SAP GTS E4H Implementation

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SAP GTS (Global Trade Services)

SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) is an integrated, end-to-end solution for managing global trade processes, including customs compliance, export control, and trade agreements, helping businesses streamline complex cross-border operations. 

Key Features and Capabilities:

  • Compliance Management:
  • Automates compliance with various trade regulations and requirements, including regional and industry-specific regulations. 
  • Helps businesses comply with export regulations, including sanction checks and export license management. 
  • Helps businesses accurately classify goods for trade purposes. 
  • Customs Management:
  • Streamlines customs clearance processes, including duty calculation, self-filing, and importer security filing. 
  • Facilitates seamless communication and data exchange with brokers and logistics partners i.e. Broker and Logistic Partner Integration
  • Trade Agreements (Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Management)
  • Facilitates the management of preferential and free trade agreements to reduce duty and tax payments. 
  • Enables efficient management of free trade agreements and their associated benefits. 
  • Electronic Compliance Reporting:
  • Enables companies to generate and submit electronic trade documentation and compliance reports to regulatory authorities. 
  • Integration:
  • Integrates with other SAP modules, such as SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), SAP Material Management (MM), SAP Transportation Management (TM), and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). 
  • Data Analysis and Reporting:
  • Provides advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to monitor and optimize global trade processes. 
  • Localization:
  • Supports localization for more than 25 countries. 

SAP GTS E4H (SAP Global Trade Services Edition for SAP HANA)

SAP GTS E4H (SAP Global Trade Services Edition for SAP HANA)

SAP GTS E4H, or SAP Global Trade Services Edition for SAP HANA, is a future-ready solution that leverages SAP HANA’s in-memory computing technology to modernize global trade management, offering features like redesigned applications, embedded analytics, and improved integration with other SAP systems. 

SAP GTS E4H Key Features:

    • Redesigned Applications: The Fiori user experience is better aligned with SAP S/4HANA and other modern solutions. 
    • Embedded Analytics: Fiori apps provide real-time insights that aid decision-making. 
    • Optimized Landscape: Sharing the HANA database and technical stack between S/4HANA and GTS E4H can enable cost efficiencies. 
    • Improved Visibility: SAP GTS E4H enables comprehensive visibility into the health of trade functions through built-in analytics. 
    • Compliance Management: Ensures adherence to global trade regulations by screening business partners, monitoring embargoes, and managing export and import licenses. 
    • Customs Management: Facilitates customs compliance, including import and export declarations, product classification, and preference processing. 
  • Benefits of Transitioning to SAP GTS E4H i.e. Edition for SAP HANA
    • Modernization: Modernizes operations, ensures compliance, and enhances efficiency. 
    • Reduced Risks: Unsupported software exposes organizations to security vulnerabilities, regulatory non-compliance, and operational disruptions. 
    • Improved Efficiency: Streamlines trade operations and reduces costs. 
    • Better Integration: Integrates seamlessly with other SAP systems. 

SAP GTS E4H Offerings

Compliance Management

• Sanctioned Party Screening: Utilizes machine learning for faster and more accurate compliance checks.
• Legal Control: Supports both import and export legal controls, including embargo checking and license management.
• Product classification for compliance management support, Reduction of manual work
Consistent and correct classification of your products , Regular updating of your data using product reclassification and Ensuring
proper classification by involving all those involved in difficult cases, using Case Management

Customs Management

• Automated Customs Declarations:
Streamlines the process of creating and submitting customs declarations for both import and export, reducing errors and improving processing times.
• Electronic Communication:
Facilitates electronic communication with customs authorities, enabling faster and more efficient customs clearance.
• Duty Calculation and Tariff Classification:
Supports accurate calculation of duties and taxes, and ensures correct classification of goods according to customs regulations.
• Customs Broker Integration:
Offers an open interface to connect customs brokers directly with SAP GTS, facilitating seamless communication and data exchange.
• Document Printing:
Enables printing of foreign trade documents, such as proof of origin and export declarations, in compliance with country-specific requirements.

Preference Management

• Simplified Data Model: Offers a revised and simplified data model for managing long-term supplier declarations (LLE).
• Product Identifier Management: Supports Preference Data Management for Product Identifiers, allowing for preferential origin determination on the batch level.
• Trade Preference Management offers features to simplify the management of trade agreements and reduce duties, including managing long-term supplier declarations, calculating product origin, and generating long-term supplier declarations for customers.
• Preference Processing in SAP GTS, identity-based preference processing supports exporters in fulfilling all legal requirements for customs preferences and identifying their goods as eligible for preferential treatment. Users can determine the preference status of production and process orders at an identifier level.

Electronic Compliance Reporting

• Electronic Compliance Reporting helps businesses with statistical reports required for intra-European trade, ensuring compliance with EU statistical authorities' data formats. It automates customs declarations, license management, and trade filing, streamlining international trade operations.
• Statistical Reporting: Provides the tools to create statistical reports for incoming and outgoing goods, summarizing goods movements for a reporting period or entering items per transaction.
• Trade Filing: Streamlines the process of filing trade-related documents with authorities.

Modern User Experience through SAP Fiori

• SAP GTS Edition for HANA (E4H) is a version of SAP Global Trade Services designed to leverage the SAP HANA platform for global trade management, offering a modern user experience through SAP Fiori and enhanced capabilities for trade compliance and customs processes.
• Newly designed fiori apps with enhanced usability to increase efficiency and transparency for the users: Manage and Display Export Declarations, Exit Confirmation Overdue Manage and Display Transit Declarations, Transit Confirmation Overdue

SAP Activate Methodology

• To implement SAP GTS E4H, a structured approach using the SAP Activate methodology is recommended, encompassing phases like Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run, along with a system assessment and clear objective definition.

SAP Activate Methodology

• To implement SAP GTS E4H, a structured approach using the SAP Activate methodology is recommended, encompassing phases like Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run, along with a system assessment and clear objective definition.