What is tax and trade management software from SAP?

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.

How do SAP tax and trade management solutions handle cross-border trade compliance?

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 fulfil 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.

How do SAP tax and trade management solutions support import and export documentation?

SAP GTS streamlines an organisation’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.

Does SAP tax and trade management software support real-time tax updates or regulatory changes?

Yes, with SAP’s integrated tax management solutions, companies can digitise and standardise operations with a real-time, audit-ready solution to fulfil 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.

Is SAP tax and trade management software available in the cloud?

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

What is the difference between SAP GTS and SAP Trade Management?

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 managementCustoms 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 ManagementSAP Customer Business PlanningSAP Advanced Trade Management Analytics

How does tax and trade operations management software improve global compliance?

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.

Does tax and trade operations management software support multi-country tax 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.

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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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Optimise global tax and trade operations based on agile, compliant processes

Respond confidently to evolving risks and regulations

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

Minimise 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

Standardise, centralise, and automate tax and trade compliance processes to scale operations globally and fulfil obligations with less effort.

Create a foundation for optimised decisions

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

Tax and trade management assistants

Tax and trade assistants manage agents that act as a bridge between businesses and regulatory bodies, helping businesses navigate the complex areas of taxation and international trade.

Tax and Compliance Assistant

Running autonomous tax, regulatory compliance, and local business practices on a global scale enables you to:

Let AI do the heavy lifting in detecting new or amended mandates, executing requirement mapping, and performing surface product impact analysis.
Cut down on manual and operational work through AI-enabled analysis and autonomous setup and classification of taxes based on updated legal changes.
Get context-aware recommendations to foster autonomous resolution of document errors—with and without approval—for accelerated document submission.

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Explore tax and trade management capabilities

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

Optimised global trade

Conduct trade in evolving global markets with greater confidence and agility, and maximise 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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Automated e-documents and smooth corrections

Automate the transmission, digital clearance, and reconciliation of company transactions based on Peppol and local standards.

Digitalised reporting, from preparation to submission

Manage and submit obligations (e-invoices, statutory reporting, etc.) electronically worldwide with a compliance calendar.

Holistic dashboard for e-documents and reporting

Gain real-time insights through a centralised dashboard so you can handle corrections and tasks accurately and quickly.

Extensibility platform

Create and extend scenarios in a few steps to promptly respond to emerging needs while eliminating technical debt.

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Company-wide repository for tax compliance

Create, optimise, and manage your compliance checks—value-added taxes, customs duties, and beyond.

Centralised platform for remediation activities

Streamline comprehensive remediation with one platform and facilitate task orchestration through an automated workflow.

Systematic tax-relevant data checking

Gain reliable compliance insights by screening tax-relevant transactions in near-real time and without ad hoc spot checks.

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Flexible modelling of automated calculations

Calculate income tax and tax differences, make traceable adjustments, and automate operational transfer pricing.

Actionable insights

Enhance tax strategies with insight into factors such as operating margins, transfer pricing adjustments, and price impacts.

Optimised decision-making

Drive better business outcomes by simulating tax impacts for different scenarios and making the most tax-efficient choices.

Increased transparency and auditability

Set a comprehensive and auditable tax management system, including BEPS 2.0 reporting, with traceability to accounting data.

Explore transfer pricing and direct tax

Automated compliance checks

Monitor critical sales and procurement processes to improve results and decrease supply chain delay.

Stronger vendor compliance

Reduce the cost and effort of third-party due diligence to avoid relationships with sanctioned individuals and entities.

Simplified IT landscape

A SaaS model simplifies screening, provides instant access to up-to-date watch lists, and accelerates time to value.

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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 fulfil 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 organisation’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 digitise and standardise operations with a real-time, audit-ready solution to fulfil 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.