CTH Consult TEAM Hamburg Pairs Three Decades of SAP HCM Consulting With Purpose-Built Add-Ons

CTH Consult TEAM Hamburg GmbH has advised customers on SAP human resources matters since 1987, giving the firm more than three decades of SAP HCM specialization across payroll, time management, organizational management, and talent management for clients spanning multiple industries. With a workforce of just under 20 employees, CTH lists personal, responsive support as a top priority and assigns consultants to customers based on their areas of expertise. The firm pairs a set of proprietary core and add-on modules built to complement the SAP standard with a consulting practice that covers the SAP HCM lifecycle, from payroll configuration through GDPR-driven data destruction.

Proprietary Add-Ons Built to Close SAP HCM Gaps

CTH describes its tools and modules as products of years of hands-on experience and ongoing exchange with users in the field, built to extend functionality the SAP standard does not cover. The HR Data Copier, known as the HDK, copies personnel data sets across systems or clients and lets administrators select in detail which data sets move, with an option to anonymize the data during the transfer.

A companion module, the ZM-DV, handles cleanup of customer-specific database tables. The tool documents any data destruction in the corresponding SAP standard infotypes and gives administrators the option to lock data before removal, building an audit trail into an otherwise manual cleanup task.

CTH describes a third module, ZM-PG 117/118, as the only SAP-based product certified by ITSG. The module sends electronic notifications about irregular employees to German social security institutions.

CTH also offers a Batch Input Tool that automates mass maintenance of HR master data through Excel import, with integrated ALV output and CSV export for checking results. A separate automated email notification feature triggers personalized HTML messages to employees, managers, or HR staff based on defined HR events, optionally carrying corporate design elements such as banners or greeting cards. Mass data maintenance through Excel-based batch input is a common pattern across SAP HCM environments generally, and CTH’s tool applies that pattern within its own customer base.

Full-Lifecycle SAP HCM Consulting Coverage

CTH supports SAP Payroll by analyzing operational payroll processes, defining wage type catalogs, and mapping collective bargaining agreements, then adjusting payroll schemas and rules to fit a customer’s specific requirements. The firm also adjusts pay slip forms and evaluations and provides ongoing support once a payroll configuration goes live, since the SAP standard delivers legal reporting functions but not company-specific customization.

A related service addresses SAP Personnel Time Management, which SAP delivers as a template that must be adapted to a company’s actual working time rules. CTH configures that template to match operational requirements for assessing and processing employee time data.

Data destruction forms a distinct consulting line that connects directly to the ZM-DV tool. CTH states that its core competence lies in developing and implementing a data destruction concept built on SAP Information Lifecycle Management, the SAP framework that underpins GDPR-compliant data retention and destruction across SAP customer environments generally. The service includes workshops to establish technical basics, system analysis, and support in building and rolling out a destruction concept, plus support for both initial cleanup of historical data and ongoing regular destruction cycles, including destruction of data in customer-owned tables using CTH’s own extension.

CTH rounds out its service scope with Employee Self Service and Manager Self Service solutions built on Web Dynpro for ABAP or Fiori, SAP platform technologies used broadly across the SAP ecosystem rather than tools unique to one consultancy. The firm also supports Organizational Management for mapping reporting and functional structures, Personnel Cost Planning and Simulation for forecasting personnel costs from existing OM data, and authorization concepts that align system access with each user’s actual role.

What This Means for SAPinsiders

Boutique scale changes the support equation. Organizations weighing a large integrator against a specialist firm may find CTH’s stated team size and consultant-to-expertise matching relevant when personal attention and quick turnaround outweigh scale considerations. Smaller teams can also mean narrower bench depth during peak project periods.

Data destruction becomes a paired consulting and tooling exercise. Combining an ILM-based consulting concept with the ZM-DV extension could reduce the manual burden of running recurring GDPR destruction cycles for SAP HCM teams. That pairing may shorten the gap between concept design and actual execution in the system.

Niche certification can offload a specific compliance task. Using an ITSG-certified module for irregular employee notifications lets HR and payroll teams route a defined regulatory reporting requirement through an existing tool rather than validating that logic internally. This narrows where in-house teams need to build or maintain compliance-specific code.