Ivalua Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Ivalua
Martin R.
Last position:
Principal Fullstack Engineer / Tech Lead Fullstack Applications at Procure Ai Ltd
Procure Ai builds a procurement platform with tools to optimise purchasing and supplier management, delivering real-time analytics, cost-saving insights, and automated workflows. A common data model integrates and enriches data from multiple ERP and e-procurement systems including Ivalua, SAP, Coupa, WPS, and Jaggaer.
06/2025 – TODAY:
- Architecting and building a new AI-native procurement platform with document intelligence, an agent orchestration layer using Mastra and LLM-based workflow automation across supplier, intake and category management use-cases
- Shipped agentic engineering workflows across the development team, enabling LLM-assisted code generation and review automation, measurably reducing cycle time on repetitive development tasks
- Migrating the Design System from Material UI to shadcn/ui with Tailwind, improving consistency and reducing frontend build overhead
- Staying hands-on across frontend, backend and AI features while the engineering team grew from 10 to 20+ engineers: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s and mentoring
06/2020 – 06/2025:
- Joining as the first engineer after the two founders; shaping platform architecture and product vision from scratch in close collaboration with the CTO, growing the platform to serve 10 enterprise customers
- Leading fullstack feature development on the core procurement platform, with focus on Analytics, Search, and Autonomous Negotiations use-cases: defining MVP scope, aligning technical decisions to customer outcomes, and cutting work that wasn't delivering value
- Challenged a field-based configuration request for Autonomous Negotiations and instead built a node-based rule builder matching how category managers think in conditions and branches; later reused across other workflow and decision configuration use-cases
- Designing and implementing multi-tenant authentication and fine-grained authorisation based on organisational units
- Architecting and building a multi-tenant Admin Application for managing customer installations across environments, covering configuration, feature flags, and i18n
- Creating and maintaining a custom Design System built on Material UI, used across the full product
- Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipeline and full QA suite (linting, unit, integration, and e2e testing)
- Architecting and implementing a multi-environment release process using Helm and Helmfile; owning infrastructure as code across AWS and Azure
- Researching and piloting new tools and frameworks; making build-vs-buy decisions to balance velocity, cost, and long-term maintainability
- Grew the engineering team from 4 to 10+ engineers, mentoring engineers and building a culture of ownership, code review and iterative delivery
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Fastify, GraphQL, GraphQL Codegen, GraphQL Mesh, GraphQL Yoga, Hasura, Apollo Client, REST, CubeJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, Kafka, Avro, Karapace, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, Helmfile, GitLab CI, Keycloak, Better-Auth, OpenFGA, Nx, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, Testing Library, Storybook, Chromatic, Material UI, shadcn/ui, Tailwind, React Flow, recharts, i18next, Backstage, Grafana, Sentry, Zod, Claude Code, Codex, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, Vercel AI Elements, AWS, Azure
Georgi L.
Last position:
Techno-functional MM/SD consultant at GLIT Circle GmbH
- Implementation of the S/4HANA transformation (brownfield) at an agricultural equipment manufacturer
- Implementation of the new supplier evaluation in S/4HANA, including programmed technical adjustments to customer-specific processes
- Conducting workshops with business departments on technical and functional changes in S/4HANA, with a focus on P2P processes and approval processes
- Preparation of the new system incl. customizing and conversion of customer-specific ABAP developments to Clean ABAP
Michael V.
Last position:
IT Project Lead at Dürr AG
Global Coupa Program
- Governance and steering of global rollout
- Integration SAP – Middleware – Coupa
- Management of Design, Build, SIT, UAT and Cutover readiness, hyper care and operations transformation
- Vendor & stakeholder alignment
Jan-M. D.
Last position:
Shareholder & CTO at moema-espresso.com
- Maintenance and improvement of Magento-based e-commerce platform to process doubled amount of transactions after takeover of company
Hemangi T.
Last position:
Founder & Principal Advisor at ProcureSynth
- Built an independent advisory practice on 18 years of enterprise procurement delivery at Infineon, Accenture, Bosch, Siemens and Lufthansa Group — including programmes for organisations managing €1B–3B annual spend and teams of 100+ across 20+ countri...
Michael H.
Last position:
Vendor Management Lead at Kreditinstitut
- Interim license management.
- Responsible for service relationships with suppliers as well as transaction-related and supplier-related support tasks.
- Strategic procurement activities to manage risk and optimize the value/resilience of license usage, including establishing supplier relationship management processes and continuous improvement objectives/programs.
- Negotiation of contracts and coordination of supplier integration plans with internal customers.
- Monitoring of market dynamics affecting the availability and/or pricing of materials/services.
- Collaboration with internal customers to identify procurement needs, develop buyer/market profiles, identify market trends and define acceptable service levels.
- Management and termination of an IT contract portfolio required for the IT infrastructure and application landscape.
George G.
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant) at Publicly Listed Pharmaceutical Company
- Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
- Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
- Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
- Creating concepts and recommendations
- Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
- Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
- Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
- Reviewing existing structures and processes
- Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
- Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
- Conducting trainings and workshops
- Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
- Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.
Hermann E.
Last position:
Solution Architect, Senior Developer at parasus GmbH
- Modules: SAP SRM, SAP S/4 MM
- Migration of the SAP SRM system from SAP ECC integration to SAP S/4 HANA
- Quality assurance of the implementation
Gopal K.
Last position:
SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect at parasus GmbH
- Concept and re-implementation of customer application over cloud and make the source code cloud ready
- Re-designing and putting a new architecture to overcome all the Team Scale findings and push ABAP code to ABAP cloud
- Converted the existing custom application code to ABAP cloud code and used ABAP Clean code guidelines
- Create a dynamic framework to call old vs new implementation from a Table maintenance to validate both implementations
- Utilized Key User Extensibility to seamlessly integrate multiple custom fields into a standard Fiori application, enhancing both the front-end and back-end GUI
Benedikt B.
Last position:
Consultant at Financial Sector
- Planning, controlling and overseeing the entire UAT test phase
- Developing and aligning the test concept, including defining the test strategy and test designs
- Ensuring traceability and documentation of test cases
- Working closely with project management, business departments and external service providers on release decisions.
Kai J.
Last position:
Project Manager at parasus GmbH
- Overall responsibility for the integration of Ivalua with SAP, including planning, coordination, and implementation
- Planning and leading all project phases, from requirements analysis to go-live
- Coordinating the integration of the following Ivalua modules with SAP: SRM module (Supplier Relationship Management), Sourcing module (tenders & supplier selection), Contract Management module (contract administration & compliance), Quality module (supplier evaluation & quality control)
- Managing the interface implementation between Ivalua and SAP for: supplier integration, master data synchronization
- Project management and team leadership, including regular status calls, coordination meetings, and risk management
- Ensuring adherence to budget and milestone plans
- Coordinating between IT, business units, external service providers, and implementation partners
- Requirements management and solution design for seamless integration between Ivalua and SAP
- Planning and conducting tests, trainings, and change management activities
- Preparing project documentation, decision papers, and reports for management
Dariusz C.
Last position:
SAP Senior Consultant at Pro3Con GmbH
Michaela L.
Last position:
Senior Director, Process Management Indirect Procurement and Early Phase as well as Regional Management at Volkswagen AG
- Restructured a department of 40 employees
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Statistics of experts using Ivalua
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Procurement, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
86%
Doctorate
14%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
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.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Ivalua
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.
Ivalua 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 (92%)
- Professional Services (77%)
- Banking and Finance (46%)
- Manufacturing (46%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Retail (38%)
- Advertising (23%)
- Aerospace and Defense (23%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Ivalua does
Ivalua is a cloud-based source-to-pay and spend management suite. Companies use it to manage sourcing, contracts, suppliers, purchasing, invoices and payments in connected workflows. Its configurable data model supports procurement control across categories, regions and business units.
Core capabilities
Ivalua covers strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, contract lifecycle management, procure-to-pay and spend analysis. Experts configure approval rules, intake forms, catalogs, supplier portals and invoice processes. They also help teams establish consistent master data and traceable procurement records.
Ecosystem and integrations
Ivalua projects often connect the suite with ERP, finance, identity and supplier systems. Relevant work includes integrations with SAP and other enterprise applications through APIs, middleware and managed data flows. Strong specialists understand Ivalua configuration as well as data migration, security roles, testing and release management.
Typical project work
- Design source-to-pay processes for new business units
- Configure sourcing events, contracts, catalogs and approvals
- Integrate supplier and finance data with enterprise systems
- Migrate supplier records, items and historical procurement data
- Build reporting for spend, compliance and supplier performance
When external expertise helps
Companies bring in freelance Ivalua specialists during implementations, rollouts, upgrades and process redesigns. Support is also valuable when internal teams need to resolve workflow issues, improve adoption or connect a new ERP landscape. In Germany, projects may require close coordination with procurement, finance and IT teams across local and international operations.
What strong specialists bring
Effective professionals combine procurement knowledge with hands-on Ivalua configuration. They clarify business rules before changing workflows, document decisions and test integrations with realistic data. They can explain trade-offs to stakeholders, manage cutover risks and leave internal teams with maintainable processes rather than isolated fixes.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Ivalua — answered in short.
Ivalua is used to manage source-to-pay operations, including sourcing, supplier information, contracts, purchasing, invoices and spend analysis. It gives procurement teams a shared process and data foundation across business units.
Ivalua is often compared with SAP Ariba and Coupa because all three support procurement and supplier processes. The right choice depends on the company’s operating model, required configurability, existing ERP landscape, integration needs and governance approach.
A strong Ivalua specialist should understand source-to-pay processes, procurement data, supplier onboarding and contract management. Experience with SAP or other ERP systems, APIs, middleware, identity management, data migration and testing is also valuable.
The required background depends on the scope. A configuration change may need focused module expertise, while an implementation or rollout calls for experience across process design, integrations, data migration, testing, training and cutover. Ask for examples that match your Ivalua modules and operating model.
Ivalua work can often be delivered remotely through workshops, configuration sessions, documentation and online testing. On-site collaboration may still help during process discovery, stakeholder alignment, training or go-live, particularly when several German business units are involved.
Bring in an Ivalua expert when a rollout is delayed, workflows no longer reflect business rules, integrations create data issues or adoption remains low. External support is also useful for upgrades, module extensions and independent reviews of a proposed design.
Ask the Ivalua professional to explain a comparable implementation from requirements through testing and handover. Look for clear process reasoning, practical documentation, careful data handling and evidence that they can work with procurement, finance, IT and suppliers.
Working with Ivalua requires more than screen-level configuration. Professionals need to translate procurement policies into maintainable workflows, understand integration constraints and communicate clearly with business owners. Familiarity with enterprise change management and data governance strengthens their contribution.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects is 124 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 990 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 86% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (23%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Professional Services (77%), and Banking and Finance (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Ivalua in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Procurement (85%), and Project Management (77%).
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