SAP Smart Forms Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used SAP Smart Forms
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
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)
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
Alois S.
Last position:
Subproject Lead / Senior SAP EAM Consultant at VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH
- Customizing / Support SAP FIORI apps
- Subproject lead for new on-call concept including resource planning, alarm server and employee time tracking
- Subproject lead for revision planning renewal
- System: SAP S/4HANA EAM
- Agile implementation
Bernd J.
Last position:
SD Consultant at Richter+Frenzel GmbH + Co. KG
- SAP S/4 Greenfield (SD, MM, interfaces)
- Use of Fiori apps
- Interface management with CPI and Lobster
- Implementation and support of ORDERS, ORDRSP, INVOICE, PROACT
- ATP availability check
- Search help and middleware configuration
- KMAT and advanced variant configuration
- PR/purchase order
- Consignment process
- Condition determination
- Price determination
- Message determination
- Master data maintenance and optimization
- Situation handling
- BPEM and clarification case management
- Consulting and support
Bhavin S.
Last position:
Team Lead SAP EWM Engineering at Swisslog GmbH
- Over 19 years of experience in solution design, development, integration, and optimization within the SAP ecosystem
- Direct line management of 8 engineers, responsible for yearly target settings and reviews, yearly compensation reviews, training and skill development, onboarding, and conducting interviews for new positions
- Implemented agile based product management practices such as product roadmap, setup of Kanban boards in Microsoft Teams Planner, defining the product backlog and release cycles
- Designed and developed high-level architecture to create reusable Swisslog’s standard product based on SAP EWM MFS to integrate various automation subsystems like pallet conveyors/cranes, light goods conveyors/cranes, autostore, monorail, star robots using Swisslog standard protocol
- Experienced in end-to-end implementation of S4HANA Brownfield and Greenfield projects and in integrating third party subsystems like A-frames and KBS Pick by Light via TCP/TP or REST based APIs
- Setup the overall development process along with required quality gates following continuous integration and continuous improvement principles
- Served as technical team lead during customer implementation projects, running process workshops specific to MFS, preparing business blueprint, designing specifications, and executing integration tests between MFS and PLC subsystems
- Successfully integrated light goods crane with SAP EWM MFS with double deep storage capabilities and total storage capacity of 9600 boxes
- Expertise in a wide range of technologies, tools, and frameworks such as S4HANA EWM, EWM MFS, Embedded Analytics, API-based integration, SAP Cloud Platform, WebIDE, Fiori, SAP UI5, OOABAP, and Classical ABAP Development
Heiko K.
Last position:
SAP development, Adobe form development at Arvato SE
- conversion of a function-group-based Adobe Interactive Forms framework to an object-oriented Adobe framework for documents in transport/logistics and dunning (FI)
- Adobe Lifecycle Designer 11.0.1 for SAP
- creating new and troubleshooting existing forms, function modules, programs, classes, and methods
- maintaining Smart Forms
- document printing, email sending, and file archiving
- message control for deliveries, orders, invoices, proforma invoices, and transports
- ticket system: Jira
- communication: Microsoft Teams
- migrating customers to a new SAP framework
- handling incident and change request tickets
- software: SAP ERP 6.0, SAP_ABA 7.5G, S4CORE 1.05
Mevin Darril J.
Last position:
Solution Architect at Novo Nordisk A/S
Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark, with manufacturing sites in eight countries and subsidiaries or offices in five more. As part of setting up their largest automated production facility, SAP S/4HANA was implemented. The implementation of S/4HANA EWM plays a crucial role in enabling automation across all business processes.
Since this is a greenfield project with extensive automation, the goal is to achieve the highest possible level of automation in most business processes. Particularly in pharmaceutical processes, hygiene, accuracy, validation, and error-free execution are essential – all of which are supported by automation. My role as Solution Architect is to understand the business processes and provide efficient automated workflows for high-quality product manufacturing.
As Solution Architect, I conducted workshops in the warehouse areas to analyze and understand the pharmaceutical business processes and align them with the standard or template structure.
Identifying and highlighting process gaps and developing suitable solutions.
Coordinating with third-party vendors and other IT stakeholders to develop optimized automated processes.
Documenting and reviewing the business process design according to the agreed solution with the business unit.
Mapping inbound, internal, outbound, and production-integrated processes from the EWM perspective with automation considerations.
Guiding the team in fully setting up the solution in EWM and supporting the testing activities.
Member of the central architecture team to share best practices, develop guidelines, and support other implementation teams with solution architecture.
József S.
Last position:
Interim ABAP-OO Developer at Interdiscount
- Interim ABAP-OO developer in S/4 HANA migration
- Automation of trade calculation (IS-Retail)
- RFC interface between cash register system and S/4 (SD)
- RFC interface between S/4 and R/3 for price comparison (SD)
- Automatic creation and assignment of pricing conditions (SD)
- Automation of setting the standard supplier in the info record (MM/SD)
Markus J.
Last position:
Senior SAP ABAP Developer at BIBB - Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training
- Support for an SAP S/4HANA migration
- Adjustments and bug fixes in SAP CATS
- Technical stabilization of existing developments
- Code analysis and cleanup of custom ABAP developments
Martin B.
Last position:
Senior Consultant / Developer at DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH
- Form adjustment with Smart Forms for SD (invoice printing)
- Form adjustment with Adobe Forms for FI (incoming invoice)
- Form adjustment with Adobe Forms for logistics invoice verification (self billing invoice)
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
Bogdan O.
Last position:
Senior SAP ABAP Consultant/Developer – Microsoft RPA/AI Engineer at Karl Dungs GmbH & Co. KG
- SAP integration technical consultant
- Internal consultant/developer for SAP ABAP developments (ECC) in MM/SD/PP/HCM/QM/FI modules
- SAP Fiori/UI5 new development and application management services
- Account administrator for all applications in SAP BTP
- New development, enhancement, and maintenance of SAP SapScript, Smart Forms, and Adobe Forms
- Responsible for the SAP HCM module
- Certified Microsoft Power Automate Developer
- Certified Microsoft Azure AI Engineer
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
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Statistics of experts using SAP Smart Forms
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
3 years
Positions per freelancer
24
Top business areas
Information Technology, Supply Chain Management, Logistics
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Procurement
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
59%
Doctorate
14%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
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 Germany 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 Germany using SAP Smart Forms
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 Smart Forms 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 (90%)
- Manufacturing (84%)
- Professional Services (77%)
- Automotive (65%)
- Transportation (61%)
- Retail (55%)
- Banking and Finance (42%)
- Government and Administration (39%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Document Output
SAP Smart Forms is SAP’s graphical tool for creating print forms and business documents. Companies use it for invoices, delivery notes, purchase orders, order confirmations, payment notices and labels. Forms combine fixed layouts with dynamic data from SAP business processes.
SAP Integration
Smart Forms connect presentation logic with SAP application data through form interfaces, global definitions and data retrieval in ABAP. They commonly run in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA environments, using output control and technologies such as SAP NetWeaver. Strong specialists understand how the form fits into the full document flow.
Typical Deliverables
- Invoice, order and delivery form templates
- Multilingual layouts with company branding
- Form interfaces and output configuration
- Printer, email and PDF output processes
- Conversion or coexistence plans with SAPscript
Experts also handle page breaks, repeat windows, address formats, barcode content and conditional sections. They test output across business cases and recipient channels before release.
When Expertise Helps
Companies bring in freelance SAP Smart Forms professionals during S/4HANA transitions, rollouts, audits and document redesigns. External support is useful when internal teams need a precise form change without disrupting invoicing or logistics. In Germany, collaboration may involve German-language business requirements, local formats and remote work with SAP teams across locations.
Skills Around Forms
The most effective specialists combine SAP Smart Forms with ABAP, output determination, spool and print management, PDF generation and interface troubleshooting. They can trace data from a sales, purchasing or finance process into the final document. Knowledge of SAPscript, Adobe Forms and migration constraints helps when a company is comparing document technologies.
Quality Signals
Look for professionals who can explain the form interface, data source, output trigger and deployment path in clear terms. Review examples of stable layouts, controlled transports and well-tested changes rather than visual design alone. A strong specialist documents dependencies, validates multilingual output and works closely with functional owners before production use.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to SAP Smart Forms.
SAP Smart Forms is used to design and generate structured business documents from SAP data. Common outputs include invoices, purchase orders, delivery notes, order confirmations and shipping labels.
SAP Smart Forms offers a graphical form builder and is generally easier to maintain than SAPscript’s more text-oriented approach. SAPscript may still be present in older SAP environments, so the right choice depends on the existing forms, migration goals and output requirements.
A strong SAP Smart Forms specialist usually understands ABAP, form interfaces, output determination, spool processing and SAP transport management. Experience with SAPscript, Adobe Forms, PDF output and SAP S/4HANA is useful when documents cross several systems.
The required background depends on the scope, data complexity and risk of the document process. A simple layout change may need focused form expertise, while a rollout or migration calls for someone who can trace output from configuration and ABAP through testing and production release.
SAP Smart Forms projects can usually be handled remotely when secure SAP access, clear requirements and a test process are available. On-site workshops can still help with print devices, business approvals or complex output issues, especially when teams in Germany require German-language collaboration.
Ask how the professional diagnoses missing data, incorrect output triggers, page-break problems and printer-specific issues. Request examples of documented interfaces, controlled transports and testing across different document variants.
SAP Smart Forms supports multilingual text and layouts when language-dependent elements, fonts and business rules are configured correctly. The specialist should also verify addresses, dates, currencies and page behavior for every required language.
A company may compare SAP Smart Forms with Adobe Forms when it needs advanced PDF design, interactive documents or a longer-term modernization path. The decision should consider the SAP release, existing templates, licensing, output channels and the effort required to migrate interfaces and business rules.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 856 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 59% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects are German (100%), English (97%), and French (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Manufacturing (84%), and Professional Services (77%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Smart Forms in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Supply Chain Management (81%), and Logistics (65%).
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