SAP Advanced Compliance Reporting

Customer
SAP S/4HANA for

Advanced Compliance Reporting
Speaker’s Name, SAP
Run Simple
Customer
Agenda Overview
q Problem Statement
q Business Message
q S4/HANA Digital Core
q Business Benefits
ü Compliance
ü Efficiency
ü Flexibility
ü Transparency
q Process flow – Run Time
q Process flow – Design Time
q Solution Components
q Premium Features
q Roadmap
q Key Takeaways
q Q&A
Customer
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Problem Statement
Regulatory Focus on Risk Strategic Support Increased Technology
Changes Globalization Transformation
§ With changing § Its critical to be legally § Compliance reporting § Multi national § Trend to harmonize
economy, countries compliant and be on is a cumbersome corporates have to legal reporting
are usually undergoing time to avoid fines by process, where work with complex, requirements globally.
tax reforms and the Government efficiency needs to be non uniform statutory
bringing changes to increased reports which reduces § Legal Reporting can
the existing reporting be transformed by
productivity
requirements. § Every industry will be breakthrough
transformed by digital technologies
business
Customer
Business Message
Reimagine
Compliance
Advanced Reimagine
Compliance Strategy
Reporting
Reimagine
Business
Next generation solution to manage your statutory reporting worldwide with unified user experience
enabling simple adoption of constant legal reforms in your digital business transformation while
reducing cost and providing transparency in an efficient way
Customer
A growing digital world demands re-imagining business
Regulatory Authorities
unified legal compliance
Built-in Localization,
Languages,
and Legal
Localization,
Compliance
Languages,
and Legal as Platform
Compliance Extensions
Customer 11
Business Benefits
Compliant 01
Globally compliant with easy
adoption of legal changes, different 03 Flexibility
legal formats and direct
submission Fast adoption of constantly
changing legal reforms and business
needs through flexible rules and
Advanced extendible design environment
Compliance
Reporting
Efficiency 02
04 Transparency
State of the art capabilities with
modern user experience leading to Monitors your global legal
the next generation of legal compliance reporting with full audit
reporting traceability in a unified dashboard
with embedded analytics
Customer
Compliance
§ Correction runs
§ Multiple legal formats
§ Electronic submission with Government Interfaces
Customer
Correction run Stay Compliant
In addition to the standard report runs, you can

generate correction run for the documents that
may have been omitted from the previous
submissions. You can also view the documents
that were omitted from the previous submissions.
Customer
XML TXT
Multiple legal formats XBRL PDF
You can generate legal reports in diverse

output formats such as XML, PDF, TXT, or
XBRL. The legal reports can then be
submitted to the government authorities.
You can also choose to view the
information in a data preview or tabular
format, and use the information to file your
tax returns manually through the
authorized government portals.
Customer
Submission electronically to all
Electronic submission available gateways of government
authority's
You can generate reports in the legally

required format and submit them directly to
the government gateway through the app.
You can receive notifications from the
government if the report content is accepted
or rejected by the government.
Customer
Efficiency
§ Single framework for all statutory reports with Fiori UX

§ End-to-end reporting process through activity concept
§ Manual Adjustments of reporting data before submission
Customer
Single framework for Fiori User Experience
all statutory reports
A consistent and unified user

experience across all the supported
statutory reports through SAP Fiori.
Customer
Define, Consume and monitor
End-to-end the activities around your
reporting process
legal reporting process
Statutory Reporting usually involves a

set of activities which need to be carried
out during the reporting process. These
activities could be carried out before or
after the legal report generation, for
example preparatory steps like
consolidation, exception analysis and
post steps like posting of tax payables
etc. With the flexible Reporting activities
concept in Advanced Compliance
Reporting, all these activities can be
plugged in to enable end-to-end legal
reporting
Customer
Manual Adjustments of Adjustments before your report submission
reporting data
Sometimes there is a need to manually
adjust the legal files before sending it to
the authorities.
Business users should have an option to
visualize the formats in a more
understandable form and edit the same.
Customer
Flexibility
§ Design time tool

§ Incorporating Business Rules
Customer
By using the app Define Compliance Report you can
Design time tool either reuse and change existing legal reports or create
new definitions
The Define Compliance Reports app

allows you to add new report
definitions or copy existing ones to
custom needs or quickly adapt to
the new legal changes announced
by the tax authorities. These report
definitions are then used by the
business users to submit the
statutory reports via the Run 7 step wizard to complete a report definition. Features like
Statutory Reports app.
selecting data source, mapping to output formats, define
business partner correspondences, add new parameters,
reuse xml schema , system validations etc. allow easy
definition of legal reports.
Customer
Incorporating Business Enablement of BRF Rules
Rules
To control and influence the data and

formatting of legal reports, it is
sometimes required to specify
business rules in the report definitions.
The app is now enabled to support the
incorporation of business rules. This is
achieved through the app's integration
with SAP Business Rule Framework
plus (BRFplus).
Customer
Transparency
§ Audit Trail
§ Data preview
§ Embedded Analytics
§ Reporting dashboard to monitor the reporting status
Customer
Audit Trail Traceability
The system keeps track of the items

considered for reporting under a
specific reporting task. This tracking
helps to analyze and audit these
documents, if required. The tracking
also ensures consistency between the
data considered for generation and
the data considered for analytics. This
feature helps you identify the
documents that are posted after a
reporting run is submitted to the
government, and should be
considered for future reporting.
Customer
Data preview Better visualization to view the output formats
Users will get an option to view the output

formats in a more understandable layout.
The labels of elements on this layout are
taken from schema specified by the
Government.
Users will also be provided with an
additional option to maintain
understandable labels for schema
elements via Define application.
Customer
Drill down to further dimensions
Embedded Analytics
In today’s digital world it is crucial for

business users to have data at their
fingertips and gain meaningful insights
to be able to take the right decisions.
Advanced Compliance Reporting comes
with the powerful feature of embedded
analytics which allows flexible analytics
of data to be reported to legal
authorities at the time of legal reporting.
Customer
Reporting dashboard Monitor the reporting status
With this app you can get an

optimized overview of your statutory
reporting tasks and you can keep
ahead of your submission deadlines.
The app provides a smooth process
for creating and sending statutory
reports to the government on time
and acts as a constant monitor of
submission statuses.
Customer
Process Flow - Run Time Application
01 Monitoring 02 Generation 03 Analytics 04 Submission

Consolidated real time Intuitive and simplified user Data Preview and embedded Download of legal reports to
overview of legal reporting Interface for Real time Legal report analytics along with drill down support manual submission or
status including notifications generation with preselected criteria capabilities to analyze legally direct electronic verification
to help submit reports on time based on Government specified reported data and gain insights and submission to
formats Government authorities
Customer
Demo1 Run Time
4.
3. Correction run
§ Head of Accounting review
§ GL Accountant 1. generate UK VAT & EC sales list / UK WTH tax
§ AP Accountant 2. generate France WTH tax

+40 Countries
A global company Reports
based out of UK in the
space of consumer
goods.
submit
Three accountants managing the financial Start Demo
processes and operations across different
regions to finish the mandatory legal
reports for all their supported countries in
short crucial periods to meet the legal
deadlines.
Customer
Process Flow – Design Time Application
01 Create or Reuse 02 Configure 03 Saved in Draft Mode 04 Activate & Use

Reuse existing report Modify by change data output form, New report definitions will be stored Once adjusted to business
definition or create from specify corresponding partner, add as draft version need the definition is ready for
scratch new parameters, reuse xml report generation in the Run
schema, … Time Application
Customer
Demo2 Design Time
2.
§ GL Accountant use
§ Technical User create activate

+40 Countries
1. Copy standard report definition
A global company & customizing as draft version
based out of UK in the
space of consumer
goods.
Start Demo
GL Accountant has to manage the financial
processes and operations across different regions.
To encapsulate the required content/information in
the form of custom report definition the technical
user creates a custom report definition.
Customer
Solution Components
Technical User
DESIGN XSD /
Mapping
TIME Schema
Report
Definition
Government Gateway
Advanced
Configurations Compliance
Reporting
Data Retrieving and Generation –Legal Generation – Embedded

Audit Trail
Processing Reports Correspondences Analytics
Business User
RUNTIME Customer
Premium Features
What’s Included in SAP S/4HANA OP Enterprise Management
§ Single framework for all statutory reports with Fiori Ux

§ Reporting dashboard to monitor the reporting status
Additional Advanced Compliance Reporting features
§ Multiple legal formats – XML, XBRL, TXT, PDF forms
§ Correction run § Data preview
§ Business Partner Correspondences § Audit Trail
§ Manual submission of reports via download options § Embedded Analytics
§ Electronic submission to Government via HCI § Manual Adjustments of reporting data before submission
§ Ad-hoc Reporting
§ Scheduling
§ Incorporating Business Rules
§ End-to-end reporting process through reporting activity concept
§ Workflow
§ Self Service Configurations
§ SRF design time tool
Customer
Roadmap for planned Features
q Manual Adjustments of reporting data before submission

q Better Visualization
q E2E reporting scenario coverage via activities
q Notification
q Archiving
q Scheduling
q Flexible reporting levels
q Ad-hoc Reporting
q Compliance Monitor
q Self Service Configurations
q Tax Clearing
q Workflow
Business User The roadmap is an approximate plan

and not a commitment of any sort.
Customer
Key Takeaways
§ Manage legal reporting needs across countries with a global overview and
insights on the reporting data
§ Facilitates faster adoption of constantly changing legal reforms and
business needs with seamless integration
§ State of the art capabilities to enable E2E reporting process with unified
user experience integrated into SAP S/4HANA
§ Stay globally compliant on time through easy adoption of legal changes,
supports different legal formats and direct submission to govt. authorities
Customer
Q&A
Advanced
Compliance
Reporting
Customer
Thank you.
Christoph.Ernst@sap.com
Sadaf.shakil@sap.com
Ashwini.t.g@sap.com
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Customer

SAP S/4HANA for

In addition to the standard report runs, you can

You can generate legal reports in diverse

You can generate reports in the legally

§ Single framework for all statutory reports with Fiori UX

A consistent and unified user

Statutory Reporting usually involves a

§ Design time tool

The Define Compliance Reports app

To control and influence the data and

The system keeps track of the items

Users will get an option to view the output

In today’s digital world it is crucial for

With this app you can get an

01 Monitoring 02 Generation 03 Analytics 04 Submission

§ GL Accountant 1. generate UK VAT & EC sales list / UK WTH tax

§ AP Accountant 2. generate France WTH tax

01 Create or Reuse 02 Configure 03 Saved in Draft Mode 04 Activate & Use

§ Technical User create activate

Data Retrieving and Generation –Legal Generation – Embedded

§ Single framework for all statutory reports with Fiori Ux

q Manual Adjustments of reporting data before submission

Business User The roadmap is an approximate plan

© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer

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