Siemens: How can automated document processing reduce compliance costs across the globe?
Explore how Siemens uses SAP Document and Reporting Compliance to help it manage ever-evolving statutory reporting requirements in its diverse markets. increasing efficiency and allowing the company to react more quickly to legal changes. Download the DocumentINTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
How can automated document
processing reduce compliance costs
across the globe?
Global company Siemens AG helps transform industry, infrastructure, transport, and
healthcare with technology that aids resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains,
smarter buildings and grids, cleaner and more comfortable transportation, and advanced
healthcare. Because even the smallest improvements make a difference as they scale
across such a large enterprise, Siemens strives to constantly perfect its processes. With
that in mind, it needed a solution to help it manage ever-evolving statutory reporting
requirements in its diverse markets. The right offering would not only increase efficiency
but also allow the company to react more quickly to legal changes.
Standardizing reporting in a company present in almost every
country and region worldwide
How can automated document
processing reduce compliance costs
across the globe?
Global company Siemens AG helps transform industry, infrastructure, transport, and
healthcare with technology that aids resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains,
smarter buildings and grids, cleaner and more comfortable transportation, and advanced
healthcare. Because even the smallest improvements make a difference as they scale
across such a large enterprise, Siemens strives to constantly perfect its processes. With
that in mind, it needed a solution to help it manage ever-evolving statutory reporting
requirements in its diverse markets. The right offering would not only increase efficiency
but also allow the company to react more quickly to legal changes.
Standardizing reporting in a company present in almost every
country and region worldwide
INTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
“SAP Document and Reporting Compliance makes
managing international tax requirements much easier and
will be implemented around the globe to meet growing
compliance requirements.”
Andrea Spandau, Head of Digital Tax Ecosystem, Siemens AG
Siemens AG
Munich, Germany
www.siemens.com
Industry
High tech
Employees
312,000
Revenue
€75.9 billion
Products and services
Technology for industry,
infrastructure, healthcare,
and transportation
Featured solutions
SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance; SAP Document and
Reporting Compliance, cloud
edition; and SAP Integration Suite
Faster
Response to new
or changed legal
requirements
1
Team of three rolling
out country-specific
legal scenarios across
the company
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Simplify legal and tax compliance processes using electronic document processing
• Scale the solution to help standardize statutory reporting worldwide
Why SAP
• SAP Document and Reporting Compliance solution, helping transform, standardize, and harmonize
global processes for smoother compliance, greater agility, and reduced costs
• Automated updates of legal changes and lower maintenance costs with localization as a self-service
extensibility using the cloud edition of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
• Smooth integration of on-premises and cloud-based applications and processes using intuitive tools
and prebuilt content offered by SAP Integration Suite
After: Value-driven results
• Significantly reduced total cost of ownership thanks to centralized maintenance of report categories
across diverse entities as well as time and resource savings
• Enabled various country and regional compliance requirements without external dependency
• Reduced manual intervention and eliminated time-consuming reconciliation outside the ERP system
• Minimized noncompliance risk thanks to increased global visibility of the latest compliance status,
including failed documents and due dates of statutory reports
Improving operational efficiency and minimizing risk with
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
97158enUS (25/07) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
“SAP Document and Reporting Compliance makes
managing international tax requirements much easier and
will be implemented around the globe to meet growing
compliance requirements.”
Andrea Spandau, Head of Digital Tax Ecosystem, Siemens AG
Siemens AG
Munich, Germany
www.siemens.com
Industry
High tech
Employees
312,000
Revenue
€75.9 billion
Products and services
Technology for industry,
infrastructure, healthcare,
and transportation
Featured solutions
SAP Document and Reporting
Compliance; SAP Document and
Reporting Compliance, cloud
edition; and SAP Integration Suite
Faster
Response to new
or changed legal
requirements
1
Team of three rolling
out country-specific
legal scenarios across
the company
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Simplify legal and tax compliance processes using electronic document processing
• Scale the solution to help standardize statutory reporting worldwide
Why SAP
• SAP Document and Reporting Compliance solution, helping transform, standardize, and harmonize
global processes for smoother compliance, greater agility, and reduced costs
• Automated updates of legal changes and lower maintenance costs with localization as a self-service
extensibility using the cloud edition of SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
• Smooth integration of on-premises and cloud-based applications and processes using intuitive tools
and prebuilt content offered by SAP Integration Suite
After: Value-driven results
• Significantly reduced total cost of ownership thanks to centralized maintenance of report categories
across diverse entities as well as time and resource savings
• Enabled various country and regional compliance requirements without external dependency
• Reduced manual intervention and eliminated time-consuming reconciliation outside the ERP system
• Minimized noncompliance risk thanks to increased global visibility of the latest compliance status,
including failed documents and due dates of statutory reports
Improving operational efficiency and minimizing risk with
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
97158enUS (25/07) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use