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...
SAP GTS Modules Compliance Management: Sanctioned Party Screening (SPL): This sub-module is mainly used for screening the business partners used in the import/export transaction. Business partners are screened to make sure the company is not doing business with any bad/restricted persons/terrorists/entities. We can use different search comparison procedures like SAP GTS / SAP TREX / SAP HANA search algorithms in SAP GTS 11.0. However we can use only SAP HANA search procedure/algorithm in the latest SAP GTS, edition for S4 HANA. In outbound transactions (export) we can screen the partner functions like sold-to-party, ship-to-party, bill-to-party, payer, End user/Ultimate consignee, contact persons, Freight forwarders/Carriers and any client-specific partner functions on the sales order / Outbound delivery / Customs export declaration. In Inbound transactions (import) we can screen the partner functions like vendor, Goods supplier, Freight forwarders/Carriers and any client-...