SAP GTS Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SAP GTS
Peter S.
Last position:
Project Manager for SAP GTS Trade Services, edition for SAP 4/HANA at ETENGO AG
- Creation of detailed concepts for all relevant GTS modules (compliance, pricing, customs clearance, Intrastat, preferences)
- Planning and conducting workshops, including scheduling and documentation
- Development and consulting of the organisational structure and its master data
- Setup and customisation of compliance functions: sanctions list review, embargo, legal control, US re-export
- Uploading and maintaining sanction and commodity lists
- Implementation and validation of integration tests
- Setup and customisation of the modules: pricing (including uploading of customs tariff numbers and STAWN data), customs clearance (including application for test operation with customs), Intrastat and preferences (including preference calculation and LLEs)
- Development and presentation of prototypes
- Derivation of insights for the final concept
Martin H.
Last position:
Lead Product Owner at Energy
- Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
- Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
- Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
- Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
- Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
- Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
- Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.
Michael S.
Last position:
Project Manager – Business Analyst – Demand Manager at Rheinmetall AG
- Gathering, evaluating, and prioritizing strategic demands from the Electronics and Power Systems business units
- Supporting the digitalization of business processes for Electronics and Power Systems
- Process digitalization and IT architecture planning, including network infrastructure
- Reviewing demands with regard to existing solutions in coordination with IT and business departments
- Designing and implementing possible business architectures
- Planning implementation projects, in particular supporting import control through the introduction of SAP GTS
- Acting as the interface between business departments and IT
- Creating and implementing concepts for IT security, compliance, data protection, and the protection of classified information
- Conducting workshops, process analyses, and training sessions
- Stakeholder management and change management
- Technologies used: SAP GTS, SAP MM, SAP SD, MS Office 2016, MS SharePoint, ServiceNow, SharePoint
Aleksandra G.
Last position:
Order Management & Export Specialist at Sonova Holding AG
- Processing global orders and managing export handling for sales partners and key customers with SAP R/3
- Ensuring compliance with international export regulations, dangerous goods rules, and proper export documentation for worldwide shipments
- Coordinating with Sales, Logistics, Finance, and Distribution to ensure on-time delivery and resolve operational issues
- Working with the SAP logistics modules SAP EWM, SAP TM, and SAP GTS across order-to-cash, returns, and logistics processes
Orhan Y.
Last position:
SAP Senior Consultant OTC/P2P/EWM/LE/CS/PS/GTS, C4C-Cloud (Sales, Services, E-Commerce) at High-Technologie
- SAP S/4HANA, OTC, 2nd & 3rd level support, project implementation of S/4HANA Cloud Private Sales & Services
- SAP SCM/OTC/P2P/LE/CS/PS, S/4HANA Private Cloud (Sales, Services), CPI, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), EDI, IDoc, ABAP, user exits, SAP Activate, ITIL, SAP Cloud ALM
- Support and consulting for integration of SAP ECC into new business areas in SAP S/4HANA
- Decommissioning legacy systems and implementation of the new harmonized SAP S/4HANA landscape
- Process optimization in SAP S/4HANA and support for daily requests from business users and key users
- Project implementation of S/4HANA Private Cloud Sales & Services
- Responsibility for the SCM stream within the global template
- Process design with Signavio and creation of Business Process Documents (BPD)
- Creation of functional design specifications (FS, TS) including interface design and WRICEF objects
- Ensuring integration of PTP with FI/CO, O2C and EWM through SAP customizing
- Migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud to replace legacy systems and implement a harmonized system landscape
- SAP BTP & CPI: extension of Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), integration of PTP with FI/CO, O2C and EWM, optimization of cloud-based services
- Analysis and evaluation of existing SCM processes in the SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud environment
- Design of integrated solutions in OTC, P2P, EWM, LE and PP including forecasting and capacity planning
- Extension of transportation processes in SAP TM and SAP LE-TRA to support multimodal transports focusing on rail freight and integration of external rail logistics providers via EDI (VDA, EDIFACT)
- Consulting on further migration to SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain
- Functional consulting on developed supply chain processes
- Management of SAP CCS processes for contract types and bonus agreements
- Execution and maintenance of distributions and settlement keys
- Support for integration of transfer rules into the CCS model
- Documentation of CCS process changes for traceability and compliance
- Customizing and optimization in OTC: condition maintenance for pricing, materials, freight, customers, price & material groups; extension of sales document types, item categories, credit memos, down payments and prepayments with pricing procedure, condition types, access sequences, condition tables, condition records, billing types, invoice types, item categories, sales document types, reconciliation accounts, tax accounts; integration with FI/CO for accounting and financial closing; bonus settlements; delivery process optimization; configuration of delivery schedule types with account determination; creation of schedule line categories for delivery schedules; maintenance of schedule lines for delivery schedule types; schedule line determination settings such as order date, delivery date, availability check rules, returns etc.
- Customizing and optimization in P2P: purchase requisitions, purchase orders, document types (reason codes for ordering, rejection and blocking), scheduling agreements and stock transfer schedules; maintenance of material master and vendor master; payment terms; Incoterms; purchasing groups; purchase prices; quota agreements; contracts; purchasing info records; release procedures (characteristics, classes and release strategies); message control; maintenance of vendor master data; assignment of purchasing info records to materials and vendors; configuration of vendor evaluation with weightings; execution and adjustment of material requirements planning processes; creation of detailed functional specifications for P2P processes such as goods receipt (MIGO), goods issue, purchase requisitions and orders; ensuring data quality and master data maintenance in tables such as MARA, LFA1 and LFB1 etc.
- SAP Fiori: extension and customizing of Fiori apps to improve usability and efficiency; implementation of analytical Fiori apps to monitor KPIs and processes; workflow optimization and UI adaptations for enhanced user experience in SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud
- Process modeling in Signavio; optimization and documentation of business processes; workshops and training on process modeling
- 2nd & 3rd level support in OTC, P2P, CS, PS modules (SCM): incident and change tickets; processing, resolution and documentation of SAP user requests; feasibility analysis for change requests; process optimization; service management with SAP CS; Cloud for Customer (C4C) for modern customer service processes; migration of SAP CS to S/4HANA Field Service Management (FSM); use of embedded analytics for service processes
- Customizing, testing, documentation, training; ensuring integration and collaboration between O2C, P2P and FI/CO modules for supply chain optimization; feasibility analysis; effort estimation; debugging; programming; IDoc and EDI monitoring etc.
- 2nd & 3rd level support in C4C Sales and Services: opportunities, surveys, user creation and authorizations; extension of Business Technology Platform; enhancement of CPI interface; customization of customer and material master data; orders; quotations; equipment; service notifications; surveys; tasks; PS orders; integration of PTP with FI/CO, O2C and EWM; ensuring integration and maintenance of MRP processes etc.
- Responsibility for process analysis and design in export processing, Intrastat and customs management in compliance with international trade regulations (e.g. export control, preference agreements, dual-use)
- Integration and optimization of Intrastat reporting in SAP SD including maintenance of statistical commodity codes, country of origin, tariff codes etc.
- Customizing in SAP SD foreign trade (SD-FT/FTT) for customs-relevant fields and processes
- Coordination and preparation for integration with SAP GTS, including ATLAS reporting, embargo checks, export control and tariff determination
- Collaboration with customs authorities and logistics providers on export declarations and approval processes
- Creation of test cases for customs processes, export documents, commercial invoices, export declarations etc.
- MDG (Master Data Governance): data quality and maintenance of master data in relevant tables (e.g. MARA, LFA1, LFB1); change requests for master data maintenance in O2C/P2P
- SAP S/4HANA migration: support for migration from SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA, including data migration, process optimization and system harmonization; support for global rollouts for subsidiaries in multiple countries; experience in developing SAP templates for global implementations
- ABAP: development and optimization of programs to extend functionalities in O2C and P2P modules; debugging and troubleshooting; customization and enhancement of user exits for customer-specific requirements; IDoc and EDI monitoring
Beserithan M.
Last position:
SD Development and CRM Interaction Center Development at Sanner GmbH
- Part-time 2-3 days/week
- Developments in the SD module and CRM Interaction Center
- Consulting, customizing in SD module
- Adapting Fiori applications in the SD module
- Approval workflow for credit memos: design, concept, implementation, customizing
- Credit memo request: object type BUS 2094
- If the credit memo request value is below a certain threshold -> automatic release and removal of billing block
- If the credit memo request value is above a certain threshold -> automatic determination of the responsible employee
- The employee receives a work item in their integrated inbox or in My Inbox (Fiori) -> the employee can reject, approve, or edit the credit memo request
- UML modeling in technical documentation
- Creating a Z-table for customer sample line items
- Merging COA1 (delivery) + COA2 (CAQ) forms and adding to the spool request as a single PDF
- Correcting workflow title according to NACE, fixing message "ZBMA title is displayed incorrectly in SBWP (Workplace)"
- Receiving PLM documents from an external PLM system, creating an RFC function module, storing PLM documents in the material master as GOS objects
- On releasing a production order, reading PLM documents from MM and saving them in a shared folder for the MES system
- Displaying the number of inspection methods in a popup when creating an order -> VA01/VA02
- Automatic stock reconciliation LVS IDOC INVCON
- Performing AQUA tests
- IDOC archiving for old IDOCs
- NL_PM_drawings and storing print output, informing MES via ZPPORDER IDOC, writing technical documents
- Using SD user exits, BADIs for various requirements
- Extending screens for customer requests via screen exits
- Creating message types for sales orders, purchase orders, and invoices
- Extending CRM Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> Contract with customer-specific requirements
- New Fiori application departure control with data from Z-table and standard equipment tables, displaying a pie chart, calculating "vehicles in operation"
- Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for performance feedback, attachments from GOS objects
- Extending Interaction Center Business Partner -> Overview -> new tab on Overview Page with list tables for PM quality notifications, attachments from GOS objects
- Implementing BADIs in CRM
- File storage on SAP server/UNIX server
- Using BOL/GENIL architecture in CRM development
- Project language: German
Andreas N.
Last position:
Project Manager at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg rbb / IVZ
- Implementation of a GDPR-compliant knowledge management system "Ylvi" using Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (EU operation)
- Deployment of RAG technology (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and ChatGPT model for a digital coaching service
- Provision of company information: training documents, training videos, intranet content, technical concepts, best-practice processes, change management materials
- Used as an expert system in user support, with key users and end users
- Knowledge transfer on LLMs and RAG
- Research and development of RAG model structure and language model configuration
- Solution architecture, document analysis, test concept for language models, knowledge transfer workshops, content analysis, test concept, system prompt development
- Development control, stakeholder management, change management, implementation, deployment
Dirk K.
Last position:
Customs Declarations and Freight Forwarding
- Worked in wholesale trade for ship parts
- Responsible for customs declarations
- Freight forwarding for domestic and international shipments
Harald W.
Last position:
ABAP, ABAP-OO Senior Developer, Logistics Senior Consultant at Self-employed
Olaf S.
Last position:
SAP GTS at Landis+Gyr
Functional design and specification of key SAP GTS processes, including
- Compliance,
- EU Preference Management and
- Reporting. Translate business requirements into specifications ready for implementation by third-party development teams.
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Statistics of experts using SAP GTS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
29 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
24
Top business areas
Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Logistics
Top industries
Information Technology, Transportation, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Human Resources, Logistics
Bachelor's degree or higher
63%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP GTS
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 GTS 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 (80%)
- Transportation (80%)
- Manufacturing (70%)
- Professional Services (70%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Food and Beverage (60%)
- Retail (50%)
- Healthcare (40%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Global Trade Control
SAP GTS, short for SAP Global Trade Services, supports companies that move goods across borders. It centralizes trade compliance processes such as import and export control, customs communication, sanctioned-party screening and product classification. The solution helps organizations apply consistent rules while keeping logistics and commercial processes connected.
Core Capabilities
SAP GTS experts work across the main functional areas of the product and align them with business processes.
- Configure customs declarations, procedures and communication
- Set up export control, embargo checks and sanctioned-party screening
- Maintain tariff numbers, legal control data and product classifications
- Manage preference determination and origin documentation
- Connect trade compliance with order, delivery and logistics flows
SAP Ecosystem
Successful SAP GTS work depends on more than configuration inside the application. Specialists often integrate SAP GTS with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP EWM and SAP TM, using standard interfaces, middleware and master-data processes. They understand how business partners, products, plants, materials and documents move between systems and where validation belongs.
When Expertise Helps
Companies bring in freelance SAP GTS expertise during global rollouts, system migrations, compliance redesigns and acquisitions. Support is also valuable when customs processes are changing, screening results need refinement, or trade data is incomplete. In Germany, projects may involve collaboration with local trade, logistics and finance teams alongside international stakeholders; clear communication in German and English can matter.
- A new country, plant or legal entity must be added
- SAP S/4HANA transformation affects trade processes
- Screening, classification or preference rules need review
- Interfaces produce inconsistent customs or compliance data
Project Deliverables
A strong professional can turn requirements into a workable design, configuration and test plan. Typical deliverables include process maps, solution specifications, configured controls, integration mappings, test scenarios, migration rules and user documentation. Experienced specialists also support cutover, issue resolution and knowledge transfer after go-live.
Quality Signals
Look for hands-on experience with the SAP GTS release and integration pattern used in your landscape, not only general SAP knowledge. Ask how the professional has handled master data, customs authorities, legal changes, audit trails and business exceptions. Strong specialists explain compliance decisions clearly, document configuration, test end-to-end processes and distinguish standard functionality from carefully governed extensions.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about SAP GTS? Start with the answers below.
SAP GTS is used to manage and control international trade processes. It supports customs declarations, export control, embargo checks, sanctioned-party screening, product classification, preference management and trade documentation.
SAP GTS is often considered when a company wants trade controls closely integrated with SAP business and logistics processes. Separate tools may offer strong specialist functions, but they can require additional integration, data synchronization and ownership across systems.
A capable SAP GTS freelancer should understand SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA integration, material and business-partner master data, logistics documents and interface monitoring. Knowledge of customs operations, export control, SAP EWM, SAP TM and testing is also valuable.
The right level depends on the scope. A focused configuration task may need a specialist familiar with one functional area, while a global rollout or migration calls for someone who has handled architecture, integration, data, testing, cutover and stakeholder coordination across several trade processes.
Yes, much of SAP GTS design, configuration, documentation and testing can be completed remotely. On-site work may still help during workshops, warehouse or customs process reviews and go-live support, especially when German-speaking teams need close coordination.
Ask for examples that match your trade processes, SAP landscape and integration needs. A strong SAP GTS specialist can explain classification, screening, customs data, legal controls and exception handling in business terms, while showing how configuration and testing will be documented.
SAP Global Trade Services is the full product name commonly shortened to SAP GTS. The terms refer to the same SAP solution, so project discussions should focus on the relevant release, modules, integrations and trade processes rather than the naming difference.
A high-quality SAP GTS freelancer combines functional trade knowledge with practical SAP integration skills. They protect master-data quality, test complete document flows, explain compliance impacts, manage exceptions and leave the internal team with clear documentation and usable procedures.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects is 109 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 876 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects, 63% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects have 29 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (90%), and French (30%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects are Information Technology (80%), Transportation (80%), and Manufacturing (70%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP GTS in their recent projects are Supply Chain Management (100%), Information Technology (90%), and Logistics (90%).
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