SAP PS Expert
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Meet FRATCH Experts who have recently used SAP PS
Claudius L.
Last position:
Multi-project manager
Industrial sector: Transport
Tasks: Continuation of existing projects, advice on artificial intelligence (AI), implementation of regulatory requirements, management of external service providers
Subprocesses: Order clarification, role clarification, consolidation, effort estimation, activity planning, status reporting, progress tracking, stakeholder discussions, risk analysis
Background: Cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive maintenance, compliance, governance, standing orders compliance, KRITIS
Software: Cherwell, Docker, IoT, MS Sharepoint, MS Teams, SQL Server
Rainer V.
Last position:
Interim Consultant & Business Coach (Focus: Leadership & Competence Development) at bfz
Using periods between projects to deepen leadership skills and Change Management methods.
Personnel and culture development: Supporting specialists and managers with professional reorientation and providing strategic coaching for successful self-presentation.
Empowerment & Performance Coaching: Conducting systemic personality assessments to identify performance bottlenecks and specifically develop strengths within teams.
Moderation & Training: Managing interdisciplinary workshop and seminar groups in both industrial-technical and commercial environments.
Stefan O.
Last position:
Organisational Consultant at Notus Energy
Operator/general contractor of wind and solar parks, revenue approx. € 150 million €
- Design of project system
- Digital transformation of finance and controlling
- Process analyses
- Implementation in InforLN Cloud
Alexandra S.
Last position:
Senior HR Generalist at Delta Energy Systems (Germany) GmbH
- Advising managers on strategic HR, employment law and collective bargaining matters
- Payroll processing in DATEV for 150 employees of two companies from 01.04.2024 to 31.07.2025
- Supporting payroll preparation activities from 01.08.2025
- Preparing the report regarding the severely disabled persons levy
- Preparing reports / reconciling master data with the employers’ liability insurance association
- Conducting interviews, personnel meetings and BEM meetings (company reintegration management)
- Maintaining electronic time-recording data (corrections, recording maternity protection/ parental leave/ vacation/ illness/ business trips) in INTERFLEX
- Working with the Freiburg Integration Office
- Designing and managing the areas of responsibility Occupational Safety + Company Health Management + Company Physician (Regio Arbeitsmedizin)
- Personnel support: preparing employment contracts/ terminations/ references, issuing warnings/ conducting onboarding/ exit meetings
- Organizing company celebrations
- Organizing training courses
- On-site contact person during audits
- Conducting projects in cooperation with other Delta locations (including the introduction of a digital personnel file)
- Building a trusting and constructive relationship with the works council
- Participating in budget and personnel planning
- Reporting HR metrics
- Local contact person for the employers’ association and the trade supervisory office
- Personnel recruitment + supporting existing and new employees regarding relocation, visas and work permits
Manfred P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager EfA / OZG Online Services at Senatskanzlei ITD Hamburg, Dataport, Police Hamburg
The online service "Special Use of Streets and No-Parking Zone" was in a partially completed state. The following tasks had to be carried out to reach final completion:
- Preparation of an expert report on the status of the online service, and recommendations for action
- Ensuring that all LEIKAS to be used are available (service catalog / service descriptions of the authorities)
- Creating and aligning concepts for complex IT projects (business/IT concepts, architecture, interfaces, roadmaps)
- Requirements management
- Multi-project management with 3 stakeholders (Police, Dataport, development company)
- Determining resource needs
- Coordination to identify technical requirements through the IT architects
- Creating use cases and test cases
- Creating action items
- Managing external IT service providers
- Coordination and management of all activities
- Conflict resolution / business mediation
- User Acceptance Test (UAT) and acceptance by Hamburg Police (Traffic Directorate, Policy Department, Central Road Traffic Authority)
Technical environment: .NET, EfA minimum requirements, Leikas, Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG), HWG (Hamburg Roads Act), Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office
Fabio N.
Last position:
SAP Logistics & Financials Coordinator at AirPlus International
- Leading technical SAP projects in FI/CO and logistics.
- Advanced ABAP analysis, debugging, and validation of complex integrations.
- Optimization of financial and logistics processes in S/4HANA environments.
- Responsibility for demand management, workshops, and technical solution architecture.
Victor K.
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Financial Consultant at SIIX
SAP S/4HANA Implementation (Greenfield)
- SAP Finance Reporting
- VAT Reporting
- Foreign Plants
- Tax Calculation for SD/MM
- Z4/Z5 Reports
- Intrastat
- SAP DRC (E-Invoicing)
System: SAP
Industry: Manufacturing
Team: 10
Kerstin G.
Last position:
Information Security Consulting at CAS AG
Manfred L.
Last position:
Project leader/Consultant at Automotive sector VW, BMW etc.
SAP S4 Hana purchasing tool P2P/S2P processes SAP MM MDG PS SD PP EWM SRM
Harald K.
Last position:
SAP MM, PP Consultant at FRT Metrology Camtek
Creation of Power BI management reports
Environment: SAP ECC 6.0, Power BI
Dennis F.
Last position:
Controller/Accountant at Adama Deutschland GmbH
- Execution of accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset, and general ledger accounting
- Preparation of quarterly/annual financial statements under HGB/IFRS16
- Reviewing, classifying, and posting all business transactions
- Payment transactions and treasury planning
- Coordinating tax matters
- Preparing and analyzing statistics and reports
- Preparing analyses, reports, and liquidity forecasts
- Optimizing financial processes
- Contact person for colleagues, tax advisors, and auditors
- Valuation of foreign currencies, special cases in VAT law
- Supporting internal audits
- Evaluating and posting provisions under HGB, IFRS, and tax law
- Preparing and posting IFRS 16 entries
Frank L.
Last position:
SAP Consultant and Developer at Frank Leonhard Consulting
- Consulting and implementation of SAP projects as a freelancer
- Analysis, design, Customizing and programming
- Modules: PP, MM, WM, SD, QM, CS, IH, FI/CO, PLM, EH&S
- Development of forms (Smartforms, Adobe Forms)
- ABAP development (Enhancements, BADI, Dialogs, Reporting, Idocs)
- Project management, subproject management and training
Marco Z.
Last position:
Product Owner IT Services; Solution Architect central service delivery at BWI
Create product vision
Commission Scrum teams
Create schedule and coordinate with project lead
Coordinate and align with stakeholders
Harmonize processes across initiatives
Present project content at C-level
Create security concept for classified information up to DEU GEHEIM and NATO SECRET considering BSI GS, KRITIS, SÃœG, VSA
Plan service changes to underpinning services
Design architecture for secure infrastructures
Dependency management in project context
Risk management
Requirements management
Commission and oversee protection needs analysis and information security concept
Coordinate service design activities
Sven L.
Last position:
Project Controller at Iqony
- Acting as project controller for the STEAM sub-project within Iqony's long-term modernisation programme for an industrial water demineralisation plant at the BP refinery site in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven alongside the parallel WATER sub-project
- Managing cost control, SAP PS data integrity and project tracking in a challenging data environment
Martin S.
Last position:
SAP S4HANA Manager at Zeltwanger
- Stabilization and rollout of an S4HANA and HCM system
- Implementation of a scanner-based WM system and an ECM system combined with an invoice verification workflow
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Statistics of experts using SAP PS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
22
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Finance
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 11 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts using SAP PS
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 11 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP PS 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 (77%)
- Manufacturing (76%)
- Professional Services (75%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Banking and Finance (51%)
- Transportation (47%)
- Energy (42%)
- Retail (42%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Project System foundations
SAP PS, also known as SAP Project System, is the SAP ERP component for planning, controlling and closing complex projects. It organizes work through project definitions, work breakdown structures, networks, activities, milestones and project-related master data. Companies use it to connect operational delivery with financial and logistical control.
Planning and control
SAP PS links project scope to dates, responsibilities, budgets, commitments, actual costs and revenue. Its structures help teams compare plan and execution, manage approvals and identify deviations before they affect delivery. Strong configuration reflects how the business actually governs capital projects, customer work and internal programs.
Connected SAP processes
SAP PS rarely stands alone. Specialists work across the surrounding SAP landscape to make project information usable in connected processes.
- Integrate controlling, finance and asset accounting for project costs
- Connect procurement, materials management and service processes
- Align sales, production and maintenance activities with project structures
- Configure settlements, billing plans, results analysis and period-end work
Typical project work
Companies bring in SAP PS expertise for new implementations, rollouts, migrations, redesigns and operational improvements. Professionals may define templates, map legacy structures, configure scheduling and budgeting, prepare test scenarios, or resolve issues in live project operations.
- Build work breakdown structures and project templates
- Improve cost planning, availability control and forecasting
- Set up milestone billing, settlement and project reporting
- Support data migration, user acceptance testing and release readiness
When external expertise helps
Freelance specialists are useful when a project needs SAP PS knowledge that the internal team does not have available. They can assess an inconsistent project model, translate business rules into SAP configuration and document decisions for future support. Remote work is often practical for design, configuration and testing, while workshops or cutover activities may benefit from on-site collaboration.
Strong SAP PS specialists
A capable professional combines SAP PS configuration with a clear understanding of project governance, accounting and delivery operations. They ask how costs, commitments, resources, revenue and assets should move through the business instead of treating the module as an isolated setup. Look for structured documentation, careful testing, confident communication with finance and operational teams, and experience handling exceptions in real project data.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SAP PS? These answers cover the essentials.
SAP PS is used to plan, schedule, budget and control complex projects inside the SAP environment. It supports structures such as work breakdown structures and networks, then connects project progress with costs, procurement, settlement, billing and reporting.
SAP Project System is designed for projects that need close integration with finance, controlling, procurement, sales, production or asset processes. General project management tools may offer stronger collaboration features, but they often require additional integration to provide the same financial and operational traceability.
A strong SAP PS specialist should understand controlling, finance, procurement and the business process being managed. Useful adjacent knowledge can include SAP CO, SAP FI, materials management, sales processes, asset accounting, reporting and data migration.
The right level depends on the scope, integration depth and project phase. A focused configuration change may need a specialist familiar with the affected process, while an implementation or migration requires someone who can shape the project model, coordinate testing and manage dependencies across SAP modules.
SAP PS design, configuration, documentation and much of testing can usually be handled remotely with secure system access and clear workshops. On-site collaboration can still help during process discovery, user training, cutover and complex issue resolution, especially when several business teams must agree on project controls.
Ask the SAP PS freelancer to explain how they have handled project structures, budgeting, settlement and integration with connected processes. Review configuration documentation, testing methods and examples of how they resolved differences between business requirements and standard SAP capabilities.
SAP Project System implementations can struggle when the work breakdown structure does not reflect real delivery responsibility or when finance and operational teams define costs differently. Weak master data, unclear settlement rules, incomplete testing and excessive customisation can also make reporting and support harder.
A good SAP PS professional uses clear naming conventions, reusable templates and documented configuration decisions. They prefer standard functionality where it meets the requirement, define ownership for master data and test the complete flow from project creation through execution, settlement and reporting.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 886 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 48% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and French (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects are Information Technology (77%), Manufacturing (76%), and Professional Services (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used SAP PS in their recent projects are Project Management (94%), Information Technology (90%), and Finance (62%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SAP PS
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg In Austria our freelancers and interim experts support companies from Vienna to Graz — on-site where your project needs them, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Vienna Graz Across Switzerland our specialists are active in Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Bern — working on-site or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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