SAP BW Experts in Switzerland
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Switzerland, who have recently used SAP BW
Thorsten O.
Last position:
Program / Project / IT Controller (ICT Controller) at Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport
Project Management Office: analysis and setup, master plan, standardized project planning (generic work breakdown structure according to HERMES), earned value management, milestone trend analysis.
Finance management at portfolio, program and project level.
Resource management and single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).
Process management.
Implementation of a program management tool for unified program and project management.
Program controlling: finance management, earned value management, milestone trend analysis, consolidation of project budgets, actual costs and forecasts at the program level.
Variance analyses at program level.
Transition from total cost view to commitment credit view (federal administration terminology).
Calculation of available reserves (rolling), forecasts and scenarios.
Monthly, quarterly, half-year and annual reports, preparation of annual planning at program level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.
Project controlling: support for project managers in project planning, earned value management, milestone trend analysis.
Review of projects for budget compliance, adherence to phases and schedules, deliverables, resource planning and deployment.
Variance analyses at project level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.
Resource management: resource planning based on program and project plans, review of timesheets.
Supply chain (until April 2022): single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).
Change management: involvement in change management for cost-relevant changes (change requests), tracking of service contract price for contract-related changes, participation in change control boards / decision boards at management level.
Establishment of controlling structures in a new Swiss federal agency (becoming a federal office as of January 1, 2024) since April 2022.
Credit monitoring with validation of actual costs and commitment values.
Resource management: cross-project resource planning (HRP).
Earned value analysis and milestone trend analysis for key ICT projects of the federal government.
Participation in the introduction of the JIRA Tempo module.
Tools & methods: HERMES 5.1 / Agile HERMES, Sciforma 7, JIRA, Confluence, Tempo, Signavio, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Prof., Excel-VBA.
Eimear M.
Last position:
Website Designer at Stocklab Sarl
- Designed and implemented WordPress websites using the Divi theme, translating client visions into engaging, user-friendly digital experiences.
- Managed front-end and functional design, ensuring seamless navigation and optimized performance.
Michael R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Hustler, & Hound "Project Metrics on the Internet" at Global-KPI
- Project management, hustler (identifying the full financial picture including sales, pitching, financial analysis, & business models) and hound (identifying real customer needs including research & analysis) to build a project metrics system on the Internet.
- The system allows users to make informed decisions to keep projects on track according to key data or to realign them when they deviate negatively from the plan.
- Providing a forecast alongside the current status.
- Automatic calculation and display of metrics based on user-entered project key data.
- Skills: project management, project metrics.
- Problem space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), corporate innovation team setup, team profile / team canvas, design thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, market exploration, defining the problem.
- Solution space: narrowing the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, business model canvas, value proposition canvas, prototyping, refining the prototype and business model canvas, final pitch.
Philipp D.
Last position:
Freelance Project at AniCura AGs (Tierkliniken)
- Preparing annual financial statements for several animal clinics in Switzerland (MARS Group)
- Leading the audit of the Swiss entities with PwC
- Supporting and enhancing the ongoing accounting
Dominic R.
Last position:
Head of Purchasing at Guma AG
- Restructuring and modernizing the purchasing department
- Responsible for all purchasing activities within the company
- Modernization and automation of the system environment
- Designing and implementing the purchasing strategy, including inventory optimization
- Strengthening the purchasing department profile and defining core processes
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
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 Switzerland, 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
Ramona V.
Last position:
Independent Sparring Partner & Mentor at Think-it.ch
- Strategic support for female entrepreneurs and leaders, with a focus on self-leadership, decision-making, and structured execution under pressure
- Development and delivery of programs on leadership, process clarity, and stress-performance systems
- Workshop facilitation and support in organizational and structural development processes
- Currently responsible for the design and implementation of an international scaling project (OER Literacy Program / 2GiveLife), expanding to 15 organizations in the DACHLi region
Antonis V.
Last position:
Security and Audit Consultant at Contractor
Consulting on Cyber Security, Governance, Risk Management, audits, Cloud Security, and compliance in regulated environments.
Sibylle H.
Last position:
SAP ABAP-OO Development (cross-module) at Asendia
- Creation of interfaces for transferring SD orders and customer master data (including various protocols and the ability to handle erroneous data)
- Analysis and adjustment of existing programs due to infrastructure change
- SOAP and REST API for creating customer master data from SugarCRM
- REST APIs in JSON (SD orders, invoices, payments, PDF forms)
- Log program for REST APIs
- Creation of various invoice forms in 8 languages including document links, email delivery, PDF generation
- Provision of 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 from the server)
- Reports (VAT, sales orders, invoices)
- Correction program for CO data
- Support for various interfaces, notes, etc.
- Enhancement for IDoc INVOIC02
- Upload program for XML files (Rydoo) to post cash receipts into FI (FB01)
- Creation of dunning forms in various languages (Smartforms and Adobe including email delivery)
- Account statement program (ALV displaying postings, sending to debtors via email using Smartform as PDF)
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
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
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 SAP BW
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Finance
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Finance
Bachelor's degree or higher
70%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Doctorate
10%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using SAP BW
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP BW 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 (69%)
- Manufacturing (69%)
- Banking and Finance (62%)
- Professional Services (62%)
- Transportation (54%)
- Healthcare (46%)
- Insurance (38%)
- Retail (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What SAP BW does
SAP BW, short for SAP Business Warehouse, centralizes business data for analysis, planning and management reporting. It connects operational SAP systems with external sources, transforms raw information and presents consistent figures across finance, sales, procurement and supply chain teams.
Core architecture
SAP BW projects use InfoObjects, DataStore objects, CompositeProviders and queries to structure and expose data. Specialists work with extraction flows, transformations, process chains, authorizations and transport paths. In modern environments, SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA provide the in-memory foundation for streamlined models and faster analytical workloads.
Typical project work
- Define reporting requirements and information models
- Build extraction, transformation and loading processes
- Develop queries, dashboards and planning content
- Migrate legacy SAP NetWeaver BW landscapes to BW/4HANA
- Monitor data loads, reconcile results and resolve defects
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance SAP BW specialists during S/4HANA programmes, reporting consolidation or a move from legacy warehouse structures. External expertise also helps when data loads are unreliable, business definitions conflict or internal teams need temporary capacity for a migration. In Switzerland, collaboration may involve distributed teams, on-site workshops or remote delivery across German-, French- and English-speaking stakeholders.
Connected skills and tools
Strong SAP BW work depends on more than warehouse modelling. Relevant adjacent skills include SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, ABAP, SQL, SAP HANA calculation views and business planning. Experience with source-system integration, data governance, security and release management helps ensure that the warehouse remains useful after go-live.
What distinguishes specialists
The best professionals connect technical design with the decisions the reports must support. They clarify data ownership, document mappings and test totals against source systems instead of treating a successful load as proof of quality. Look for careful performance analysis, controlled transports, clear communication and the ability to explain BW/4HANA choices to both business and technical stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about SAP BW.
SAP BW is used to collect, structure and analyze data from SAP and non-SAP sources. Companies use it for management reporting, financial analysis, operational dashboards, planning and governed data delivery to tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP Business Warehouse is designed around governed analytical models, recurring reporting and strong integration with SAP business processes. SAP Datasphere offers broader cloud data integration, while a data lake is more flexible for raw and large-scale data; the right choice depends on governance, latency, source systems and reporting needs.
A capable SAP BW specialist often combines warehouse modelling with SAP S/4HANA integration, SAP HANA, ABAP, SQL and SAP Analytics Cloud. Knowledge of authorizations, data governance, process chains and business planning is also valuable when the work affects a complete reporting landscape.
A strong SAP BW freelancer is especially useful for BW/4HANA migrations, complex source integration, redesigning slow data flows or resolving inconsistent reporting figures. The required depth depends on the landscape, migration risk and business criticality, so assess the actual deliverables rather than relying only on a generic profile.
SAP BW work can often be delivered remotely because modelling, development, testing and monitoring are handled in secured enterprise environments. On-site workshops may still help with requirements and process alignment, while German, French or English language skills should match the stakeholders involved.
Ask an SAP BW professional to explain a comparable data flow from source extraction through reconciliation and reporting. Review their approach to testing, documentation, authorizations, transport management and performance; a clear explanation of business rules is as important as technical configuration.
BW/4HANA is SAP’s modernized warehouse platform built for SAP HANA, with a simplified architecture and a stronger focus on efficient, in-memory processing. SAP BW can refer to the broader product family, including older SAP NetWeaver BW landscapes that may require redesign before migration.
A reliable SAP BW specialist may deliver data models, extraction and transformation flows, process chains, queries, documentation, test evidence and transport packages. Agree in advance on reconciliation rules, monitoring responsibilities, handover materials and support after deployment.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects is 141 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,128 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects, 70% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects are English (100%), German (85%), and French (69%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects are Information Technology (69%), Manufacturing (69%), and Banking and Finance (62%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP BW in their recent projects are Information Technology (77%), Business Intelligence (69%), and Finance (62%).
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