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 to SAP GTS: SAP GTS stands for SAP Global Trade Services. SAP GTS is an ERP software from SAP Labs. (A German Company) SAP GTS helps to automate the global trade business of any organization. Stand-alone application which replaces the SAP ECC SD-Foreign Trade Functionality In today's complex, constant evolving country specific trade regulations it is helpful for the companies to go with such a stand-alone ERP tool. History of SAP GTS: SAP GTS, edition for SAP HANA (E4H) is the latest version which was released in the year 2020. SAP GTS 11.0 - SP21 is the latest release in SAP GTS 11.0 version. SAP GTS E4H is soon expected to replace SAP GTS 11.0. SAP is expected end its support/maintenance for SAP GTS 11.0 by December 2025. Companies going for fresh GTS implementation could go for SAP GTS E4H directly and companies already in SAP GTS 11.0 can plan to upgrade to SAP GTS E4H in future to have the continuous support from SAP. Architecture: SAP GTS can be i...