SAP ABAP RESTful Application Model Experts in Germany
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Georgi L.
Last position:
Techno-functional MM/SD consultant at GLIT Circle GmbH
- Implementation of the S/4HANA transformation (brownfield) at an agricultural equipment manufacturer
- Implementation of the new supplier evaluation in S/4HANA, including programmed technical adjustments to customer-specific processes
- Conducting workshops with business departments on technical and functional changes in S/4HANA, with a focus on P2P processes and approval processes
- Preparation of the new system incl. customizing and conversion of customer-specific ABAP developments to Clean ABAP
Philipp D.
Last position:
IT Architect & IT Product Manager at Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
- Optimization of software lifecycle processes for SAP platform apps (BTP CAP)
- Development of template MCP servers for S/4 CALM systems of Porsche AI (BTP)
- Design, development, and IT product management for two MS CoPilot custom agents supporting SAP systems (incl. MCP integration)
- Lead Center of Practice: AI-assisted ABAP development
- Initiation and coordination of the proof of concept implementation of conduct.ai
- Advising application teams on software and integration architecture, clean core principles and implementation, as well as AI use on the SAP platform
Prem Chander A.
Last position:
Product owner for SAP PP, QM, APO, MM, MES and ABAP at Husqvarna Group (Bei HCLTech)
Development and Implementation
- Conceptualization and implementation of the various requirements.
- Experience and ability to collaborate with other delivery teams
- Lead a team of 15 people taking care of matters including monitoring operations, delegating tasks and managing budgets.
- Act as product owner and represent the product vision, strategy and priorities in the area of production operations.
- Work closely with the members of the area including developers, analysts and QA to ensure the successful delivery of logistics features and improvements.
- Lead the process design and lead the build team for the SAP implementation (EU countries) and post-merger integration in SAP PP, QM, MM, APO and SD modules.
- Implemented and optimized MRP Live (MD01N) for multiple plants, improving planning runtime
- Worked with business users to transition from classic MRP to MRP Live
- Implemented SAP QM module, including quality planning and inspection lot processing, resulting in a 20% improvement in product quality compliance.
- Developed and tested custom reports using SAP Query and ABAP for MES data analytics, improving visibility into yield rates and resource utilization.
- Translate production requirements into clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria and technical specifications.
- Skilled in discrete, and process/manufacturing (PP-PI) environments; deep understanding of master data, production & process orders, recipe management, batch management, capacity & scheduling, shop floor control, and integration with QM, MM, EWM, MES.
- Worked in Variant configuration (VC)
- Supported international rollouts and transformation projects for SAP PP, QM, PPDS, aATP, EWM, and Variant Configuration within a global strategy.
- Tested functionalities for various business scenarios include interface systems
- Involved in SIT and UAT and cutover activities
Technology: Project Management, SAP PP, QM, MM, APO, ABAP OO, HANA Modelling, FIORI, SAP UI5, AMDP, SAP SD, SAP FICO and S4 HANA Emedded analytics
Mindaugas K.
Last position:
SAP Developer at Jungheinrich - Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft, based in Hamburg, is a publicly listed German company
Project description: SAP S/4HANA implementation (greenfield). SCRUM methodology Scope: SAP ABAP, BTP, RAP, CDS, ABAP Cloud, Clean Core, CI/CD for SAPUI5/ABAP with GitLab, unit tests, and test-driven development (TDD)
Joaquim L.
Last position:
Freelance ABAP Developer, Logistics at Cheplapharm
- Tested integration of TIBCO EBX with SAP S/4HANA via TIBCO BusinessWorks – proof of concept
- Implemented use case: communication between TIBCO EBX and SAP S/4HANA via IDocs to exchange material master data and business partner data
- Customized, configured, and implemented inbound and outbound processing in the SAP S/4HANA environment for communication with the TIBCO EBX software interface
- Distributed classes, characteristics, and values between TIBCO BusinessWorks and SAP S/4HANA and customized the inbound processing
- Documented the technical components
Paul O.
Last position:
Product Owner / Project Manager at Auditor, software vendor for German tax consultancies
- Project environment: Python, Java, Azure AI Studio & OpenAI Studio, embedding models, LLM as a judge
- Project language: German
- Project role(s): Project manager
- Project management for improving the performance of a chatbot
- Research and evaluation of approaches to improve and measure response accuracy and improve the chatbot's understanding of context
- Coordination of architecture decisions with the technical team and architects
- Coordination and transfer of research results into development tasks
David A.
Last position:
Senior SAP Commerce Cloud Developer at Freelancer
- Integration of SAP Commerce Cloud with SAP Cloud for Customer
- Creation and execution of unit and integration tests
- Error analysis and bug fixing
Harshal L.
Last position:
SAP EWM Developer at Körber Supply Chain GmbH
- Experience in SAP EWM processes and ABAP development
- Configured PPF for output management in EWM and YM, worked with BOPF in TM and YM, configured Fiori Launchpad with roles, spaces, and pages, and developed UI5 applications
- Developed a Fiori Elements app using the List Report, Object Page, Overview Page, and Analytical List Page frameworks with CDS views, AMDP on BAS, created a RAP app, and a report for data transfer to external Oracle systems
Beserithan M.
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
Zouhair H.
Last position:
SAP S/4 HANA Developer at BGZ Essen
- Explorer phase: document preparations for development
- Getting started with the BTP documentation
- Documentation of WRICEFs
- Programming guidelines with consideration of Clean Core
- Analysis of customer programs to be migrated
- ABAP call monitoring (SCMON, SUSG)
- Creation of concept documents for the project
Jürgen V.
Last position:
Instructor / Trainer at SAP Training Company
- Instructor / Trainer
- SAP applications in SAP S/4 HANA - Sales, Sourcing Procurement, Logistic Execution, SAP Foundation
- SAP S/4 HANA - Fiori UX and Fiori Launchpad
- Cross-module MM application - Sourcing & Procurement
- Business processes SAP S/4 HANA Procurement
- Purchasing processes SAP S/4 HANA MM
- Incoming processes SAP S/4 HANA MM
- Supplier invoicing SAP S/4 HANA MM
- Pricing & plant determination SAP S/4 HANA MM
- Automation in SAP S/4 HANA MM
- Business processes SAP S/4 HANA Pre & After Sales
- Sales processes SAP S/4 HANA Sales
- Delivery processes SAP S/4 HANA Sales
- Billing SAP S/4 HANA Sales
- Pricing SAP S/4 HANA Sales and Storage Rooms and Lean-EWM
- Automation in SAP S/4 HANA Sales
- SAP S/4 HANA – SAP Private Cloud – Release 2023
Hermann E.
Last position:
Solution Architect, Senior Developer at parasus GmbH
- Modules: SAP SRM, SAP S/4 MM
- Migration of the SAP SRM system from SAP ECC integration to SAP S/4 HANA
- Quality assurance of the implementation
Gopal K.
Last position:
SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect at parasus GmbH
- Concept and re-implementation of customer application over cloud and make the source code cloud ready
- Re-designing and putting a new architecture to overcome all the Team Scale findings and push ABAP code to ABAP cloud
- Converted the existing custom application code to ABAP cloud code and used ABAP Clean code guidelines
- Create a dynamic framework to call old vs new implementation from a Table maintenance to validate both implementations
- Utilized Key User Extensibility to seamlessly integrate multiple custom fields into a standard Fiori application, enhancing both the front-end and back-end GUI
Samuel A.
Last position:
Bachelor thesis 'Development of an AI-based assistant system for personalized competence development for IT professionals' at N-ERGIE
- Design and development of an AI-based assistant system for targeted identification and closing of knowledge gaps in software development at an energy provider
- Technology stack:
- Vector database (Qdrant Cloud)
- RAG for semantic document analysis
- FastAPI backend to process user requests
- Integration with an LLM (e.g., OpenAI)
Boris M.
Last position:
ITZBund
- eInvoicing project
- SAP ABAP OO development
- workflow
- OpenText
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Statistics of experts using SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
16
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Supply Chain Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Procurement, Production
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Doctorate
9%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
94%
Based on our profile pool as of 15 Sep 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 15 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model 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 (100%)
- Manufacturing (63%)
- Professional Services (63%)
- Automotive (56%)
- Healthcare (38%)
- Transportation (38%)
- Retail (38%)
- Energy (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What RAP does
SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model, commonly called RAP, is SAP’s modern framework for building transactional business services in ABAP. It combines ABAP CDS data models, behavior definitions and OData exposure for applications that run across SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP. RAP supports clean, service-oriented development without relying on older gateway patterns.
Core building blocks
RAP projects connect several SAP technologies into one delivery model. Experts work with managed and unmanaged business objects, behavior pools, service definitions, service bindings and authorization concepts. They also use ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse, CDS annotations, draft handling, validations, determinations and EML for reliable business transactions.
Typical deliverables
Companies use RAP to create new business services and modernize existing ABAP capabilities. Common deliverables include:
- Transactional OData V4 services for SAP Fiori applications
- Reusable CDS data models with associations and compositions
- Managed or unmanaged RAP business objects
- Fiori elements applications supported by annotations
- Extensions for SAP S/4HANA and side-by-side scenarios on SAP BTP
When expertise matters
Freelance specialists are valuable when an SAP team is moving from classic reports, BAPIs or older OData implementations to RAP. They can define the right architecture, preserve existing business logic and reduce risks around draft handling, locking, authorizations and transactional consistency. Germany-based companies may also benefit from experts who can work on-site when needed while coordinating remotely with distributed SAP teams.
Skills around RAP
Strong RAP professionals understand more than the framework itself. They connect ABAP Objects, CDS, SQL performance, OData, SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA extensibility into a coherent solution. Useful adjacent knowledge includes SAP business processes, clean core principles, automated testing, transport management, Git-based workflows and integration with external services through APIs or events.
How quality stands out
A capable specialist starts with the business object and its lifecycle, not with generated artifacts. They separate data modeling, behavior and service exposure, explain managed versus unmanaged implementation choices and use annotations deliberately. Quality work includes clear authorization design, testable behavior, stable APIs, performance checks and documentation that lets an internal SAP team maintain the result.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model.
SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model is used to build transactional business services and Fiori applications in ABAP. RAP exposes business objects through OData, supports validations and actions, and fits SAP S/4HANA extensibility as well as SAP BTP scenarios.
RAP provides a more structured programming model around CDS entities, behavior definitions and service bindings. Compared with classic SAP Gateway projects, it offers clearer separation of data, behavior and exposure, with strong support for OData V4 and Fiori elements.
A strong SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model specialist should also understand ABAP Objects, ABAP CDS, OData, SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA business processes. Knowledge of authorizations, clean core extensibility, testing, performance and SAP BTP integration is also valuable.
RAP work can range from a focused service extension to a larger modernization of legacy ABAP applications. The right level of expertise depends on the number of business objects, integration boundaries, authorization rules and whether the project uses managed, unmanaged or mixed implementations.
SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model projects often work well remotely when access, transport processes and test systems are clearly organized. On-site collaboration in Germany can help during workshops, process discovery or cutover, while remote delivery remains practical for modeling, implementation and review.
RAP is a strong choice for new transactional services and clean-core extensions in SAP S/4HANA. A specialist should still assess whether an existing released API, a side-by-side SAP BTP extension or a different integration pattern better fits the required lifecycle and system boundary.
Ask how the specialist would model the business object, handle drafts, define authorizations and separate transactional behavior from service exposure. A capable SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model professional can explain trade-offs clearly and show how testing, performance and API stability will be managed.
RAP work requires more than ABAP syntax: specialists need to understand CDS modeling, EML, OData V4, annotations and the target SAP business process. Projects may also involve SAP S/4HANA Cloud restrictions, released objects, transport controls and coordination with functional and integration teams.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 817 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects are German (100%), English (94%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Manufacturing (63%), and Professional Services (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Supply Chain Management (81%).
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