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Project History (anonymised)
Scroll through the major projects, since ≈ 2016
Global musical instrument and audio group, EMEA branch.
IFRS 16 stabilization and triage — clustered variances, identified root patterns in valuation postings, made the team operational within delivery deadline.
Top-20 worldwide family-owned trading company.
IFRS 16 structuring in SAP RE-FX — field logic definition, technical implementation sketches for developers, interface and data logic documentation.
Federal real estate agency.
SAP RE-FX ILM — deletion logic, archiving compliance, mass activities, workshop facilitation for data lifecycle management.
Top-20 German housing company.
RE-FX clean core preparation — reversal of Z-adjustments, feasibility assessment for standardisation, on-premise vs. public cloud position paper.
International energy provider (stock-listed).
SAP RE-FX greenfield in S/4HANA — full-cycle customising incl. IFRS 16, legacy data migration, cross-functional coordination with FI, MM, AA.
Top-20 European public real estate holder.
Software evaluation for property and asset management — requirements catalogue, market analysis of ~25 systems, vendor shortlisting, SAP LUM workshop with SAP officials.
Cantonal informatics office, Switzerland.
RE-FX & ILM sub-project management — archiving concept, Swiss data protection compliance, CAFM evaluation (Planon, Speedikon), BIM adoption advisory.
Top-10 global medical devices company.
IFRS 16 interim support in S/4HANA Bluefield — vehicle leasing integration into RE-FX, configuration, hypercare stabilisation, handover to internal team.
European logistics company.
CAFM software evaluation (Planon, Korasoft, Speedikon) and general S/4HANA preparation advisory — requirements analysis, vendor comparison, and readiness assessment.
Top-10 global telecommunications group.
Technical lead and sub-project manager for XML-based RE-FX interface — IFRS 16 contract data transfer between two SAP systems, international development coordination.
Largest European shopping centre owner.
Project manager for RE-FX service charge settlement — billing model redesign, settlement unit configuration, multi-company code setup, stakeholder coordination.
Top-50 German residential real estate service provider.
Project manager for GDPR/ILM implementation in RE-FX — deletion and retention concepts, ILM rule customising, data object analysis for business partners, contracts, and documents.
Mid-sized property valuation firm.
Advisory on internal digitalisation processes — process analysis, tooling evaluation, and structured recommendations for digital workflow adoption.
University of Applied Sciences.
Project manager for scientific market study on location analysis systems — coordination of six student sub-projects, evaluation of 12+ platforms, structured scoring model.
University of Applied Sciences — research mandate by international PropTech vendor.
Project lead for market study on project development tools in DACH — survey design, 800+ respondents, usage pattern analysis, client-tailored reporting.
Leading European shopping centre operator.
Mass processing of 300+ rental contracts in RE-FX — term extensions, cost allocations, indexation rules, legal compliance checks in coordination with legal and controlling.
Technical inspection service provider.
RE-FX technical structuring — on-site building surveys, digital mapping of room hierarchies and space usage, integration logic between RE-FX and PM for settlement and maintenance.
Major German city administration.
SAP RE-FX & LUM application trainer — designed and delivered multi-day training sessions, created curriculum and user handbooks, supported floor plan integration.
Entry-level consulting, real estate and non-profit sector.
Process digitisation and software advisory — SAP training track (ABAP, FI/CO, MM), DMS/OCR initiatives, BPMN process modelling, comparative software evaluations.
+ 20 smaller projects — consultations and advisory engagements under 5 days, with real estate project developers, property valuers, banks, and shopping centre operators.
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Certified Excellence
Issued certificates
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Technical and Functional Stack (From RE-FX to PRINCE2)
Explore our expertise; each number represents a project or sub-project.
SAP RE-FX / Contract & Lease Management (CLM)
| Topic (number of projects) | 2nd Level | Customizing | Concepts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master data architecture (objects, hierarchy, views) | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| Business partners & roles (BP, CVI, BDT) | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| Contract model & term logic | 7 | 5 | 9 |
| Notice, renewal, resubmission rules | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Conditions & condition groups | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Account determination (flow types, account symbols, values) | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Periodic posting & cash flow | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| Service charge settlement (SCS) | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| Input tax distribution & adjustments | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| FI / CO integration & reconciliation | 6 | 8 | 4 |
| Authorizations & transports | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SAP RE-FX Contract & Lease Management (CLM) | >40 | >50 | >40 |
IFRS 16
| Topic | 2nd Level | Customizing | Concept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valuation rules and valuation types | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Condition valuation groups & posting setup | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| RoU asset & lease liability (FI-AA integration) | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Run, post & debug valuation (RECEPR, RECEEP, AA594/AA660) | 3 | – | – |
| Transition logic (full / modified retrospective) | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Contract modification & reassessment | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| IFRS 16 Accounting Standards in RE-FX & FI-AA | 19 | 20 | 18 |
S/4HANA, Migration & Fiori
| Topic | 2nd Level | Customizing | Concept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Migration strategy ECC → S/4HANA (Brownfield / Greenfield) | – | – | 13 |
| S/4HANA Migration Cockpit (Direct Transfer) for RE-FX | 1 | – | 2 |
| Legacy & non-SAP data migration (LTMC, LSMW) | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| Customer-Vendor Integration (CVI) | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Data quality & legacy cleanup (Classic RE residuals, orphan objects, client copy inconsistencies) | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| Fiori apps & UI5 extensions for RE-FX | 2 | 2 | 5 |
SAP ILM & Data Privacy (RE-FX / FI focus)
| Topic | 2nd level | Customizing | Concept |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILM core framework, storage & destruction execution | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Archiving objects RE-FX: contracts, conditions, real estate postings | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Archiving objects FI & business partner master data | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Data privacy: blocking, EoP/EoB checks & GDPR data subject rights | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Legal Hold, retention basis & RE Classic → S/4HANA migration | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Cross-Cutting Themes (Tech Stack, BDT, Workflow, Other)
| Topic | Projects |
|---|---|
| BAdI implementations (BADI_RECN, BADI_RECD, BUS1505, BUS1506) | 6 |
| BAPI implementations (contracts, conditions, objects) | 8 |
| BDT (Business Data Toolset) — fields, screens, DB connection | 9 |
| Z tables and Z programs | 14 |
| Third-party interfaces (CAFM, DMS) | 10 |
| SAP Business Workflow / BRF+ for contract approvals | 1 |
| ALM tooling (Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, Jira, ServiceNow) | 7 |
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What We’ve Learned by Segment (Field)
A summarised overview of our project experience, segmented by field.
Our approach to Real Estate Companies
Across our engagements with residential and commercial portfolio holders the same pattern recurs: SAP RE-FX sits at the core, leasing is the main process, and the annual service charge settlement is the moment the whole system is tested.
What we’ve learned by working in this segment:
The simplest case and the hardest case live side by side. Residential rent and service charge logic are largely fixed by law in most continental European jurisdictions — the simplest configuration in the system. Commercial leasing is freely negotiated, which is where complexity enters. Shopping centres sit at the top: anchor-tenant clauses, footfall-linked charges, turnover-rent structures — the most complex settlement runs in the entire RE-FX landscape. A single portfolio holder often carries all three.
The settlement is the diagnostic. How well the service charge run works says more about system health than any other indicator. When it produces hundreds of small errors every month-end, the cause is rarely the settlement itself — it’s master data, interfaces, or a quick fix made three years ago that no one documented.
Where we step in: We start where the pain is measurable. A System Health Check maps the actual state of your RE-FX configuration against where it should be — settlement logic, master data quality, interface integrity. Where the issue is ongoing rather than one-off, Jour Fixe Steering gives you senior RE-FX judgement on a recurring basis, without a framework contract. And where you need hands on specific work, the Capacity Ticket delivers specialist hours without building a bench.
Our approach to Corporate Real Estate
Across our engagements with corporate lessees — industrial groups, trading companies and telecommunications operators — the picture is consistent: SAP RE-FX is one module among many, rarely at the centre, almost always introduced when IFRS 16 made operating lease obligations a balance-sheet matter. Property isn’t the business here. It enables it.
What we’ve learned by working in this segment:
Compliance was the trigger, but strategy is the gap. Most implementations were built to satisfy the auditor — capitalise the leases, produce the disclosure, close the year. The data is correct. What it can’t answer is the strategic question: what does the branch network, the fleet, or the machinery portfolio actually cost, and where would you renegotiate, exit, or consolidate. The configuration was never designed to carry that.
The module has no natural owner. IT calls it a finance topic. Finance calls it a property topic. Facility management has no SAP access. The result is a module that gets administered but not managed — until growth, an audit, or a CSRD disclosure forces the question. Contracts hang on cost centres and generic labels rather than real objects, and that works exactly until someone needs location-level data the system was never structured to produce.
Where we step in: We start by reading the system as it is, not as the project plan assumed it would be. A System Health Check establishes whether the RE-FX configuration can answer the questions now being asked of it — strategic cost transparency, CSRD location data, audit-grade lease records. Where the gap is structural rather than acute, Jour Fixe Steering provides recurring senior judgement to close it deliberately rather than under pressure. And where specific work needs specialist hands — remeasurement logic, interface repair, migration prep — the Capacity Ticket delivers the hours without the bench.
Our approach to Public Real Estate & Infrastructure organisations
Across our engagements with public-sector and infrastructure organisations — agencies, state-owned enterprises, network operators, public real estate holders — the defining feature isn’t the building. It’s the system layer underneath it that exists almost nowhere else: Land Use Management, GIS integration, PSCD. Most SAP consultants have never touched it. The assets are large, long-lived, and governed by law rather than by market optimisation.
What we’ve learned by working in this segment:
The land parcel is the real object — not the building. Where commercial real estate hangs contracts on properties, the public sector hangs them on cadastral reality: parcels, land registers, rights, encumbrances, easements. RE-LUM is the module that carries this, and it only works when GIS and SAP master data stay synchronised. When they drift apart — and without a deliberate interface, they always do — the answer to “which parcels carry which encumbrances” takes days instead of seconds, exactly when an auditor is asking.
The constraints are structural, not technical. Procurement discipline means quick fixes are impossible by design — what takes a corporate three weeks can take a public organisation three procurement cycles. Systems must be built to outlast political terms. Critical infrastructure operators carry binding security obligations under NIS2; social housing providers run residential portfolios at scale under rent regimes — social rent formulas, comparative benchmarks — that no commercial real estate tool was built for. None of this is edge-case. It’s the daily operating reality.
Where we step in: We start with the integration that is rarely built correctly the first time — the link between cadastral reality and financial reporting. A System Health Check establishes whether RE-FX, RE-LUM and the GIS interface actually hold together, or whether Excel has quietly become the integration layer. Where the challenge is continuous — keeping geodata and master data aligned, preparing for audit, designing change that survives procurement cycles — Jour Fixe Steering provides recurring senior judgement. And where specific specialist work is needed, the Capacity Ticket delivers the hours without the recruitment risk that a niche this deep always carries.
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General Perspectives on SAP Real Estate, Planon, ILM
Trace the evolution from SAP RE Classic (1992) to the Planon Integration (2025) via this whitepaper.
(12 min. reading time – available as PDF in six languages)
Learn about the most common mistakes we found in our four ILM projects in this white paper (2025).
(14 min. reading time – available as PDF in six languages)
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