SAP HCM Experts in Berlin

Pira J.

Interim HR & Talent Acquisition Consultant

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Interim HR & Talent Acquisition Consultant at Independent Consultant

Clients: Dover, Korn Ferry, Leoni, Lonza, Mars, Molnlycke, Novartis, RELX Group, Schaeffler, Softing AG, Takeda, Wipro
Industries: Automotive, consulting, construction, engineering, IT, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals (including tariff-bound structures & regulated environments)
Approx. 2 500–50 000 employees
Advised HR Business Partners and leadership on operational HR topics, workforce planning and compliance matters
Supported implementation and optimization of HR processes within industrial and tariff-bound environments
Collaborated closely with works councils in Germany on hiring and structural topics
Contributed to policy interpretation and application in line with labor law and internal governance
Supported employee relations cases in cooperation with HR and legal teams
Led and supported corporate change management initiatives within industrial and matrix organizations
Supported corporate organizational restructuring and workforce adjustment measures in close collaboration with senior leadership and works councils
Ensured process compliance within SAP HCM/SuccessFactors systems
Delivered HR reporting and analytics to senior stakeholders
Led high-volume recruitment initiatives across multiple regions
Delivered end-to-end recruitment, ensuring efficiency, cost control and candidate experience
Designed and implemented sourcing strategies to attract top talent globally
Built and maintained high-caliber talent networks and proactively engaged passive candidates
Evaluated and implemented data analytics tools for enhanced recruitment insights
Contributed to internal talent development and shared recruitment best practices

André S.

IT Consultant SAP® Authorizations RAD/UAM, Basis Administration, SAP® IS-U EMD, Billing Processes

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IT Consultant SAP® Administration at Lechwerke AG (LEW)

IT services for the administration of the SAP® systems NETZ/Sales, BW, Core, Portal
Administration of SAP® authorizations and users via central user administration (ZBV) in SAP® Solution Manager
Setup and further development of SAP® authorization roles
Role assignment according to requests
Creation, change, and deletion of users
Incident handling and error analysis (e.g. authorization trace, debugging in test systems)
Cooperation with the SAP® development team on new implementations and process changes
Special tasks
Execution of Privileged User Management (PUM) 2023–2025 using Security Bridge
Decommissioning of the SAP® Core system and migration to S/4HANA

Bertrand R.

Interim IAM Product Owner (Identity Management)

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Interim IAM Product Owner (Identity Management) at REWE digital GmbH

Establishing Identity & Directory Management as a new (split-off) team & product within the IAM cluster.
Leading the “Identity & Directory Management” product (8 people) as Product Owner.
Concept for ‘Digital Identities’, i.e. IDs with n users/accounts and strategy for a modernized product offering.
Upgrading APIs, migrating to a containerized infrastructure, rolling out international markets & standardized solutions across the REWE enterprise group.
Tech: OpenText™ (NetIQ) eDirectory & Identity Manager, LDAP, SAP HR/HCM, Docker/Kubernetes/Podman, REST APIs, Microsoft Active Directory & Entra ID, postgresDB, Keycloak, Ansible, Cyberark (PAM), Apache Kafka, Jira, Confluence, Miro.

Heiko K.

SAP Development, Adobe Form Development

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SAP development, Adobe form development at Arvato SE

conversion of a function-group-based Adobe Interactive Forms framework to an object-oriented Adobe framework for documents in transport/logistics and dunning (FI)
Adobe Lifecycle Designer 11.0.1 for SAP
creating new and troubleshooting existing forms, function modules, programs, classes, and methods
maintaining Smart Forms
document printing, email sending, and file archiving
message control for deliveries, orders, invoices, proforma invoices, and transports
ticket system: Jira
communication: Microsoft Teams
migrating customers to a new SAP framework
handling incident and change request tickets
software: SAP ERP 6.0, SAP_ABA 7.5G, S4CORE 1.05

Nick P.

Global ERP, AI & Supply Chain Project Manager

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Global ERP, AI & Supply Chain Project Manager at Dr. Martens

Led the end-to-end delivery of a SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM / TD / SD) ERP programme, covering project initiation, detailed requirements gathering, operating model definition, system design, build, testing, cutover, and global Go Live across Europe, Asia, and North America. Ensured the ERP solution supported key supply chain, manufacturing, and planning operations to enable future business growth.
Conducted cross-functional workshops with Supply Chain, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, and Logistics teams to capture business requirements, define the future operating model, and map end-to-end system design. Consolidated over 150 requirements into structured documentation aligned with SAP standards.
Shaped solution design and vendor engagement during the early discovery phase, supporting selection of best-fit technology partners and ensuring the system design covered production planning, inventory management, warehousing, logistics, and supply chain forecasting.
Managed D365 configuration and troubleshooting, ensuring alignment with business processes and resolving integration issues between D365, SAP SCM modules, and surrounding systems.
Supported Grain data model changes to lead ingestion of planning data into Snowflake and Footprint, enabling enterprise reporting and analytics development.
Managed scope, timelines, risks, and dependencies across international teams spanning Europe, Asia, and the US, maintaining integrated project plans, issue logs, and executive reporting to drive stakeholder alignment and delivery momentum.
Enabled the integration of AI-powered demand forecasting tools into supply chain planning processes, improving forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, and operational decision-making across multiple regions.
Led SIT, UAT, and data migration phases, including design of test scenarios, defect triage management, and coordination of test execution to validate supply chain and manufacturing workflows prior to deployment.
Delivered detailed cutover planning, business readiness activities, and hypercare support, ensuring a smooth and coordinated Go Live and full operational handover to business teams.

Beserithan M.

SAP All-round Developer

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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

Sai R.

SAP Solution Architect & Developer (Datasphere)

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SAP Solution Architect & Developer (Datasphere) at PwC US

Spearheaded the development of BW Bridge and Datasphere models, integrating S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and BDC to enable real-time analytics in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
Designed and implemented Calculation Views using SAP HANA Modeler, aligning with LEONI's requirement for expertise in BW/4HANA modeling and Eclipse.
Authored comprehensive technical documentation and RICEFW objects, ensuring clarity and alignment with business requirements.
Conducted training sessions for internal teams on Datasphere and BW Bridge, fostering knowledge transfer and self-sufficiency.

Jörg H.

Managing Director; Data Protection Officer; Information Security Officer

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Managing Director; Data Protection Officer; Information Security Officer at Datenschutz24 (brand of Sovestro GmbH)

Drafting company agreements related to data protection
Acting as a mediator between business interests and data subject rights in a corporate context
Process analysis and evaluation regarding data protection and information security implications according to GDPR, BDSG, BSI baseline protection
Support for information security audits according to ISO 27001
Implementation of change management processes
Analysis of IT infrastructure and deriving recommendations
Expert support in legal proceedings and communication with supervisory authorities
Preparation of data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) and procedure and processing documentation (VVZ)
Training on corporate data protection and information security
Cooperation with law firms in legal proceedings

Niko W.

Strategic HR & Reward Partner

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Strategic HR & Reward Partner at Freelancer

2024–2025: Strategic Total Rewards project to launch a new corporate total rewards function, including organizational design, job architecture, job grading, salary range design, job benchmarks, design of total rewards key processes, implementation of SuccessFactors Compensation Module at Bauer Media Group, Hamburg
2023–2025: International job grading review (job grading with Hay, market benchmark, salary positioning analysis) for 5 000 employees and 750 jobs worldwide at KWS Berlin GmbH, Berlin
2023–2024: Job grading project within the context of implementing a new in-house collective agreement for 1 700 employees and 400 different jobs (job architecture, job grading with Hay, salary and cost analyses) at ASML Berlin GmbH, Berlin
2023: Realign annual objective setting and bonus (development of objective scorecard, design of variable remuneration, benchmark with external market, communication & change) at Klingele Papierwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Remshalden
2023: Compensation & benefits project to create a job map and salary system (including external benchmark) at Emnify GmbH, Berlin
2022: Strategic reward project to define a job architecture and benefit scheme at Comgy GmbH, Berlin
2022: HR set-up of OpenRad Germany (carve-out; former part of medneo Group), Berlin
2022: Creation of a job architecture (job description, job evaluation, job levels), implementation of a salary benchmark and definition of career paths at MCL IT GmbH, Böblingen
2022: Redesign of the compensation & benefits model (job grading, salary benchmark, benefit review) at kbrw SAS, Paris, France
2021–2022: Improvement of the people experience (including Workday improvements), the HR organization and HR processes at Mister Spex SE, Berlin
2021–2022: Interim Head of People Operations, Compensation & Benefits and HR IS at Mister Spex SE, Berlin

Permanent clients: TUCOWS Inc. (Toronto, Canada); bibliotheca Group (Cheadle, UK); QAD Europe Group (Warsaw, Poland); Epredia Group (Kalamazoo, Michigan, US); FIRST Event & Marketing Group (Dublin, Ireland)

Gopal K.

SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect

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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

Sebastian H.

Head of Human Resources

Kleinmachnow

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Head of Human Resources at Sky Deutschland Customer Center GmbH

Strategically managed HR policies with a direct reporting line to executive management
Collaborated on pan-European projects to consolidate HR processes and projects
Supported campaigns to improve employee engagement
Responsible for implementing new system-based processes and tools in HR
Served as liaison to various departments of the parent company, Sky Deutschland
Held disciplinary responsibility for 5 employees in the HR department

Peter S.

Freelance HR Manager