
EDI Experts in Germany
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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
Bruno P.
Last position:
Product Owner
Design and implementation of a “unified-commerce” platform for SMEs to sell and deliver multi-product bundles
Achievements: Designed and delivered a fully functional, CPQ-based “buy flow” process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles on time, and secured customer approval within the specified 90-day timeframe. Successfully tested the integration of various interface services for customer search, customer data enrichment, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit checks, appointment selection and quote-to-order transition.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic goal delivery: Translating strategic customer goals into action and delivering them (e.g. release content, business value).
- Backlog management: Creating and refining backlog items (Initiatives, Epics, User Stories, Defects) in close coordination with the project team and client.
- Prioritization & releases: Owning Product Backlog prioritization and delivery of defined release goals.
- Deliverable tracking: Tracking work completed by suppliers and the client.
- Roadmap & release planning: Developing and delivering roadmaps and release plans together with the client.
- Scope ownership: Owning the contractually agreed scope of work.
- Claim management: Proactive claim and change management with the client.
- Team coordination: Managing and coordinating the development team.
- Leveraging synergies: Using synergies between client projects and product development.
- Proposal preparation: Preparing proposals (with supervision) and presenting them in person to clients and partners.
Skills: Developing, communicating and delivering product visions; Product Backlog Management; Stakeholder Management; Regular reporting to management and steering committees; Requirements analysis & engineering; Planning and documenting workshops; Functional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; Epic Management; User Story specifications; Creating use cases, supporting software testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT); Release Management and sprint planning; TO-BE process design; Process optimization; Planning, designing and specifying interfaces to existing and new systems; Identifying, assessing and managing project risks; Proactive claim and change management; Facilitating sprint planning and reviews; Data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence
Christian F.
Last position:
Consultant and Project Manager – AI in Customer Service (Voicebots, Chatbots) at Various clients
- Advising on and selecting voice systems based on requirements, integration, data protection and cost
- Designing call guides, knowledge bases and handover to employees
- Test planning, call analysis and optimization of existing solutions
Emre S.
Last position:
IT Project Manager | SAP E-Invoicing Outbound at Rohde & Schwarz
Project: Introduction of statutory-compliant electronic invoicing (outbound, Germany) in SAP for an international technology group.
- Project management: Planning, steering and reporting of the E-Invoicing outbound rollout across all affected business areas, including budget and resource coordination.
- UAT: Structured user acceptance test with key users per business area, test cases per invoice scenario, and consolidated test results for decision making.
- Defect management: Handover and tracking of defects in Jira, including validation of the generated invoices against the statutory schemas.
- Cutover, go-live and hypercare: Readiness checks and cutover planning aligned with the statutory deadlines, coordination of go-live and stabilization during hypercare.
- Stakeholder management and reporting: Alignment with Finance, Tax, business departments and IT, preparation of status reports and decision papers, and consistent follow-up of open items.
- Change management and documentation: Communicated process changes to the business departments, enabled key users, and created process and compliance documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.
Dilip S.
Last position:
Freelance Consultant at Self
Available for interim and contract mandates
Thomas L.
Last position:
Interim Finance Director - CFO Office, Liquidity & Performance Steering at PE-Owned Portfolio Company
Selected Mandate - PE-Owned Portfolio Company
CFO Office execution mandate with Transformation CFO scope after CFO transition. Reporting directly to the combined CEO/CFO role, with one individual holding both CEO and statutory CFO responsibility.
- Managing liquidity forecasting, cash management and short-term cash visibility; preparing investor and lender reporting.
- Stabilizing finance operations, reporting cadence and finance interfaces across HQ and subsidiaries.
- Providing extended finance leadership, people leadership and hiring support for the finance function.
- Supporting budgeting, forecasting, FP&A cadence and management reporting.
- Restoring finance cadence across liquidity, reporting, stakeholder communication and management decision support.
- Leading performance recovery support for a US subsidiary.
Tobias R.
Last position:
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager at Sandoz AG
- Worked for several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine C, Coral) in the role of IT project manager and cross-functional technical manager / integration manager.
- Preparation and maintenance of project charters, project change requests and project plans.
- Weekly project status report.
- Preparation of decision papers and steering committee slidedecks.
- Risk & issue management.
- Tracking and managing activities, dependencies and deliverables across all functional IT domains.
- Data migration (planning and execution).
Ali A.
Last position:
Founder & Architect at Independent AI R&D
- Fully on-premises LLM document-examination platform for a compliance-critical banking domain: agentic LangGraph pipeline with deterministic verification, every AI judgment structured and source-anchored; ~960 automated tests, zero data egress
- GPU throughput engineering (quantized serving, speculative decoding, prefix caching): 9.5x extraction speed-up, 500+ multi-document case files per day on a single A100
- AI-native EDI/EDIFACT integration platform (~116k LOC Java 25 / Spring Boot 4, 1,900+ tests): LLM-drafted partner mappings machine-verified before go-live (DFDL conformance, field-coverage checks, dry runs), ~99.5% byte match on real customer files — replacing weeks of manual mapping per partner
Axel G.
Last position:
Management Consultant, Business Analyst at SEFE Energy GmbH
- Process management, project management
- Business process modeling for market-to-order and order-to-cash
- Replacement of an existing CRM system
- Salesforce energy & utilities cloud, Aurea CRM, SAP-Signavio, iGrafx
Michael L.
Last position:
Head of IT at Ruthmann Holdings GmbH
- Management of IT with 10 employees, including budget and personnel responsibility.
- Harmonization of the Navision systems in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
- Connection of the ERP systems in Switzerland, Austria and Italy to the central Microsoft Power BI systems in Germany.
- Rollout of a new firewall at 10 locations in D, CH and A.
- Evaluation of a new DMS.
- Migration to Windows 10 / 11.
- Transformation of 9 countries into ONE Europe.
- Start of NIS2 implementation in 5 European countries.
Mario K.
Last position:
Interim Manager, Consultant and Employee
- ERP and process consulting/implementation (Navision / Business Central)
- (Ongoing) accounting, controlling, turnaround and consolidation
- Support with the preparation of all types of financial statements
- Process optimization for a furniture store chain during the implementation of Navision
- Investments and acquisitions including due diligence and subsequent ERP integrations (centralization or decentralization)
Alexander P.
Last position:
Senior Solution Architect at IT.NRW - The IT service provider of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Responsible for the solution architectures of the eGov solution "e-Akte" for KRITIS authorities of the state of NRW, tailored to the specific needs of the customers, as well as ensuring that these solutions can be operated efficiently and reliably
- Modeling the KRITIS IT architecture (cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and development) using Archimate
- Ensuring IT governance, compliance, data protection, and the establishment of standards in line with the business strategy
- Managing service providers for the eAkte product nscale from Ceyonic
- EAM and LeanIX, documentation of IT systems, interfaces, technologies
- Solution architecture & stakeholder management, including business units & IT teams
Beata B.
Last position:
Supplier and Capacity Manager at Mercedes-Benz AG
Responsible for capacity planning and ensuring delivery capability in series production and new product launch projects
Managed and coordinated suppliers, plants, and internal departments to ensure production supply
Conducted more than 15 supplier evaluations, audits, and on-site visits in cooperation with Quality, Engineering, and Purchasing
Led 6 logistics audits as Audit Lead, including providing professional guidance and developing team members
Led cross-functional vehicle projects, including risk, escalation, and stakeholder management at management level
on parental leave 02.2024 - 05.2025
- 10.2022 through Venitec GmbH
Elisabeth S.
Last position:
Head Of IT at Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH
- Led IT with 12 employees during a period of group integration, filling 3 new positions
- Analyzed IT maturity and created transparency around risks, resources and project status
- Structured and prioritized the project portfolio (group integration, ERP, NIS2, IT security)
- Engaged external service providers to close capacity gaps and initiated additional projects
- Supported the implementation of Business Central and represented IT on steering committees
Peter S.
Last position:
SAP FI/CO/PSM Consulting at Federal authority
- SAP ERP/ECC, SAP S/4 Hana
- Analysis and documentation of SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSCD customizing
- Analysis, consulting and documentation of S/4 Hana apps for defining and executing statutory reports
- Clarification of the prerequisites for using S/4 Hana apps to define and execute statutory reports
- Analysis and documentation of customizing for in-house developments
- Consulting on the integration of SAP FI/CO as well as PSM, PSM-FM (Funds Management), Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (PSCD)
- Consulting and documentation of customizing adjustments in SAP FI/CO, PSM, PSM-FM, PSCD when introducing new company codes and other organizational structures
- Consulting and documentation of necessary process adjustments
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Statistics of experts using EDI
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years

Position duration
2.4 years

Positions per freelancer
17

Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
49%
Doctorate
6%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, Spanish

Speak two or more languages
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 Germany 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.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Germany using EDI
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.
EDI 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 (83%)
- Manufacturing (59%)
- Professional Services (55%)
- Retail (49%)
- Transportation (46%)
- Automotive (45%)
- Banking and Finance (41%)
- Healthcare (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What EDI does
Electronic Data Interchange, known as EDI, exchanges structured business documents between companies without manual rekeying. It supports purchase orders, order confirmations, dispatch advice, invoices and inventory updates. EDI connects internal systems with suppliers, retailers, logistics providers and other trading partners.
Messages and standards
Common EDI work includes designing and validating EDIFACT messages, ANSI X12 transactions and XML-based formats. Experts define segments, code lists, mandatory fields and partner-specific rules. They also handle acknowledgements, version differences and transformations between external messages and internal data models.
Systems and tooling
EDI integrations often sit between ERP, warehouse, procurement and transport systems. Specialists work with SAP IDoc and SAP integration components, integration middleware, APIs, AS2, SFTP and value-added networks. They may also use mapping, monitoring, alerting and automated testing tools to keep document flows reliable.
Typical delivery work
- Map partner requirements to EDIFACT, ANSI X12 or XML messages
- Connect SAP, ERP, WMS and logistics systems
- Configure AS2, SFTP or network-based transmission
- Test acknowledgements, retries and exception handling
- Monitor invoice, order and delivery document flows
When companies need specialists
Companies bring in freelance EDI expertise during a new partner onboarding, ERP migration, acquisition or supply-chain change. Germany-based manufacturers, retailers, distributors and logistics businesses may need professionals who can work with local teams while coordinating remote partner contacts. Strong communication in English and, where needed, German helps resolve requirements and mapping issues quickly.
What quality looks like
A strong EDI professional understands both message standards and the business process behind each document. They document mappings, isolate partner-specific deviations and protect sensitive commercial data. They create clear test cases, monitor production flows and explain failures in terms that business and technical teams can act on.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about EDI — answered in short.
EDI is used to exchange structured business documents between organizations, including purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices and inventory updates. It reduces manual entry and creates consistent, traceable flows between ERP, warehouse, procurement and logistics systems.
Electronic Data Interchange is designed for standardized, document-based business transactions between trading partners. APIs often support real-time, service-based communication, while EDI remains useful when partners require EDIFACT, ANSI X12, AS2 or established network processes.
A strong EDI specialist usually understands ERP integration, SAP IDoc, XML, databases and business process mapping. Knowledge of AS2, SFTP, APIs, middleware, monitoring and data protection is also valuable when the work spans several systems.
The right EDI experience depends on the scope, partner count and systems involved rather than a fixed tenure requirement. A professional handling a single message mapping needs a different background from one leading a multi-system migration, partner rollout or production recovery.
EDI projects can often be delivered remotely because mapping, testing, documentation and monitoring are digital tasks. On-site sessions may still help during warehouse or ERP cutovers, and German-language communication can matter when coordinating with local business teams and partners.
Experienced EDI professionals separate the standard message definition from each partner's implementation guide. They document deviations, validate mandatory and conditional fields, test acknowledgements and make transformations visible so future changes do not create hidden failures.
Ask how the EDI professional approaches mapping documentation, test coverage, error handling and production monitoring. A reliable specialist can explain business impacts, trace a failed document across systems and show how retries, alerts and reconciliation are controlled.
An EDI freelancer may deliver partner mappings, interface configurations, integration specifications, test plans, monitoring rules and operational documentation. Depending on the assignment, they can also support onboarding, SAP integration, migration, incident resolution and knowledge transfer.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 830 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 49% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects are German (100%), English (97%), and Spanish (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Manufacturing (59%), and Professional Services (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used EDI in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Project Management (75%), and Product Development (64%).
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