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SAP Global Trade Services

Score7.7 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Global Trade Services?

SAP Global Trade Services enables acceleration of cross-border supply chain by automating trade processes to control costs, reduce the risk of penalties and fines, and clear customs faster. The software can be deployed on-premise, or in the cloud.

Product Demos

Top Performing Features

  • Risk management

    Risk management capabilities including alert engine to warn of trending risk exposure and risk visualizations like heat maps, dashboards, etc.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Incident management

    System captures risk-related incidents, including cause and result

    Category average: 6.4

  • Common repository of GRC items

    A common repository linking all GRC elements such as policies, risks, regulations, etc.) to give a 360 degree view

    Category average: 7.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems

    Ability to integrate with external CPM software

    Category average: 5.8

  • GRC policy management

    Support for policy lifestyle changes including creation, approval, communication etc.

    Category average: 6.6

Who Buys & Uses SAP Global Trade Services

Pros

  • Streamlining trade documentation operations
  • Ensuring adherence to diverse global compliance guidelines
  • Automating trade compliance processes

Cons

  • Complex integration processes with other systems
  • Limited support for modern API-based integrations
  • Insufficient Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) support

Powerful and saves a lot of time. Good for large SAP based organizations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Global Trade Services is usually used alongwith SAP ERP. Our company do exports regularly and this help us reducing sanctions and regulatory delays and risks. It also creates and files custom declaration forms required for exports to international countries. Because of this, we save a lot on custom duties as well. It saves a lot of manual work

Pros

  • Using this help us get faster customs clearance.
  • less manual entry work. Saves a lot of time usually spent on filling custom forms manually.
  • You can check all pending or blocked orders at one place and their compliance status

Cons

  • without SAP environment, its not a good fit. you must have other SAP tools with this.
  • complex setup and not easy to understand. UI can be improved.
  • now they launched a new version e4H for SAP HANA which will have to re-implemented instead of simple upgrade

Return on Investment

  • Automated screening helps a lot and saves a lot of time. It reduces manual checks to be made on the customers
  • It helps us avoid penalties
  • Because of this, we can handle large trade volume without any stress

Usability

Other Software Used

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP CPQ

SAP Global Trade Services the easiest way to maintain compliance across the globe

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are working with manufacturing ERP, we deal with sales orders across the globe. SAP Global Trade Services helps us to maintain compliance as well as ensure a smooth processing of these orders across the globe. Various granular details like tax quotes of different provinces and countries across the globe are very easily managed by SAP Global Trade Services.

Pros

  • Ensuring compliance guidelines are met across the various geographical regions

Cons

  • Much more easier, API based integration rather than relying on this app, frameworks or platform will be a huge change that will be very beneficial for a lot of customers

Return on Investment

  • It reduces manual work in terms of global businesses that have to meet criteria like tax, courses or processes that are related to compliance

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Avalara

Other Software Used

SAP Cloud ERP (SAP S/4HANA Cloud)

your compliance partner

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Global Trade Services helping our organization in making sure we are meeting all international trade compliance requirement making sure we are on top of our documentation averting any penalties.

Pros

  • international trade documentation
  • logistic compliance

Cons

  • more EDI integration

Return on Investment

  • improvement in logistics cost

Usability

Other Software Used

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

SAP GTS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SPL Screening and US imports

Pros

  • SPL screening
  • Classification
  • Masterdata

Cons

  • US customs ACE enhancements

Return on Investment

  • Reduction of manual work

Usability

SAP Global Trade Services Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Global Trade Services helps us managing documentation to transports goods across borders. We also use SAP Global Trade Services for integrating with brokers

Pros

  • Documentation
  • Country compliance
  • Brokers

Cons

  • UI
  • Natural integration
  • Roadmap

Return on Investment

  • Easier trade

Usability

Alternatives Considered

E2open