diff --git a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/README.md b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/README.md
index b3c6e2d..3fbad6f 100644
--- a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/README.md
+++ b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,25 @@ The `sapcommercetoolkit` extension improves the SAP Commerce developer experienc
 maintenance & operation of the platform, including data imports (essential, initial, sample & test), handling of emails, and a feature to
 run unit tests without bootstrapping the platform, incl. a series of test doubles and builders that make writing unit tests easier.
 
+## Model Service Exception Logging
+The model service itself does not log its errors and exceptions, which typically is fine, as those are handled or logged in the call stack.
+Nevertheless, there are situations in which this is difficult and hard to operate, e.g. in case of running a catalog synchronisation. Due
+to missing logging statements within the catalog sync worker, no errors are logged and it is almost impossible to find and analyse errors.
+
+With this implementation, the logging can be enhanced to print all errors and exceptions with level `DEBUG`.  
+
+### How to activate and use
+Example: To enable better logging for catalog synchronization failures, one has to do the following steps:
+
+1) Activate the spring profile 'sapcommercetools-modelservice-failurelogging'
+2) Reduce the logging level of the following loggers to DEBUG
+- `tools.sapcx.commerce.toolkit.model.FailureLoggingModelService`
+- `de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.internal.model.impl.DefaultModelService`
+3) Set the following properties:
+- `synchronization.itemcopycreator.stacktraces=true`
+- `cronjob.logtofile.threshold=DEBUG`
+4) Then restart your instance and sync to see what's happening under the hood.
+
 ## Optimized system setup
 
 The system setup mechanism makes use of the platform properties, that can be extended with by extension. The core principle is, that you 
diff --git a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit-spring.xml b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit-spring.xml
index fd014c9..6630d95 100644
--- a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit-spring.xml
+++ b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit-spring.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
+    <import resource="sapcommercetoolkit/models-spring.xml"/>
     <import resource="sapcommercetoolkit/sessionhandling-spring.xml"/>
     <import resource="sapcommercetoolkit/systemsetup-spring.xml"/>
     <import resource="sapcommercetoolkit/thymeleafemails-spring.xml"/>
diff --git a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit/models-spring.xml b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit/models-spring.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c0c5c65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/resources/sapcommercetoolkit/models-spring.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+            http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">
+
+	<beans profile="sapcommercetools-modelservice-failurelogging">
+		<!-- Enhance failure logging for model service, e.g. within cronjobs -->
+		<alias alias="modelService" name="cxFailureLoggingModelService" />
+		<bean id="cxFailureLoggingModelService" parent="defaultModelService"
+			  class="tools.sapcx.commerce.toolkit.model.FailureLoggingModelService" />
+	</beans>
+</beans>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/src/tools/sapcx/commerce/toolkit/model/FailureLoggingModelService.java b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/src/tools/sapcx/commerce/toolkit/model/FailureLoggingModelService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63e9464
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core-customize/hybris/bin/custom/sapcxtools/sapcommercetoolkit/src/tools/sapcx/commerce/toolkit/model/FailureLoggingModelService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,331 @@
+package tools.sapcx.commerce.toolkit.model;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+import de.hybris.platform.core.PK;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.exceptions.ModelInitializationException;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.exceptions.ModelRemovalException;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.exceptions.ModelSavingException;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.exceptions.SystemException;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.internal.model.ModelCloningContext;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.internal.model.impl.DefaultModelService;
+import de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.model.ModelService;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * This class implements the {@link ModelService} interface add enhances the
+ * logging capabilities to trace errors within calls to the model service.
+ * <p>
+ * This is especially helpful when debugging catalog synchronization issues,
+ * as the {@link de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.internal.model.impl.DefaultModelService}
+ * does not log out any exceptions and the synchronization workers also do not
+ * print out the exception, but only a generic error message.
+ * <p>
+ * Note: This class was originally designed as a delegate to the
+ * {@link de.hybris.platform.servicelayer.model.ModelService} interface, but
+ * unfortunately, there is an outdated SAP implementation of this interface
+ * (com.sap.hybris.sapcustomerb2b.outbound.SAPB2BModelService) within the
+ * sapcustomerb2b extension, which requires the bean alias "modelService"
+ * to be a subtype of the {@link DefaultModelService} class.
+ * <p>
+ * This class will be refactored to the delegate pattern, once this unfortunate
+ * implementation class is removed from the platform.
+ */
+public class FailureLoggingModelService extends DefaultModelService {
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FailureLoggingModelService.class);
+    private static final String EXCEPTION_MESSAGE = "Exception of type '%s' occurred during model service interaction: %s";
+    private static final String SUPPRESSED_EXCEPTION_MESSAGE = "Suppressed exception (%d of %d): %s";
+
+    private void wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(final Runnable command) {
+        try {
+            command.run();
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException | SystemException | NullPointerException e) {
+            performLogging(e);
+            throw e;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private <T> T wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(final Supplier<T> command) {
+        try {
+            return command.get();
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException | SystemException | NullPointerException e) {
+            performLogging(e);
+            throw e;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private <T extends RuntimeException> void performLogging(final T exception) {
+        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            LOG.debug(String.format(EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, exception.getClass().getSimpleName(), exception.getLocalizedMessage()), exception);
+
+            final Throwable[] suppressed = exception.getSuppressed();
+            if (suppressed != null) {
+                int total = suppressed.length;
+                for (int i = 0; i < total; i++) {
+                    LOG.debug(String.format(SUPPRESSED_EXCEPTION_MESSAGE, i, total, suppressed[i].getLocalizedMessage()), suppressed[i]);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void attach(Object o) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.attach(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void detach(Object o) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.detach(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void detach(PK pk) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.detach(pk));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void detachAll() {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.detachAll());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T clone(T t) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.clone(t));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T clone(Object o, Class<T> aClass) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.clone(o, aClass));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T clone(T t, ModelCloningContext modelCloningContext) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.clone(t, modelCloningContext));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T clone(Object o, Class<T> aClass, ModelCloningContext modelCloningContext) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.clone(o, aClass, modelCloningContext));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T create(Class aClass) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.create(aClass));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T create(String s) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.create(s));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T get(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.get(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T get(Object o, String s) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.get(o, s));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T get(PK pk) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.get(pk));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T extends Collection> T getAll(Collection<?> collection, T t) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAll(collection, t));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T extends Collection> T getAll(Collection<?> collection, T t, String s) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAll(collection, t, s));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void refresh(Object o) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.refresh(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void save(Object o) throws ModelSavingException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.save(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void saveAll(Collection<?> collection) throws ModelSavingException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.saveAll(collection));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void saveAll(Object... objects) throws ModelSavingException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.saveAll(objects));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void saveAll() throws ModelSavingException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.saveAll());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isUniqueConstraintErrorAsRootCause(Exception e) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isUniqueConstraintErrorAsRootCause(e));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void remove(Object o) throws ModelRemovalException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.remove(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void removeAll(Collection<?> collection) throws ModelRemovalException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.removeAll(collection));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void removeAll(Object... objects) throws ModelRemovalException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.removeAll(objects));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void remove(PK pk) throws ModelRemovalException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.remove(pk));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T getSource(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getSource(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T extends Collection> T getAllSources(Collection<?> collection, T t) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAllSources(collection, t));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getModelType(Class aClass) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getModelType(aClass));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Class getModelTypeClass(Class aClass) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getModelTypeClass(aClass));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getModelType(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getModelType(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T toModelLayer(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.toModelLayer(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T toPersistenceLayer(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.toPersistenceLayer(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void initDefaults(Object o) throws ModelInitializationException {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.initDefaults(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T getAttributeValue(Object o, String s) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAttributeValue(o, s));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T getAttributeValue(Object o, String s, Locale locale) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAttributeValue(o, s, locale));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> Map<Locale, T> getAttributeValues(Object o, String s, Locale... locales) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getAttributeValues(o, s, locales));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setAttributeValue(Object o, String s, Object o1) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.setAttributeValue(o, s, o1));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> void setAttributeValue(Object o, String s, Map<Locale, T> map) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.setAttributeValue(o, s, map));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isUpToDate(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isUpToDate(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isModified(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isModified(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isNew(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isNew(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isRemoved(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isRemoved(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isAttached(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isAttached(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isSourceAttached(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.isSourceAttached(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void enableTransactions() {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.enableTransactions());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void disableTransactions() {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.disableTransactions());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void clearTransactionsSettings() {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.clearTransactionsSettings());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @Deprecated(since = "6.1.0", forRemoval = true)
+    public <T> T getByExample(T t) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getByExample(t));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lock(PK pk) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.lock(pk));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lock(Object o) {
+        wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.lock(o));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public <T> T getWithLock(Object o) {
+        return wrapWithLoggingCapabilities(() -> super.getWithLock(o));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core-customize/hybris/config/cloud/local-dev.properties b/core-customize/hybris/config/cloud/local-dev.properties
index 94d0af0..9b929b4 100644
--- a/core-customize/hybris/config/cloud/local-dev.properties
+++ b/core-customize/hybris/config/cloud/local-dev.properties
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Sane Defaults
 
 initialpassword.admin=nimda
-spring.profiles.active=sapcommercetools-fake-localmails
+spring.profiles.active=sapcommercetools-fake-localmails,sapcommercetools-modelservice-failurelogging
 installed.tenants=
 
 testclasses.extensions=sapcommercetoolkit,sapcxbackoffice,sapcxreporting,sapcxenvconfig,sapcxsearch