SAP R/3 Experts in Frankfurt
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Frankfurt, who have recently used SAP R/3
Achim K.
Last position:
Portfolio Manager, Consultant, Leadership Coach at Abbvie Deutschland GmbH &Co. KG
- Management and optimization of a portfolio of about 100 projects (launches, in-field solutions, data & analytics, digital solutions, digital products)
- Optimization of the existing project standard (playbook) and alignment with the European and global organization (USA)
- Coaching project managers on setup, planning, cooperation with business, GDPR, GxP, data security and launches
- Preparing projects for works council information and project closeout communication
- Optimization of resource management (tracking, allocation, prioritization)
- Taking over individual project leads (off-/transboarding, event management, checking whether WhatsApp is allowed on a business smartphone)
- Supporting the hiring of external project managers
- Optimization of meeting structure, project controlling (KPIs), change and demand management
- Optimization of risk, issue, dependency and quality management and support during internal audits (GxP)
- Optimization of the portfolio steering tool (Smartsheet) on national, European and global level
- Design and implementation of a Business Value Complexity Scoring
- Building a strategic PMO with a sister department and optimizing cross-functional teams
- Reporting, communication and escalation at management level
- Leadership coaching for several future leaders (short-time assignment)
- Development of the concepts "PPM as a Service" and "Internal Customer Approach"
- Development and review of a concept "AI Data Governance" including roles and processes
- Selection and onboarding of the successor
Ulrike W.
Last position:
Interim HR Business Partner at Industrial Company
Jan P.
Last position:
Operational Readiness / Migration Lead at Worldline
Migration of SEPA direct debits, credit transfers & card clearing to Worldline's internal platform as part of the outsourcing contract
Definition of the MIGR strategy
Mobilization of the community (300+ experts at client & Worldline)
Creation of the MIGR runbook (100+ workshops)
Close collaboration with upstream project streams: BUILD & TEST, as well as with the operating units
Set up of the governance framework, capacity management & reporting
100% of SEPA DD, CT & CC transaction traffic migrated (7 months)
~80 migrations carried out with a success rate of 70% ("first-time right")
Set up technical & manual production monitoring
Established a "fast-track" incident management process in the MIGR & hypercare phases
Set up 20+ exception handling processes
Conducted trainings
Implemented SLAs & billing
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
Markus M.
Last position:
Project Manager / Senior Consultant (multiple projects) at gkv informatik
- Project manager controlling the update to ISO 27001:2022 (certification from ISO 27002:2013 to ISO 27002:2022) including gap analysis, project planning, preparation of internal and external audits, and creation and maintenance of required documentation.
- Coordination of adjusting existing measures and implementing new measures according to the new standard’s requirements, as well as continuous monitoring and adjustment of these measures.
- Regular reporting to management on progress and risks.
- Senior consultant supporting audit reviews with a focus on critical infrastructures (KRITIS), including resolving findings, creating and updating evidence documents, and amending provider contracts.
- Senior consultant reviewing all deliverables and responsibilities of the IT provider according to the existing contract: identification of over 1500 deliverables & obligations (D&O), setup of a D&O tracker (claim register), and joint expert review with service owners for various service descriptions (e.g. IT service management, workplace and print services, application and desktop services, endpoint management, email including archiving, file services, software packaging, certification, distribution).
- Senior consultant adjusting service scopes in existing service descriptions to enable end-to-end service responsibility of the provider, including identification and analysis of use cases, process analysis and optimization (incident, problem, change), as well as recording and documenting all software products in LeanIX and documenting the contract change.
- Focused services: managed software service, application and desktop service, workplace and print services, web server service, container service, M365, SAP/Oscare, output management systems (OMS), telephony and omnichannel management service.
- Project manager steering a benchmark based on the existing IT contract, including coordination of the entire benchmark process between the benchmarker, IT provider and client, review of benchmark results, and preparation and conduct of price negotiations with the IT provider.
Christian S.
Last position:
Operation Manager at Xerof
- Working within a Swiss-regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) offering institutional-grade crypto-fiat financial solutions
- Contributed to on-/off-ramp infrastructure enabling clients to convert between cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies
- Supported the rollout of Web3 payments & third-party payment services to streamline crypto operations for businesses
- Engaged with AML/KYC / regulatory compliance to ensure operations met Swiss regulatory standards
- Assisted in product development or deployment for crypto-backed real estate / luxury goods transactions
- Collaborated with institutional and high-net-worth clients to tailor crypto / financial services offerings
- Bridged traditional banking and Web3 by reducing frictions in fiat-crypto transactions
Waleri M.
Last position:
Project Manager at WAMOCON Academy
- Project planning and resource planning
- Requirements definition and technology selection
- Data migration and risk management
- Monitoring up to go-live
- Tools: Office365, Jira XRAY, Strato, Onboarding App
Mario M.
Last position:
Product / Solution Owner B2B Webshop Applications at Triumph International AG
- Further development and stabilization of existing IT solutions and interfaces to SAP, Salesforce.com, PIM (master data) and DAM (digital asset management)
- Project management / Business Relationship Manager / service management
- Communication between business units and IT
- Managing internal and external resources in implementing enhancements
- Coordinating integration efforts with internal and external partners
- Reviewing functional specifications
Ahmet D.
Last position:
Electrical Designer / Hardware Planner EPLAN 2024 at Horiba GmbH
- Planning and development of electrical systems for test benches and alternative drive systems
- Designing a battery test station specifically for electric cars
- Specifying and designing controls, following standards, legal regulations, planning guidelines, and customer specs
- Sizing and selecting electrical components
- Creating electrical schematics and macros and maintaining parts data with EPLAN P8 Version Interface 2024
- Updating and adapting PLC programs
- Preparing SISTEMA calculations
- Supporting assembly and commissioning
- Ordering electrical components in SAP
- Ensuring compliance with common standards and regulations
- Sizing and cost calculation of high-current cables (1200 V/1000 A for AC and DC)
Tan P.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Team at Rise-World
- Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
- Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
- Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
- Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
- Database support.
- Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
- Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
- Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
- Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
- Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
- Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
- Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
- Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
- Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
- Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
- Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
- Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
- Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
- Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
- Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
- Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
- Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
- Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
- Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
- Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
- Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
- Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.
Jekaterina S.
Last position:
Interim Financial Specialist at Construction Industry Company (Group)
- Support to the executive management and the finance department
- Handling special topics in finance
- Analyzing, optimizing and documenting processes
- Supporting the SAP harmonization
- Acting as coach and sparring partner
Markus B.
Last position:
Project Management / MDM at Aenova
- System implementation from SAP R/3 and non-SAP systems into a single SAP R/3 system to consolidate processes by location and data by system.
- Coordination with business owners and planning the migration of master and transactional data.
- Implementation of the Nagarro master data add-on: Nagarro Data Care to identify current data.
- Deputy project lead for master data.
Tatyana C.
Last position:
Transaction Monitoring, Risk Analysis, Controls (Private and Corporate Clients) at Direct Bank
- Risk analysis
- Performing control activities
- Transaction Monitoring
Kersten J.
Last position:
IT Controlling, Interim Manager at Fresenius/Kabi
- Implementation of a new financial and legal model and an IT Operating Model (ITOM)
- Structural improvement of collaboration between IT organizations
- Increased transparency of IT costs
- Introduction of a global IT budget process
- Implementation of a billing process (SAP SD) for IT services, coordinating the teams
- Responsible IT headquarters controller
- Support for a new CIO in the first months
Andreas B.
Last position:
Technical Manager at Industria Immobilien GmbH
- Independent technical management of residential properties
- Monitoring and management of maintenance and renovation measures (CAPEX, ad-hoc measures)
- Coordination of external service providers, craftsmen and specialist planners
- Budget planning, monitoring and control for technical measures
- Conducting site inspections and condition analyses
- Ensuring compliance with legal regulations (e.g. inspection obligations, operator responsibility)
- Technical advice to the commercial property management
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Statistics of experts using SAP R/3
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
29 years (Germany: 27 years)
Position duration
2.1 years (Germany: 3.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
20 (Germany: 16)
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Finance
Bachelor's degree or higher
88% (Germany: 81%)
Master's degree or higher
56% (Germany: 47%)
Certifications per freelancer
4 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 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 Frankfurt 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 Frankfurt using SAP R/3
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 R/3 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 (79%)
- Banking and Finance (67%)
- Manufacturing (67%)
- Professional Services (67%)
- Transportation (58%)
- Automotive (54%)
- Healthcare (54%)
- Food and Beverage (46%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Core role
SAP R/3 is an enterprise resource planning system from SAP that brings finance, controlling, logistics, sales, materials management and production into one integrated environment. Often called R/3 or SAP ERP in project discussions, it connects transactional data across business functions and supports standardized processes, reporting and financial control.
Business use cases
Companies use SAP R/3 to run core operations across manufacturing, wholesale, retail, logistics and services. Typical work includes:
- Configuring finance, controlling and asset accounting processes
- Managing purchasing, inventory, sales and distribution flows
- Supporting production planning and plant operations
- Connecting order, delivery, billing and reporting data
- Preparing data and processes for SAP ERP or S/4HANA transitions
Modules and tooling
Strong SAP R/3 specialists understand how modules interact rather than treating each area in isolation. Their toolkit may include ABAP, SAP GUI, batch input, IDocs, RFC interfaces, ALE, workflow, authorizations and data migration utilities. Knowledge of integration middleware, databases and business intelligence adds value when processes cross system boundaries.
When to bring expertise
Freelance expertise helps when internal teams need focused support for a rollout, a troubled process or a time-sensitive transition. Common signals include inconsistent master data, unclear ownership between modules, recurring interface errors, slow month-end work or documentation that no longer reflects the live system. In Frankfurt, specialists may support workshops on site while handling configuration, testing and documentation remotely.
Delivery standards
Reliable professionals begin with process discovery and a clear view of the current system. They document configuration decisions, separate standard functions from custom changes and test complete business flows instead of isolated transactions. They also communicate practical consequences for finance, logistics and operations users, making handovers easier and reducing avoidable disruption.
Choosing a specialist
Assess experience against the exact SAP R/3 release, modules, industry process and integration landscape involved. Ask for examples of comparable deliverables such as configuration records, migration plans, interface mappings, test scenarios or support runbooks. A strong specialist can explain dependencies plainly, challenge unnecessary customization and work effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams and external partners.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about SAP R/3? Start with the answers below.
SAP R/3 is used to integrate core business processes such as finance, controlling, purchasing, inventory, sales, production and logistics. It gives companies a shared transactional system and consistent data across departments.
SAP R/3 is an established ERP generation built around integrated modules and long-running business processes. S/4HANA offers a newer data model and architecture, so companies often engage specialists to stabilize R/3, extend its useful life or plan a controlled transition.
A strong SAP R/3 professional may also understand ABAP, IDocs, RFC, ALE, authorizations, data migration, testing and SAP interface monitoring. Business knowledge in finance, manufacturing, procurement or supply chain is equally important because configuration affects complete process flows.
The right level depends on the scope, module complexity, release and degree of customization. For a production issue or major process change, choose an SAP R/3 specialist who can show comparable work with the relevant modules, integrations and business users rather than relying on broad product familiarity alone.
SAP R/3 work can often be delivered remotely when secure access, clear documentation and responsive business contacts are available. On-site workshops in Frankfurt can still help with process discovery, stakeholder alignment, user acceptance testing and sensitive operational changes.
An SAP R/3 freelancer should communicate clearly with finance, logistics and operations stakeholders. German may be important for workshops and user documentation, while English is often useful for international teams, shared service centers and external partners.
Look for clear process documentation, traceable configuration decisions, complete test coverage and careful handling of master data and authorizations. A capable SAP R/3 specialist explains risks, distinguishes standard features from custom code and leaves behind maintainable handover material.
Typical deliverables include configuration documentation, process maps, migration plans, interface specifications, test cases, defect analysis, training material and support procedures. An SAP R/3 professional should tailor these outputs to the affected modules and the company’s operational handover needs.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 920 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 56% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects have 29 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects are Information Technology (79%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Manufacturing (67%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used SAP R/3 in their recent projects are Project Management (92%), Information Technology (75%), and Operations (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SAP R/3
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