Release Notes

SAP Global Trade Services 10.1

1 SAP GTS Accelerator (New) 2

2 Alert Monitors (New) 3
3 Display of Time Zone (Changed) 4
4 Compliance Management (Enhanced) 5
5 Integration with Transportation Management (New) 8
6 Determination of Low-Level Codes per Transferred Bill of Materials (Enhanced) 9
7 Document Determination (New) 10
8 Risk Management (Enhanced) 11
9 Assignment of Modes of Transport from Feeder Systems (New) 13
10 Classification Master Data: Chapter Restrictions (New) 14
11 Customs Commercial Description (New) 15
12 Structure Change in Customizing (Enhanced) 16

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1 SAP GTS Accelerator (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can use SAP GTS Accelerator to access the relevant data
in the SAP HANA database as quickly as possible. To do this, start the respective program in the SAP
area menu. The program quickly provides the data for analysis purposes and for further processing, if
needed. The following SAP GTS Accelerators are available:

 GTS Accelerator for Audit Trail

 GTS Accelerator for Blocked Business Partners

 GTS Accelerator for Blocked Documents

Effects on Customizing
You make your settings in Customizing under Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Activate
SAP GTS Accelerator.

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2 Alert Monitors (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can use alert monitors.

Alert monitors belong to SAP Computing Center Management System (CCMS). Depending on which
message type is selected, you can define at which message level the alert is triggered. You can also
define which objects and subobjects the alert takes into consideration. The following alert monitors are
available:

 Communication with feeder system

 Communication with customs systems of authorities

 General processing in SAP GTS

Effects on Customizing
To activate alert monitoring in SAP GTS, go to Customizing and choose Global Trade Services ->
General Settings -> Activate Alert Monitoring.

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3 Display of Time Zone (Changed)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, the GTS system displays the Created On and Changed On
dates and times in the local time zone of the user, instead of the time zone of the system. The local
time of a user is determined by the geographic area in which the user is located, and is calculated on
the basis of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), also known as Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).

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4 Compliance Management (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, the following features are available:

 Display of Technically Incomplete Documents and Payments

The results screen now includes a field for entering notes. For example, if multiple users work
in the system, one of the users can make a note that he or she is working on the incomplete
document or payment. You edit the note field by choosing Note in the toolbar.

 Tracking of Control-Relevant Products

You can display additional information on the overview screen, which shows how much stock
of a particular control-relevant product exists for a legal unit, or which quantities of these
products you sold to which customers. To show this information, you change the layout by
choosing Change Layout in the toolbar. For example, you can add the following columns:

o External License Number

o Point of Departure Name / Place of Destination Name

The name of the legal unit or business partner (customer/vendor) that is defined in the
business partner record

o Point of Departure City / Place of Destination City

The city of the legal unit or business partner (customer/vendor) that is defined in the
business partner record

 Triggering of Follow-On Functions After Document Release in SAP GTS

You can display the index table if the follow-on functions for individual documents cannot be
triggered due to an error. You list the unprocessed documents, identify the error, and correct
it. Then you trigger the follow-on functions for the document.

 Restoring of Import and Export Documents in the Feeder System

If a system is down, the feeder system collects all documents that you create or change during
that downtime in the index table. You can display the index table to see which documents
could not be successfully transferred during repeated transfer attempts. You identify the error,
remove the cause of the error, and repeat the document transfer.

 Transfer of Master Data

When customer data is transferred from the feeder system to the GTS system, the transfer
function now integrates fields that contain data for classifying the customer (usage and
military/civilian use; for example, arms technology, drugs). This feature only works if you have
classified your customers.

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 Definition of License Types

In Customizing, you can define that a document is automatically blocked if the address in that
document is not the same as the address in the license. You can also have the system set
the license to a status that you can define in Customizing; for example, To Be Reviewed.
Then you can check whether the change is uncritical and the license can be reactivated, or
whether you need to request the license again. In previous releases, you were only able to
define that the system automatically changes the status of the license when business partner
addresses are changed.

 Simulation of Business Transactions for Legal Control

When you simulate business transactions, the criteria for selecting document data now
includes gross weight and net weight.

 Archiving of License Data

In the GTS area menu, you can use the standard transaction SARA to archive the various
types of license data (for example, import/export licenses, letters of credit, authorizations, and
securities).

 Definition of Determination Procedure to Automatically Determine License Types

In Customizing, you can define new determination strategies that the system uses to
automatically determine the license types that are required for certain business transactions.
Examples of such license types include general licenses or individual validated licenses
(Germany). The determination procedure, which includes the determination strategies,
controls how the system determines the license types that are relevant for a specific legal
regulation. You can assign the following new determination strategies to a determination
procedure:

o Country group/country group/control class

o Country group/country group/control class/control grouping

o Region/region/control class

o Region/region/control grouping

 Re-Export

o Define Foreign Trade Organization for Re-Export

In previous releases, the foreign trade organization (FTO) unit that was used for re-
exports was the same as the one used for customs processing. This forced you to use
the legal units that were also assigned to an FTO unit in customs processing. This
constraint has been lifted as of this release.
Now you can also define FTO units specifically for re-exports in a hierarchy to reflect
the organizational structure of your enterprise, using legal units in one country or
across several countries.
Thus, using the FTO unit, you can determine the proportional values in a product for a
specific legal regulation. These proportional values are the basis for legal control.

o Assign Legal Unit to a Foreign Trade Organization

As of this release, you can assign legal units that are located in a single country or in
multiple countries to a foreign trade organization unit for re-exports.

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 Since you can freely define price types as of this release, for re-exports it may be
necessary for you to assign price types to a legal regulation and country group.

Effects on Customizing
 To define license types, go to Customizing and choose Global Trade Services -> Compliance
Management -> Legal Control -> Define License Types.

 To enable the GTS system to automatically determine license types, you need to configure the
determination procedures. Go to Customizing and choose Global Trade Services ->
Compliance Management -> Legal Control -> Define Determination Procedure to
Automatically Determine License Types.

 To define foreign trade organizations for re-exports and assign legal units to a foreign trade
organization, go to Customizing and choose Global Trade Services -> Compliance
Management -> Legal Control -> Re-Export.

o Define Foreign Trade Organization for Re-Export

o Assign Legal Unit to a Foreign Trade Organization

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5 Integration with Transportation Management (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can perform sanctioned party list screening and embargo
checks between SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) and SAP Global Trade Services (SAP
GTS). This lets you delay transportation execution in SAP TM 9.0 until the sanctioned party list (SPL)
screening and embargo checks have been performed in the GTS system.

Furthermore, logistic service providers can now create customs export declarations for duty-paid
goods and goods not subject to export controls in Customs Management using forwarding orders from
SAP TM 9.0 as a basis. By doing this, you can delay transportation execution in SAP TM until the
customs authorities release an export, making sure your logistics processes comply with local laws.

The data is exchanged between the GTS and TM systems using enterprise services. In addition to
transferring the data from SAP TM to create the customs declaration in the GTS system, data is also
transferred back to SAP TM to trace the progress of the process. This retransferred data includes the
document reference and registration number of the customs export declaration from the customs
authorities. The following services are available:

 SPL/Embargo checking between SAP Transportation Management und SAP GTS

 Customs export declarations for logistic service providers

Effects on Customizing
You make your settings in Customizing under Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Document
Structure -> Integration with SAP Transportation Management.

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6 Determination of Low-Level Codes per Transferred Bill of
Materials (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, in Preference Processing you can determine and harmonize
the low-level codes of bills of material across different systems.

The sequence of preference determination for all finished products or assemblies is determined
according to the low-level codes in bills of materials. This is because the low-level codes reflect the
dependencies on individual components and assemblies. In cases where multiple feeder systems or
plants are connected to the GTS system, the low-level codes in bills of materials of one feeder system
might differ from those of another feeder system. This can produce inaccurate determination results.
The new function determines and harmonizes the low-level codes in bills of materials across different
systems. This ensures that the determination results are accurate. The log indicates that determined
low-level codes are employed in the preference determination.

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7 Document Determination (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can use Document Determination to generate default
values for document codes and additional codes in GTS customs declarations.

The system proposes default values according to measures, which are assigned to tariff numbers. The
default values are based on the EU customs tariffs as well as national extensions.

Furthermore, for each tariff number you can display measure details, such as the validity period,
country information, footnotes, and measure conditions.

You can upload the measures for a tariff number, including measure types, additional codes, action
codes, and country groups, into the GTS system. The measures are then available as master data
during classification.

The GTS system uses the uploaded measures to automatically generate determination strategies for
compliance management. The measures are used for the respective export transactions to determine
(a) the document codes for transactions not subject to export control or (b) the license types for
transactions subject to export controls. These are then used as default values in customs declarations.

Using current TARIC data helps prevent data entry errors.

Effects on Existing Data

You need to acquire the TARIC measures relevant to your enterprise from your data provider, and
upload this data into your system.

Effects on Customizing
You make your settings for document determination in Customizing under Global Trade Services ->
General Settings -> Numbering Schemes -> Settings for Measures in Document Determination.

 Define Measure Scheme

 Define Properties for Measure Type ID

 Assignment of Legal Regulation to Measure Type ID

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8 Risk Management (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, preference determination features the following processes and
functions to enable the use of more preference agreements.

 Define Price Types

As of GTS 10.1, the term valuation type as been replaced with the term price type because
the new term better reflects how the system interprets price information (material price and net
cost).
Products that are transferred from a feeder system to the GTS system contain prices in the
product master record. You can now define your own price types to manage prices that differ
from those in the product master record. You have to decide how preference determination
uses these price types so that the applications comply with legal regulations. See the
Customizing activity Assign Price Types to Agreements for Determinations

 Assign Price Types to Agreements for Determinations

For each preference agreement, you can define which price types are used in preference
determination. Assignments between preference agreements and price types are made using
the comparison method. As technical instances of preference rules, comparison methods
determine which method is used in preference determination to select prices.

Note

If you do not want to apply the new logic, you can continue using the application as in
the past.

If you want to use the new logic, you have to adjust the Customizing settings for all
preference agreements in use. This means you have to ensure that these preference
agreements are assigned to price types using the comparison method. You can do
this in Customizing activity Assign Price Types to Agreements for Determinations.

 Enhancements in Preference Determination

If you assign price types to agreements for preference determination, the determination for
individual agreements then uses the respective prices. This ensures that the applications
comply with legal regulations in those agreements.
In previous releases, the following methods were available:

o External preference document through long-term vendor declarations or manual

setting of the preference indicator

o Transaction Value Method

o Net Cost Method

o Tariff Shift

As of this release, the following methods have been added to support more preference
agreements:

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 o Build-Up Method

You can use this method to determine the preference status for certain agreements.
This method uses the originating value for determining the regional value content
(RVC).

o Build-Down Method

You can use this method to determine the preference status for certain agreements.
This method uses the non-originating value for determining the RVC.

Example
The agreement between the United States and Australia permits the use of the build-
up and the build-down methods. To use these methods, you have assigned the
respective price types ("adjusted price") to both of these methods.

Note

These methods also require the relevant preference rules.

Preference Processing does not contain standard forms for the new methods (build-
up and build-down). However, you can use the standard interface along with the
vendor declaration for customer purposes to create the forms.

Effects on Customizing
To categorize the prices for a product in SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS), go to Customizing
and choose Global Trade Services -> General Settings - Define Price Types.

To define which price types are to be used for each preference agreement, go to Customizing and
choose Global Trade Services -> Risk Management -> Preference Processing -> Assign Price Types
to Agreements for Determinations.

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9 Assignment of Modes of Transport from Feeder Systems (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can assign modes of transport from feeder systems.
Customs authorities have their own compulsory classification of modes of transport. SAP GTS uses
the same classification of modes of transport as the customs authorities. You have to make this
assignment if the feeder system uses different classifications for modes of transport.

 Assign Mode of Transport at Feeder-System Level

If there is only one feeder system or there are varying modes of transport in a number of
feeder systems, we recommend that you assign the modes of transport at feeder system level.

 Assign Mode of Transport at Group-of-Feeder-Systems Level

If a number of feeder systems have identical modes of transport, we recommend that you
assign the modes of transport at feeder system group level.

Effects on Customizing
To assign deviating classifications of modes of transport from feeder systems of the customs authority
to the GTS system, go to Customizing and choose Global Trade Services -> Customs Management ->
Customs Code Lists -> Assign Mode of Transport from Feeder Systems.

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10 Classification Master Data: Chapter Restrictions (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can restrict the upload of commodity codes and tariff code
numbers to specific chapters.

In previous releases, all chapters (up to 98 in total) were delivered by data providers. However,
customers typically need only a few chapters. There was no means of filtering the data down to
individual chapters. The only way to upload individual chapters was if the data provider delivered one
file per chapter. But this required more effort depending on the number chapters being uploaded. The
new function enables you to select and then upload only those chapters you really need. Keeping the
number of chapters to a minimum also boosts system performance in the classification environment
and improves usability because only the relevant commodity codes and tariff code numbers are
available.

Effects on Data Transfer

You need to use the XML interface to upload classification master data (type of numbering scheme
101-Import Control Classification Numbers or 102-Commodity Codes) into the GTS system.

Effects on Customizing
You make your settings in Customizing under:

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Numbering Schemes -> Define Numbering
Scheme for Commodity Codes

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Numbering Schemes -> Define Numbering
Scheme for Tariff Code Numbers

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11 Customs Commercial Description (New)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, you can use the new feature Customs Commercial Description
to describe products in more detail to meet the requirements of customs authorities. Commercial
descriptions declared to customs authorities should always have enough information so that the
customs officer is able to classify the product according to the nomenclature of goods.

In previous releases, the product short text served as the commercial description, but was often
insufficient for this purpose. To meet the requirements of customs authorities, as of this release you
can define global and country-dependent customs commercial descriptions in different languages.

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12 Structure Change in Customizing (Enhanced)

Use
As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, the layout of Customizing, as compared to GTS 10.0, has
been modified as follows:

New activity or placement in Customizing structure

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Activate SAP GTS Accelerator

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Activate Alert Monitoring

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Numbering Schemes -> Settings for Measures
in Document Determination -> Define Measure Scheme

o Define Properties for Measure Type ID

o Assignment of Legal Regulation to Measure Type ID

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Define Price Types

Comment: As of this release, the old term valuation types has been replaced with
price types.

 Global Trade Services -> General Settings -> Assign Price Types from Feeder Systems

o Assign Price Type at Feeder System Level

o Assign Price Type at Feeder System Group Level

 Global Trade Services -> Risk Management -> Preference Processing-> Assign Price Types
to Agreements for Determinations

As of SAP Global Trade Services 10.1, the following Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are available:

Business Add-Ins for Compliance Management

 BAdI for Checking Archiving Ability of Customs Documents in Feeder System

You can use this BAdI to influence whether there is a check of the archivability of reference
documents of a customs document in an ERP feeder system. If you do not want to check the
archivability in an SAP ERP feeder system, you can use the BAdI method
ARCHIVABILITY_CHECK to flag the customs documents as archivable in the SAP GTS
system.

 BAdI for Customs Warehouse Stock Lists

You can use this BAdI to extend the stock lists in the Customs Warehouse section with
customer-defined fields. This concerns the following stock lists:

o Duty-Unpaid Individual Stock Items

o Receipts and Issues

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 o Extended View: Duty-Unpaid Individual Stock Items

o Opening/Closing Stock List

o Extended View: Duty-Unpaid Individual Stock Items with Opening/Closing Stock

Business Add-Ins for Customs Management

 BAdI for EDI Outbound Processing for Excise Duty Processing

The BAdI lets you change the data from the messages or subject it to special checks before
you send them to the customs authorities within the framework of Excise Movement Control
(EMC) in excise duty monitoring. You make the changes with this BAdI before the message
leaves the GTS system and is sent to the converter system. In the default settings, the system
sends the document data from the application to a converter system in IDocs, which the
system then converts for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with the customs authorities. The
converter system can convert the IDocs to the different data formats required by the
respective customs authorities, for example, XML and EDI message format. The converter
system forwards the data to the customs authorities in the necessary format.

 BAdI for EDI Inbound Processing for Receipt Control of e-ADs

The BAdI lets you read the data from the messages and, if the information regarding
processing in the GTS is ambiguous, determine the specific data. This is relevant, for
example, for determining the tax debtor with the foreign trade organization or the tax
warehouse as legal unit. You can also determine which direction the message belongs to in
transactions in which you are both consignor and consignee.

 BAdI for Suppressing the Fallback Procedure of a Customs Declaration

You can use this BAdI to suppress the fallback procedure for a customs declaration. You can,
for example, avoid the fallback procedure for deliveries of goods in sensitive countries if you
use an electronic process for the deliveries of goods, instead of a paper-based process.

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