Tax and trade management

Automate tax and trade operations worldwide and improve resilience to help your business stay ready for what’s ahead.
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Optimize global tax and trade operations based on agile, compliant processes

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Respond confidently to evolving risks and regulations

SAP solutions support compliance with local mandates, automate global operations, and provide transparency to optimize tax strategies for a dynamic economic landscape.

Minimize the risk of noncompliance

Address new requirements and legal changes better, based on real-time insights into your compliance status, mitigated risks, and high-quality data within the system of record itself.

Lower compliance costs with AI and machine learning

Standardize, centralize, and automate tax and trade compliance processes to scale operations globally and fulfill obligations with less effort.

Create a foundation for optimized decisions

Explore new business models and meet the requirements of tax authorities. Assess trade partnerships and strategies amid evolving market opportunities and tariffs.

Explore tax and trade management capabilities

Standardized capabilities enable compliance in your operational processes so that you can grow your business across countries.

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Optimizing global trade

Conduct trade in evolving global markets with greater confidence and agility, and maximize the potential of trade strategies and partnerships.

Reduced risk of fines and penalties

Validate every order against the latest compliance regulations, such as sanctioned party lists or export license requirements.

Streamlined global trade management and compliance

Automate time-consuming tasks for foreign trade zones and other special customs procedures.

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Streamlining compliance with e-invoicing regulations

Learn how professional services firm EY expanded to Malaysia while minimizing delivery risks, improving accuracy, and reducing total cost of ownership.

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Simplifying legal business requirements globally

Learn how international water solutions company Grundfos complies with e-invoicing and statutory reporting requirements across its network of over 100 businesses.

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SAP named a Leader in two Magic Quadrant™ reports on financial software

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant™ reports for financial management software providers.

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Compliance with evolving trade regulations

Learn how SAP Global Trade Services is already equipped to help organizations react to regulatory changes.

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SOLUTION DEMO

Simplified compliance with a single, connected platform

Discover how to automate processes across your business—helping you reduce costs, prevent penalties, and speed up customs clearance.

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SOLUTION DEMO

Electronic invoice management and statutory reporting

Explore how to improve compliance for electronic invoices and statutory reporting worldwide.

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Indirect tax management across VAT, GST, and more

Learn how to manage indirect taxes with a comprehensive and efficient approach that automatically determines and applies the correct tax codes.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP tax and trade management solutions are a comprehensive suite of cohesive and modular tools that enable companies to automate tax and trade operations worldwide and strengthen their resilience to stay ready for what’s ahead.

SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS), an application within SAP solutions for tax and trade management, connects with core logistics processes and government customs systems to help ensure compliant, efficient import and export management. It helps fulfill compliance duties by checking for embargoes, managing licenses, and using inline blocking and release.

 

It also blocks for immediate review any transaction that fails a sanctioned party list screening. Worklists enable efficient processing of blocked documents and user-friendly workflows escalate questionable entries.

SAP GTS streamlines an organization’s customs clearance processes and supports regulatory compliance by ensuring accurate product categorization for trade documentation and determining the relevant tariff codes for import and export procedures.

Yes, with SAP’s integrated tax management solutions, companies can digitize and standardize operations with a real-time, audit-ready solution to fulfill e-invoicing and tax reporting regulations worldwide. SAP offers solutions to automate control execution, monitor exceptions, and manage risk in real time—reducing manual effort, improving audit outcomes, and enhancing compliance agility.

 

Customers can stay up to date with the regulatory change manager tool, which monitors regulatory changes to help customers stay compliant and run their day-to-day business without disruption. 

With an extended suite of solutions, SAP capabilities for tax and trade management cover all deployment models: On premises, cloud, and hybrid.

SAP GTS streamlines compliance with new trade dynamics and accelerates cross-border supply chain operations with an integrated platform. It has four main functional areas:

  • Compliance management

  • Customs management 

  • Special customs procedures 

  • Trade preference management

 

 

SAP Trade Management is a separate suite that consists of the following offerings:

  • SAP Trade Promotion Planning and Management

  • SAP Customer Business Planning

  • SAP Advanced Trade Management Analytics

 

Tax and trade operations management software from SAP improves global compliance by unifying and automating critical processes across jurisdictions, reducing manual errors, and ensuring that companies always operate according to the latest international regulations. 

SAP tax and trade operations management software is specifically designed to support multi-country tax regulations by offering solutions that automate global operations and ensure compliance with local laws and mandates. The software helps automate tax reporting and e-document creation and submission across jurisdictions worldwide.

 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Finance, Mike Helsel, Irmina Melarkode, Nick Duffy, Nisha Bhandare, 27 October 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Vaughan Archer, Matthew Mowrey, Michelle Carlsen, 18 November 2024.

 

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