ABAP Experts in Switzerland
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Pedro M.
Last position:
SAP FI/CO Inhouse Consultant at Helvetia Versicherungen
Engaged by one of Switzerland’s largest insurance groups for spanish SAP rollout following the acquisition of Caser (Spain), for ongoing support and S/4HANA transformation initiatives covering all Market Units (CH, ES, DE, AT, FR, IT).
Key areas: FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, Bank Accounting, Cash Management, S/4HANA transformation, eInvoicing, eReporting, Business Partner
- SAP Rollout: Led end-to-end FI-AP, FI-AR, Payments, and Bank Reconciliation rollout for acquired Caser entities in Spain (Dec 2020 – Mar 2022), including full Spanish localisation.
- Integration with FSCD: Redesigned bank statement incoming payments integration in FSCD from custom to SAP standard solution, significantly increasing straight-through processing rates.
- Payments: Retired legacy custom payment trees; implemented SAP standard CGI payment trees and executed migration from ISO 20022 v2009 to v2019.
- Implemented a 1 GL account per House Bank (HBKID) concept with multiple Bank Account IDs (HKTID), reducing the total number of bank GL accounts by over 90%.
- Spanish localization: Configured and deployed Mod 180, 190, 347, 349 and SII Reporting for Spain mainland and Canary Islands using SAP eDocument (DRC) and SAP BTP Webservice, processing 2 million invoices annually, Spanish Direct & Indirect Method Cash Flow Statements (Insurance & Non-Insurance) fully reconciled
- Migration: Used SAP AIF to migrate AR/AP master data, open items, SEPA mandates, and complete GL documents for multiple company code merges (hundreds of thousands of records); leveraged Power BI/Power Query for data transformation.
- Bank Reconciliation: Achieved 60%+ automatic bank reconciliation across MU ES, CH, and DE using CSB43, MT940, and CAMT.053/054 formats, including custom improvements (tax-number-based customer/vendor matching, fuzzy search), and co-implemented the bank statement interface cockpit in SAP AIF. Integrated MX Camt from Swift Finplus and made transition from ISO20022 v2009 to v2019
- Worked on S/4HANA convergence and wrote concept work for SAP Cash Management & Treasury and eInvoicing/eReporting transformation.
- Currently leading the design for Business Partner Migration using SAP DRF and SAP AIF for Helvetia Baloise Integration Project and Harmonization of all BP interfaces.
- Currently leading Requirements Engineering for eInvoicing & eReporting for Italy, France and Spain, modelling Flows in SAP Signavio.
Alexander S.
Last position:
Senior ABAP OO Developer at Die Schweizerische Post AG
«ZLF – Future Billing Solution»
Cross-module S/4HANA (MDG, HCM, SD, FI-CA, FI-CO)
- Technical consulting and development in S4 Master Data Governance (MDG-BP)
- Development in HR-BP integration, O2C, CAR analytics data modeling, contract accounts, controlling and interfaces. (native HANA, CDS, RAP, Fiori Elements, OData)
Marco C.
Last position:
Global Process Owner Business Intelligence at Interroll SA
- Cover the role of Global Process Owner of the Business Intelligence area and contribute to designing the Data Strategy
- Responsible for the global BI platform based on SAP BW4/HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere, Analysis for Office and Power BI
- Collaborate with the FICO team due to acquired skills in this area
- Work closely with the business worldwide to build dashboards, data models and reports to provide useful insights
- Coordinate international analytics teams as project manager and report project progress to the Board
- Participated in the two-year S/4 implementation project with SAP Schweiz, coordinating the SAP implementation team in Portugal and ensuring go-live with all dashboards and reports working and data matched S/4
- Managed BI projects in Sales, Finance, Global KPIs, Manufacturing and Purchasing as project manager; developed and coded when necessary
- Led the migration of reports from BusinessObjects and Lumira to Analysis for Office and BW4/HANA
- Developed Spend Analytics data models and dashboards to analyze purchasing across 30+ entities, achieving 8% savings on purchasing volume and increased group profitability
- Defined data strategy for the group
- Created the global Business Intelligence site on Viva Engage, published stories and built the BI website containing links to training, BI directive list of reports and dashboards
- Created success stories as business use cases, published on Viva Engage
- Led the Business Intelligence function globally, coordinating BI development teams in Switzerland and abroad
- Personally developed data models, reports and dashboards
- Involved in privacy and security topics to guarantee correct compliance of data management
- Coded using different programming languages
- Managed more than 15 BI projects over 5 years using agile methodology, delivered on time, on budget and on quality
- Wrote the BI directive on correct usage of BI tools in the company
Razvan-Mihail I.
Last position:
Senior SAP EWM Implementation Consultant at Hoffman Roche
- Processes re-engineering (Outbound for production, Inbound from production, Putaway in different temperature controlled areas)
- Re-implementation of the outbound process for Basel’s warehouse
- RF functionalities workshops and RF implementation
- Kit-to-order process implementation with VAS order
- Customer-Vendor integration customizing
- Re-configuration of the integration model
- Testing coordinator and trainer for key users
Frank G.
Last position:
Project Lead at Flamingo Med Solutions
- Led the founding of a startup for AI-based consulting products for dental practices.
- Developed and launched PraxisScore, a data-driven consulting product for economic analysis and corporate consulting of dental practices.
- Held full responsibility for technical implementation, AI integration, and structured startup setup from product idea to public launch at IDS 2025 in under three months.
Patrick N.
Last position:
SAP Real Estate Expert at RKW SE
- Compliance with IFRS 16 for all group companies
- Achieve efficiency gains through a centralized and standardized process and save time thanks to a single source of information
- Automatic calculation and posting of IFRS 16 and other relevant journals
- Simulations / planning of positions regarding rent/leasing (vehicles, equipment, real estate, etc.)
- Coordination of service fees, benchmarking, scheduling, etc.
David P.
Last position:
Asset Accounting Support at Bank Julius Bär
Supporting the business department in the design of depreciation areas.
Reconciling the depreciation areas to the ledgers.
Ferdinand W.
Last position:
SAP EWM MFS Consultant & Power Key User at Rotenberger Group
- Module support SAP EWM MM/SD PP (advanced production based) S/4 HANA
- Design of S/4 HANA requirements in warehousing and logistics environment during the explore phase
- Support of S/4 requirements in the build phase
- Execution of S/4 customizing: EWM (50%), SD (15%), MM (20%), PP (15%)
- Support in the implementation and continuous optimization of SAP
- Analysis and resolution of issues and findings in SAP EWM
- Handling of change requests
- Creation of test cases and test data
- Execution of functional and integration testing
- Support in creating training documents for S/4 HANA
- SAP support 1st & 2nd level
- IDOC message queues monitoring
- Troubleshooting system errors (using the ABAP debugger)
- Resolving inventory differences between ERP and EWM
- POSc & LOSC process for outbound & inbound
- Rules-based Implementation
- Packspec
- Consolidation group for handling units
- EWM-MFS configuration: WH/PLC interface type, Telegram type, Telegram structure, Warehouse task/warehouse order, Resource (Scanner, Sensor, Drives), PLC/CPU, Signal, Telegram, Communication channel customizing, Interleaving activation, Sequence number, Routing LOSC, Initiation point, Rearranging HUs in multi-depth storage bins, MFS putaway strategy
Sibylle H.
Last position:
SAP Development ABAP-OO (cross-module) at Asendia
- Created interfaces for transferring SD orders and customer master data (including various protocols and the ability to process erroneous data)
- Analyzed and adapted existing programs due to infrastructure changes
- SOAP and REST API for creating customer master data from SugarCRM
- REST APIs in Json (SD orders, invoices, payments, PDF forms)
- Logging program for REST APIs
- Created various invoice forms in 8 languages, including document links, email delivery, and PDF generation
- Provided data for the data warehouse
- Various user exits and enhancements in SD and FI
- Intercompany sales order creation, program for creating credit memos (uploads from Excel and the server)
- Reports (VAT, sales orders, invoices)
- Correction program for CO data
- Support for various interfaces, Notes, etc.
- Enhancement for Idoc INVOIC02
- XML file upload program (Rydoo) for posting cash receipts to FI (FB01)
- Created dunning forms in various languages (Smartforms and Adobe, including email delivery)
- Account statement program (ALV displaying postings, emailed to accounts receivable as a PDF using Smartform)
Peter B.
Last position:
Workstream Lead Order-to-Cash at Schaeffler AG
- Workstream Lead Order-to-Cash for Deloitte Consulting in the discovery phase for the “Vehicle Lifecycle Solutions” business unit in the S/4 HANA transformation program S4us
Christoph W.
Last position:
System Architect / System Engineer / Programmer at Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG)
- Create requirements for the modularization of the promotion forecast.
- Set up and expand the various competitions for 2024.
- Customize and test the CICS dialog.
- Create various reports for the department using SQL.
- Implement and test new requirements in batch processes with IWS.
- Update documentation for the new requirements.
- Provide on-call support for daily and monthly production.
- Technologies used: SCRUM, Jira, Confluence, Windows 11, Unix, Enterprise Developer, z/OS, GIT, Mineral, Moped, IWS/TWS, JES, COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, Rocket, FortiClient, Citrix.
Ralf S.
Last position:
Retail (Food)
- Release: SAP S/4 HANA, Retail
- Supplier EDI integration as part of the migration from Navision to SAP S/4 with ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC, and REMADV (coordination with suppliers, definition and coordination of technical integrations using EDIFACT, IDOC, and web interface, definition, execution, and acceptance of test cases).
- Analysis of necessary adjustments and creation of programming concepts for corrections.
- Support for the introduction of supplier delivery notifications with SSCC in the distribution centers and the resulting optimizations
Nenad T.
Last position:
Contractor at Swisscom
- SAP Data Designer ETL, SQL Server, Docker for PharmaSuisse Data Warehouse Application (Application Manager and Developer)
- SAP Business Objects, ABAP on SAP HANA for the Police of the Canton of Bern (Application Manager and Developer)
- Avaloq Connectors to SAP BW for Banque Cantonale de Fribourg
Doris N.
Last position:
Expert Consultant at multiprovider gmbh/ASC GmbH/all for one Group
DWH development (backend) for SRG (2022)
Media: redesign of the HR data model to prepare migration to BW/4HANA
Support and training for HR and controlling reporting solutions
Technologies: SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW on HANA 7.5, SAP HCM, SAP CO, SAP FI, IBCS, SAP Lumira Design Studio, Graphomate, SAP Fiori Launchpad
DWH development (frontend) for Constellium (2017)
Redesigned reporting according to IFRS 17 standard
Conceptualized and implemented improvements and automated migration programs
Project "Market & Audience Research": blueprint and implementation of BW on HANA data models and reporting based on SAP ERP and third-party data (extraction using CDS views)
Proof of concept reporting with SAC, Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Proof of concept replacement of Broadcaster with BO Scheduling
Project "Adamant – Profitability Analysis": blueprint and implementation of BW on HANA data models and reporting with Design Studio using data from SAP CO-PA
Technologies: SAP BW 7.5, SAP BEX Analyzer, SAP BEx Broadcaster, SAP ABAP, SAP BCS, SAP HANA native, Mediapulse, R, REST-API, Confluence, MS Power BI, SAP SAC, SAP BO Design Studio, SAP BO Scheduling and Publications XI 3.0, SAP Lumira Design Studio
Sven M.
Last position:
SAP BW development and consulting, ongoing support, international industrial company at Rafi Berg
- Extension of the planning application for annual and rolling planning
- Improvements for navigation and filtering with master data
- Administration of the planning InfoProvider: selective deletion of unneeded data, generation of zero records
- Fixing issues from the open items list
- Technologies: SAP BW, SAP BW-IP, SAP SD
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Statistics of experts using ABAP
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
1.5 years
Positions per freelancer
22
Top business areas
Information Technology, Finance, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
78%
Master's degree or higher
78%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
ABAP experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (87%)
- Manufacturing (87%)
- Transportation (73%)
- Banking and Finance (60%)
- Automotive (53%)
- Food and Beverage (53%)
- Government and Administration (53%)
- Retail (53%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What ABAP does
ABAP, short for Advanced Business Application Programming, is SAP’s programming language for building and extending enterprise processes. It runs close to core business data in SAP systems and supports finance, logistics, procurement, manufacturing and human resources workflows. ABAP remains central in SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA environments.
Where it is used
Companies use ABAP for tailored applications, operational reports, data conversions and integrations that standard SAP functions do not cover. Typical deliverables include:
- Custom transactions and business logic
- ALV reports, forms and output processing
- Enhancements, user exits and BAdIs
- Interfaces with non-SAP systems
- Migration and data-cleansing programs
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong ABAP work connects language knowledge with the wider SAP stack. Relevant tools and frameworks include ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse, the SAP GUI, CDS views, AMDP, OData services and the RESTful Application Programming Model. Specialists may also work with SAP Fiori, SAPUI5, APIs, IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs and SAP Cloud Platform services.
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise is useful when an SAP team faces a release deadline, a complex integration or a backlog of enhancements. It can also support a move from ECC to S/4HANA, where custom code must be reviewed and adapted. In Switzerland, projects often involve distributed teams across business units, so clear documentation and dependable remote collaboration matter.
- Modernizing legacy custom code
- Supporting S/4HANA migrations
- Connecting SAP with external applications
- Stabilizing critical reports and interfaces
What strong professionals bring
The best professionals understand both ABAP syntax and the business process behind the requirement. They write modular, testable code, use efficient database access, handle authorizations carefully and investigate performance with evidence. They also know when to use standard SAP functionality instead of adding custom logic.
Experience with transport management, debugging, automated testing, ATC checks and clean-core principles helps keep solutions maintainable. Communication is equally important when specialists work with product owners, functional teams and users in different locations or languages.
Choosing the right fit
Start by defining the SAP release, modules involved, integration landscape and expected deliverables. Ask for examples involving comparable data volumes, interfaces or migration constraints rather than relying on a generic ABAP profile. A practical review of code quality, testing approach and documentation can reveal more than a list of tools.
Clarify whether the assignment needs classic ABAP, modern S/4HANA development or both. Confirm availability, preferred collaboration model and language requirements early, especially for Switzerland-based stakeholders. The right specialist can explain trade-offs clearly and leave behind code that the internal team can operate with confidence.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about ABAP? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
ABAP is used to extend SAP applications with custom business logic, reports, forms, interfaces, data migration programs and workflow-related functions. It supports both classic SAP ECC environments and modern SAP S/4HANA solutions.
ABAP is designed around SAP business objects, transactions, authorizations and database structures, so it offers direct access to the SAP application layer. Java or other general-purpose languages may be a better fit for independent services, but ABAP is often more efficient for logic that must remain tightly integrated with SAP processes.
A strong ABAP specialist may also work with CDS views, OData, RAP, SAP Fiori, SAPUI5, APIs, IDocs, BAPIs and integration middleware. Knowledge of a relevant SAP module, such as finance, sales or materials management, helps translate business requirements into maintainable solutions.
The right ABAP experience depends on the scope and risk of the assignment. A straightforward report may need focused implementation skills, while an S/4HANA migration, core enhancement or high-volume interface calls for proven knowledge of performance, testing, transports and clean-core practices.
ABAP work is often suitable for remote collaboration because source control, development systems and issue tracking can be accessed securely from different locations. On-site workshops may still help with process discovery, testing and coordination with Swiss business teams, particularly during major SAP releases.
Ask which SAP releases, modules and development models the ABAP freelancer has handled. Review comparable deliverables, their approach to testing and documentation, and how they manage authorizations, transports, performance and handover to the internal team.
ABAP remains important in SAP S/4HANA, but the preferred approach increasingly includes CDS-based data models, APIs, RAP and clean-core practices. The specialist should know when existing custom code can be retained, when it needs adaptation and when standard or side-by-side extensions are more appropriate.
A capable ABAP professional can explain design choices using concrete examples from reports, enhancements, interfaces or migrations. Look for readable modular code, efficient database access, automated or structured testing, useful documentation and a clear understanding of the business process being supported.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects is 118 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 944 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects, 78% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 78% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects are English (100%), German (93%), and French (60%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects are Information Technology (87%), Manufacturing (87%), and Transportation (73%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used ABAP in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Finance (67%), and Project Management (67%).
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