SAP ECC Experts in Switzerland
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Vincent V.
Last position:
IT Business Partner & Enterprise Architect at Sulzer
- Established the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up for Sulzer Group (~13,500 employees, CHF 3.6B revenue)
- Defined the Technical Governance framework, Target Operating Model, and IT PMO foundation now governing architecture decisions and portfolio demand across all divisions.
- Deployed SAP LeanIX as the authoritative application portfolio system of record - catalogued 500 applications group-wide (140 for Chemtech), onboarded business and IT stakeholders, and initiated integration with ServiceNow to embed architecture data into operational workflows.
- Led the divisional & group wide Application Rationalization initiative
- Decommissioned 15% of the 140 applications Chemtech portfolio, delivering CHF 627k in run-rate savings over two years and materially reducing licensing and support exposure.
- Defined and executed the divisional AI Roadmap in partnership with Sales, Legal, and R&D leadership
- Delivered 4 AI solutions into production (including Sales process harmonization and LLM-based IP conflict detection) from a portfolio of 7 prioritized initiatives.
- Built and owned the 3-year IT Strategic Roadmap for Chemtech
- Aligned cloud and technology architecture with divisional business priorities and a CHF 1.5M annual investment envelope.
- Delivered CHF 500k in cost avoidance by challenging and discontinuing funded but low-value initiatives, demonstrated governance discipline and executive influence, with zero implementation spend.
Özgür K.
Last position:
Interim Project Manager (Finance & Legal Transformation) at Sieber Gruppe
- Set up and led a PMO to manage 8 Finance and Legal workstreams
- Planned and implemented a 2-stage transformation (7 → 2 companies), including coordination of key stakeholders
- Redesigned business structures as well as Finance and reporting processes
- Restructured the ERP landscape in Abacus, including go-live
- Structured financing initiatives, including Supply Chain Financing
- Established transparent reporting structures and improved liquidity, governance and compliance
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.
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.
Arthur B.
Last position:
Co-CEO / Owner at Ettiksoft GmbH
Delivering smart, scalable solutions tailored to clients’ real needs with a team of 100+ highly skilled professionals.
Embedded software solutions
AI solution consulting & development
Microsoft Power Automate & process optimization
Web development & lightweight applications
Steven I.
Last position:
Lead Consultant Finance, Controlling & Real Estate Management
Greenfield – S/4HANA (since January 2026 Post Merger)
Functional responsibility at the interface between Finance, Controlling and Real Estate Management in an S/4HANA transformation in the context of an announced merger
Key areas:
- Introduction of Lease Accounting according to IFRS 16 as the initial focus
- Design of integrated processes in leasing, real estate and Finance integration
- Cost Allocation and cost accounting in Controlling
- Expansion of the role to serve as the functional link between Finance, Controlling and RE-FX in the merger context
David B.
Last position:
External Project Manager in the Supply Chain Network at DEUTZ AG
- Project management (SAP BN (Ariba) onboarding, support for SAP ECC and SAP TM for supplier topics)
- Standardization of global value creation processes
- Basic training as well as central contact person for suppliers and support for planners
Greg M.
Last position:
Solenis Chemicals
- Migration from ECC to S/4 Hana Public Cloud
- Migration of FI/MM/PS/LO/EWM from ECC SP7 to S/4 Hana On-Prem via Migration Cockpit and ADM Syniti
- Conducted data cleansing and business partner restructuring workshops
- Aligned activities with cutover and transport management
- Data- and process-related incident triage and resolution in Solution ManagerFB
- Execution of regression testing via Tricentis TOSCA
- Financial reconciliation activities
Peter B.
Last position:
Workstream Lead Order-to-Cash at Schaeffler AG
- Workstream Lead Order-to-Cash for Deloitte Consulting in the discovery phase for the “Vehicle Lifecycle Solutions” business unit in the S/4 HANA transformation program S4us
Matteo G.
Last position:
Vice President IT Applications at Comet AG
- Provide global leadership for Comet’s enterprise applications and digital transformation agenda, acting as a strategic partner to the CIO and Executive Committee. Accountable for driving business value, operational excellence, and innovation across the entire enterprise systems landscape.
- Define and execute the global enterprise applications strategy across ERP, CRM, PLM, MES, HR systems (SuccessFactors, SAP HR), and Microsoft 365 (M365), ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with long-term business objectives.
- Partner with executive and regional business leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable digital initiatives that enhance efficiency, agility, and user experience.
- Drive Agile delivery practices across cross-functional global teams using Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead a centralized and standardized global application delivery model to ensure governance, efficiency, and consistency across all regions and business units.
- Own vendor management and sourcing strategy, establishing and monitoring KPIs, SLAs, and performance metrics for application reliability, user adoption, and business impact.
- Manage multi-million euro application budgets, optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and value creation.
- Strengthen IT governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance in line with GDPR, ISO, and IFRS requirements.
- Enable IT/OT convergence by integrating SAP, MES, PLM, and production systems with enterprise platforms, ensuring secure and interoperable manufacturing and R&D architectures.
- Act as Deputy CIO, contributing to enterprise IT strategy, cybersecurity programs, risk management, and transformation initiatives.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across global IT and business teams.
- Ensure efficient and cost-effective Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivery while maintaining required service levels across all application services.
- Oversee SAP AMS and non-SAP application support teams across internal resources and external MSPs.
- Ensure high service reliability through structured Incident, Change, and Problem Management in coordination with the IT Service Delivery organization.
- Establish and continuously monitor KPIs, SLAs, and application performance dashboards to ensure service quality and business continuity.
- Coordinate L2/L3 escalation paths across internal IT teams, MSPs, and software vendors to ensure rapid issue resolution.
Andrew L.
Last position:
Service Manager - Testing at Takeda Pharmaceutical International AG
- Managing the Testing services for the Global IT Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) team, which is responsible for managing and supporting the Product & Project Testing Workstreams on various Regional Projects, especially in Pharmacovigilance, Digital Supply Chain, Clinical Practice and R&D, etc.
- Managing Client relationships, escalations and continuing to grow the project services globally, while also driving the testing efforts on Takeda’s AI, DevOps, Agile, and Digital projects.
- Led the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with GCP, GMP, and Swiss and EU regulations, resulting in a huge improvement in audit readiness.
- Overseeing projects for systems including ERP, EDGE, SAP ECC, SAP Transportation Management, S/4 HANA migration etc.
- Led an AI/ML PoC for AI implementation.
- Led a cross-functional team to ensure compliance with MDR, FDA regulatory guidelines and achieved successful project deliveries.
- Led and managed change management and communication for TCoE, keeping the Takeda organisation informed of change communication and practices, including presentations to various stakeholders.
- Ensuring TCoE outsource vendor resources adhere to regulatory, compliance and quality system standards and practices for GxP & non-GxP System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including aSDLC and TCoE Global Standards.
- Translated the product vision, strategy and requirements into backlog items, which were prioritised based on potential business impact and customer value.
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)
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Statistics of experts using SAP ECC
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Supply Chain Management
Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Accounting
Bachelor's degree or higher
90%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
92%
Based on our profile pool as of 9 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland 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 Switzerland using SAP ECC
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 9 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP ECC experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Manufacturing (92%)
- Information Technology (67%)
- Professional Services (67%)
- Banking and Finance (58%)
- Chemical (50%)
- Transportation (50%)
- Pharmaceutical (50%)
- Food and Beverage (42%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
SAP ECC in practice
SAP ECC is the enterprise resource planning core formerly known as SAP R/3 and widely referred to as SAP ERP. It connects finance, controlling, procurement, sales, production, inventory, maintenance and human resources in one transactional system. Companies use it to standardise processes, maintain reliable master data and support operations across business units.
Core modules and processes
SAP ECC projects often span several integrated modules and business workflows:
- FI and CO for accounting, controlling, closing and reporting
- MM and SD for procurement, inventory, sales and billing
- PP and PM for production planning and plant maintenance
- HCM for personnel administration and payroll processes
Strong specialists understand how postings move between modules. They also account for authorisations, organisational structures, master data and country-specific process needs.
Ecosystem and tooling
The SAP ECC ecosystem includes ABAP, SAP GUI, SAP NetWeaver, Business Workflow, IDocs, BAPIs and RFC interfaces. Experts may also work with SAP Solution Manager, transport management, batch jobs, forms, reporting tools and database operations. Integration work can involve middleware, web services, EDI and connections to CRM, warehouse, banking or analytics systems.
When companies need specialists
Companies typically bring in freelance expertise during transformation, remediation or operational pressure:
- Preparing an ECC migration, carve-out or S/4HANA transition
- Resolving complex FI, logistics or production process issues
- Delivering ABAP reports, enhancements, forms or interfaces
- Improving data quality, controls, testing or release management
Swiss organisations may need specialists who can collaborate remotely across locations or work on-site during workshops, cutovers and go-live support. Language needs depend on the business, users and documentation.
What strong professionals deliver
A strong SAP ECC professional maps business requirements to standard functionality before proposing custom code. They clarify dependencies across modules, document decisions and protect upgrade paths. Their deliverables can include process designs, configuration, ABAP objects, interface specifications, migration plans, test cases, training material and runbooks.
Choosing the right expertise
Look for evidence of the exact ECC modules, industry processes and integration patterns involved in the assignment. Ask how the specialist approaches transports, testing, authorisations, data reconciliation and production support. Experience with the relevant SAP release matters, but so does the ability to explain risks clearly to business stakeholders and coordinate with internal teams.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to SAP ECC.
SAP ECC is used to run integrated enterprise processes such as finance, procurement, sales, manufacturing, inventory, maintenance and human resources. It gives organisations a shared transactional foundation and connects processes that would otherwise run in separate systems.
SAP ECC is the older SAP ERP generation, while S/4HANA is the newer platform built around the SAP HANA database and a redesigned data model. The right choice depends on the current landscape, transformation goals, process changes, timeline and migration constraints.
An SAP ECC specialist may also need ABAP, SAP NetWeaver, IDocs, BAPIs, RFC, SAP GUI, authorisations, testing and transport management. Depending on the project, useful adjacent knowledge includes EDI, middleware, databases, data migration and S/4HANA transition planning.
The right level for SAP ECC depends on the assignment, not a fixed number of years. A configuration adjustment may need focused module expertise, while a carve-out, complex integration or go-live requires a professional who has handled comparable dependencies, risks and production conditions.
Much SAP ECC work can be delivered remotely, including analysis, configuration, ABAP, documentation and testing. On-site collaboration can still be valuable for process workshops, warehouse or production visits, cutover planning and user support, especially when Swiss teams need close coordination.
Ask the SAP ECC specialist to describe a comparable process, the module dependencies and the controls used to validate the result. Review concrete deliverables such as test evidence, interface documentation, transport records, reconciliation steps and clear handover material.
SAP ECC remains important wherever core business processes still depend on it, even when a company is preparing a move to S/4HANA. Specialists can stabilise operations, remove technical debt, improve data quality and create a safer foundation for transformation.
A typical SAP ECC assignment may combine FI with CO, MM with purchasing and inventory, or SD with sales and billing. Manufacturing work often links PP, MM and CO, while maintenance can involve PM, MM and controlling, so cross-module understanding is essential.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects is 138 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,105 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 60% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects are German (92%), English (92%), and French (42%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects are Manufacturing (92%), Information Technology (67%), and Professional Services (67%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used SAP ECC in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Supply Chain Management (75%).
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Countries:
- Germany
- Switzerland
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