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Venkatakrishna Gurram
Last position:
Senior SAP S/4HANA FI/CO Consultant at Scandinavian Tobacco Group - Freelancer
- Lead SAP Controlling, Product Costing and Material Ledger activities across multiple legal entities, improving standard-costing consistency, inventory valuation and month-end financial reporting.
- Contributed to a 30% reduction in the overall financial closing cycle by coordinating SAP Finance, Controlling, Material Ledger and plant-closing activities against a structured month-end calendar.
- Maintain 99.5% SLA adherence while resolving complex Level 2 and Level 3 incidents across Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Material Ledger, Actual Costing, WIP, variance calculation and production-order settlement.
- Execute and validate individual and mass standard-cost estimates using CK11N and CK40N, ensuring accurate costing based on current BOMs, routings, activity prices, purchasing conditions and overhead structures.
- Improved product-costing accuracy by identifying and correcting inconsistencies across material-master costing views, activity types, work centres, BOMs, routings and purchasing data.
- Reduced month-end delays by resolving missing cost estimates, incomplete settlement rules, incorrect activity allocations, variance-calculation errors and production-order settlement failures.
- Reconcile production-order costs, inventory values, purchase-price differences, work in process, production variances and settlement postings across SAP Controlling, Material Ledger and General Ledger.
- Execute Material Ledger and Actual Costing close activities, including price determination, purchase-price-difference allocation and periodic unit-price validation.
- Analyse manufacturing-cost variances across raw materials, labour, machine activity, subcontracting, production usage and overhead costs, enabling business controllers to identify root causes and cost-reduction opportunities.
- Configure and support costing variants, valuation variants, quantity structures, cost-component structures, overhead-costing sheets and automatic account-determination settings.
- Coordinate annual standard-cost planning, costing runs and standard-price releases with Finance, Procurement, Production and plant-controlling teams.
- Improved indirect-cost visibility through cost-center planning, activity-price calculations, assessments, distributions and cost-allocation cycles.
- Support profitability reporting through Account-Based CO-PA, enabling analysis by product, customer, market, company code and profit center.
- Developed reconciliation controls, standard operating procedures and costing reports that improved financial governance, closing accuracy and audit readiness.
- Facilitate workshops and knowledge-transfer sessions covering standard costing, Material Ledger, WIP, production variances and production-order settlement.
Rahul Joshi
Last position:
Hybris Consultant at Bosch Digital
- Implement Hybris Commerce projects for customer.
- Provide technical implementation of Developer and Integrator portal using Hybris solution.
- Integration with Billing and Payment systems.
- Technical ownership of the solution.
- Introduce best practices in Hybris solution and Java technologies.
- Provide release support on AWS environments.
- Technical focal point for sales and engineering teams.
- Supporting engineering team to scope the requirements and in architecting & designing the solutions.
- Proliferate best practices from one project to others, Knowledge management.
Akshay Kadekar
Last position:
Pricing Expert/Business Analyst at ThyssenKrupp Materials India Pvt Ltd
Project: Develop a new generational Pricing system & Integration analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Implemented PROS Pricing integrated with SAP S/4HANA 2022 Greenfield implementation.
- Led pricing process transformation, improving business process efficiency through automation.
- Defined migration strategy, conducted user training, and supported solution rollout.
- Acted as Business Analyst for SAP BTP applications (Online ATP, Track & Trace, Order Status), translating business requirements into scalable solutions.
- Managed cross-functional delivery by coordinating SAP ABAP and Full Stack development teams.
Patrick Upmann
Last position:
Interim Management | Consulting & Implementation | Data Deletion in SAP at BSR (Berliner Stadtreinigung)
- Topics: Business Analysis, Data Privacy, Data Management, Stakeholder Management, Conceptualization
- This project focuses on developing and implementing a strategic approach for data deletion in SAP systems. The goal is to identify the relevant data and structures during system migration to ensure both data privacy and IT system efficiency. At the same time, downtime should be minimized and regulatory requirements met.
- Development of a comprehensive approach for data deletion in SAP systems, considering data privacy and business requirements.
- Ensuring efficient and structured data transfer to the new system.
- Optimizing system efficiency and reducing downtimes during migration.
- Creating functional and technical concepts to ensure compliant and sustainable data management.
- Topic preparation: Detailed study of the "data deletion" area to lay the foundation for a structured data migration.
- Definition of project structure: Setting roles, interfaces and the project's organizational structure.
- Regulatory requirements: Analysis of data privacy regulations and business requirements to define deletion criteria.
- Approach: Developing possible scenarios and methods for data cleansing and deletion.
- Deletion concepts: Creating functional and technical deletion concepts that structure the implementation and provide clear guidelines.
- Setting deletion criteria: Defining which data and structures to delete or transfer.
- Responsibilities: Clarifying responsibilities within the project team and among stakeholders.
- Analysis of ongoing activities: Identifying and collecting existing activities in the "data deletion" area.
- Effort, cost and timeline planning: Creating estimates for resources, effort and budget.
- Implementation initiatives: Developing and executing concrete measures to apply the defined deletion strategies.
- IT system efficiency: Analyzing the existing IT infrastructure to identify optimization potential for data deletion and transfer.
- Technology trends: Evaluating new technologies and tools that can support the data cleansing process.
- Cost-benefit analysis: Assessing the financial impact of data cleansing and the introduction of new solution approaches.
- Risk management: Identifying potential risks during implementation and developing appropriate mitigation measures.
- This project lays the foundation for a sustainable and compliant data transfer to a new SAP system. With a clear approach to data deletion, it meets data privacy requirements, reduces downtimes and increases the efficiency of the new system. The results and recommendations will help companies develop a future-proof data strategy that meets legal and business needs.
Elisabeth Lauer-Seele
Last position:
SAP Consultant at Lufthansa Technik
- Clean up SODs
- SAP checks for audits
Tobias Stermoljan
Last position:
Senior SAP HXM Consultant at BayWa AG
- Led the implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking as one of the region’s first adopters.
- Delivered GDPR compliance integration within SAP HCM architecture.
- Advised HR leadership on SAP product strategy, fostering adoption and process harmonization.
- Presented HR IT concepts to business stakeholders and aligned technical design with user needs.
- Supported SAP HR modules (Time, Payroll, ESS/MSS) and managed vendor collaboration.
Steffen Pollin
Last position:
Senior SAP BI Consultant at SteHe-Consulting
- Further development of BW applications for First Data GmbH
- Migration of 3.x data sources to 7.x
- Adaptation/redesign of existing ABAP coding to ABAP-OO
- Creation of new data flows in BW 7.5
- Support of daily operations
- Operation and monitoring of BW applications
- Authorizations
- Deletion concept for business partners in BW
- Data archiving concept
- Development of program for automatic creation of SD orders
- ABAP, ABAP-OO, BAPI
- SAP BW 7.x
- SAP ERP
Oliver Gothe
Last position:
Bid Management Advisor for SAP S/4HANA Transformation Tender Healthcare
Michael Renner
Last position:
Scrum Master, Project Manager and SAP BI Consultant at Self-employed / maconvis Dienstleistungen GmbH
Olaf Steinicke
Last position:
SAP GTS at Landis+Gyr
Functional design and specification of key SAP GTS processes, including
- Compliance,
- EU Preference Management and
- Reporting. Translate business requirements into specifications ready for implementation by third-party development teams.
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Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Human Resources, Logistics
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
25%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
90%
Based on our profile pool as of 21 Aug 2026.
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About the role
What they do
SAP consultants turn business needs into working SAP processes. They map requirements, configure modules, test changes, support go-lives, and help users adopt the new setup. In many projects they work as functional consultants, solution consultants, or together with an ABAP developer when custom logic is needed.
Typical deliverables
- Fit-gap analysis and process mapping
- Module configuration and transport support
- Test cases, defect fixes, and cutover plans
- Data migration support and validation
- User training material and go-live support
A strong consultant keeps the business process in view, not just the system screens.
Key skills
Good SAP consultants combine process knowledge with solid system understanding. They know how to translate finance, supply chain, procurement, sales, or production needs into clean SAP settings and stable end-to-end flows.
- S/4HANA and ECC project experience
- FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, or PM process knowledge
- Interface and integration understanding
- Testing, documentation, and stakeholder management
- Clear communication with business and IT teams
Technical consultants may work closer to ABAP, APIs, or workflow design, while functional consultants focus more on configuration and process design.
When to bring one in
Companies hire freelance SAP consultants when a project needs focused expertise without adding a permanent headcount. This is common during template rollouts, module upgrades, carve-outs, migration work, or when a team needs extra hands for testing, master data, or cutover.
In Munich, demand often comes from manufacturing, automotive, logistics, and enterprise service teams that run complex SAP landscapes. Freelancers also help when local stakeholders want on-site workshops, but the delivery can still stay partly remote.
What good looks like
A strong SAP consultant asks about the process before touching the system. They document decisions clearly, keep custom changes limited, and make sure testing covers real business cases.
They are especially valuable when they can:
- spot process risks early
- work with business users and developers without friction
- keep implementations aligned with standard SAP where possible
- support go-live calmly when issues appear
The best consultants leave behind a setup that users understand and teams can maintain.
Local fit
In Munich, many projects involve international teams, English-speaking project rooms, and German-speaking business users. That makes clear documentation and structured workshops important. A freelance SAP consultant who can handle both sides of that setup is often easier to deploy across departments and locations.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around SAP Consultants.
A SAP Consultant turns business requirements into SAP processes that work in day-to-day operations. That usually includes workshops, module configuration, testing, cutover support, and help during go-live. Depending on the project, the consultant may focus on a single module or on end-to-end process design.
The most common areas are FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, and S/4HANA transformation work. Some projects also need support for BW/4HANA, master data, interfaces, or authorization topics. The right profile depends on whether the project is about finance, supply chain, production, or reporting.
An SAP functional consultant focuses on process design, configuration, and business requirements. An ABAP developer builds custom code, enhancements, and technical fixes. Many projects need both, but they are not interchangeable.
A freelancer is often the better choice when the need is tied to a rollout, upgrade, migration, or peak project phase. You get targeted expertise without a long hiring process or a permanent role that may not be needed later. This is especially useful when the project has a clear scope and deadline.
Many tasks can be handled remotely, such as blueprinting, documentation, testing coordination, and configuration work. On-site time is useful for workshops, process mapping, and go-live support, especially when business users are in Munich. In practice, the best setup is often a mix of both.
Look for real project examples that match your module, release, and process scope. A strong consultant explains trade-offs clearly, documents decisions well, and can show how they reduced risk during testing or cutover. If they work with both business and IT stakeholders smoothly, that is usually a good sign.
Yes, often they do. An SAP consultant who understands manufacturing, logistics, retail, or professional services can spot process issues faster and ask better questions. For complex companies, industry experience can matter as much as module knowledge.
Expect structured meetings, detailed planning, and a clear need for reliable documentation. In many teams, English is fine for project communication, but German can help in workshops and user support. Freelancers who adapt quickly to local working styles are usually easier to place on SAP projects.
The average hourly rate for SAP Consultants in Munich is 119 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 952 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as SAP Consultants in Munich, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 25% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as SAP Consultants in Munich have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as SAP Consultants in Munich are German (100%), English (90%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as SAP Consultants in Munich are Information Technology (80%), Retail (70%), and Automotive (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as SAP Consultants in Munich are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Operations (70%).
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