorail, star robots, de-palletizing robots, pallet conveyors, autostore, and A-frames with SAP EWM MFS via TCP/TP or APIs.

  • Experience in working with various tools such as SAP BTP, SAP Build and Build work zone, BAS, VSCode, GIT, Eclipse, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Fiori Launchpad.

Languages

English
Advanced
Gujarati
Advanced
Hindi
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 2003 - Jun 2005

Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Master of Science · Information Technology · Surat, India

Oct 2000 - Jun 2003

Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

Bachelor of Science · Information Technology · India

Certifications & licenses

Development consultant - SAP Netweaver – ABAP workbench

SAP SME for Technology Review Program

Accenture