Globalization Services Get an overview of SAP´s

Series: Overview of SAP Globalization Services

Globalization Services – offering. Learn how you
what customers can expect? can leverage those in your
global projects.
Date/Time:
March 4th, 2020 Join live or access
4pm, CET (Germany)
recording on-demand
Speaker:
Dr. Detlef Werner, Global https://url.sap/vcyorr
Executive Director, SAP SE
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Overview of SAP Globalization Services – what
customers can expect?
Dr. Detlef Werner, SAP

Globalization Services
PUBLIC
Local solutions. Global success.
Evolving Global Regulations
Governments worldwide are keeping pace with the evolving laws and governance frameworks

NAFTA Russia VAT

UK VAT
Poland
SAF-T

CZ eBalanceSheet China Golden Tax

US FDI filing Spain Japan eTax
US 10+2 filing SII VAT
India GST China Customs Handbook

Mexico
Tax Coll. Cert. (CPE) GCC VAT
e-Invoice

eGST
Brazil Nota Australia Single Touch
Fiscal (NFCe) Payroll
Argentina
eBoleta

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SAP Globalizations Services: Local Solutions. Global Success.
Localization (Software Engineering): the process of making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region

SAP S/4HANA
SAP HCM Payroll
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
SAP SuccessFactors EC Payroll
SAP Business ByDesign Local business practices
Legal requirements and statutory reporting
SAP SME New Cloud Solution
SAP Concur
Business to Government communication
437,000 Customers in
SAP Ariba Translation of product user interface,
documentation, training and marketing
180+ Countries
SAP Fieldglass collaterals
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP C/4HANA
SAP Cloud Platform
Qualtrics
…

Our Language Experience Lab team translates all SAP Products in up to 59 languages

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Our Mission

Empower all businesses to run compliant locally and compete globally

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The Three Pillars of Globalization
Globalization is the Foundation for Globalized, Localized & Functioning Solutions

Internationalization + Functional Localization + Languages

• Multilanguage support • Local business best practices • Product (User Interface)
• Code pages / Unicode • Legal requirements and • Documentation and collaterals
• Time zones statutory reporting • Customer communication
• Multiple currencies • Business to Government
information exchange
• Calendars

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 Examples of Areas Affected by Localization

Payments Master Data Invoicing Languages Validations

Country formats used Legally required information, Country-specific invoicing Country official Country-specific format
to collect incoming and VAT numbers, ID numbers, process extensions language(s) for address, IDs, bank
outgoing payment data currencies, calendar accounts

Taxes Statutory Reporting Benefits Time Data UIX

Tax codes based on conditions Financial statements, Country-specific Country-specific rules Fiori Apps
or formulas for mandatory tax tax declarations, EC sales benefits, eligibility and and formats
computation, taxation list, document numbering admissibility rules Country-specific fields
processes, exemptions and features

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Our Expertise
Handling a diverse set of deliverables with high volume and business impact

180+ 50+ 50+ 1000+ 40+

Years of close
Legal changes relationships with
Countries where Countries where our
Languages supported across solutions customers, partners,
our customers are localization teams are
annually SAP user groups and
based in deployed in
legal authorities

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Globalization Services - Represented Across the World
Leveraging a global network of software localization experts – unique across the software industry

Localization Product Managers

• Monitor local legislation
• Analyze all requirements,
create specifications and hand them
over to engineering team
• Connect with customers, government,
user groups and tax advisors

Engineering Teams
• Build localized high-quality Cloud and
OnPrem products
• Specialize in products (S/4, SFSF,
SCP…) and domains (tax, e-
Major Development Locations: DE, BR, RU, IN, CN
documents…)
Further Development Locations: IL, UAE, PT, CZ
Product Management / LX Lab Locations
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Example: SAP local versions for SAP S/4HANA
Financials and Operations
Argentina Indonesia Romania
Australia Ireland Russia
SAP Austria Israel Saudi Arabia
Belarus (*) Italy Serbia
Standard Belgium
Brazil
Japan Singapore
Kazakhstan Slovakia
Localization Bulgaria Kuwait Slovenia
Canada Latvia South Africa
(64) Chile Lithuania South Korea
China Luxembourg Spain
Colombia Malaysia Sweden
Croatia Mexico Switzerland
Czech Republic Netherlands Taiwan
Denmark New Zealand Thailand
Egypt Norway Turkey
Estonia Oman Ukraine
Finland Peru United Arab
France Philippines Emirates
Germany Poland United Kingdom
Greece Portugal United States
Hong Kong Qatar Venezuela
Hungary
India

64
(*) Delivered as add-on

countries

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Our Approach to
Global Scaling
SAP Localization Hub:
Reusable Business Services in SAP Cloud Platform

Why cloud services?

 Re-use by multiple SAP Translation Hub Legal Change SAP
SuccessFactors
Tax Service
Notification Service
applications Visa and Permits
management

 Re-use by customers / partners

 Decoupling responsibilities
 Faster feature shipment
Social Media Advanced SAP Document SAP Document
 Commercialization Integration Service Compliance Compliance, Compliance, option
Reporting Service invoicing option for for NFe outbound
PEPPOL
 Reduce size of mandatory core

Learning Report Candidate WeChat Employee

Service Pipeline Service Self-Service

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Important links:
support.sap.com/globalization

Link to Globalization Services eBook

Globalization Corner for SAP User Groups
https://url.sap/46m61h

Contact us:
globalization@sap.com