Srinivasan Kanniwadi

SAP Utilities Solution Architect | AI Engineer

About Me

With close to 20 years of comprehensive SAP Utilities experience, I have worked exclusively as an SAP IS-Utilities DM/AMI (SMART), Billing & Invoicing, FI-CA, and IDE functional consultant, as well as an SAP IS-U Technical (ABAP) consultant for major Utility clients in the UK and Belgium.

My expertise encompasses three SAP IS-U end-to-end implementation projects, SAP IS-U technical ECC 6.0 upgrades, and extensive SAP IS-U application support and development projects. I specialize in delivering innovative solutions that optimize utility operations and enhance data quality across complex SAP landscapes.

Work Experience

Senior Delivery Consultant

Basis Technologies Ltd

April 2021 - Present

Project: BDEx Implementation and Upgrade Projects

Customers: Various Utility giants in North America

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0 with BDEx and S/4 HANA

  • Configure and build fully functional IS-U in S/4 HANA system for in-house product road map
  • BDEx (Business Data Exception) Product end-to-end implementation, from product demo, requirements gathering, implementation and support
  • Identification of the root cause of the exceptions in SAP IS-U system and recommend BPEM cases for efficient handling for exception from BDEx

Senior SAP ISU and Data Consultant

Technosoft Consulting Ltd

February 2017 - February 2021

Project: Data Quality Assurance

Customer: nPower, Innogy UK Ltd

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 7.0

  • Responsible to perform technical deep-dive analysis related to data issues in SAP IS-U and CRM systems, fixing data quality issues, running cleanses and recommend industry best practices in SAP IS-U
  • As a senior SAP Consultant in SAP Competency Centre, involved in various phases of project delivery from response to business request, requirement review, solution design, performing Impact Assessment of the proposed Change Request within SAP IS-U, SAP CRM and SAP BW HANA

SAP ISU Consultant

Edenhouse Solutions Ltd

October 2014 - January 2017

Project: One Account Project and CRM Upgrade Project

Customer: Ecotricity

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0, CRM 5.0 and 7.0

  • Identification of issues around current data model and deliver a solution with redesigned standard SAP IS-U data model
  • Suggest business process improvements with respect to customer moves
  • Developing new Master Data Templates with changes to existing processes to meet the new requirement
  • Complete SAP ECC 6.0 and CRM 7.0 BAU support

SAP ISU Consultant

Basis Technologies International Ltd

October 2013 - September 2014

Project: Billing Task Force

Customer: RWE nPower, UK

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0

  • Identification of critical problems encountered during the business meter-to-cash process in SAP IS-U System and prioritise, develop SAP Best Practice technical solutions
  • Liaise with business and developing custom data cleanse programs using enhancement spots, to improve the data integrity and also to reduce the Late Invoicing counts
  • Configuration of new set of EMMA/BPEM Cases to handle the unpredicted Late Invoice errors and enhancing the existing Exception Cases
  • Roll-out of BTI Product TORch-GTi based on the MDR Development Framework to tune the Billing and Invoicing out-sort parameters

Associate Consultant

Wipro Technologies

November 2012 - September 2013

Project: Charging and Billing Implementation Project (CAB)

Customer: National Grid, UK

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0

  • Requirement analysis and designing the complete SAP IS-U Billing solution using standard IS-U Billing Master Data with Complex billing using RTP Billing
  • Performing configurations related to SAP IS-U Billing system and documenting the same
  • Preparation of FS, complete bespoke Development and testing of a complete end-to-end solution of custom Invoice print in this CAB project

Senior Consultant

Capgemini India Private Limited

March 2011 - October 2012

Project: AWS SAP IS-U Support

Customer: Anglian Water, Huntingdon, UK

Technologies: SAP R/3 4.72

  • Analysing and solving critical and high priority issues raised in SAP IS-U
  • Performing key business critical activity 'Annual Billing'
  • End-to-end solution design for the new requirements

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services

December 2005 - February 2011

Project: SAP Technical Upgrade and Billing Optimization

Customer: SPE-Luminus, Hasselt, Belgium

Period: November 2009 - February 2011

Technologies: SAP R/3 4.72 and ECC 6.0

  • Identifying the technical and functional changes introduced in ECC 6.0 compared to client's old R/3 4.72 system and performing configuration changes
  • Solving major issues reported during Integration testing, UAT and PIS along with handling numerous OSS messages with SAP
  • To provide optimized SAP IS-U Billing solution along with providing new print solution

Project: TATA Power Generation Billing IS-U Project

Customer: TATA Power Company, Mumbai, India

Period: September 2009 - October 2009

Technologies: SAP ECC 6.0 (IS-U)

  • Completely unique and bespoke solution designing for Generation Billing using the existing SAP IS-U landscape

Project: Financial Control and Reconciliation Project

Customer: Southern Water Services Ltd, Worthing, UK

Period: November 2008 - August 2009

Technologies: SAP ISU/CCS 4.7

  • Performing Data Analysis activities related to Measured Accrual Process, Estimated Bills and Metered Payment Schemes based on the key business pain areas
  • Recommending changes in standard estimation logic in accordance with the customer's consumptions and also suggesting changes in BW extractors

Project: Customer Service Transformation Program

Customer: Southern Water Services Ltd, Worthing, UK

Period: December 2005 - October 2008

Technologies: SAP ISU/CCS 4.7

  • Developing most of the critical Billing Custom Enhancements Objects during the implementation phase of the project like Payment Schemes, FI-CA Postings
  • Developing few other RICEFW Objects identified during the project phases
  • Delivering the complete custom Print solution using standard SAP IS-U Print Work-bench (PWB)

Certificates & Awards

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

Anthropic Education

September 21, 2025

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

Anthropic Education

September 20, 2025

BCS Foundation Certificate in AI

British Computer Society

Certificate Number: 00609516 | Candidate Number: NA39918453

September 2025

AI Engineer for Developers Associate Certificate

DataCamp

August 10, 2025

Academy Accreditation – Generative AI Fundamentals

Databricks

July 2025

AI Agents Fundamentals

Hugging Face

Certificate available upon request

October 2025

AI Fundamentals Certificate

DataCamp

July 1, 2025

SAP Certified Associate – Design Thinking

SAP

Valid until March 31, 2026

Valid until Mar 31, 2026

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