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Alwin G.

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IT Director

Essen
Alwin G.

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IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist

  • Founder of CheironX: AI-supported GRC management (ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX, DORA)
  • Strategic focus on Agentic AI and GenAI for modern IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management
  • IT interim management and strategic consulting
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Sven L.

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Controller, Transformation Manager, Lecturer

Wiesbaden
Sven L.

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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
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Jürgen K.

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Management Consultant · Interim Manager, Cloud- & IT-Service Management (freelance)

Friedberg
Jürgen K.

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Interim Management / Company Succession – Process Analysis & Stakeholder Management

As part of preparing and providing operational support for a company succession:

  • Company analysis: Analysis of the overall economic, organizational and structural situation (current status, strengths/weaknesses, potential risks)
  • Process analysis: Recording and documentation of all relevant business processes (BPMN, UML) in the areas of management, finance, purchasing, sales and operations
  • Process optimization: Identification of weaknesses and inefficiencies, development and operational implementation of improvement measures
  • Stakeholder management: Identification and analysis of all relevant internal and external stakeholders; structured communication and coordination with former and future owners, shareholders and employees
  • Change management: Supporting employees and management throughout the handover process; building acceptance and trust among all parties involved
  • Governance & documentation: Preparation and handover of structured operating manuals, process documentation and an organizational manual for the new business owner
  • Risk & weakness analysis: Assessment of operational and strategic risks in the handover process and development of recommendations for action
  • Operational support: Interim assumption of management responsibilities; ensuring business continuity during the transition phase
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Paul W.

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Enterprise & Solution Architect · Senior IT Program Manager Freelance IT Consultant — SAP · Salesforce · Cloud · AI/Agentic

München
Paul W.

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Enterprise Architect at ePrimo GmbH

Led the end-to-end integration and migration architecture for decommissioning SAP IS-U market communication and transitioning to Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) with E.ON IT Services — covering regulated EDIFACT market messaging, a three-phase data migration (transfer of market message inventory after cutover), redesign of market communication processes, and full GDPR and German energy-market compliance.

  • Designed the three-tier target architecture (SAP IS-U → NScale B2B gateway → SFMC) processing 50,000–100,000 EDIFACT messages daily within sub-5-minute SLAs.
  • Architected the three-phase data migration: 36 months of historical data, zero-loss cutover of in-flight market messages, and near-real-time CDC synchronization.
  • Delivered secure, BDEW/GDPR-compliant integration (AS2/OFTP2, RFC/IDoc, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, Azure AD, AWS S3) achieving >99.5% uptime, <0.1% migration discrepancy, and RTO <4 hours.
  • Applied BPMN to model and optimize the market communication processes.

Technologies: SAP IS-U, NScale, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, EDIFACT, OAuth 2.0, Azure AD, AWS S3, BPMN, Jira, Confluence, Draw.io

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Gregor P.

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Engineering Data Management Project Manager

Frankfurt am Main
Gregor P.

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Engineering Data Management Project Manager

Technical and commercial risk assessment for an investment project in the hardware sector (scaling potential, liability risks, operational processes) Process consulting for two SMEs in the engineering environment, with a focus on workflow digitization and PLM

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Joaquim L.

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Freelance ABAP Developer, Logistics

Bonn
Joaquim L.

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SAP Senior ABAP Developer

SAP Data Migration Greenfield QM

In the QM module project, the focus was on migrating inspection plans and transferring Dynpro applications from the ECC system to the HANA system while adhering to development guidelines and clean code principles. The project involved the use of technologies and concepts such as ABAP Objects (ABAP OO), Clean Code practices, SMOD/CMOD enhancements, User Exits, Function Exits, BAdIs, interfaces, and classes. Writing complex reports for download and upload of change pointer information of inspection plan header.

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Alma A.

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HR Expert I Leadership I Transformation I Change Management

Hamburg
Alma A.

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HR Digitalization Project Manager at Ayvens / Société Generale Group

Negotiation and conclusion of works council agreements on Workday and other topics I Advice on and implementation of employment law projects in the HR context I Transfer of comple- x employment and works constitution law issues into practical solutions I Workday

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Matthias B.

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Interim Manager for Transformation, Change and Restructuring

Solingen
Matthias B.

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Member at Rotary – Passport Club Werderscher Markt

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Emre S.

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Freelance IT Project Manager and Technical Project Lead

Köln
Emre S.

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IT Project Manager | SAP E-Invoicing Outbound at Rohde & Schwarz

Project: Introduction of statutory-compliant electronic invoicing (outbound, Germany) in SAP for an international technology group.

  • Project management: Planning, steering and reporting of the E-Invoicing outbound rollout across all affected business areas, including budget and resource coordination.
  • UAT: Structured user acceptance test with key users per business area, test cases per invoice scenario, and consolidated test results for decision making.
  • Defect management: Handover and tracking of defects in Jira, including validation of the generated invoices against the statutory schemas.
  • Cutover, go-live and hypercare: Readiness checks and cutover planning aligned with the statutory deadlines, coordination of go-live and stabilization during hypercare.
  • Stakeholder management and reporting: Alignment with Finance, Tax, business departments and IT, preparation of status reports and decision papers, and consistent follow-up of open items.
  • Change management and documentation: Communicated process changes to the business departments, enabled key users, and created process and compliance documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.
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Peter S.

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Project Manager for SAP GTS Trade Services, edition for SAP 4/HANA

Düsseldorf
Peter S.

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Project Manager for SAP GTS Trade Services, edition for SAP 4/HANA at ETENGO AG

  • Creation of detailed concepts for all relevant GTS modules (compliance, pricing, customs clearance, Intrastat, preferences)
  • Planning and conducting workshops, including scheduling and documentation
  • Development and consulting of the organisational structure and its master data
  • Setup and customisation of compliance functions: sanctions list review, embargo, legal control, US re-export
  • Uploading and maintaining sanction and commodity lists
  • Implementation and validation of integration tests
  • Setup and customisation of the modules: pricing (including uploading of customs tariff numbers and STAWN data), customs clearance (including application for test operation with customs), Intrastat and preferences (including preference calculation and LLEs)
  • Development and presentation of prototypes
  • Derivation of insights for the final concept
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Olaf K.

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Liquidation of a warehouse site

Köln
Olaf K.

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Liquidation of a warehouse site at Cegeka

  • Project plan creation and monitoring
  • Coordination of necessary activities
  • Regular status meetings
  • Personnel planning for cutover
  • Completion and handover of all trades to the end customer with documentation
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Christoph L.

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Program Manager - SAP S/4 HANA

Hamburg
Christoph L.

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Program Manager - SAP S/4 HANA at BAHAG AG

  • Took over management of the SAP S4 Transformation program after 15 months of project execution
  • Assessed the quality of soft facts, particularly the quality of collaboration and communication
  • Evaluation, program planning, resource management, and realignment of the timeline
  • Introduction of the software delivery model and quality gates
  • Initial scope definition in the form of business capabilities
  • Introduction of enterprise architecture
  • Reporting to the SteerCo for the S4 Transformation program / C-level
  • Risk management and escalation when identifying project risks
  • Coordination of the various projects within the program
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Michael R.

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Project Manager

Wadern
Michael R.

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Project Manager at Payone GmbH (Worldline AG)

  • Objective/Motivation: PAYONE urgently needs a 360° view of its customers. So far, PAYONE has had no company-wide master data strategy. It is not possible to identify customers across all relevant systems.

The organization is to be enabled to identify customers across all relevant systems. Establishing the basis for master data management at PAYONE

  • Challenge: Due to company acquisitions, the system landscape is very heterogeneous. The company is highly dynamic and burdened with many system harmonization and integration projects, meaning that resource bottlenecks and changes in project priorities repeatedly create an almost impossible task.

Due to BaFin findings, the project has a central task and role. The first focus is the migration of all customers, including their AML/KYC data, from the master data backend systems to Salesforce. This is intended to resolve one of the largest findings and establish the corresponding ODD/EDD processes.

In addition, customer data must be harmonized in Salesforce. Previous migrations resulted in duplicate customer records in some cases. The aim is therefore to maintain only one customer in Salesforce and, using the relevant information from the backend systems, also be able to identify which products the customer uses and in which processing systems the customer obtains PAYONE services.

Project: ONE Customer

Budget: €1.5 million

Team: 10/30 employees (full-time/part-time); 4 vendors/providers

Integration: 8 (subsystems/interfaces)

Applications: Salesforce; SAP S4/HANA; in-house developments

Tools: MS Office; Jira, Confluence, SharePoint

Methods: Hands-on; Agile (SAFe); Prince2

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Farid A.

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SAP_S/4 Hana Senior Consultant & Global SAP Process Expert for MDG/EWM/MM/PP-MES and SAP Data & Cutover Manager

Hamburg
Farid A.

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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

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Statistics of experts using SAP SD

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

25 years

SAP SD experts in Germany have 25 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

3.2 years

SAP SD experts in Germany stay in a single position for 3.2 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

18

SAP SD experts in Germany have completed 18 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Operations

SAP SD experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations.

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services

SAP SD experts in Germany are most in demand in Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance

SAP SD experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.

Bachelor's degree or higher

86%

86% of SAP SD experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

52%

52% of SAP SD experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

8%

8% of SAP SD experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

SAP SD experts in Germany hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

SAP SD experts in Germany most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

97%

97% of SAP SD experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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<1% of SAP SD experts in Germany charge less than €400 per day.
23% of SAP SD experts in Germany charge between €400 and €800 per day.
60% of SAP SD experts in Germany charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
15% of SAP SD experts in Germany charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
1% of SAP SD experts in Germany charge €1600 or more per day.
<€400 €400-​800 €800-​1200 €1200-​1600 €1600+

The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany 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.

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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP SD

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 916 €

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Median rate 904 €

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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

SAP SD 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 (78%)
  • Manufacturing (75%)
  • Professional Services (73%)
  • Automotive (52%)
  • Retail (44%)
  • Transportation (41%)
  • Healthcare (38%)
  • Banking and Finance (38%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

SAP SD in the enterprise

SAP SD, or SAP Sales and Distribution, manages the commercial flow from customer inquiry to payment. It covers sales orders, pricing, availability checks, deliveries, shipping, invoicing and returns. In many companies, SAP SD is now delivered through SAP S/4HANA as the core sales component.

Core processes

SAP SD specialists turn business rules into reliable order-to-cash processes. They configure sales document types, item categories, schedule lines, partner functions, output control and account determination. Their work must reflect how sales teams, warehouses, carriers and finance teams operate together.

  • Sales order and quotation processing
  • Pricing, discounts and tax determination
  • Delivery, picking and goods issue flows
  • Billing, credit management and returns

Ecosystem and integration

Strong SAP SD work reaches beyond one module. Specialists commonly connect SD with SAP MM for procurement and inventory, SAP FI for receivables and revenue postings, and SAP WM or SAP EWM for warehouse execution. They may also work with SAP TM, SAP CRM, SAP BTP, IDocs, APIs and electronic document interfaces.

When companies need specialists

Companies bring in freelance SAP SD expertise during S/4HANA transformations, rollouts, carve-outs and process harmonisation. External support is also useful when order errors increase, pricing becomes difficult to maintain, billing needs redesign or a business must integrate a new sales channel. In Germany, projects often involve distributed teams, global templates and close collaboration with local business stakeholders.

  • Prepare fit-to-standard workshops and gap analyses
  • Configure and test end-to-end order-to-cash scenarios
  • Lead data migration, cutover and hypercare
  • Document processes and train business users

What strong professionals deliver

Experienced SAP SD professionals ask how a process should work before changing configuration. They distinguish standard SAP capabilities from justified extensions, trace documents across sales, delivery and billing, and test integration with finance and logistics. They also manage transports, authorisations, defect resolution and clear functional documentation.

Choosing the right fit

Look for experience with the relevant SAP release, sales channels, industries and integration landscape rather than a generic module profile. A useful specialist can explain configuration decisions in business terms, show how they control risks during migration and define practical acceptance tests. For remote work, agree on workshop language, time-zone overlap, system access and the responsibilities of local process owners before delivery begins.

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Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to SAP SD.

SAP SD manages the sales and distribution cycle from quotations and customer orders through delivery, shipping, billing and returns. It supports pricing, availability checks, partner data, output documents and the transfer of billing information to finance.

SAP Sales and Distribution focuses on transactional order-to-cash execution inside an ERP environment. Salesforce and similar tools often focus more on customer relationships and opportunity management, while SAP SD handles fulfilment, logistics integration, billing and financial postings.

A strong SAP SD specialist usually understands SAP FI, SAP MM and warehouse processes. Useful additional skills include SAP EWM or SAP TM, IDocs, APIs, output management, migration tools, testing, master data and S/4HANA business partner concepts.

The right level depends on the work. A focused pricing change may need a specialist familiar with that process, while an S/4HANA rollout requires proven capability across design, integration, testing, migration and cutover. Assess the person against your release, industry and process scope rather than relying on a generic seniority label.

Yes. SAP SD configuration, documentation, testing and many workshops can be delivered remotely with secure system access and planned collaboration. On-site sessions can still help during process discovery, cutover or training, especially when German-language communication with business teams is important.

A capable SAP SD freelancer should understand the move from classic ERP processes to S/4HANA, including business partners, simplified data models, output management and Fiori-based work. They should also explain which legacy transactions or customisations need redesign rather than simply reproducing them.

Ask the specialist to map a real order-to-cash scenario and explain its links to inventory, delivery and finance. Review the quality of configuration rationale, test coverage, defect handling, documentation and business acceptance criteria. Strong work is traceable from requirement to configured process and final accounting result.

An SAP Sales and Distribution expert may deliver process maps, fit-to-standard findings, configuration documentation, functional specifications, test scripts, migration rules and cutover plans. Depending on the assignment, they can also support workshops, integration testing, user training and post-go-live issue resolution.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects is 114 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 916 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 52% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects are German (99%), English (96%), and French (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects are Information Technology (78%), Manufacturing (75%), and Professional Services (73%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP SD in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Project Management (85%), and Operations (63%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SAP SD

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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