Résumé

Phillip Wigington

Senior SAP ABAP Architect & Solution Designer

Email: [email protected] Tyler, Tx, United States 75704

S/4HANA • IDoc Frameworks • Core Data Services • High-Complexity Debugging

Senior ABAP architect and technical manager with over 14 years of experience designing, optimizing, and leading enterprise SAP development across ECC and S/4HANA landscapes. Expert in OO ABAP, Core Data Services, BRFplus, IDoc/RFC integration, and performance tuning. Proven record of building configurable frameworks that reduce development effort, improve maintainability, and save organizations over $1.5M in external consulting costs.

    Key Skills

    • ECC/S4 HANA Migration
    • Core Data Services
    • Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
    • IDOC Frameworks/Integration
    • Enterprise RICEFW Development (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)
    • Web Dynpro (enterprise UI development, dashboards, and admin tools)

    Core Competencies

    • ABAP & S/4HANA: OO ABAP, CDS Views, BADIs, BAPIs, IDOCs, RFCs, BRFPlus, BOPF, ALV, Web Dynpro, Enterprise RICEFW
    • Integration: ALE/EDI, Seeburger, PI/PO, JSON/RFC Interfaces, REST/OData, ECC–S/4 Conversions
    • Tools & Frameworks: Eclipse for ABAP, SAP GUI, SQL, Python (Pandas, NumPy, Sklearn)
    • Leadership: ABAP Team Management, Solution Design, Performance Optimization, Code Review Frameworks

    Solutions I’ve Built


    Master Data Cleanse Utility
    Used Soundex and Cosine Similarity to identify duplicates in over 500,000 HALB and HAWA materials in SAP.

    Impact: Saved over $1M in third party software investment.

    ECC/S4 HANA Data Mapping Tool
    Created a utility that enabled dynamic creation of simple and complex mapping tables for data transformation and provided a drag-and-drop mapping interface for mapping IDOC fields to transformation table fields.

    Impact: Saved over $1.5M in third party software investment and ABAP development hours.

    Modular IDOC Processing Framework
    Created a modular IDOC processing framework that enabled creation of processing classes and configuration of processing steps that provided encapsulated customization with no regression testing overhead.

    Impact: Saved over $250,000 in development and testing hours.

    Configurable IDOC Support Workbench
    Created an IDOC workbench that enabled dynamic configuration and generation of selection screen and report output.

    Impact: Workbench enabled business super users to support IDOC issues and saved IT over $110,000 per year in support labor costs.

    Business Value Delivered
    $K
    ECC/S4 Data Mapping Tool
    $K
    Master Data Cleanse Utility
    $K
    Modular IDOC Processing Framework
    $K
    Configurable IDOC Support Workbench

    Experience and Leadership Roles

    A proven track record of leading SAP development, delivering enterprise solutions, and mentoring high-performing teams.

    JBS USA

    Senior SAP ABAP Architect & Development Manager

    May 2011 – Present

    • Lead architect for enterprise ABAP development across multiple countries
    • Manage and mentor senior/junior developers
    • Solve highest-complexity SD/MM/FI issues
    • Designed company-wide frameworks (IDoc processing, data mapping engine, support workbench)
    • Delivered solutions saving over $3M in software and development costs

    JBS USA

    EDI Developer/Technical Analyst

    November 2005 – May 2011

    • Developed EDI maps and custom EDI solutions for customer and shop floor integrations
    • Supported EDI workflows across SD, MM, and logistics interfaces
    • Order-to-Cash configuration and support in SAP for output determine and IDOC set up
    • Gained deep functional and technical knowledge that formed the foundation of later ABAP architecture work
    • Performed root-cause analysis and troubleshooting

    Varsity Brands (Contract)

    Senior SAP ABAP Developer

    August 2024 – May 2025

    • Built a custom contract management workbench
    • Built a custom FI posting program for sales commission splits
    • Delivered enhancements across SD and FI
    • Built optimized ABAP OO solutions
    • Built custom reports for sales revenue and commission splits complete with Adobe form output
    • Debugging and troubleshooting existing applications

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