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SAP S/4 HANA Country Version | Complex Architecture
Country Version Overview
Country Version
An SAP country version consists of the components
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Function including Customizing and documentation
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Language
For SAP country versions you have to distinguish between
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Standard country versions
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The country-specific functions are already contained on the standard delivery CD
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Add-on or modification country versions
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These country versions are delivered in separate data carriers.
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For Add-on country version, these are some customizing settings delivered
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Costing sheet, chart of accounts
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Customizing settings payment transactions
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Country-specific balance sheet and profit and loss structure
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Account determination
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Tax calculation procedure, withholding tax code
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Value-added tax code
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Calendar
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Cost elements, cost element hierarchy
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Asset Accounting chart of depreciation
Procedure when you want to implement a new country version
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Obtain information regarding the availability and functions of new country version
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If the new country version is not a standard country version, you will have to install the country version (function)
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Install the language of the country (if required)
Complex Architectural Integration / TaaS (Tax as a Service)
With the complexity in the integration architecture for the new digital world comes new and more complex challenges.
If you company decides to:
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Add a new purchasing technology
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Or have a cloud-based sourcing procurement (i.e. Ariba, Coupa)
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Or use a new e-commerce platform for sales
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Or to do B2B transactions
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Or just a billing platform or app
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Or the headoffice decides to have a better expenses control
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Or use a expenses management platform (i.e. Concur)
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Or maybe acquire other company
All these new technologies, which are being designed to facilitate the advancement of this digitization, helping companies to comply with the new legal requirements, e-Invoicing and Electronic Reporting, come at a cost.
You need to understand what is a legal requirement, a business requirement versus cost and time, to measure the benefits of these new tools available in the market and make a strategic decision. Although IT (software and hardware), which can be acquired in the market, is not strategic, it can give your company business leverage over competitors.
E-Reporting (Electronic Report)
Nowadays, globalization and digitalization of companies are moving very quickly all over the world. Each year, more and more countries move away from paper and implement electronic media, such as e-invoicings and e-reportings.
Digital Reporting Across the Globe
Continent | Country | Digital Reporting |
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Africa | Angola | VAT with SAF-T (introduced July 2019) |
Africa | Egypt | Measures annunced in 2020 for the upload of AP and AR VAT Data in .CSV Files, used to populate the VAT Retun |
Africa | Kenya | Public consultation of e-Invoicing (announced November 2019)
E-Invoicing Legislation (It was expected in 2020) |
Africa | South Africa | IT14SD Reconciliation of Return to Ledgers for Income Tax, VAT, PAYE and Customs |
Asia | China | Golden Tax System
Disclose Full Invoice Details before obtaining Valid Invoice Number
No SAF-T or e-Audit |
Asia | India | B2B GST e-Invoicing (introduction phased announced / optional from February 2020) |
Asia | Indonesia | E-Invoice Mandatory
No SAF-T or e-Audit |
Asia | Kazakhastan | SAF-T (it was expected in 2019)
On a Voluntary Basis |
Asia | Malaysia | With GST repealed GST Aufit File (GAP) is no longer applicable
With SSF reinstated (it was expected GAP File to be introduced soon) |
Asia | Russia | Comprehensive Invoice Details Filed with VAT Return |
Asia | Singapore | E-Invoicing (since 2018)
Simplified SAF-T: IRAS Audit File (IAF)
Upon request |
Asia | United Arab Emirates | FAF File (introduction expected) |
Europe | Austria | SAF-T Applicable
Depends on requested information
Upon request |
Europe | Czech Republic | Comprehensice Invoice Details Due with Every Tax Return
No e-Audit
B2G e-Invoicing |
Europe | France | Reduced SAF-T (applicable since 2014)
Data of Statutory Accounting
B2B e-Invoicing (mandatory since 2023)
Pre-clerance though Chorus Pro Portal |
Europe | Germany | SAF-T Applicable (GoBD)
Depending on the Scope of Audit
Upon Request |
Europe | Greece | E-Books to be Submitted via myDATA Platform
E-Invoicing Provisions (announced)
Both measures Expected in 2020 |
Europe | Hungary | Data Export Function on Invoicing Software (since January 2016)
Online Connection established between Invoice Invoicing Software and the Tax Authorities' system (July 2017)
Submission of Electronic Invoice Details (July 2018) |
Europe | Ireland | Electronic Submission of Payroll Tax Data (from 2019 at time of Payment) |
Europe | Italy | Mandatory use of e-Invoicing Platform SdI from Domestic Invoicing (since 2019)
VAT Reporting e-Submission for Non-Demestric Invoices Received and Issued |
Europe | Lithuania | SAFT-T Applicable (i.SAF) for VAT Invoices (Issued and Received), also Additional Customs Information (i.VAZ for the submission od Data on Consignment and Other Goods Documents)
On Regular Basis (since October 2016) |
Europe | Luxemburg | SAFT-T Applicable
OECD SAFT-T based: GL, Invoices, Payments, Customers, Suppliers, Tax Table
Upon requet |
Europe | Netherlands | SAF-T Applicable (XAF)
Financial GL Data
Optional Regime |
Europe | Norway | SAF-T Financial Data Mandatory upon Request (January 2020) |
Europe | Poland | SAF-T Applicable (JPK / since July 2016)
JPK_VDEK File to Replace the VAT Return (April 2020 for Large Businesses)
Several Other Files (Bank Statements, Warehouse Info, Comprehensive GL Info / to be Available Upon Request)
Electronic Financial Statements (2019) |
Europe | Portugal | SAF-T Applicable
GL, Supplier and Customer Info, Tax Table, Invoices, Product Tables
Both monthly and upon request
B2G e-Invoicing (from 2019) |
Europe | Romania | SAF-T (it was expected to be introduced by end of 2020)
E-Audit Not Applicable, but based on the Law (it is an option further to be implemented)
RTR Mandatory for Large Taxpayers (optional for the rest) |
Europe | Slovenia | Standardised File used for Electronic Tax Data in General
Used in Tax Audit and Similar Procedures
Upon Request |
Europe | Spain | Spanish SII (implemented in 2017) |
Europe | Switzerland | Electronic VAT Filing mandatory (2020) |
Europe | UK | Making Tax Digital (MTD)
Digitalization of Tax Submissions
VAT (only from April 2019) |
Oceania | Australia | E-Audit (introduced 2019 but upon request)
No SAF-T |
South America | Argentina | Digital VAT Books (introduction expected October 2019)
Final roll out in 2020) |
South America | Brazil | SPED System
Disclose Full Invoice Details before obtaining Valid Invoice Number
On a Regular Basis |
South America | Colombia | E-Invoicing (CUFE)
Roll-out expected by end of 2020 |
Advanced Compliance Reporting (ACR)
Advanced compliance reporting is a global compliance reporting solution that helps you to create, generate, and submit compliance reports to the governments on time and in the correct format. It helps you to ensure compliance with complex and ever-changing legal requirements.
Country/Region-Specific Reports
The following country/region-specific reports are already available in ACR.
For detailed information on how to run the reports, click the link of the report below:
SAP vs Oracle
What ERP is the best option for your company?
The two biggest players in the market for big size, multinational companies are SAP and Oracle.
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SAP is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf with regional offices in 180 countries, founded in 1972.
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Oracle is an American multinational computer technology, company headquartered Texas, United States, founded in 1977.
ERP Cost
Neither SAP nor Oracle offer public pricing, which makes it difficult to determine exactly how much either solution will cost your business to implement. There are also many different pricing packages and plans to consider when it comes to determining how much you’ll pay for either platform. A customized package with full implementation and support could be as high as a five- to six-figure investment.
These are costs that can be used as references and it may vary (between 2022 and 2023)
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SAP Cloud Based (per user / per month): $100 - $150
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Oracle Cloud Services (per user / per month): $150 - $200
Warning: The cost to implement an ERP depends on many variables, such as technology, country, consultancy, company size, company sector, legal requirements, business requirements, project methodology, project duration, project size, areas/modules (finance , production, sales, procurement, human resources and so on) and others.
Area | SAP (Business One Professional) | Oracle (Fusion Cloud ERP) |
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Accounting | Standard features such as accounts payable (A/P), accounts receivable (A/R) and fixed asset management | Standard and advanced features covering accounts payable to asset management retirement and amortization |
Budgeting | Basic budgeting features for managing and executing general planning | Advanced tools including asset lifecycle management in addition to standard budgeting features |
Pricing | Straightforward pricing tools to manage product pricing | Pricing tools can match market, currency, exchange rate and calculate profit margins, rebates and discounts |
Human Resources | Well-designed employee portal, payroll and e-recruiting functionality to help with both retention and employee turnover | Good reporting capabilities including visual representations |
CRM | Integrates marketing, sales and finance to create a whole story of customers to help with contextual sales | Good marketing support |
AI and ML | HANA computing platform is basis of all SAP offerings and AI digital assistant "CoPilot" makes data accessible | AI tools like Digital Assistant are built into all parts of Oracle software and use natural language to sort databases |
A high degree of financial focus is evident in both ERPs offerings. Accounting and reconciliation-based financial software are common features and present the ability to simplify recordkeeping, consolidate across departments and locations and integrate sales and procurement across entire supply chains. In addition to supporting multiple currencies and languages, both platforms provide regulatory compliance settings and forms as well as real-time data management.
Country Versions Available
World Map of Local Versions and Languages of SAP Products.
SAP Disclaimer
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This information is designed in order to give SAP customers a quick overview of localized SAP Products & solutions and laguages & local version availability.
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All information about these products and solutions is referring to their latest version and all listed products and solution available in February 2023.
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Information sources are the respective release information and the SAP Products Availability Matrix (PAM).
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Chanfes to the availability of products and solutions may occur. All information is not legally binding and only for information purposes.
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The information about SAP Partner Local Versions is provided for infomational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kinf, e.g. completeness, functionality or actuality.
Area | Product / Solution | Local Versions | Languages |
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Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP ERP Central Component | 65 | 39 |
Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP S/4 HANA | 64 | 39 |
Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Public Edition | 51 | 32 |
Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Private Edition | 63 | 39 |
Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP Business One | 51 | 28 |
Enterprise Resource Planning | SAP Business ByDesign | 70 | 40 |
Human Capital Management | SAP ERP ECC Human Resources | 105 | 35 |
Human Capital Management | SAP SucessFactores Employee Central | 104 | 45 |
Human Capital Management | SAP SucessFactores Employee Central Payroll | 52 | 34 |
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance | SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, on-premise edition | 31 | 39 |
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance | SAP Document and Reporting Compliance for S/4 HANA Cloud | 47 | 32 |
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance | SAP Document and Reporting Compliance for S/4 HANA and Cloud, private edition | 57 | 39 |
Travel and Spend Management | SAP Concur, Concur Expense | 31 | 30 |
SAP Business Network for Procurement | SAP Business Network for Procurement | 40 | 24 |
Sustainability | SAP Responsible Desing and Production (RDP) | 6 | 6 |
SAP Supported Languages
You can see in the table below the languages available per product / solution.
Languages | SAP ECC | SAP S/4 HANA | SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Public | SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Private | SAP Business One | SAP Business ByDesign | SAP ECC Human Resources | SAP SucessFactors EC | SAP SucessFactors ECP |
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Arabic | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Bulgarian | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |
Catalan | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |||
Chinese (simplified) | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Chinese (traditional) | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Croatian | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |
Czech | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Danish | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Dutch | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
English | X | X | X | ||||||
English (UK) | X | X | |||||||
English (US) | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Estonian | X | X | TH | X | X | ||||
Finnish | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
French | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
French (Canadian) | X | ||||||||
French (FR) | X | X | X | X | |||||
German | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
German (Germany) | X | ||||||||
German (Swiss) | X | ||||||||
Greek | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Hebrew | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Hindi | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |||
Hungarian | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Indonesian | X | ||||||||
Italian | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Japanese | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Kazakh | X | X | X | X | TH | X | |||
Korean | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Latvian | X | X | TH | X | |||||
Lithuanian | X | X | TH | X | |||||
Malay | X | X | X | X | TH | X | |||
Norwegian | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Polish | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Portuguese | X | X | X | X | |||||
Portuguese (BR) | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | ||
Portuguese (Portugal) | X | ||||||||
Romanian | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |
Russian | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Serbian | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
Serbian (Latin) | TH | ||||||||
Slovak | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Slovenian | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |
Spanish | X | X | X | X | |||||
Spanish (ES) | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
Spanish (Mexico) | X | ||||||||
Spanish (LATAM) | X | X | |||||||
Swedish | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Thai | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |
Turkish | X | X | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X |
Ukrainian | X | X | X | TH | X | X | X | ||
Vietnamese | X | X | TH | X | X | X | |||
Weish | X |
Remark
SAP ECC and S/4 HANA
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Languages for which at least one product of the SAP Business Suite is supported, including continuous support (maintenance an d subsequent releases) through standard delivery channels.
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This excludes: (1) Farsi (Persian language) which is only available for a specific release and support package level, see SAP Note SAP 981731 for details, (2) Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) and Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) which are only supported for specific products.
SAP Business One
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A convenient option to make additional languages available is using a partner solution (for some Local Versions bundled with functional add-ons) or to define customer specific UI terms using respective SAP tools.
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Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa use English, Luxembourg uses French or German. Others use local languages.
SAP Business ByDesign
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* TH * The SAP Translation Hub can be enabled to leverage translations via the Language Adaptation Tool and supports the listed target languages, amongst others (check all supported languages from source language “English (United States)” by ‘’Translation Provider SAP Machine Translation’).
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Quality score from translation provider ‘SAP Machine Translation’ is set to a fix value 25% to indicate that all machine translation proposals need to be reviewed by language experts.
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10 additional languages added by partners as of 01.07.22. HU, FI, CZ, Slovak, Catalan, HR, BG, Arabic + Vietnamese and Thai . If you need support to review the translation proposals from SAP Translation Hub, you can contact the SAP Language Service Partners (see general description of their services and a list of those partners).
SAP ECC Human Resources
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Languages for which at least one product of the SAP Business Suite is supported, including continuous support (maintenance an d subsequent releases) through standard delivery channels.
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This excludes: (1) Farsi (Persian language) which is only available for a specific release and support package level, see SAP Note SAP 981731 for details, (2) Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) and Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) which are only supported for specific products.
SAP SucessFactors EC
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Languages for which at least one product of the SAP SuccessFactors Suite is supported, including continuous support (maintena nce and subsequent releases) through standard delivery channels. See SAP SuccessFactors Languages and Locales - SAP Help Portal for more details.
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Estonian and Latvian will be delivered, soon.
Country-Specific Functions
Your SAP ERP system offers a wide range of local versions, each of which is designed to allow you to run your business operations in a particular country or region.
Integration
Local versions do not constitute separate application components. Instead, the functions are contained in the various application components. This means that the Financial Accounting (FI) component, for example, does not just contain generic FI functions, but it includes local functions as well.
Important: All of the SAP standard local versions are mutually compatible. This means, for example, that you can use the local versions for Brazil, China, and Turkey in a single physical system.
You can see below the most of the country-specific functions and the main areas.
Americas
Argentina
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Sales tax calculation
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Withholding tax
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Reporting
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Localized version of the Payroll (PY) component, Payroll Argentina (PY-AR)
Brazil
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Tax calculation
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Automatic generation of Notas Fiscais (E-Invoicing)
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Statutory reporting / SPEDs (E-Reporting)
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Localized version of the Payroll (PY) component, Payroll Brazil (PY-BR)
Canada
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Master Data
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Bank Directories
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Automatic Transfer of Bank Directory: Report Documentation
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Accounting: Payment Transactions
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Country-Specific Definitions for the Payment Method
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Check Management
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Travel Management
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Travel Expenses
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Human resources
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Payroll
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Chile
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Check routine for tax number
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Financial reports (journal, cash journal, general ledger, material ledger, sales ledger, purchase ledger, balance sheet for tax purposes)
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Withholding tax reports (different reports for different vendors, stamp tax report)
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Management of prenumbered forms
Numbering and printing of delivery notes and invoices; renumbering and reprinting; administration; referencing invoice to delivery note; canceled documents.
Colombia
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Colombian chart of accounts
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Value-added tax
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Withholding taxes
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Inflation Accounting for assets and financials
Mexico
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Inflation accounting for assets, inventories, and financials
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Financial reports (withholding tax report, top fifty customers and vendors)
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Travel expenses (reimbursement of foreign currency receipts in local currency; data medium exchange in local and hard currency; maximum limits for nondeductible travel expenses)
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Mexican version of the Payroll (PY) component, Payroll Mexico (PY-MX)
Peru
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Check routines for tax numbers and official document numbers, as required by law
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Financial reports (journal, cash journal, general ledger, sales ledger, purchase ledger, COA report)
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Management of prenumbered forms
This includes numbering and printing of delivery notes and invoices; renumbering and reprinting; form administration; references in invoices to delivery notes (and vice versa, if official number available); canceled documents.
United States
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Sales and use tax
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Withholding tax, including reporting
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Asset accounting
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Bank accounting, including check management and lockbox procedure
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Localized version of Transaction Manager in Treasury and Risk Management (FIN-FSCM-TRM-TM)
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Localized version of the Payroll (PY) component, Payroll United States (PY-US)
Venezuela
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Inflation accounting for assets, inventories, and financials
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Financial reports (sales ledger, purchase ledger)
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Venezuelan version ofPayroll (PY), Payroll Venezuela (PY-VE)
SAP S/4 HANA Scope Configuration
Accounting and Financial Close
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J58 Accounting and Financial Close (J58)
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1GA Accounting and Financial Close - Group Ledger IFRS (1GA)
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2FD Accounting for Incoming Sales Orders (2FD)
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1J2 Advance Compliance Reporting (1J2)
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J62 Asset Accounting (J62)
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1GB Asset Accounting - Group Ledger IFRS (1GB)
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BFH Asset Under Construction (BFH)
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1GF Asset Under Construction - Group Ledger IFRS (1GF)
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1GO Cash Journal (1GO)
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1GI General Ledger Allocation Cycle (1GI)
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BEJ Inventory Valuation for Year-End Closing (BEJ)
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1ZT Managing Material Price Changes and Inventory Values (1ZT)
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BF7 Period-End Closing - Maintenance Orders (BF7)
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BEI Period-End Closing - Plant (BEI)
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2VB Purchase Order Accruals (2VB)
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2QY SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Asset Accounting in Finance (2QY)
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BGC SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for G/L Accounting in Finance (BGC)
Advanced Accounting and Financial Close
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1J2 Advance Compliance Reporting (1J2)
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3AF Group Account Preparation for Financial Consolidation (3AF)
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2U6 Group Reporting - Data from External Systems (2U6)
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287 Group Reporting - Data from SAP Group Reporting Data Collection (287)
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1SG Group Reporting - Financial Consolidation (1SG)
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28B Group Reporting - Plan Consolidation (28B)
Financial Operations
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J60 Accounts Payable (J60)
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J59 Accounts Receivable (J59)
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19O Automated Dynamic Discounts with SAP Ariba Discount Management (19O)
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1MV Cash Application Integration (1MV)
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2UV Combined Invoice – Goods and Service Items (2UV)
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2UT Complementary Invoice – Pricing (2UT)
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19W Contingent Workforce Invoice Processing via SAP Fieldglass (19W)
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1S0 Customer Payments (1S0)
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2UW Delivery of Goods on Behalf of Another Company (2UW)
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1S2 Digital Payments (1S2)
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2RP Electronic Documents (2RP)
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2M0 External Customer Payments (2M0)
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2LZ External Digital Payments (2LZ)
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1J5 Invoice, Taxes and Complementary Postings (1J5)
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2PD Provisioning of Overdue Receivables (2PD)
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2JB SAP Fiori Analytical Apps for Financial Accounting (2JB)
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43D Tax Service Integration (43D)
Advanced Financial Operations
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1QM Advanced Credit Management (1QM)
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BD6 Basic Credit Management (BD6)
Cost Management and Profitability Analysis
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2I3 Commitment Management (2I3)
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1HB Financial Plan Data Upload from File (1HB)
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BEV Internal Order - Actual (BEV)
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1KU Leveraging SAP RealSpend (1KU)
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J55 Margin Analysis (J55)
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J54 Overhead Cost Accounting (J54)
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BEG Standard Cost Calculation (BEG)
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2QL Universal Allocation (2QL)
Enterprise Risk and Compliance
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2OH Continuous Control Monitoring with SAP Process Control (2OH)
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1WC Embargo Control (1WC)
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2U2 Key Risk Indicator Monitoring with SAP Risk Management (2U2)
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1W8 Legal Control (1W8)
Treasury Management
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J77 Advanced Bank Account Management (J77)
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J78 Advanced Cash Operations (J78)
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19O Automated Dynamic Discounts with SAP Ariba Discount Management (19O)
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2O0 Bank Fee Management (2O0)
Bank Communication File Exchange
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1EG Bank Integration with File Interface (1EG)
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16R Bank Integration with SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (16R)
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BFA Basic Bank Account Management (BFA)
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BFB Basic Cash Operations (BFB)
References: SAP (www.sap.com); SAP Support (support.sap.com); SAP Help (help.sap.com); SAP Blog (blogs.sap.com); Oracle (www.oracle.com); Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org); Forbes (www.forbes.com)