SAP Core Data Services Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SAP Core Data Services
Pierre-Jean Albertini-Fujii
Last position:
Verification Engineer – Aviation at Tri.Merge GmbH
- Automated Python-based analysis of test script repositories
- Built a SQLite database for signal and value tracking
- Identified critical discrepancies with ad-hoc SQL queries
- Technologies: Python, SQLite, Excel/ODBC
Venkatakrishna Gurram
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.
Prem Chander Arumugam
Last position:
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP at Husqvarna Group (at HCLTech)
Development and Implementation
- Conceptualization and implementation of the various requirements.
- Experience and ability to collaborate with other delivery teams
- Lead a team of 15 people taking care of matters including monitoring operations, delegating tasks and managing budgets.
- Act as product owner and represent the product vision, strategy and priorities in the area of production operations.
- Work closely with the members of the area including developers, analysts and QA to ensure the successful delivery of logistics features and improvements.
- Lead the process design and lead the build team for the SAP implementation (EU countries) and post-merger integration in SAP PP, QM, MM, APO and SD modules.
- Implemented and optimized MRP Live (MD01N) for multiple plants, improving planning runtime
- Worked with business users to transition from classic MRP to MRP Live
- Implemented SAP QM module, including quality planning and inspection lot processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality compliance.
- Developed and tested custom reports using SAP Query and ABAP for MES data analytics, improving visibility into yield rates and resource utilization.
- Translate production requirements into clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and technical specifications.
- Skilled in discrete, and process/manufacturing (PP-PI) environments; deep understanding of master data, production & process orders, recipe management, batch management, capacity & scheduling, shop floor control, and integration with QM, MM, EWM, MES.
- Worked in Variant configuration (VC)
- Supported international rollouts and transformation projects for SAP PP, QM, PPDS, aATP, EWM, and Variant Configuration within a global strategy.
- Tested functionalities for various business scenarios include interface systems
- Involved in SIT and UAT and cutover activities
Technology: Project Management, SAP PP, QM, MM, APO, ABAP OO, HANA Modelling, FIORI, SAP UI5, AMDP, SAP SD, SAP FICO and S4 HANA Emedded analytics
Mindaugas Kazlauskas
Last position:
SAP Developer at Jungheinrich - Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft, based in Hamburg, is a publicly listed German company
Project description: SAP S/4HANA implementation (greenfield). SCRUM methodology Scope: SAP ABAP, BTP, RAP, CDS, ABAP Cloud, Clean Core, CI/CD for SAPUI5/ABAP with GitLab, unit tests, and test-driven development (TDD)
Minal Borse
Last position:
Business Intelligence Specialist at Coster Special Technologies S.p.A.
- Designed and developed interactive SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) dashboards and reports for Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, HR, and Manufacturing, covering KPIs such as Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Fixed Costs, Headcount, Personnel Expenses, Stock Analysis, OTIF, Production Volume, BOM, Spend, and Compliance to Schedule.
- Built and optimized end-to-end ABAP CDS data models (Basic, Composite, and Consumption Views) using the VDM approach, integrating data from key SAP S/4HANA tables. Strong expertise in ABAP CDS, SQL, SAP data modeling,
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define KPI logic, standardized user story templates, resolved BI requests through JIRA, improved reporting performance, and delivered scalable, secure, and business-focused analytics solutions that enhanced decision-making and operational efficiency.
- Trained business stakeholders across various countries on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) dashboard usage and developed comprehensive training manuals to promote user adoption and enable self-service analytics.
Manikanta Rangaswamy
Last position:
Data Engineer at Insurance client
- Design, development, and maintenance of end-to-end ETL pipelines for scalable and reliable data integration
- Support in data quality checks, testing, and migrations
- Development and maintenance of dbt models for structured, modular, and reusable data transformations
- Use of AI-driven development to improve ETL job creation and code quality.
- Development of CI/CD for automated deployment.
Joaquim Landa Miala
Last position:
Freelance ABAP Developer, Logistics at Cheplapharm
- Tested integration of TIBCO EBX with SAP S/4HANA via TIBCO BusinessWorks – proof of concept
- Implemented use case: communication between TIBCO EBX and SAP S/4HANA via IDocs to exchange material master data and business partner data
- Customized, configured, and implemented inbound and outbound processing in the SAP S/4HANA environment for communication with the TIBCO EBX software interface
- Distributed classes, characteristics, and values between TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP S/4HANA and customized the inbound processing
- Documented the technical components
Bhavin Shah
Last position:
Team Lead SAP EWM Engineering at Swisslog GmbH
- Over 19 years of experience in solution design, development, integration, and optimization within the SAP ecosystem
- Direct line management of 8 engineers, responsible for yearly target settings and reviews, yearly compensation reviews, training and skill development, onboarding, and conducting interviews for new positions
- Implemented agile based product management practices such as product roadmap, setup of Kanban boards in Microsoft Teams Planner, defining the product backlog and release cycles
- Designed and developed high-level architecture to create reusable Swisslog’s standard product based on SAP EWM MFS to integrate various automation subsystems like pallet conveyors/cranes, light goods conveyors/cranes, autostore, monorail, star robots using Swisslog standard protocol
- Experienced in end-to-end implementation of S4HANA Brownfield and Greenfield projects and in integrating third party subsystems like A-frames and KBS Pick by Light via TCP/TP or REST based APIs
- Setup the overall development process along with required quality gates following continuous integration and continuous improvement principles
- Served as technical team lead during customer implementation projects, running process workshops specific to MFS, preparing business blueprint, designing specifications, and executing integration tests between MFS and PLC subsystems
- Successfully integrated light goods crane with SAP EWM MFS with double deep storage capabilities and total storage capacity of 9600 boxes
- Expertise in a wide range of technologies, tools, and frameworks such as S4HANA EWM, EWM MFS, Embedded Analytics, API-based integration, SAP Cloud Platform, WebIDE, Fiori, SAP UI5, OOABAP, and Classical ABAP Development
Felix Reimann
Last position:
SAP Analytics & Planning Expert at RWS GmbH
- Greenfield implementation of S/4HANA Embedded Analytics as well as reporting and planning processes with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
- Integrated production, sales, and inventory planning, as well as financial planning and management reporting.
- Inventory forecasts implemented through SAC Machine Learning.
- Integration of S/4HANA data and HR data (Factorial) into SAP Datasphere (various tables with real-time replication, related data flows, and analytical models)
József Szikszai
Last position:
Interim ABAP-OO Developer at Interdiscount
- Interim ABAP-OO developer in S/4 HANA migration
- Automation of trade calculation (IS-Retail)
- RFC interface between cash register system and S/4 (SD)
- RFC interface between S/4 and R/3 for price comparison (SD)
- Automatic creation and assignment of pricing conditions (SD)
- Automation of setting the standard supplier in the info record (MM/SD)
David Adamo
Last position:
Senior SAP Commerce Cloud Developer at Freelancer
- Integration of SAP Commerce Cloud with SAP Cloud for Customer
- Creation and execution of unit and integration tests
- Error analysis and bug fixing
Benedict Baur
Last position:
Reporting Application for Participation Information at Freelance
Development of ABAP CDS Views in S/4
Consumption via oData service by reporting tools like Power BI
Zlatko Petricevic
Last position:
SAP BW/4 Hana Project Lead, Program and Application Manager at DB
- Project Argo: SAP BW/4 Hana Project Lead, Program and Application Manager, SAP BW/4 Hana Consultant, Architect, and Developer.
- Migration of FI data models from SAP BW 7.x to BW/4 Hana.
- Revision and implementation of the user and authorization concept.
- SAP S/4 Hana, SAP Basis, SAP BW/4 Hana data modeling and use of the SAP BW Migration Workbench.
- Use of Business Content, BAPI, BW/4 Hana, Hana Studio, HANA Views, Analytical Views, virtual tables, and Hana Native SQL.
- Working with ADSO, Open ODS Views, Composite Provider, Hybrid Provider, SAP Solution Manager, Query Designer, Analysis for Office, Lumira, and Fiori.
- Use of SAP SAC (Stories, Data Models, Data Analyzer, CDS Views) as well as application management and monitoring of process chains and load jobs.
Harshal Likhar
Last position:
SAP EWM Developer at Körber Supply Chain GmbH
- Experience in SAP EWM processes and ABAP development
- Configured PPF for output management in EWM and YM, worked with BOPF in TM and YM, configured Fiori Launchpad with roles, spaces, and pages, and developed UI5 applications
- Developed a Fiori Elements app using the List Report, Object Page, Overview Page, and Analytical List Page frameworks with CDS views, AMDP on BAS, created a RAP app, and a report for data transfer to external Oracle systems
Suneel Durgavajhala
Last position:
SAP Consultant & Developer at KS KeySolutions GmbH
- ABAP developments for rku.it GmbH, Agena GmbH, Koenig & Bauer AG, Salzgitter AG, duagon AG
- Redesigned material configuration data mass maintenance Fiori app for Siemens AG Engineering to resolve system resource issues
- Conducted S4Hana ABAP code remediation, ATC checks, and implemented ABAP parallel processing for Voestalpine AG
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Statistics of experts using SAP Core Data Services
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
91%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP Core Data Services
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About the technology
CDS in SAP
SAP Core Data Services, often called SAP CDS or just CDS, is the data modeling layer used to define semantically rich views close to the SAP application and database. It helps teams shape reusable data models for transactions, reporting, and APIs without moving logic into scattered custom code.
What experts build
- CDS views for operational reporting and analytics
- Data models for SAP S/4HANA applications
- OData-ready service layers for Fiori and integrations
- Consumption views with clear business semantics
Strong work with CDS keeps models readable, stable, and aligned with the business domain. It also helps reduce duplicate logic across ABAP programs, services, and analytical extracts.
Ecosystem and tools
SAP CDS sits in the ABAP stack and is often used with SAP HANA, ADT in Eclipse, annotations, associations, and table functions where needed. In practice, specialists also work with Fiori, OData, SQLScript, and authorization concepts to make the model usable end to end.
When companies need help
Companies bring in freelance SAP Core Data Services specialists when a project needs a cleaner data model, a new analytical layer, or support for S/4HANA conversion work. This is common when existing views are hard to maintain, performance needs tuning, or reporting logic must be consolidated. In Germany, this often comes up in larger SAP landscapes that need tight coordination with internal teams.
What good professionals do
Good specialists do more than write views. They understand naming, layering, reuse, performance, and how CDS fits into the wider SAP architecture. They also know when to keep logic in CDS and when to move it elsewhere so the model stays simple and supportable.
Signs you need CDS expertise
- Reports use duplicated logic in many places
- Existing views are hard to extend safely
- S/4HANA data models need restructuring
- OData or Fiori exposure must stay clean
- Performance needs a review close to the data
A strong specialist can trace business requirements back to the right CDS layer and explain trade-offs clearly. That matters when teams need stable delivery, not just working syntax.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around SAP Core Data Services.
SAP Core Data Services is used to define business-oriented data models inside the SAP stack. Companies use it for reporting views, analytical layers, service exposure, and reusable data definitions that sit close to the source. It is especially useful when SAP S/4HANA applications need a clean and consistent model.
SAP CDS is more expressive and more tightly aligned with modern SAP data modeling than classic views. It supports annotations, associations, and richer semantics, which makes it better suited for Fiori apps, analytics, and service exposure. Classic views can still appear in older systems, but CDS is usually the better choice for new work.
A strong SAP Core Data Services specialist usually knows ABAP, SAP HANA concepts, SQL, and how to structure layered models. Experience with OData, Fiori, annotations, and authorization behavior is also valuable. The best professionals can connect technical modeling decisions to business reporting needs.
Freelance help with SAP CDS is worth bringing in when a project needs focused delivery, a model redesign, or help untangling existing views. It also helps when an internal team knows the business side but needs extra depth on performance, layering, or integration. That is common during S/4HANA programs and reporting modernization work.
Yes. SAP Core Data Services work is often well suited to remote collaboration because much of the task is model design, review, and debugging inside the SAP development environment. On-site time can still help at the start of a project or during sensitive stakeholder workshops, including in Germany where many teams mix both ways of working.
SAP CDS is often compared with classic ABAP views, SQLScript-based logic, and sometimes external reporting layers. The right choice depends on whether the requirement is transactional modeling, analytical consumption, or a service-ready interface. CDS is usually strongest when the model should stay inside SAP and remain reusable.
Look for someone who writes clear layered models, uses annotations correctly, and avoids unnecessary complexity. A strong SAP Core Data Services professional should explain why a view exists, how it will be consumed, and what the performance impact is. Good documentation and clean naming are also strong signs of quality.
In Germany, SAP Core Data Services expertise often shows up in S/4HANA transformations, reporting cleanup, and Fiori enablement. It is also useful in manufacturing, logistics, finance, and shared service environments with large SAP footprints. The best fit is a specialist who can work closely with business and technical teams alike.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Core Data Services in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 798 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Core Data Services in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Core Data Services 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 SAP Core Data Services in their recent projects are German (97%), English (91%), and French (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Core Data Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (82%), Professional Services (65%), and Manufacturing (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Core Data Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (65%), and Project Management (65%).
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