LinkedIn article — February 2026
SAP RE-FX® — Long Voyage. (Possibly a very) good end.
A personal analysis & outlook (position paper) on SAP RE®, SAP RE-FX®, SAP LUM®, IFRS 16® and Planon®.
FounderResearch-Informed, Practice-Driven.
T. H. Scheer
Founder & Principal Consultant
Founder of Metaneering S.à r.l. — Digital Real Estate, SAP RE-FX, compliance, and enterprise systems.
Profile
T. H. Scheer is the founder of Metaneering S.à r.l. (Luxembourg) and the creator of the ProfiSaison working model. With fourteen years of experience in real estate and over twelve years of hands-on ERP expertise, his work focuses on system-critical topics at the intersection of lease contracts (real estate), data compliance, and enterprise systems. He leads projects predominantly in English (UK/US) and German (D/CH/LU).
He has led and supported projects across Europe for listed companies, public institutions, and international real estate portfolios — often where in-house expertise was no longer available and traditional consulting models proved too rigid. ProfiSaison emerged from this reality: organisations increasingly require senior intervention at specific moments, without long engagements, agency layers, or permanent staffing.
Core expertise
The background above translates into three operational focus areas on ProfiSaison (delivery model, deep-dive articles, and method):
- Digital Real Estate Strategy Digital strategy for real estate (ProfiSaison).
- SAP Real Estate & ILM SAP RE-FX / real estate ERP & ILM (ProfiSaison).
- Digital Compliance (Real Estate) Compliance in real estate ERP & data (ProfiSaison).
Expertise highlights
- 14 years of ERP expertise (FI/CO, real estate ERP, compliance systems & transformation)
- 10+ years of professional experience in real estate
- Proven senior project management (boutique & enterprise)
- Certified in process excellence (IREB, PRINCE2)
- Recognised data privacy & lease contract expert (published author)
- Academic lecturer (B.Sc.) & HfWU contributor (2020–2025)
A word from our founder
“The combination of regulatory requirements and the gradual loss of ERP module expertise has created a structural gap in many ERP landscapes. Remote delivery enables senior intervention precisely when it prevents cost, compliance, and operational risk.”
Publications & research of T. H. Scheer
These publications reflect this background: observations and analyses derived from concrete project work, recurring structural issues, and practical system decisions — not theory, but applied experience.
Article (draft) — January 2026
SAP RE-FX® between continuity and displacement — notes on a module that never quite knew what it was.
A comment on the last ten years’ development of SAP Flexible Real Estate®.
Book chapter — January 2026
Chapter 11: IT in real-estate project development
In: Lucht / Viering / Jung (eds.) Compendium of Real-Estate Project Development (Springer Gabler, ISBN 978-3-658-04431-2). Co-author: Prof. Carsten Lausberg.
Whitepaper — October 2025
The 4 most crucial mistakes in archiving projects with SAP Information Lifecycle Management® (SAP ILM®)
Website whitepaper version / link to ResearchGate or download.
Academic research poster — August 2025
Categorising the four sectors of digital real estate — findings from five years of research at HfWU
Publication (legal, GDPR) — November 2022
Tenant’s inspection of receipts in the eye of data protection
Published in NZM — New Journal for Tenancy and Housing Law (Germany). Authors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Saxinger / Timo H. Scheer
Publication — article (legal, GDPR) — October 2022
The relationship between the tenant’s right to inspect receipts and their right to access data under data-protection law
Published in Betriebskosten Aktuell — Operating Costs Journal (Haufe Group, Germany). Authors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Saxinger / Timo H. Scheer
Publication — article (legal, GDPR) — April 2022
Service charges and data protection in light of the GDPR
Published in RDV — Data Protection and IT Law Journal (Germany). Authors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Saxinger / Timo H. Scheer
Graphics (extract from working paper) — 2022
Project development 2035: a digital workflow vision — from land acquisition to exit · fully digital, fully linked
Publisher: CORE · HfWU (2022). Author: Timo H. Scheer
Academic paper — September 2021
The effectiveness of location-analysis systems
Authors: Carsten Lausberg / Timo H. Scheer / Jenny Xavier Nogueira
Research poster — February 2021
Mapping the construction and real-estate tech landscape
Academic paper — August 2020
The digitalisation of the real-estate-development sector — a scientific market study (Working Paper No. 1/2020)
Authors: Carsten Lausberg / Timo H. Scheer
Book — April 2020
Data protection in housing law
Publisher: readbox publishing GmbH (2020). Author: Timo H. Scheer
Publication — article (legal, GDPR) — March 2020
Innovations in residential lease agreements in the context of the GDPR
Published in GuG — Property and Real-Estate Law Journal (Germany).
Publication — article (real estate, PropTech) — February 2017
The housing industry and PropTechs: opportunity or risk?
Project history (anonymised)
A selection of anonymised engagements (largest / most representative by effort). No real company names. Dates and person-days (MD = man-days) are indicative.
Top-10 European public real estate portfolio.
SAP RE-FX configuration and support in an active S/4HANA Bluefield transformation — condition types, contract customizing, indexation, DMS integration, ILM preparation.
Global musical instrument and audio group, EMEA branch.
IFRS 16 stabilisation and triage — clustered variances, identified root patterns in valuation postings, made the team operational within the 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.
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.
HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.
Project manager for scientific market study on location analysis systems — coordination of six student sub-projects, evaluation of 12+ platforms, structured scoring model.
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.
HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen — 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.
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.