Bill of Materials Experts in Munich
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Paul W.
Last position:
Enterprise Architect at ePrimo GmbH
Led the end-to-end integration and migration architecture for decommissioning SAP IS-U market communication and transitioning to Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) with E.ON IT Services — covering regulated EDIFACT market messaging, a three-phase data migration (transfer of market message inventory after cutover), redesign of market communication processes, and full GDPR and German energy-market compliance.
- Designed the three-tier target architecture (SAP IS-U → NScale B2B gateway → SFMC) processing 50,000–100,000 EDIFACT messages daily within sub-5-minute SLAs.
- Architected the three-phase data migration: 36 months of historical data, zero-loss cutover of in-flight market messages, and near-real-time CDC synchronization.
- Delivered secure, BDEW/GDPR-compliant integration (AS2/OFTP2, RFC/IDoc, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, Azure AD, AWS S3) achieving >99.5% uptime, <0.1% migration discrepancy, and RTO <4 hours.
- Applied BPMN to model and optimize the market communication processes.
Technologies: SAP IS-U, NScale, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, EDIFACT, OAuth 2.0, Azure AD, AWS S3, BPMN, Jira, Confluence, Draw.io
Venkatakrishna G.
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.
Werner A.
Last position:
IT Architecture, Business and Process Consulting at BMW
- Business and technical consulting for master data provisioning and process management
- Support for transition management
- Process optimization
- Interface definition
Serhan S.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager & Project Finance Lead at Valmet Automotive GmbH (IONCOR GmbH)
- Responsible of managing project business case and cash-flow (from 2023-10)
- Responsible of Housing Task Force that focuses on supplier as well as project management in terms of all aspects of a business, from timing to costs (2023-06 to 2023-10)
Christian E.
Last position:
Managing Director at Eigner Elektro
- Leading the company
- Strategic planning and business development
- Overseeing operational processes
Rafael G.
Last position:
Mechanical Design Engineer at ATS Automation Tooling Systems GmbH
- Development and design of components and assemblies for automated machinery using SolidWorks 3D CAD
- Preparation of bills of materials, part, and assembly drawings
- Design with focus on manufacturing costs, quality, and project deadlines
- Technical coordination with internal departments and suppliers
Tilman R.
Last position:
Purchasing Manager at Blickfeld GmbH
- Responsible for all sourcing activities for direct materials, indirect materials and production equipment at an in-house site and two international EMS
- Responsible for office management with 3 staff
- Very successful negotiations, especially for electronic components despite low purchasing volume and a volatile market
- Built a cleanroom independently (modular procurement)
Marius N.
Last position:
Swisslog Technology Center Austria
- Analysis of the existing preliminary concept and technical requirements for Tornado 2.0
- Creation of an initial draft design based on the analysis of the existing technical preliminary concept
- Detailed design, bills of materials and material masters in SAP
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Statistics of experts using Bill of Materials
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years (Germany: 25 years)
Position duration
2.1 years (Germany: 3.3 years)
Positions per freelancer
13 (Germany: 15)
Top business areas
Procurement, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Manufacturing, Automotive, Information Technology
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
43% (Germany: 47%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 99%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Munich are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Munich using Bill of Materials
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
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.
Bill of Materials experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Manufacturing (88%)
- Automotive (75%)
- Information Technology (50%)
- Aerospace and Defense (38%)
- Transportation (38%)
- Biotechnology (25%)
- Construction (25%)
- Education (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What a BOM covers
A Bill of Materials, or BOM, is the structured record of everything required to make, assemble, install or operate a product. It can contain parts, raw materials, assemblies, quantities, revisions, suppliers and approved substitutes. In software, a software bill of materials, commonly called an SBOM, maps applications to their open-source and proprietary components.
Product structures
Manufacturing teams use BOMs to turn product designs into controlled build structures. A single-level BOM lists immediate components, while a multi-level BOM represents assemblies, subassemblies and finished products. Professionals define engineering, manufacturing and service views so design, production, maintenance and procurement work from consistent product information.
Systems and tooling
BOM work often crosses several systems and data models. Specialists connect CAD and PDM sources with PLM, ERP, MRP, procurement and supply-chain tools, while software specialists export SBOM data in formats such as SPDX or CycloneDX.
- Establish part numbers, revisions and change rules
- Reconcile CAD, ERP and PLM structures
- Automate BOM imports, exports and validation
- Map software dependencies and vulnerabilities
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance BOM expertise during new product introduction, ERP or PLM migrations, acquisitions and production transfers. It is also valuable when duplicate parts, missing attributes, inaccurate quantities or uncontrolled revisions create delays. Software teams need focused support when customers, auditors or security teams require traceable component inventories.
- BOM data differs between engineering and production
- Engineering changes do not reach purchasing reliably
- Supplier substitutions are hard to control
- An SBOM must be generated from build pipelines
Strong professional practice
Strong professionals start with the product lifecycle and the decisions each team must make from the BOM. They define ownership, revision logic, effectivity, units of measure and approval workflows before cleansing or migrating data. They also test edge cases such as configurable products, phantom assemblies, alternate components and regional variants.
Working across Munich
Munich companies in automotive, industrial manufacturing, electronics, medical technology and software may need BOM specialists for both physical products and digital supply chains. Local collaboration can help when workshops involve plants, laboratories or production teams, while remote work suits data analysis, system configuration and documentation. Clear English is often essential; German can support communication with local operations and suppliers.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Bill of Materials.
A Bill of Materials defines the components, quantities and structure needed to build, service or operate a product. It supports design, purchasing, production planning, costing, maintenance and change control. In software, an SBOM records the libraries and packages included in an application.
A Bill of Materials usually describes physical products, assemblies or materials, while an SBOM describes software components and their dependencies. Both provide traceability, version control and ownership information, but they use different data sources, formats and risk checks.
A strong BOM specialist often understands PLM, PDM, ERP or MRP processes, CAD data and engineering change management. Depending on the project, useful adjacent skills include procurement, supply-chain data, SQL, integration APIs, software composition analysis and formats such as SPDX or CycloneDX.
The right level depends on scope rather than a fixed number of years. A focused cleanup may need someone skilled in data structures and validation, while a global PLM or ERP transformation calls for experience with governance, migrations, integrations and stakeholder alignment. Ask for examples involving a similar product structure or system landscape.
Yes. Bill of Materials analysis, mapping, documentation and many system tasks work well remotely when secure access and clear data ownership are available. On-site workshops can still help with factory processes, physical assemblies and discussions between engineering, purchasing and production teams in Munich.
Look for a clear method for handling revisions, effectivity, units, substitutes, duplicates and approval states. A capable BOM professional can explain how they validate structures, reconcile conflicting sources and measure data quality without relying only on manual checks. References to comparable systems and deliverables are useful.
Sometimes, but the disciplines are distinct. A Bill of Materials professional focused on manufacturing may not know software dependency analysis, build-pipeline integration or vulnerability workflows, while an SBOM specialist may lack PLM and production knowledge. Choose one person only when the required overlap is demonstrated clearly.
Typical deliverables include a cleansed structure, field and ownership definitions, mapping rules, migration specifications, validation reports and change-management procedures. For an SBOM, a software bill of materials may also include generated SPDX or CycloneDX files, dependency provenance and a process for keeping inventories current.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects is 84 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 675 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 43% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects are Manufacturing (88%), Automotive (75%), and Information Technology (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Bill of Materials in their recent projects are Procurement (88%), Project Management (88%), and Product Development (75%).
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