
Explore the concept of trade through everyday examples, and compare domestic and international trade, including currency, documents, customs, quotas, and import duties.
Learn the basics of international trade, including licenses, permits, and export controls, and how commercial invoices, bill of lading, certificate of origin, and Incoterms guide cross-border shipments.
Learn how SAP Global Trade Services enables automated import/export, compliance management, customs management, risk management, and electronic compliance reporting to streamline global trade.
Explore how SAP GTS application on NetWeaver automates trade compliance, sanctions screening, embargo checks, and license determination, integrating ERP and non-ERP feeder systems for efficient cross-border transactions.
Understand the SAP GTS architecture and how master data and transactional data flow from feeder systems to SAP GTS via RFC, enabling foreign trade processes.
Transfer master data from feeder system to SAP with an initial load (customer, vendor, material, banks) using batch jobs, then enable change pointers and reduced message types to capture updates.
Define a foreign trade organization and a legal unit, then assign the legal unit to the FTO and map it to a company code in the feeder and R3 systems.
Map feeder system partner functions to the GTA system partner roles to identify the true business partner roles in transactions, enabling accurate customs reporting and preventing transfer blocks.
Connect multiple feeder systems to the SAP GTS system, define logical systems (and groups), and map organizational units and company codes for seamless master and transactional data transfer.
Transfer organizational units in sap by using transport requests for master data, and distribute foreign trade organizations or legal units to downstream systems without a transport request.
Explore SAP compliance management services, including sanctioned party list screening, embargo checks, and legal controls, and learn to define legal regulations, country groups, and determination procedures for global trade.
Explore the sanctioned party screening service in SAP GTS, detailing sanction party lists and records. Learn how business partners and documents are screened and how SPL status guides release.
Configure sanctioned party screening in sap gts by activating business partner roles, selecting screening points, and defining time of check and address comparison rules.
learn how to customize sanctioned party screening in sap gts, from activating business partner screening and defining immediate or batch checks, to configuring determination procedures, legal regulations, and control settings.
activate sanction by screening and maintain the sanctioned party list master data. upload lists via XML, manual entry, or sanctioned partner data, and configure matching and exclusions.
Demonstrate sanction party list screening by creating test data, transferring a customer, and validating matches against the list to decide release or blocking.
Learn how the embargo check service in the SAP compliance management module screens business partners and documents, blocking transactions from embargoed countries and configuring master data, regulations, and release reasons.
Learn to determine jurisdiction, classify products, and assess end destination and end use to decide license requirements under US export controls, including embargoes, sanctions, and agency roles.
Learn how to define and assign export and import classification codes in SAP, using a three-level numbering scheme, manual entry or XML upload, and apply them to product master data.
Determine a license for a product by evaluating legal regulation, departure country, destination country, and the product code, with SAP ERP using plant location and ship-to party data.
Learn how to configure SAP GTS legal control by activating document types and item categories, defining legal regulations, and setting license type determination procedures to enforce license checks.
Explore how classification codes, including the export control classification number, harmonized tariff schedule, and schedule B, determine export and import controls, duties, and licensing requirements.
Configure master data and a determination strategy to map export licenses by country group and legal regulation. Create licenses and verify license assignment during sales order transfer.
Explore how the Gdr's customs management module standardizes import and export processes and speeds clearance with European, US, Asian and Australian authorities, using paper and electronic declarations.
Explain how SAP GTS communicates with customs systems through idocs and EDI conversion for electronic declarations and how the converter handles data and confirmations as export proof.
Explore submitting the export declaration to customs authorities in the SAP system, including documents like commercial invoice, bill of lading, packing list, and certificates, plus supplementary declarations for periodic filing.
Explore the export procedure in the SAP system, from enquiry to export declaration and pre-shipment inspection. Understand idoc/edi messages, display mode, and printing essential shipment documents.
Explore the key EU customs procedures, including release into free circulation for non-community goods, inward and outward processing, simplified procedures, and transit, with checks, duties, and exemptions.
Explore SAP GTS customs management module's incompletion procedure, where the system automatically creates export declarations from ERP data and applies hard and soft blocks to enforce license and field checks.
Activate the fallback procedure in the SAP GTS system to continue international trade operations when IT systems fail, using manual processing of declarations and printed data under customs instructions.
Configure legal regulations and document types in GTS to activate the customs processing service for electronic declarations and map feeder system documents to customs document types.
Learn how the post processing framework in SAP customs management automates communications with authorities by using action profiles and definitions to trigger electronic and printed outputs based on conditions.
Explore how sap gts uses message schemas, idocs, and electronic message IDs to manage inbound, outbound, and printed communications with customs authorities, and how control settings organize processes.
Learn how default data populates customs declarations by defining rules in SAP, configuring procedures for dates, partners, and document fields, and maintaining master data.
Explore how SAP GTS uses customs code lists to enforce allowed values in customs declarations and assign procedures to legal regulations for export data such as mode of transport.
Identify and mitigate currency, economic, political, and transit risks in international trade using SAP risk management, and explore MFN, preferential trade agreements, and rules of origin.
Learn how rules of origin and preferential trade agreements determine tariff treatment, and how a certificate of origin certifies country of origin for automated issuing in SAP trade preference management.
Explore NAFTA rules of origin and the six preference criteria A through F, including wholly obtained or produced goods, non-NAFTA materials, and the certificate of origin.
Flag relevant document types for risk management in the feeder system, including purchase orders, material documents, and billing documents, to trigger bids and the certificate of origin in ERP.
With increasing globalization, companies cannot run without GTM solutions. With GTS solutions in place all logistics consultants (SD, MM, PP, CRM, SRM) would have to understand how SAP GTS systems work.This course would be extremely useful for consultants who are looking to enhance their careers.
How is this course designed?
Each topic has been explained in detail and with examples. The course is designed in such a way that before you get into configuring the system you have strong understanding of the concepts and functionalities.
How to get the most out of this course?
I suggest you go through the videos and immediately practice the scenarios on the IDES system. This would help you better understand the underlying functionality. If you get stuck somewhere please post your questions on the forum, I can help you with your queries.
What is covered in this course?
As of now the Compliance Management module of the SAP GTS system has been dealt in this course.
The following topics are covered under the Compliance Management module:
1. Sanctioned Party List screening
2. Embargo Check
3. Legal Control
Realistic course timeline
Although the course is around 4-5 hrs in duration, it would take a good 1 month in order to gain full understanding of the topics and practice the different scenarios.