SAP PLM Experts in Germany
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Martin Hermann
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.
Farid Alam
Last position:
SAP Data Migration & Data Management Consultant for SAP GEMINI at Montblanc
The consultant's responsibilities/actions are:
- Consulting on the migration of material master & PP Master data
- Prepare Article List template for Cutover Phase
- Implementation of data cleansing measures using individual and bulk changes
- SAP all mandatory fields data extraction regarding Business needed
- SAP migration, Cutover, Testing, BAT, UAT
- Align with the multiple Stakeholders regarding Data from Legacy and SAP System
- Deployed SAP MM best practice (guided configurations, active methodologies and road map for project initiation)
SAP ERP | SAP GEMINI | SAP Fields Coordination | Documentation | SAP IDoc | SAP Integration | SAP End-to-End Process | SAP MM (Material Management) | SAP Functional Consultant | SAP Gap analysis | SAP MDM (Master Data Management) | Data Migration & Management
Janko Böhm
Last position:
RTE, Agile Coach at Haufe Group SE
Transformation of the program organization from six subprojects into a scaled agile setup as RTE to stabilize the go-live date
Organizational development by building virtual, agile, cross-functional teams and establishing metrics and performance indicators
Coaching agile development and rollout principles for an SAP migration
Training internal staff for new roles and toughening up effort estimates towards the steering board
Switching to agile governance and reporting structures with a focus on end-to-end business processes
Establishing the product owner role and promoting agile principles in the SAP development team
Reduced delivery times through domain-based scoping and smaller cycle times
More reliable delivery forecasts and increased delivery rates
Earlier and more frequent feedback from business units, increased trust, and cost savings by eliminating duplicate structures
Andreas Winters
Last position:
Enterprise Architect at Own development / IP of CAMCO Engineering UG
UEF 3.0 · Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) · Autonomous Systems (UAS / dual use)
- Designed: Semantic Government Overlay (SGO) – AI-guided administration without replacing existing specialist procedures. Read-only semantic layer over registers and specialist processes based on the Federal Information Management (FIM). Decision authority remains with the case worker (architecture principle).
- Developed: Reference architecture with source-backed, derived statements (Executable Ontologies OWL/RDF/SHACL). Technically guaranteed purpose limitation and no-write-path principle in specialist data – auditable, without a central data pool.
- Anchored: Regulation as a design principle: EU AI Act (high-risk obligations for public-sector AI, fundamental rights impact assessment under Art. 27), GDPR, NIS2, and administrative automation limits (§ 35a VwVfG, § 31a SGB X) as technical control points in the architecture.
- Created: Methodical tool for pilot organizations: data pipeline assessment (phase 0), compliance blueprint, and management summary as a decision-ready package for public administration.
- Specified: UEF 3.0 as a successor architecture to TOGAF – decision paper, canonical ontology, six-layer architecture, read/actuate boundary, federation registry, terminology concordance, and release delta as a closed specification status.
- Architected: AI-native mission OS for autonomous UAS and ground robotics as a tactical layer on top of a separately approved autopilot. Run-time assurance according to ASTM F3269-21 (Simplex pattern): the verified safety controller keeps authority, the AI function provides suggestions.
- Designed: Three-tier architecture – Tier 0 autopilot with 650 Hz flight control on RTOS, Tier 1 AI OS with semantic world model and multi-agent cluster, Tier 2 swarm and ground mesh. Zenoh as the primary fabric, MAVLink as the only authenticated command path (single writer). Result: graceful degradation – loss of the mission, not of the aircraft.
- Secured: Two-gate chain on the read/actuate boundary – governance gate (can-question: AI Act risk class per actuation, enforced human oversight under Art. 14, immutable log) before the RTA safety monitor (is-it-correct question: flight envelope, geofence, energy reserve) with revert to the baseline controller.
- Anchored: Dual-use architecture with common core and build-time fork instead of runtime switch. Three separate legal levels: civil variant – UAS under the EASA Basic Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 with the limited applicability under Art. 2(2) of the AI Act, ground robotics under the Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 with the full high-risk obligation chain, Cyber Resilience Act for both; unarmed carrier variant as defense material under AWG/AWV and Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821 (BAFA approval); armed variant under KrWaffKontrG. Each variant lives under exactly one dominant legal regime. Evidence base: AI BOM, SBOM, and complete data lineage.
- Analyzed: System analysis and realignment of grown engineering system landscapes. Approach concept for consolidation without migration – semantic layer over the existing sources instead of data transfer. Result: decision-ready implementation concept including an evaluation model for the target architecture.
Michael Kunisch
Last position:
Freelance Consultant at Tepo – Gebäudedienste GmbH
- Replacement and renewal of the existing client PCs with an upgrade to Windows 11 and mobile workstations with laptops and docking stations
- Introduction of Office365 with OneDrive use
- Introduction of e-invoicing with DATEV accounting software
- Revision of the standard office applications in daily use
- File storage in SharePoint instead of local data storage
- New authorization structure for users
- Use of Microsoft accounts to synchronize profiles
- Reorganization of the document scanning process with storage in SharePoint
- New backup concept in addition to the Microsoft cloud solution
- Introduction of new data structures: review and separation of data into active, inactive, private, business
- Simplification of processes
- Increased data security and improved security
- Permanent data availability at all internal and external workplaces
Dominik Piecuch
Last position:
Head of IT at Aarsleff Spezialtiefbau GmbH
- Disciplinary and professional leadership of the IT and service team
- Definition and documentation of the Current Mode of Operation (CMO) in Confluence: application landscape, infrastructure, networks, backup & storage
- Development of the Future Mode of Operation (FMO) including process analysis & stakeholder interviews with all departments using BPMN and flowcharts
- Optimization of license management: reduction of ongoing software costs by approx. 17% p.a.
- Introduction and establishment of Jira as the central tool for project and service management
- Introduction and rollout of the HR software MindKey to digitize HR processes
- Introduction of a VoIP solution with Microsoft Teams incl. PSTN connection to replace classic telephony
- Introduction of the production and planning software OptiControl to digitize operational processes
- Rollout of Intune as a Mobile Device Management solution for Windows, iOS and Android
- Build-up of Power BI dashboards for machine park monitoring and financial reporting
- Planning and execution of the IT consolidation of two locations for 170 users
- Introduction of automated penetration testing with Pentera
- Coaching and mentoring the team in agile methods & project management
- Operational support in day-to-day business: administration, incident & change management
- Management of external service providers and assurance of the quality of outsourced IT services
- Responsibility for the IT budget incl. planning and controlling
- Direct reporting line to management with regular management reports on IT KPIs, budget and project status
Yves Wullaert
Last position:
Program Director, Project Manager
- Senior program director and enterprise architect with nearly 30 years of operational experience in HR, ERP, security, risk management, finance, PLM and SLM.
- Expertise in IT program and project management, engineering, process management and organizational development.
- Experience working for the world leader in service management software, rail transportation and a leading tier 1 automotive supplier.
- Subject matter expertise in finance, automation processes, logistics, ERP and PLM and integration, including related end-to-end lifecycle data management and enterprise architecture.
- Specializes in managing large and complex engagements, programs and projects from demand, idea and strategy to operation, including stakeholder and change management.
- Expertise areas: HR, ERP, SecOps, integrated risk management, supply chain and operations, finance, SLM, product strategy, lifecycle management, shared services, IT and PLM.
- Industry experience in technology, tier 1 automotive, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, high technology and software industries, banking and insurance, and railway.
- Experience with SecOps (security incident response and vulnerability management), digital portfolio management, integrated risk management, service portfolio management and business continuity planning.
- Experience defining and designing integrated risk management including security and operations (response plans), CMDB initiatives and shared service implementations.
- Implemented integrated risk management including digital business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, digital maturity assessments and security risk registers.
- Technology skills include SAP, HR, time and attendance, ERP, PLM, ALM, ITSM and CAD systems.
- Experience with cloud-based services and master data management.
- Familiar with TOGAF, IT4IT, SAFe and PPM.
- Project client exposure to companies such as Siemens, BMW, Daimler, BASF, Bayer, Bosch, DHL, DB Schenker, ServiceNow, Bombardier, KION, Johnson Controls, Schaeffler, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, FEMSA, CEMEX, Nestlé, Heineken, Air France/KLM, Airbus, Vodafone, Majorel, Virgin Trains, Equinor, ASML and Volvo.
- Holds a master’s degree in informatics and a bachelor’s degree in applied economics.
Martin Mittermeyer
Last position:
Requirements Engineer at MCM Modern Engineering UG HB
- Analysis of the current process
- Development of the target processes
- Support for the implementation of improvements in an SAP-enabled program
- Simplification of customer contact initiation
- Streamlining internal processes through automated real-time verification of claim relevance
- Creation of use cases
Thorsten Otremba
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
Serge Driendl-Struß
Last position:
Solution Architect Manufacturing (PS, PP, PEO, PLM, PM/EAM) at EFW – Elbe Flugzeugwerke / Airbus
- Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
- Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.
Armen Markarian
Last position:
CTO/CPO Platform & Technology at Green Mobility Holding
- Overall responsibility for platform transformation across ERP, CRM, PIM, and AI-driven process automation
- ERP transformation: Implementing and migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- CRM & growth stack: Implementing HubSpot as the central CRM and a platform for lead and marketing automation
- Product data & commerce enablement: Introducing an ePIM to scale category management and digital commerce processes
- AI-driven process automation: Designing and implementing agent-based AI workflows to automate processes in business services, accounting, tender management, and marketing
- Building a scalable platform organization including product development, DevOps, UX, cloud engineering, and corporate IT
- Implementing modern product and portfolio governance (e.g., OKRs, portfolio boards, value-based roadmaps) to manage technology-driven initiatives
- Harmonizing heterogeneous system landscapes and transforming them into a modular, scalable platform architecture (ERP, CRM, PIM, integrated customer journeys)
- Coaching and developing product owners, tech leads, delivery managers, and UX teams to build a scalable product organization
Peter Pries
Last position:
CRM & Bid Management Project Consultant at Global mechanical engineering company
- CRM process and feature consulting
- AI infusion workshops to introduce AI apps for critical business processes
- Prototyping – Vibe coding with Lovable
- Development of several apps for global bid management in the CPQ, Salesforce, and SAP S/4HANA environment
- Requirements and process management
- Introduction of a new data governance model
- AI infusion – supporting apps and business processes with AI applications
- Portfolio management of AI ideas: identifying and selecting AI projects in bid management
- Prototyping AI projects with Lovable.dev
- Building an AI data foundation in Snowflake
- Blueprint for different business units and global rollout
- An agile prototype-first approach with design thinking and vibe coding to prototype all applications
- Presentation at a global conference on using AI in business and validating ideas with design thinking & vibe coding
- AI infusion workshops at global conferences for prototyping ideas with business stakeholders
Beserithan Malabakan
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
Olaf Wilde
Last position:
Business Processes Principal Consultant, Value Prototyping Team at SAP AG
- Managed proof of concept and prototype projects for SAP Rapid Prototyping across multiple industries
- Conducted As-Is reverse engineering and To-Be business process, requirements and pain-points workshops
- Designed streamlined, pragmatic end-to-end business solutions integrating SAP ERP, PI, APO and legacy systems
- Developed structured project proposals and online repositories for sprint planning, tasks, requirements and documentation
- Encouraged continuous improvement with lean/agile, user-centered project management style
- Executed rapid prototyping to support key design decisions in running systems
- Provided production support and training for midsize and global companies
- Delivered jump-start implementations, upgrade strategies, feasibility studies and risk assessments
Matthias Oehme
Last position:
Freelance Collaboration at Etengo (for Syna AG)
Consulting in the SAP EAM module as part of the migration to EON's oneERP S/4HANA system
Reviewing and cost estimation of customer-developed solutions (e.g., cockpit for EAM orders, document flow visualization)
Preparing EAM classification data for technical objects (technical locations, equipment) for migration to new classes
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Statistics of experts using SAP PLM
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
4 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
94%
Master's degree or higher
65%
Doctorate
6%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP PLM
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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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
SAP PLM in practice
SAP PLM, also known as SAP Product Lifecycle Management, connects product data, approvals, and change processes across development, manufacturing, and service. It helps companies manage documents, structures, and revisions in one controlled flow.
Typical delivery areas
- Product data and document management
- Bill of materials and change records
- Engineering change workflows
- Integration with SAP ERP and S/4HANA
- Support for compliance-heavy product processes
Tooling and ecosystem
SAP PLM rarely stands alone. Strong professionals work across SAP modules, master data, workflow tools, and interfaces to CAD, MES, and archive systems. They also need a clear view of how business users, engineers, and supply chain teams move the same product information through the system.
When companies bring in freelance help
Teams usually look for freelance expertise during rollouts, upgrades, template harmonization, data migration, or process redesign. In Germany, this often matters in manufacturing, automotive, machinery, and regulated industries where SAP PLM must fit strict release and documentation rules.
What strong specialists do well
A strong SAP PLM specialist understands both process and configuration. They can map business requirements to clean structures, avoid duplicate data paths, and keep document and change handling stable across connected systems.
Signs you need SAP PLM expertise
- Product data is inconsistent across teams
- Change control takes too long
- BOM or document links break during updates
- SAP and non-SAP systems do not align
- Users need clearer workflows and ownership
Frequently asked questions
Questions about SAP PLM? Start with the answers below.
SAP PLM is used to manage product information across the full lifecycle, from design and release to maintenance and change control. It ties together documents, bills of materials, revisions, and approval steps so teams work from one controlled source.
SAP PLM focuses on product lifecycle processes, while SAP ERP and S/4HANA handle broader operational and financial execution. In practice, PLM often feeds clean product data into ERP so production, procurement, and service teams can rely on it.
A strong SAP PLM specialist usually also knows master data governance, workflow design, BOM handling, and interface topics. Experience with CAD integration, document management, and related SAP modules is often important too.
A SAP PLM freelancer does not always need a long internal history, but they do need clear process owners and access to current data models, workflows, and interfaces. The better the project brief, the faster they can fix gaps without disturbing live product data.
SAP PLM work can often be done remotely, especially for blueprinting, configuration support, testing, and documentation. On-site time is still useful in Germany when workshops involve engineering, quality, and production stakeholders who need to align on the same product process.
SAP PLM is common in companies that manage complex products, long release cycles, and heavy documentation. Manufacturing, automotive, industrial equipment, and regulated sectors often need specialists who can keep product data consistent across many teams.
Look for someone who can explain process decisions clearly, not just system settings. A good SAP PLM professional has handled document control, change management, and integration points, and can show how their work improved data consistency or approval flow.
There is no real difference in meaning: SAP PLM is the common abbreviation for SAP Product Lifecycle Management. Searchers may also use the full product name or simply say SAP PLM when they need help with product structures, documents, and change processes.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 919 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects, 94% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 65% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (36%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects are Manufacturing (84%), Information Technology (68%), and Professional Services (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP PLM in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Project Management (96%), and Product Development (84%).
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