Introduction: The U.S Department of Commerce regulates exports and re-exports of "dual-use" items through EAR (Export Administrative Regulations). If any controlled product is of U.S origin or in anyway connected with U.S then even if it's shipped anywhere from outside the U.S to any other countries, it should be compliant with EAR and require a license from the U.S BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security). When a foreign-based company imports products or components from the U.S and uses them in its production, and then exports the produced materials to another country, the process is known as U.S. Re-export and is subject to U.S. regulations. Firstly, we need to determine if any foreign-produced materials that contains the U.S origin components are subject to EAR or exempted based on the de-minimis exception. Here the ultimate destination countries are classified as "Non-Critical / Friendly Countries" and...
Introduction: Here in this blog, we will see the partner dependent customs processing method.
- Partner dependent customs processing is performed based on the partner determination for partner dependent actions. A partner function is entered in the configuration which is compared to the partner function in the declaration and an action is performed if the partner function is available in the declaration.
- For ex: If we need to share any customs form with any specific partner like Customs broker over email, then we can assign the customs broker partner function CUSLCB in the configuration and then maintain the partner function in the customs declaration for sending the customs form directly to the customs broker over email.
- Below we will see only the main steps to configure and activate the partner dependent processing. Make sure to complete all other required customs management setup to have the import / export declaration getting created for the required country.
Configuration Steps:
1. Communication process (PPF settings) -
Define Technical Medium for Messages (PPF Actions) for General Documents. Select the partner dependent check box and enter the required partner function – For ex: CUSLCB to enable to partner determination based on the customs broker partner function for the action definition.
2. Communication process (PPF settings) -
Define Conditions/Output Parameters for Communication of General Documents
Here we can add the copy recipients list to add any other extra email address / distribution lists / business partners. This is an optional step where we can maintain the copy recipients if required.
3. Define Groups of Partner Functions
Add the CUSLCB partner function in the required import / export customs
processing partner group.
4. Define Default Data for Document Fields, Messages, and Documents
Maintain the required default data rules configuration to automatically default the customs broker partner number and the required output message in the communication tab directly in the customs declaration.
5. Define Determination Procedure for Defaulting Data
Assign the document default data for the document fields and message processing to the legal regulation, document type & process.
6. Maintain SCOT settings for the email functionality
Go to transaction code SCOT and make sure the required settings are maintained for SMTP connection and Internet node to have the email functionality working.
Master Data setup
1. Maintain Business Partner
Go to BP transaction and create a BP for customs broker with a bp role as “SLLLCB” and maintain the email address for the customs broker and choose standard communication method as “INT E-Mail”. We can add multiple email address by click on the right arrow at the field end and adding multiple email address and choose the default one for email.
2. Maintain Default data
• Go to transaction /SAPSLL/DPDATA_MNTN to maintain the default data for the document fields to have the customs broker partner function getting defaulted in the customs declaration.
• Go to transaction /SAPSLL/DPDATA_MSG to maintain the default data for the messages in the communication tab to have the message default automatically in the customs declaration – communication tab.
Test document:
• In the export declaration, select the message P0370 for US SLI and click on execute. We can also preview the document by maintaining the LP01 as printer and then execute the message.
• Make sure the customs broker partner is maintained in the export declaration to send out the mail.
• Once the message is executed successfully, click on processing log to check the status. If LP01 is also maintained then the message is sent to print spooler and to the email id mentioned in the customs broker “Fedex” partner email id and to the distribution mail id & email address maintained in the configuration under the copy recipients.
• We can validate the mail triggered in the mail queue in SOST transaction. If job is scheduled for sending out the SOST email (Address type – INT) using the RSCONN01 SE38 program then the mails will be sent out automatically after the set frequency time.
• As a standard the form name will be used as mail subject line & form name. Through development using BADI “DOC_PERSONALIZE_BCS” for the filter value “/SAPSLL/FORM_PROC” and method “PERSONALIZE_DOCUMENT” we can have our own document title and the form name for the email.
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