Implementing SAP Global Trade Services, 2nd Edition

Don t get tied up in global trade red tape! Navigate the complex web of regulations with this guide to implementing SAP Global Trade Services. Learn the ins and outs of SAP GTS and how it connects to SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA. Get step-by-step instructions to configuring compliance, customs, and risk management functionality, and explore your reporting options. Get insight into global trade innovations, in SAP GTS 11 and beyond!

• Effectively implement and configure SAP GTS
• Use compliance, customs, and risk management functionality for your trade processes
• Manage regulatory changes and meet your organization s trade requirements

Setup and Implementation

Get step-by-step instructions for implementing SAP GTS 11. Connect your SAP GTS system to SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA, and understand the baseline settings for your organizational structure and ERP plug-ins.

Compliance, Customs, and Risk Management

Master your critical trade functionalities: legal control, foreign trade zones, trade preference management, and more. Follow business case studies to envision how SAP GTS will work for your company s compliance, customs, and risk management requirements.

Reporting

Learn about your reporting options for SAP GTS. From standard reporting to SAP BW-specific alternatives, find out what is available for each SAP GTS functionality.

• System architecture
• System navigation
• Baseline settings
• Master data
• Classification codes
• Compliance, customs, and risk management
• Trade preference management
• Foreign trade zones
• Reporting
• Technical objects
• SAP Fiori applications

About the Authors

Yannick Jacques is a partner within Deloitte Belgium and the Global Leader of the SAP GTS practice. He is also leading the Belgian SAP Service Line. Yannick has over 20 years of experience in SAP ERP implementations with a particular focus on the implementation of SAP GTS by applying leading practice methodologies.

Nick Moris is the Deloitte SAP GTS EMEA leader on automated solutions. He has 21 years of experience in advising clients on automating customs processes including bonded warehouse and duty relief programs. Nick leads the customs and global trade automation team, which provides companies and public bodies with support and advice on a worldwide basis with respect to technology solutions for tax and customs compliance.

Managing director Chris Halloran is one of the leads with Deloitte Tax s Global Trade Advisory practice, where he heads the Americas trade automation service offering. With a focus on designing and architecting export and import requirements using SAP GTS, Chris has over 20 years of experience deploying trade software solutions and transforming related process, data, and supply chain management.

Pablo Lecour is a partner and leads the Deloitte s Regulatory Risk practice in the UK. He has significant global experience in trade compliance with a particular focus in advising companies on global export controls and customs regulatory requirements, conducting global export and customs compliance audits, selecting/implementing global trade management software solutions and designing/deploying international trade compliance programs.