{"id":1688,"date":"2019-08-07T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pikon.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:39:25","slug":"sap-document-compliance-legal-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikon.com\/en\/blog\/sap-document-compliance-legal-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Document Compliance to meet legal requirements worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A major challenge of doing business internationally is to comply with the local legal requirements in the countries, in which your business is active. In the past years, the number of legal requirements with the need to regularly submit electronic documents to a local tax authority, has increased significantly: examples are mandatory e-invoicing, VAT reporting, transport registration, e-accounting, etc.<\/p>\n

The trend toward a \u201cdigital government\u201d has shifted the emphasis away from optional to mandatory electronic tax compliance. All around the world, tax administrations are using technology more than ever before to collect and analyze more data from taxpayers, often in real time or near real time. Instead of being an optional \u201cfacility\u201d, the use of e-invoicing is now a mandatory obligation in many countries, with severe penalties for non-compliance. Only more countries will follow with their own legal e-invoicing requirements.<\/p>\n

All these regulations have their own processes and specialties, but the common factor is always the submission of a specific electronic document format. SAP saw the need to integrate all these country-specific legal requirements and their processes into one tool and have therefore developed their SAP Document Compliance solution for SAP ECC and SAP S\/4HANA.<\/p>\n

Alongside this SAP strategy, we at PIKON have set up a competence center of SAP experts that keep track of regulatory changes across multiple tax and reporting regimes all around the world. This unique combination of SAP expertise with in-depth knowledge of country-specific legal requirements makes it possible for us to make your SAP system compliant with all existing and upcoming legal requirements by means of a standard SAP solution.<\/p>\n

How SAP Document Compliance makes your SAP ECC or SAP S\/4HANA system compliant with legal requirements all over the world<\/strong><\/h2>\n

SAP Document Compliance helps you stay ahead of the ever-changing compliance landscape anywhere you do business and helps you meet worldwide legal requirements, such as e-invoicing, transport registration, etc. This strategic platform is based on a generic eDocument Framework, which manages the creation and processing of electronic documents. These eDocuments are based on source data from business documents within your own SAP ECC or SAP S\/4HANA system, such as invoices and delivery notes.<\/p>\n

In order to comply with the specific requirements per country, SAP releases a Document Compliance country-specific SAP solution per legal requirement. This is built on the SAP eDocument Framework, transforms the transactional data into predefined exchange formats, mostly XML, and transfers this electronically to external systems, such as the systems of the local tax authorities.<\/p>\n

SAP Document Compliance offers solutions for different types of requirements, like real-time e-invoicing (e.g. FatturaPA\/ SDI in Italy<\/a>, CFDI in Mexico<\/a>), VAT reporting (e.g. SII in Spain) and transport registration (e.g. EKAER in Hungary).<\/p>\n

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Characteristics of SAP Document Compliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The implementation of the SAP Document Compliance solution is a strategic decision to keep all existing and upcoming legal requirements under control from within your own SAP ERP system. Using a common platform to exchange eDocuments has the big advantage of being reusable for multiple countries using generic functionality. Because of that, SAP can respond rapidly to new and changing requirements. We at PIKON have the expertise and experience to support you with the implementation of your own SAP Document Compliance solution and to extend your existing platform with any upcoming legal requirement.<\/p>\n

With its built-in eDocument Cockpit, SAP Document Compliance also offers a unified user experience for monitoring and managing the eDocuments that belong to the different countries all over the world. This overview cockpit makes it easy to track the current status and feedback from the local tax authorities.<\/p>\n

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How SAP Document Compliance works in ECC and S\/4HANA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For each legal requirement, SAP releases a country-specific Document Compliance solution that is built on top of the SAP eDocument Framework and that uses two other key SAP Components: SAP Application Interface Framework and SAP Cloud Platform Integration:<\/p>\n