SAP NetWeaver Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SAP NetWeaver
Sven K.
Last position:
Technical Advisor / Assessment Lead (Product Delivery & AI-Transformation) at nexMart GmbH & Co. KG
Assessment of the product, delivery, and AI organization with a realignment of operational excellence, target architecture, and AI-first operating model
Situation: The product and delivery organization showed structural weaknesses in efficiency, control, and collaboration. In addition, there was no clear target architecture for AI-driven product and organizational development. At leadership level, there was limited transparency regarding roles, responsibilities, and operational performance.
Responsibility & approach:
- Analysis of the existing product, delivery, and organizational structures in terms of processes, governance, and controllability
- Evaluation of architecture and platform with regard to scalability, future readiness, and AI integration
- Development of a target picture for an AI-first product and delivery operating model
- Derivation of concrete measures to improve operational excellence and collaboration
- Sparring with the leadership team on structured organizational development
Results & impact:
- Creation of transparency regarding structural bottlenecks, performance, and decision-making logic
- Development of a target structure for a scalable AI-first product and delivery setup
- Improvement of decision-making capability and control at leadership level
- Creation of a solid basis for downstream transformation measures
- Definition of concrete levers to improve efficiency, collaboration, and time-to-market
Thomas S.
Last position:
Freelance SAP EWM and Logistics Consultant
Sergo N.
Last position:
SAP Principal Consultant (RM-CA) at Vodafone GmbH
- Support in fit-gap analysis for three RM-CA systems focusing on sub-ledger reconciliation, dunning, and collections processes.
- Stakeholder management in international teams (business colleagues, IT colleagues, and external partners).
- Escalation and risk management (PM).
- Cost and budget calculation (PM).
- Support in shaping the strategic direction of the global collections system.
- Resolving technical challenges for the central collections system (multi-company operation).
- High-level design of the central AR system with focus on scalability and process harmonization.
Martin M.
Last position:
Test automation for trading software at Martin Moser IT Consulting GmbH
- Set up GUI test framework for testers and developers to easily create GUI tests
- Implemented automated GUI tests with QF-Test for stock trading software and PDF file comparisons
- Created comparison runs between different versions
Used technologies: QF-Test, Java, Jython
André S.
Last position:
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
Oliver J.
Last position:
Project Management SAP S/4HANA, Business Consulting SAP S/4HANA at Schüco International
- SAP S/4HANA implementation
- Agile project & program management
- SAP S/4HANA main contact for business support for planning phase (Signavio, SolMan, Process Design Concepts)
Dieter K.
Last position:
SAP Senior Consultant at Shop and Catering
Implementation of MM and SD with integration of Diebold-Nixdorf cash registers
Capturing the required processes (inventory management, procurement, sales, and cash register processes)
Customizing MM and SD
Project planning and control
Master data upload and inventory recording using LSMW based on Excel spreadsheets
Cash register data transfer via EDI and IDoc processing (MBGMCR and ACC_DOCUMENT)
Creating extensive documentation for internal staff
No middleware; instructing and training customer staff in customizing; SAP standard as prerequisite
SAP ECC 6.0 modules MM, SD, FI
Thorsten O.
Last position:
Workstream Lead (WS) at Bank-Verlag GmbH
- Introduction of giro card with Visa Debit card payment function (Combocard) for Commerzbank
- Support for the Card Processing Team (card processing; Clearing & Settlement incl. Dispute Management teams) in project work
- Creation of requirements for the Clearing & Settlement team, Authorization team (AZ) and Card Production team (KP) as part of a requirements catalog
- Requirements engineering (requirements management) with business contact person
- Participation in workstream meetings between VISA Inc., SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, Commerzbank AG and consulting firms (PwC and Senacor Technologies AG)
- Sprint planning with Jira tickets of type Task and use of Confluence
- Creation and presentation of weekly status reports for the Clearing & Settlement, Dispute Management and Reporting & GUI workstreams
- Coordination with network and file transfer teams for connection tests of new interfaces, e.g. setup of host keys, use of VPN or sipnet connections
- Coordination of the delivery of test files, e.g. exchange rates (FX rates; TC 56 of VISA rates), VISA Debit and Credit transactions (format Base II) and EANSS/ISS Base II clearing files to the Debit Clearing System (DCS)
- Conducting coordination meetings on the use of Visanet Settlement Service (VSS) and PSD2 reports and payment traffic statistics (ZVS)
- Organizing workshops with FiServ (First Data) on Dispute Management and complaint handling
- Setup and maintenance of Open Point List (OPL) in Confluence
- Technologies/methods: Jira, Confluence, giro card, VISA Debit card, payments, Kanban board, BIN, routing, CIQ, VPAY, ScalaTest, Dispute Management
Heiko K.
Last position:
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
Eyüp Z.
Last position:
IT Project Manager for Real Estate IT at BNP Paribas Real Estate
- Responsibility for the specialist department
- Effective stakeholder management
- Management and prioritization of the backlog
- Resource and capacity planning
- Risk management
- Cost calculation and budget control
- Compliance with security guidelines and data protection regulations in a high-security environment (Bank regulations)
- Creation and monitoring of project timelines
- Planning and execution of workshops as well as the creation of user manuals
- Development and coordination of architecture maps with service providers and internal IT
- Creation and tracking of milestone plans
- Recording, analysis, and documentation of defects, including retesting until final approval for launch
- Coordination and execution of penetration tests
- Organization and management of User Acceptance Tests (UAT)
- Definition of Go / No-Go criteria for the launch
- Collaboration and organization of multinational teams
Hendrik W.
Last position:
Software Test and Maintenance Support at Anton Paar ProveTec GmbH
- Add/create test specifications
- Conduct regression tests
- Conduct release tests
- Analyze Jira tickets
- Identify software defects and fix them with C#
Bernhard H.
Last position:
SAP MM Consultant, Business Solution Design Specialist at Nomen Nominandum
- Finalised several addon implementation projects as project manager, coordinating external service providers
- Implemented VAT reporting, e-invoicing, asset reporting, drug reporting to governmental authorities
- Played key role as business solution design specialist in an S/4HANA implementation project across PP-PI, eWM, QM, PM, IM, MM, SD and other logistic areas
- Designed organizational structures and processes in all logistic areas
- Developed and proofread business blueprint, managed implementation, test preparation and migration
Bogdan O.
Last position:
Senior SAP ABAP Consultant/Developer – Microsoft RPA/AI Engineer at Karl Dungs GmbH & Co. KG
- SAP integration technical consultant
- Internal consultant/developer for SAP ABAP developments (ECC) in MM/SD/PP/HCM/QM/FI modules
- SAP Fiori/UI5 new development and application management services
- Account administrator for all applications in SAP BTP
- New development, enhancement, and maintenance of SAP SapScript, Smart Forms, and Adobe Forms
- Responsible for the SAP HCM module
- Certified Microsoft Power Automate Developer
- Certified Microsoft Azure AI Engineer
Heinrich S.
Last position:
SHB Software GmbH
- Development of an application database
- Development of a production database
- Development of a filling database for the PPG Weingarten paint plant based on VBA/ACCESS/SQL Server
Walid H.
Last position:
Senior Tester within the IT & Digital Roadmap at VTG-Aktiengesellschaft
- Consulting, planning, and adapting (extension and rebuild) of the existing test framework to cover necessary test cases as part of quality assurance for initiative implementations
- Executing cross-team manual test cases during regular sprint cycles
- Setting up test automation
- Advising front-end and back-end development on quality assurance aspects
- Building a framework for end-to-end test cases
- Performing software quality assurance across various projects within a program
- Supporting the creation of test cases
- Coordinating within the team with all relevant stakeholders
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Statistics of experts using SAP NetWeaver
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3.5 years
Positions per freelancer
19
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
59%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP NetWeaver
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 NetWeaver 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 (89%)
- Professional Services (70%)
- Manufacturing (65%)
- Retail (50%)
- Automotive (48%)
- Banking and Finance (48%)
- Healthcare (43%)
- Transportation (35%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Enterprise foundation
SAP NetWeaver is the technology platform behind many SAP business environments. It supports application services, data exchange, user access and integration across systems such as SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite and SAP BW. Companies use it to connect core processes and keep complex landscapes consistent.
Core capabilities
Professionals work across the SAP NetWeaver stack, including application servers, integration services and portal components. Their work can cover ABAP runtime environments, Java-based services, identity management, transport systems and system monitoring. Strong expertise also includes release planning and landscape design.
- Configure and maintain SAP NetWeaver application servers
- Connect SAP and non-SAP systems through integration flows
- Manage transports, users, roles and system interfaces
- Diagnose performance, availability and connectivity issues
Integration work
SAP NetWeaver frequently supports integration through SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration, commonly known as SAP PI/PO. Specialists design message mappings, adapters and routing logic for reliable data exchange. They may also prepare landscapes for SAP Integration Suite or other modern integration approaches.
When companies hire
Companies bring in freelance expertise during SAP migrations, carve-outs, upgrades and integration programs. External specialists are also valuable when internal teams need support with incidents, system consolidation or a temporary skills gap. In Germany, collaboration may involve remote delivery across locations alongside on-site workshops for process owners and infrastructure teams.
- Stabilise a critical SAP NetWeaver landscape
- Prepare an upgrade, migration or Unicode conversion
- Replace fragile interfaces and document dependencies
- Support a go-live, audit or operational handover
Connected skills
Useful adjacent knowledge includes ABAP, SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP Portal and SAP Solution Manager. Depending on the assignment, specialists also need experience with databases, operating systems, networking, security and enterprise integration patterns. Knowledge of German business processes and clear English communication can help distributed teams work effectively.
Quality signals
A strong professional explains the existing landscape before proposing changes. They can trace a business transaction through applications, interfaces, logs and authorisations, then turn findings into a controlled plan. Look for documented transports, rollback options, monitoring practices and clear handover material rather than isolated configuration work.
Ask for examples that match the relevant SAP NetWeaver version, components and operating model. Quality also shows in careful testing, transparent risk communication and the ability to work with functional teams, infrastructure specialists and SAP support processes.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about SAP NetWeaver.
SAP NetWeaver provides application, integration and data services for SAP business landscapes. Companies use it to run and connect systems such as SAP ERP, SAP BW and SAP Business Suite, while supporting user access, monitoring and enterprise-wide data exchange.
SAP NetWeaver is a platform and technology foundation used by several SAP products, while SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning product built around the SAP HANA database. They can appear together in transitional or connected landscapes, but they solve different architectural needs.
A strong SAP NetWeaver specialist may also bring ABAP, SAP PI/PO, SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP Solution Manager and SAP security knowledge. Operating systems, databases, networking and interface monitoring are important when the work covers the full landscape.
The right SAP NetWeaver experience depends on the components, release level and business risk involved. A platform upgrade, integration redesign or production incident needs someone who has handled comparable landscapes, not only someone familiar with basic administration.
Much of the SAP NetWeaver work can be delivered remotely through secured access, shared documentation and scheduled testing. On-site sessions may still help with workshops, infrastructure changes, controlled cutovers or teams that require local German-language collaboration.
Ask a SAP NetWeaver freelancer to explain how they would assess dependencies, transports, interfaces, authorisations and monitoring before changing a production system. Good answers include testing, rollback planning, documentation and a clear way to communicate technical risks to business stakeholders.
SAP NetWeaver often remains part of an existing SAP landscape during a cloud transition. A specialist can help assess dependencies, stabilise interfaces and plan the move toward services such as SAP Integration Suite without disrupting critical business processes.
Typical SAP NetWeaver deliverables include landscape assessments, integration designs, configuration records, transport plans, test evidence and operational runbooks. For a transition or handover, the documentation should also identify dependencies, open risks and clear ownership for ongoing support.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 813 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 59% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Professional Services (70%), and Manufacturing (65%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP NetWeaver in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Project Management (72%), and Quality Assurance (63%).
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