
SAP MM Experts in Munich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Munich, who have recently used SAP MM
Venkatakrishna G.
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.
Christian M.
Last position:
Self-employed business consultant at CuriousMinds Unternehmensberatung
- Strategic consulting, technical consulting, interim management, and training
- Management consulting and development of application solutions through interdisciplinary solution approaches
- Employee and team development as well as innovation and communication management
Akshay K.
Last position:
Pricing Expert/Business Analyst at ThyssenKrupp Materials India Pvt Ltd
Project: Develop a new generational Pricing system & Integration analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Implemented PROS Pricing integrated with SAP S/4HANA 2022 Greenfield implementation.
- Led pricing process transformation, improving business process efficiency through automation.
- Defined migration strategy, conducted user training, and supported solution rollout.
- Acted as Business Analyst for SAP BTP applications (Online ATP, Track & Trace, Order Status), translating business requirements into scalable solutions.
- Managed cross-functional delivery by coordinating SAP ABAP and Full Stack development teams.
Olga B.
Last position:
Project Manager, Business Analyst & AI Expert
Goal: Select and introduce an AI operating system, build a structured knowledge base, and develop AI agents and skills to increase efficiency across the entire company
- Analyzed requirements and evaluated suitable AI operating systems based on the company’s specific needs
- Designed and built a central knowledge base as the foundation for AI-supported processes
- Developed and configured AI agents and skills for recurring business processes
- Used prompt engineering to generate precise, context-specific outputs from AI agents
- Personally coached the founders and employees on using AI independently and effectively
- Managed the overall project, including planning, prioritization, and progress tracking
- Documented the solutions used and created usage concepts for sustainable operation
Tools: Langdock, SharePoint, prompt engineering, AI agents, AI skills
Diana G.
Last position:
Interim Project-Controller at Supplying industry defence
- Developed organization, task descriptions, processes and systems of the controlling system to improve activities.
- Harmonized ERP software within the group across IT procurement, plan data, controlling and reporting.
- Designed the basis for an agile and modern IT control system.
- Set up budget plans and supported master data and planning.
- Monitored and validated projects in the PM tool Sciforma, covering OPEX and CAPEX in line with legal requirements and group rules.
- Performed PMO assistance activities including meeting minutes, presentations and reports.
- Tools: SAP FI/CO, SAP MM, SAP PPM, PM-Tool Sciforma, MS Office 365.
Melanie G.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager & Cutover Lead (Freelance) at Omikron GmbH
- Responsible for cutover planning and go-live management of multiple parallel IT releases in the e-commerce environment
- Creating and maintaining cutover plans, runbooks and rollback scenarios, plus audit-ready documentation of all cutover activities
- Defining and managing go/no-go decisions, escalation paths and resource availability in the cutover window
- Coordinating technical and business workstreams, managing external service providers and ensuring data consistency
- Managing and reviewing trial cutovers, structured handover to the hypercare phase
- Cutover reporting and communication before, during and after go-live at decision-maker and C-level
- Result: All releases delivered on schedule, cutover processes sustainably established and handed over
Holger W.
Last position:
Project Manager - Commercial at Pfeifer Structures GmbH
- Large roofing projects worldwide – stadium roof of CF Valencia/Spain
- Preparing purchasing materials according to engineers’ specifications
- Contract negotiations with stakeholders and suppliers (both external and internal)
- Ensuring on-time delivery in optimal quantity
- Coordinating all peripheral areas on site in Valencia
- Ensuring supplier performance and compliance with high standards
- Overview and control of global logistics
- Developing and coordinating safety plans for on-site employee training
- Saving nearly €1 million by preventing steel anti-dumping duties
Stefan L.
Last position:
Director Procurement Europe at Zarges Holding GmbH
- Headed the establishment of a procurement organisation in Europe, including Lead-Buyer and NPD Buyer roles for the region as well as e-procurement and procurement tools.
- Started global sourcing.
- Drove increase in savings by three times from 2019 to 2020, reduced suppliers by 10%, quality complaints by 15% and improved on-time delivery by 10%.
- Inspired a high-performance team of more than 60 purchasing managers, regional lead buyers, supervisors supplier quality, supplier quality engineers, commodity buyers, NPD buyers and planner buyers through regular training, coaching and mentoring.
- Administered a spending budget of $200M for more than 10 production plants and regional distribution centres in Europe.
- Reduced costs by 3% EBITDA increase through effective negotiation, standardisation, VEVA/design to cost, BCCS, SCM, benchmarking, MoB, buy and resale, market analysis, relocation, outsourcing, insourcing and consolidation activities.
- Supervised formulation and implementation of category strategies with a rolling forecast by category.
- Set up SSC in Hungary including NPD, commodity and supplier quality function.
Ila B.
Last position:
Senior Agile Coach/Principal Consultant at Expleo Technology Germany GmbH
- Led agile transformation programmes that reduced delivery cycles by 20% and significantly increased adaptability of distributed ARTs.
- Guided leadership and teams in establishing self-organization, psychological safety and continuous improvement, resulting in higher team satisfaction.
- Moderated PI planning and Inspect & Adapt workshops to ensure transparent and aligned collaboration across nine teams.
- Built high-performing cross-functional teams and supported their skills development and trust-building.
- Linked agile transformation with intercultural team development to enable more effective collaboration among globally distributed teams and dismantle cultural barriers.
- Advised executive leadership on fostering diversity and inclusive corporate culture through targeted diversity workshops.
- Led two project teams (each with 11 developers and 2 testers) focusing on delivery excellence and high team autonomy.
- Conducted SAFe and Scrum training for over 60 staff members, achieving a 90% success rate in certifications.
Finn R.
Last position:
PMO at ebm papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
- Program governance support: assisted in maintaining planning and resource utilization, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, and timeline constraints
- Meeting and communication strategy: facilitated organization of steering committees, working groups, and all-hands meetings; prepared materials, created meeting minutes, and coordinated logistics
- Project reporting and coordination: collaborated with project managers on comprehensive project deliverable reports and ensured effective communication across all levels
- Deliverables oversight: monitored and controlled project deliverables to meet program requirements
- Change initiative coordination: supported assessment of change impacts on the integrated program management plan
- Project management certifications: trained in Prince2, IPMA, certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner
- Problem-solving: proactively identified and resolved issues efficiently
- Analytical and organizational skills: exhibited strong analytical abilities and exceptional organizational skills in structured and unstructured environments
Meryem G.
Last position:
Test Manager-SPOT at EON
- Overall process definition, planning, training, tools, effective execution, and progress and quality measurement of test activities at the release level
- Defining and improving the test process
- Scheduling of releases
- Coordinating alignment with release management for test setup and data provisioning
- Coordinating migration test planning for Westnetz, Mitnetz, and EON Grid
- Monitoring test progress, audit-proof documentation, progress tracking via defects, OSS reports, and incidents
- Designing and coordinating potential test automation
IT environment: Jira Zephyr, Confluence, SIGMA, PowerBI
Werner B.
Last position:
Product Visionary Sales & Operations Planning at BASF Digital Solutions GmbH
- Support of BASF units in change management for the introduction of a Sales & Operations Planning process based on OMP SOP
Isa G.
Last position:
SAP Test Lead Europe at Daiichi Sankyo
- Transformation project to S/4HANA
- Test management and coordination of functional tests for SAP
- Preparation and support of tests (SIT 1+2, MOCK 1+2, UAT) as part of the SAP S/4HANA rollout (SD, MM, FI/CO, MD)
- Creation of test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure system quality
- Monitoring and compliance with service level agreements (SLAs) as well as ensuring the timely delivery of agreed performance indicators
- Coordination of the approach with test managers from other regions (US, JP)
- Planning of European test activities in the SAP implementation project in cooperation with test managers from the supplier
- Coordination of interdisciplinary business and technical test teams in Europe
- Business collaboration with global implementation partners
- Use of Tricentis qTest and ValGenesis as test management tools (for validation-relevant processes)
- Training functional consultants in testing and test tools
- Creation and evaluation of change requests, including effort estimation, prioritization, and tracking
- Reporting on test progress
Thomas L.
Last position:
Head Margin Management and Commercial Controlling (Interim Mandate) at Pfleiderer
Lead commercial controlling team (3 direct reports) and ensure ongoing department operations such as sales reporting, planning and budgeting, ad-hoc business analyses on improvement potentials and business partner role to address strategic challenges as well as sales steering and sales management setup (e.g. sales incentives definition and monitoring, definition of key sales processes driving performance, tracking and reporting of strategic sales initiatives)
Collaborate with key stakeholders including PE investor, P&L owners (management board, head of sales) and functional heads (head of controlling, head of SCM, head of IT)
Provide functional leadership of commercial excellence team (department head and 6 direct reports) to define, further develop and execute commercial excellence roadmap as well as critical commercial operations such as long-term transformation agenda, price steering, CRM operations, EDI system, strategic customer planning process
Michael G.
Last position:
Interim Manager at Pixomondo Images GmbH & Co KG
- Provided technical support for tax reporting and reconciliations from IFRS to HGB with focus on IFRS 15 in an international environment
- Prepared missing documentation for annual audits of 2021 and 2022
- Served as single point of contact for tax authorities, tax advisors, and auditors
- Utilized SAP for reporting and design processes
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Statistics of experts using SAP MM
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years (Germany: 26 years)

Position duration
2.5 years (Germany: 3.2 years)

Positions per freelancer
16 (Germany: 17)

Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Operations

Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 85%)
Master's degree or higher
58% (Germany: 50%)
Doctorate
5% (Germany: 6%)

Certifications per freelancer
4 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Munich using SAP MM
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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 MM experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Manufacturing (84%)
- Information Technology (76%)
- Professional Services (68%)
- Automotive (52%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
- Pharmaceutical (40%)
- Retail (40%)
- Aerospace and Defense (36%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Materials management scope
SAP MM, or SAP Materials Management, supports the flow of materials from sourcing and purchasing through goods receipt, stock management and invoice verification. It gives companies a shared process for material master data, suppliers, purchase documents and inventory movements across locations.
Core SAP MM processes
Companies use SAP MM to structure and control purchasing and warehouse-related work:
- Material master and supplier data management
- Purchase requisitions, purchase orders and source determination
- Goods receipts, goods issues and stock transfers
- Invoice verification and purchasing analytics
- Batch, serial number and valuation processes
Ecosystem and integration
Strong SAP MM work depends on the wider SAP landscape. Experts connect purchasing with SAP FI for financial postings, SAP CO for cost control, SAP SD for sales-related stock flows and SAP PP for production planning. They may also work with SAP WM, SAP EWM, SAP S/4HANA, IDocs, APIs and migration tools.
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise is useful during SAP rollouts, S/4HANA transformations, template deployments and process redesign. It also helps when master data is inconsistent, purchasing controls are weak or inventory movements do not match finance records. In Munich, collaboration may involve local manufacturing, automotive, retail or life sciences operations and a mix of remote and on-site workshops.
Project deliverables
A specialist can document the current process, define the target design and configure SAP MM settings for purchasing, inventory and valuation. Typical deliverables include functional specifications, test scenarios, migration rules, training materials, role concepts and cutover plans. Clear ownership of master data and approval workflows is essential for a stable result.
What strong experts bring
The strongest SAP MM professionals combine process knowledge with careful configuration and communication. They understand purchasing policies, stock accuracy, valuation, tax-relevant invoice flows and integration dependencies. Look for someone who can explain design choices clearly, trace issues across modules and validate the solution with procurement, warehouse and finance users.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about SAP MM.
SAP MM manages materials, purchasing and inventory processes in an SAP environment. It covers material and supplier data, procurement documents, goods movements, stock visibility, valuation and invoice verification.
SAP Materials Management is the core ERP functionality for internal procurement and inventory processes. SAP Ariba focuses more on cloud-based supplier collaboration and sourcing, so companies may use both when they need connected external procurement and controlled ERP postings.
A strong SAP MM specialist usually understands SAP FI, SAP CO, SAP SD and SAP PP integration. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP EWM, master data governance, migration, IDocs and business process testing is also valuable.
The right level of SAP MM experience depends on the scope, system landscape and degree of process change. A configuration task may need a focused specialist, while a rollout or transformation calls for someone who has handled design, integration, testing, migration and cutover.
SAP MM work can often be delivered remotely through workshops, system access, documentation and structured testing. On-site sessions in Munich can still help with warehouse observation, stakeholder alignment and cutover preparation, especially for manufacturing and logistics operations.
Ask how the SAP MM specialist approaches master data, integration, testing and change management. Review comparable process work, ask for concrete deliverables and test whether the person can explain configuration decisions in terms that procurement, warehouse and finance teams understand.
SAP ERP Materials Management is common in manufacturing, automotive, retail, distribution, life sciences and other organizations with structured purchasing and stock processes. Its value is highest where material availability, traceability, valuation and supplier controls affect daily operations.
An SAP MM professional working with Munich-based teams should be able to document requirements clearly and coordinate with procurement, warehouse and finance stakeholders. German can support local workshops and user communication, while English is often important for international templates and cross-border project teams.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects is 116 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 928 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 58% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects are English (100%), German (96%), and French (36%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects are Manufacturing (84%), Information Technology (76%), and Professional Services (68%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used SAP MM in their recent projects are Project Management (88%), Information Technology (84%), and Operations (52%).
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