Variant Configuration Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Variant Configuration
André W.
Last position:
Solution Expert EWM
SAP S/4HANA logistics optimization Industry: Mechanical and plant engineering, manufacture of sorting / distribution systems
- Supported an S/4HANA optimization project as Solution Expert EWM
- Analyzed and verified the defined processes
- Identified optimization potential
- Analyzed existing structures
- Developed new concepts
- Planned and conducted workshops
- Documented processes
Joseph A.
Last position:
Senior SAP In-House Consultant, Plant-2-Stock at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
- Engaged business stakeholder to define levels 1, 2 3 & 4 processes.
- Engaged stakeholders to model the As-IS & To-Be business processes in Seeds Processing, Quality Management onto SAP Signavio.
- Identified and highlighted integration points between plant-to-Stock processes and other process areas such as finance and controlling.
- Documented business requirements as user Stories in Jira and categorized each user story as either Gap or Fit.
- Configured and demonstrated Variant Configuration in SAP PP to process owners and stakeholders as proposed solution to satisfy business requirements.
- Proposed workarounds or enhancements to meet requirements that are categorized as gaps.
- Planned the Sprints for Plan-to-Stock, assign and monitor the progress being made in completing user Stories for the active Sprint.
- Created the following PP Variant Configuration master data: Class of Class type 300, Configurable material of material type KMAT, Material variants of material type FERT & assigned the KMAT material to each FERT Material Variant, Super BOM & linked the Super BOM of the configurable material to FERT material variants, Routing and Production version for KMAT material.
- Reviewed list of custom reports currently in use in ECC and identified S4Hana standard analytical reports that satisfies these custom reporting requirements.
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
Aleksander B.
Last position:
SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect Logistics at Teckentrup GmbH & Co.KG
Main project lead and consultant for the ePPDS rollout
- Role: Lead consultant for the ePPDS rollout, main project lead for the ePPDS rollout
- Project content: 4) Carried out the pre-project for selecting the detailed planning tool 5) Project planning and team staffing for the ePPDS rollout 6) Solution architect for the digital process landscape around digital production
Technologies: Consulting, project management, customizing
Dieter S.
Last position:
Overall OTC Process Responsibility, Including Harmonization, Target Vision Definition and Governance / Requirements and Quality at Qiagen AG
- SAP ECC → S/4HANA transition in the international pharmaceutical industry
- Analysis and optimization of SAP Order-to-Cash processes, focusing on SAP SD, CS and GTS
- Ensuring alignment across all process steps, from order entry through delivery and invoicing to payment
- Defining global end-to-end process standards
- Facilitating resolution of conflicting goals between local entities and the global model
- Preparing decision documents for management
- Assessing process variants independently of system implementation
- Managing incidents, changes and requirements through Jira; using Confluence for central project documentation
- Supporting the setup of test management in Jira Xray
- Managing order processing, invoicing, and subscription and milestone billing
- Improving accounts receivable processes, integrating third-party tools and monitoring metrics such as cash cycle time and invoice accuracy
- Defining work packages and milestones based on the analysis
- Ensuring quality in requirements management between the business and IT service providers
- Preparing and facilitating decision-making sessions, management briefings and C-level status meetings
- Setting up and maintaining standardized reporting (status reports, milestone tracking, risk register)
- Ensuring compliance with existing governance and reporting requirements
- Applying pharmaceutical industry standards and methods, including GxP and Computer System Validation (CSV)
Orhan Y.
Last position:
SAP Senior Consultant OTC/MM/WM/LE/CS/PS/GTS, C4C-Cloud (Sales, Services, E-Commerce) at High-Technologie
- Support and consulting for the integration of SAP ECC into an SAP S/4HANA system, retirement of legacy systems, implementation, and process optimization in the new harmonized system
- Project implementation of S/4HANA Cloud Private & Public Sales & Services with SAP SCM/OTC/MM/LE/CS/PS, S/4HANA Cloud, CPI, BTP, EDI, IDOC, ABAP, User-Exit, SolMan, ITIL, SAP Cloud AL
- Customizing and optimization in OTC and MM, including condition maintenance, document type and item category extensions, integration with FI/CO, scheduling agreement configuration, material master and purchasing info record maintenance, release procedures, message control, and master data quality
- Ensuring integration of PTP with FI/CO, SD, and WM, process analysis, and efficiency improvement for the S/4HANA environment
- Process modeling in Signavio, workshops, and trainings
- 2nd & 3rd level support in OTC, MM, CS, PS, C4C Sales & Services, GTS, and MDG: incident and change tickets, feasibility analyses, service management, embedded analytics, customizing, tests, documentation, training, debugging, IDOC/EDI monitoring
- SAP S/4HANA migration: data migration, system harmonization, global rollouts, and template development
- ABAP development and optimization: reports, dialog programs, user exits, IDOC/EDI monitoring
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
Holger S.
Last position:
Internal Project Manager S/4HANA On-Premise System with FIORI connection at RSCE
- Complete customizing of the required processes (partly outside the standard SAP number ranges)
- Set-up of the complete organizational structure (Sales, Purchasing, Warehouse, Service, etc.)
- Integration of organizational units with business partners (role BUP004) via T77SO
- Completion of Customer-Vendor-Integration (CVI)
- Implementation of basic SD functionalities: orders, deliveries, invoices
- Configuration of MM movements incl. Lean WM
- Set-up of the basic logic for New General Ledger and basic FI customizing
- Installation of and communication between standard Fiori Apps and S/4HANA
- Connection of SAP S/4HANA Service incl. Fiori
- Definition of organizational units and partner roles (PPOME)
- Replication of S/4 Service with S/4 Sales for service order and repair processing
- Customizing of TM document types, movement types and item categories
- Replication of TM master data and transaction data
- Set-up of internal replication of deliveries into freight units
- Implementation of Fiori Apps such as Transportation Network Cockpit, Freight Order and Freight Units
Werner B.
Last position:
Product Visionary Sales & Operations Planning at BASF Digital Solutions GmbH
- Support of BASF units in change management for the introduction of a Sales & Operations Planning process based on OMP SOP
George G.
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant) at Publicly Listed Pharmaceutical Company
- Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
- Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
- Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
- Creating concepts and recommendations
- Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
- Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
- Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
- Reviewing existing structures and processes
- Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
- Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
- Conducting trainings and workshops
- Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
- Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.
Bernd P.
Last position:
Setup of product configurators in SAP ECC for use in 4DE at ZEBROS GmbH
- Side-by-side refrigerator, fire truck, LEICA camera
- Setup and documentation of product data structures, master data, characteristics and evaluation rules
- SAP user training: LO-VC basics, classification, material master data creation (KMAT), configuration models (PMEVC)
- Spatial visualization of object environments for spatial configurators
- Capturing customer environments with 3D scans
- Definition of a workflow for data capture
- S/4 HANA - AVC: creation of AVC demo configurators, interface definition to web and app-based 4DE configurators, harmonization of features for interface description, alignment of JSON formats, documentation and testing
- SAP-ERP (ECC, S/4), CA-CL, LO-VC, AVC, MM, SD, Confluence, JIRA, Polycam, Magicplan
Gottfried N.
Last position:
Consulting and Development at DS Smith Packaging Germany
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- System / Modules: ECC 605 MM
- Support MM
- Analysis of business processes
- Data Analysis
- Data Cleansing
- Procurement
Timo G.
Last position:
S/4HANA Project Management, Board and Strategy Consulting at Services
- S/4HANA project management: book project with an online hub to derive an agile project management methodology (Scrum) based on SAP Activate, Solution Manager Focused Build, SAP Enable Now, many SAP project accelerators, community solutions and custom developments.
- Strategy consulting: overview of service providers and product vendors as well as demos and videos to present best practice processes, cloud solutions and SAP community products.
- Sales structure development: scaling the network organization via partnerships, public relations (PR), marketing, digital events etc.
- Contract terms & general terms and conditions: manufacturing and service contracts, personnel placement contracts, copyrights etc.
Ingo H.
Last position:
Consultant SD/Variant Configuration at Freelancer
- S/4 HANA Public Cloud Greenfield Project at a transformer station manufacturer.
- Focus: setting up configuration models in AVC (Advanced Variant Configuration) and integration into PLM processes with various interfaces.
Christoph R.
Last position:
SD Consultant (Order-To-Cash) at Fette
- Mapping OTC processes in an S/4 landscape, go-live in the UK (1 full cycle)
- Mapping product variants with AVC and LO-VC
- Implementation of service processes, effort-based billing
- Role-based selection of suitable FIORI apps for a "FIORI only" approach
- Implementation of rule-based functionalities with BRF+
- Setting up pricing, price maintenance, price migration
- (Adobe) forms, customization
- Connecting third-party systems, defining interfaces and heterogeneous application scenarios
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Statistics of experts using Variant Configuration
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
1.7 years
Positions per freelancer
24
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Supply Chain Management
Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
40%
Doctorate
10%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Bulgarian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Variant Configuration
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Variant Configuration experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Manufacturing (93%)
- Information Technology (87%)
- Professional Services (80%)
- Automotive (60%)
- Chemical (60%)
- Healthcare (53%)
- Pharmaceutical (53%)
- Food and Beverage (47%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Variant Configuration does
Variant Configuration manages products that can be ordered in many combinations. It uses characteristics, dependencies and constraints to determine valid options, prices, materials and production data. In SAP environments, it is commonly known as SAP Variant Configuration, with established work in LO-VC and Advanced Variant Configuration.
Where it is used
Manufacturers use Variant Configuration for products such as industrial machinery, vehicles, electrical systems, kitchen equipment and configurable components. It connects customer choices with commercial and operational data instead of relying on manual checks.
- Select valid product features during sales
- Generate bills of materials and routings
- Transfer configuration data to production
- Control option dependencies and exclusions
Ecosystem and tooling
The work often spans SAP Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Production Planning and Product Lifecycle Management. Specialists may also work with SAP S/4HANA, SAP CPQ, APIs, middleware and master data processes. Strong delivery requires an understanding of both configuration logic and the business processes around it.
When companies need specialists
Companies bring in freelance expertise when a product model is too complex for internal teams, an SAP transformation is under way or existing rules have become difficult to maintain. Germany’s manufacturing sector often requires close coordination between business teams, production sites and SAP delivery teams. Remote work is practical, while workshops and testing may benefit from occasional on-site collaboration.
- Replace spreadsheet-based product rules
- Migrate LO-VC models to newer SAP environments
- Stabilise pricing and order-entry logic
- Prepare configuration models for rollout
What strong professionals deliver
Good professionals turn product knowledge into clear, testable rules. They define characteristics and classes, structure dependencies, manage configuration profiles and trace how decisions affect materials, routings, pricing and documents. They also document assumptions so business users can review the model without reading technical syntax.
They should be comfortable investigating inconsistent master data, explaining rule conflicts and testing complete order scenarios. Experience with transport management, authorisations, integration points and cutover planning helps protect the wider SAP landscape.
How to assess project fit
Start with the product family, the target SAP environment and the business processes that must be connected. Ask for examples of similar configuration models, migration work or production troubleshooting, then discuss how the specialist approaches rule ownership, testing and documentation.
A useful engagement includes a model review, a clear backlog and acceptance scenarios based on real products. The best specialists challenge ambiguous requirements early, keep dependencies understandable and leave behind a configuration that internal teams can extend safely.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Variant Configuration.
Variant Configuration is used to model products with selectable features and rules that determine valid combinations. It can derive materials, bills of materials, routings, prices and other order data from a customer’s configuration.
SAP Variant Configuration is closely tied to SAP product, sales and production data. CPQ tools often provide a stronger front-end sales experience, while SAP configuration can carry the selected result deeper into planning and manufacturing. The right choice depends on process ownership, integration needs and product complexity.
A strong Variant Configuration specialist usually understands SAP Sales and Distribution, Material Management, Production Planning, pricing and master data. Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP CPQ, integration interfaces and testing is also valuable when the model spans several business processes.
The required background depends on the model’s complexity, the SAP landscape and the risk of incorrect orders or production data. For a simple model, a specialist with focused Variant Configuration delivery experience may be sufficient; complex industrial products need someone who has handled dependencies, migrations, testing and operational support.
Variant Configuration work is often suitable for remote collaboration because modelling, documentation and testing can be performed online. On-site workshops may still help when specialists must inspect production processes, align several German business units or resolve unclear product knowledge.
A Variant Configuration migration involves reviewing characteristics, classes, dependencies, profiles, master data and connected documents before moving or redesigning the model. The specialist should also test representative orders and confirm that pricing, material selection and production results remain correct.
Ask the Variant Configuration expert to explain a real rule model in business language and to show how they test edge cases. Look for clear documentation, structured dependency design, careful handling of master data and evidence that the delivered model works across the complete order-to-production process.
Common Variant Configuration problems include contradictory dependencies, incomplete characteristics, unclear ownership and product data that does not match production reality. Poorly structured rules can also make pricing or order processing unreliable, so early model reviews and scenario-based testing are essential.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects is 120 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 960 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 40% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects are German (100%), English (93%), and Bulgarian (7%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects are Manufacturing (93%), Information Technology (87%), and Professional Services (80%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Variant Configuration in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Supply Chain Management (100%).
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