SAP Runs SAP: Heightening Cloud Operations Globally While Strengthening Confidence in Local Compliance
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SAP Runs SAP: Heightening cloud
operations globally while strengthening
confidence in local compliance
As a market leader in enterprise application software, SAP SE helps companies across
industries run better by redefining ERP and creating networks of intelligent enterprises
that provide transparency, resiliency, and sustainability across supply chains. Its suite of
applications and services enables its customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously,
and make a difference worldwide.
SAP’s transformation into a cloud company resulted in a significant increase in subscription
revenue and invoice volume. To sustain profitable growth and secure its future ability to
bill and collect while remaining legally compliant globally, SAP needed a standardized
approach to tax compliance and embedded automation. The goal was to maximize
efficiency, reduce compliance risks and costs, and increase sustainability of tax
operations.
SAP Runs SAP: Heightening cloud
operations globally while strengthening
confidence in local compliance
As a market leader in enterprise application software, SAP SE helps companies across
industries run better by redefining ERP and creating networks of intelligent enterprises
that provide transparency, resiliency, and sustainability across supply chains. Its suite of
applications and services enables its customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously,
and make a difference worldwide.
SAP’s transformation into a cloud company resulted in a significant increase in subscription
revenue and invoice volume. To sustain profitable growth and secure its future ability to
bill and collect while remaining legally compliant globally, SAP needed a standardized
approach to tax compliance and embedded automation. The goal was to maximize
efficiency, reduce compliance risks and costs, and increase sustainability of tax
operations.
INTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
“The powerful combination of SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management and SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance has equipped our organization to thrive and
scale in the subscription and consumption-based cloud era.
We now are well-positioned to fulfill statutory and e-billing
requirements for an increasingly complex scope of global
legal compliance mandates within a high-transaction-volume
environment with increased cloud subscription revenue.”
Matthias Schubert, Head of Tax, SAP SE
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
www.sap.com
Industry
High tech
Employees
>107,500
Revenue
>€37.5 billion
Products and services
Enterprise application
software
Featured solutions
SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management
and SAP Document and
Reporting Compliance
62%
Of SAP’s overall
business volume
managed through
convergent invoicing
and contract accounting
24
Countries that are live with
the solution, with the
global rollout continuing
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Optimize management of increased subscription revenue and invoice volume
• Sustain profitable growth and secure future ability to bill and collect while being locally compliant
• Adapt processes and systems to support the high volume of frequent invoices generated by cloud and
subscription businesses
Why SAP
• Functionality to harness recurring billing and revenue management offered by the SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management solution
• Electronic invoicing and statutory reports management offered by the SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance solution integrated with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
• Localization features of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management, supporting a global-ready, local
experience that enables compliance with a country’s local regulations by connecting core business processes
• Functionality in SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management that provides “regulatory relief as a
service” to support new and evolving regulations
After: Value-driven results
• Established an efficient and automated business process to handle mass volumes of invoices while being
able to meet evolving legal compliance and tax control requirements
• Introduced a standardized approach to tax compliance, maximizing efficiency, reducing compliance risks
and costs, and increasing sustainability of tax operations
• Readied the business to manage new and evolving regulations across the world, now and in the future
Maximizing efficiency, revenue growth, and compliance globally
with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
89602enUS (25/01) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
“The powerful combination of SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management and SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance has equipped our organization to thrive and
scale in the subscription and consumption-based cloud era.
We now are well-positioned to fulfill statutory and e-billing
requirements for an increasingly complex scope of global
legal compliance mandates within a high-transaction-volume
environment with increased cloud subscription revenue.”
Matthias Schubert, Head of Tax, SAP SE
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
www.sap.com
Industry
High tech
Employees
>107,500
Revenue
>€37.5 billion
Products and services
Enterprise application
software
Featured solutions
SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management
and SAP Document and
Reporting Compliance
62%
Of SAP’s overall
business volume
managed through
convergent invoicing
and contract accounting
24
Countries that are live with
the solution, with the
global rollout continuing
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Optimize management of increased subscription revenue and invoice volume
• Sustain profitable growth and secure future ability to bill and collect while being locally compliant
• Adapt processes and systems to support the high volume of frequent invoices generated by cloud and
subscription businesses
Why SAP
• Functionality to harness recurring billing and revenue management offered by the SAP Billing and Revenue
Innovation Management solution
• Electronic invoicing and statutory reports management offered by the SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance solution integrated with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
• Localization features of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management, supporting a global-ready, local
experience that enables compliance with a country’s local regulations by connecting core business processes
• Functionality in SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management that provides “regulatory relief as a
service” to support new and evolving regulations
After: Value-driven results
• Established an efficient and automated business process to handle mass volumes of invoices while being
able to meet evolving legal compliance and tax control requirements
• Introduced a standardized approach to tax compliance, maximizing efficiency, reducing compliance risks
and costs, and increasing sustainability of tax operations
• Readied the business to manage new and evolving regulations across the world, now and in the future
Maximizing efficiency, revenue growth, and compliance globally
with SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management
89602enUS (25/01) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
INTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
“Rapidly increasing invoice volumes in the cloud era, as
well as evolving legal requirements in the digital age,
impose massive change to our corporate processes and
IT solutions. SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management allows us to future-proof SAP for cloud-
business volumes while being locally compliant around
the globe.”
Benjamin Blau, Chief Process and Information Officer, SAP SE
In transitioning from a “buy and own” business model to cloud-based subscription and
usage models, SAP SE needed to adapt its processes and systems to support the high
volume of frequent invoices generated by cloud and subscription businesses.
SAP implemented the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management solution to
resolve challenges of recurring revenue at high transaction volumes. Integrated with the
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance solution, it supports e-invoicing, real-time
reporting, and statutory reporting worldwide. Automated compliance tasks help SAP fulfill
local compliance mandates and automate compliance processes worldwide for recurring
billing, empowering the company to run globally while being locally compliant.
The deployment of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management kicked off with a
pilot in Canada, before rolling out the solution in many locations across the globe,
accounting for 62% of SAP’s total invoice volume. SAP is continuing the global rollout.
Scaling to manage millions of transactions and maintain ongoing
financial compliance
“Rapidly increasing invoice volumes in the cloud era, as
well as evolving legal requirements in the digital age,
impose massive change to our corporate processes and
IT solutions. SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management allows us to future-proof SAP for cloud-
business volumes while being locally compliant around
the globe.”
Benjamin Blau, Chief Process and Information Officer, SAP SE
In transitioning from a “buy and own” business model to cloud-based subscription and
usage models, SAP SE needed to adapt its processes and systems to support the high
volume of frequent invoices generated by cloud and subscription businesses.
SAP implemented the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management solution to
resolve challenges of recurring revenue at high transaction volumes. Integrated with the
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance solution, it supports e-invoicing, real-time
reporting, and statutory reporting worldwide. Automated compliance tasks help SAP fulfill
local compliance mandates and automate compliance processes worldwide for recurring
billing, empowering the company to run globally while being locally compliant.
The deployment of SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management kicked off with a
pilot in Canada, before rolling out the solution in many locations across the globe,
accounting for 62% of SAP’s total invoice volume. SAP is continuing the global rollout.
Scaling to manage millions of transactions and maintain ongoing
financial compliance