Optimieren Sie die Steuer-Compliance mit Vertex-Integrationen für SAP S/4HANA

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Sind Sie ein Kunde von SAP, der seine Steuerprozesse optimieren möchte? Als zertifizierter SAP Partner bieten wir bei Vertex eine zuverlässige Lösung mit unserem Vertex Accelerator+ für SAP ERP, Teil unseres umfassenden Katalogs an Lösungen von PLUS Tools. Unsere Integrationen sind auf die Vereinfachung der Steuer-Compliance ausgelegt, durch Automatisierung komplexer Prozesse und Unterstützung genauer steuerlichen Ermittlung und Meldung. Nutzen Sie automatisierte Steuerberechnung und -ermittlung zur Unterstützung von Transaktionen, die präzise basierend auf vorkonfigurierten Regeln und Steuersätzen verarbeitet werden können.

Unsere Lösungen erleichtern das Compliance-Management, indem sie Unternehmen bei der Einhaltung lokaler und internationaler Umsatzsteuer-Vorschriften unterstützen und die Steuermeldung und -dokumentation vereinfachen. Unser integriertes Umsatzsteuer-Processing arbeitet nahtlos mit anderen SAP-Modulen wie Finanzen, Vertrieb und Beschaffung zusammen und stellt eine übereinstimmende Bearbeitung der Umsatzsteuer im gesamten System sicher. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht die anpassbare Konfiguration den Unternehmen, Umsatzsteuer-Codes, Gerichtsbarkeiten und spezifische regionale Regeln festzulegen, die auf ihre Anforderungen zugeschnitten sind. Sie erhalten damit eine skalierbare Lösung, die mit dem Unternehmen wächst. Diese Integration steigert die operative Effizienz und erhöht den Wert Ihrer SAP-Investition durch die Bereitstellung einer zentralen und anwenderfreundlichen Schnittstelle für die Verwaltung der Steuer-Compliance. 

Benefits of Vertex-SAP S/4HANA Integration

Vertex offers embedded tax automation. Vertex Accelerator+ and PLUS Tools integrate directly into SAP, replacing manual workarounds with dashboards, drag-and-drop mapping, and pre-built reports -all within SAP. With a future-proof design Vertex is built for SAP’s Clean Core and cloud-first roadmap, reducing upgrade risk and ensuring adaptability. Centralized compliance streamlines invoicing, billing, tax reporting, reconciliation, and audit defense with tools like Diagnostax and VENDORecon. With Vertex reduce cost and risk. Automated e-invoicing, e-filing, exemption certificate management, and invoice validation cut compliance costs on top of the time savings and process productivity when adding real time tax determination, nexus tracking, and support for complex scenarios (drop shipment, triangulation, multi-leg flows).

Genauere und Echtzeit-Steuerberechnungen.

Verwalten Sie aktuelle Steuerdaten, die für Compliance und die finanzielle Genauigkeit entscheidend sind. Die Integration mit anderen SAP-Modulen bietet einen nahtlosen, zuverlässigen Informationsfluss in verschiedenen Geschäftsfunktionen und verbessert die allgemeine operative Effizienz.

Verbesserte Compliance

Unsere Integration unterstützt die Optimierung von Steuermeldung-Prozessen, verringert Fehlerrisiken und verbessert die Einhaltung regulatorischer Vorschriften in unterschiedlichen Gerichtsbarkeiten. Unterstützen Sie das globale Steuermanagement Ihres Unternehmens und navigieren Sie sicher durch die Vielzahl komplexer Steuergesetze in mehreren Ländern.

Verbessern Sie die Effizienz in Ihrem Finanzteam.

Die Integration von Vertex mit SAP S/4HANA unterstützt die Automatisierung von Prozessen im Zusammenhang mit Steuern und ermöglicht es Ihrem Team, sich auf wertsteigernde Aufgaben zu konzentrieren. Reduzieren Sie den Bedarf an manuellen Eingriffen und minimieren Sie das Risiko kostspieliger Fehler. Umfassende Fähigkeiten für Meldung und Analyse wurden erweitert und bieten Ihnen detaillierte Einblicke in Ihre Steuerdaten, die Sie bei wichtigen Entscheidungen unterstützen können.

Skalierbarkeit und Flexibilität

Unsere Integration mit SAP S/4HANA kann sich an die sich ändernden Anforderungen Ihres wachsenden Unternehmens anpassen. Sorgen Sie dafür, dass Ihre Steuerprozesse effizient und zuverlässig bleiben, auch wenn Ihr Unternehmen expandiert.

Audit- und Compliance-Bereitschaft.

Die Optimierung Ihrer Steuerprozesse, die Senkung der Kosten und die Verbesserung der Compliance erleichtern Ihrem Unternehmen die Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen und den Nachweis der Einhaltung von Steuervorschriften.

Protecting the customer and supplier experience.

At Vertex, we understand the goal of any company, in part, is to enhance the customer experience and protect supplier relationships. By leveraging Vertex, teams can help ensure transparent and accurate pricing on invoices and eliminate unexpected charges that can lead to dissatisfaction at payment. Our focus on delivering seamless experiences not only boosts loyalty but also enhances reputation. Protect suppliers, end consumers, and margins regardless of business model, channel or activity. With Vertex, ensure accurate and consistent indirect tax across all commercial activity in the US, Canada, EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and beyond

Optimieren und verwalten Sie Umsatzsteuerprozesse mit unserer SAP-Integration.

Die Integration von Vertex mit SAP S/4HANA bietet eine leistungsstarke Lösung zur Optimierung von Steuer-Compliance-Prozessen, so dass Ihr Unternehmen die Komplexität der Steuergesetze müheloser und sicherer navigieren kann.

Automate VAT calculation for more accurate transaction calculations.

Automatisieren Sie die Umsatzsteuerberechnung für genauere Transaktionsberechnungen.

Reduzieren Sie Fehlerrisiken und helfen Sie Ihrem Unternehmen, die lokalen und internationalen Umsatzsteuervorschriften mit einer umfassenden Lösung einzuhalten.

Compliance & Reporting

Erleichtern Sie genaues steuerliches Reporting und Dokumentation.

Unsere S/4HANA-Integration bietet  nahtloses Umsatzsteuer-Processing mit anderen SAP-Modulen wie Finanzen, Vertrieb und Beschaffung und unterstützt die einheitliche Umsatzsteuerbearbeitung im gesamten System.

Flexible, configurable solutions to meet the complex requirements of tax compliance

Passen Sie unsere anpassbare Konfiguration an Ihre Anforderungen an.

Legen Sie Umsatzsteuercodes, Gerichtsbarkeiten und spezifische regionale Regeln fest, die auf Ihr Unternehmen zugeschnitten sind. Bleiben Sie zuversichtlich, auch wenn Sie in mehreren Regionen mit unterschiedlichen Steuergesetzen tätig sind.

Integration With Your Financial Systems

Optimieren Sie Ihre Abläufe und steigern Sie die Effizienz mit einer integrierten Lösung.

Unsere S/4HANA-Integration bietet die nahtlose Umsatzsteuer-Bearbeitung mit anderen SAP-Modulen wie Finanzen, Vertrieb und Beschaffung und unterstützt die einheitliche Umsatzsteuerbearbeitung im gesamten System.

Unsere S/4HANA-Integration bietet die nahtlose Umsatzsteuer-Bearbeitung mit anderen SAP-Modulen wie Finanzen, Vertrieb und Beschaffung und unterstützt die einheitliche Umsatzsteuerbearbeitung im gesamten System.

Die Integration von Vertex mit SAP S/4HANA bietet eine zentrale, leistungsstarke Lösung zur Optimierung von Steuer-Compliance-Prozessen, so dass Ihr Unternehmen die Komplexität der Steuergesetze müheloser und sicherer navigieren kann. Vereinfachen Sie das Management verschiedener Steuerarten, einschließlich Sales & Use Tax, GST und Umsatzsteuer, in zahlreichen Gerichtsbarkeiten durch die Automatisierung von Steuerberechnungen und -überweisungen. 

Unlock the Full Value of Your SAP Ecosystem with Vertex

Vertex delivers SAP-certified, clean-core integrations across ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba, Commerce Cloud, Business ByDesign, and CIM—automating tax determination, compliance, and reporting for O2C and P2P processes in 195+ countries. With tools like Vertex Accelerator+, PLUS Tools, and SAP BTP support, you get real-time tax automation, dynamic code assignment, multi-leg chain transactions, and omnichannel coverage—without custom code or upgrade risk. Vertex replaces manual workarounds with configurable dashboards, drag-and-drop data mapping, and pre-built SAP reports—accelerating deployment and reducing IT dependency. 

Purpose-Built for SAP ERP and S/4HANA

Vertex Accelerator+ for SAP ERP powers accurate, scalable tax across Order-to-Cash (O2C) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) processes. Accelerator+ is embedded directly into SAP and includes configurable tax code management, jurisdiction mapping, VAT chain flow logic, address cleansing, and tax decision rules. Benefits include:

  • Accurate VAT/SUT determination at PO, invoice, and service entry - automatic tax code defaults on POs, Service entry and MM/FI Invoices with configurable dashboard tables, instead of hard-coded ABAP logic.
  • Tax code defaulting and GL posting alignment -  auto-assigned tax codes with setup tools.  (Including dynamic tax codes for VAT enabling customization without hassle.)
  • Data mapping for Sales orders, billing documents, POs, Service Entry, MM/FI invoices with drag-n-drop data mapping between SAP fields and Vertex fields.
  • Global supply chain management (in one interface) are all a part of the Vertex way.  Chain flow mapping for Input (procurement) and Output VAT (supplies) connects documents in a chain to ensure consistent VAT treatment, and comes with drill-in capability to better understand the tax treatment on each leg.
  • Auto-updated rates, location rules, and transaction audit history built-in.
  • Real-time tax adjustments in AP/AR (flexRFC)
  • Enhanced support for drop shipments, exemption certificates, and cross-border scenarios
  • Compatibility with SAP S/4HANA and ECC, both on-prem and cloud, supporting customers now and on their cloud journey

Vertex PLUS Tools enhance tax visibility, exception handling, and reconciliation directly in SAP. These tools close process and compliance gaps in standard SAP environments. Examples include:

  • VENDORecon for reconciling vendor-billed tax vs. expected liability
  • Diagnostax for identifying recurring use tax errors
  • FLUX Monitor and FLUX Builder for tracking master data changes and managing exemption certificates
  • flexTAX for automating tax accruals from P-Cards and other inputs
  • Drop Shipment tool for applying reciprocity and issuing tax-only credits
  • TestSuite for end-to-end tax testing across P2P and O2C workflows

Adapt to increasing transaction volumes

With Vertex, businesses reduce the burden of maintaining siloed or outdated tax tools. We offer a single point of control for tax across all SAP-connected systems. Vertex delivers purpose-built, secure, and scalable tax automation built for SAP customers operating globally and domestically.

 

Designed to align with SAP’s Clean Core principles, Vertex integrates natively into SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Ariba, CIM, Commerce Cloud, and other SAP modules—providing tax automation that spans sales, purchasing, invoicing, returns, and compliance reporting. Our solutions deliver consistent, accurate, and audit-ready tax handling across all jurisdictions, while minimizing the need for custom code or IT intervention.

 

Built on SAP BTP and endorsed by SAP, Vertex future-proofs tax automation. Vertex continues to develop on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) with early adoption of APIs such as SAP Tax Service, SIC-Cloud, and Ariba CIM integrations. Our solution roadmap aligns with SAP’s RISE and GROW initiatives, ensuring continuity and innovation for long-term SAP users.

 

Vertex is trusted by over 4,000 customers—including 60% of the Fortune 500. Leading SAP customers like Siemens, Ford, and BlueTriton rely on Vertex for global tax scalability, end-to-end compliance, and streamlined SAP modernization initiatives. These organizations have accelerated tax transformation while minimizing risk and reducing manual effort across teams.

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FAQ's

SAP S/4HANA tax automation streamlines tax calculation and compliance by integrating with solutions like Vertex. It helps businesses automate complex tax processes, provides full transparency and control over your tax operations across channels, functions, and regions.  With automated workflows and centralized compliance, you can:

  • Reduce costly errors and avoid audit penalties
  • Improve cash flow with faster, accurate invoicing and payments
  • Minimize the internal effort required to support tax compliance
  • Scale confidently as your system, teams, or business footprint expands

Vertex aligns tax with supply chain complexity across stores, warehouses, and shipments—drop ship, call-off stock, multi-leg routes, intercompany transfers, allocations – with jurisdictional accuracy.

Vertex supports over 20,000 jurisdictions globally with automated updates to tax rates, rules, and compliance content. Whether managing VAT in Europe, SUT in North America, GST in APAC, or The Tax Reform in Brazil, Vertex ensures consistent, accurate tax treatment across all SAP applications.  Our integration helps streamline tax reporting processes, reducing the risk of errors and improving adherence to regulatory requirements across different jurisdictions. Support your business’s global tax management, confidently navigating a range of complex tax laws in multiple countries.

Future-Ready Compliance, Built In.  As tax regulations evolve, Vertex evolves with them. Our platform is supported by an in-house global tax research team, ensuring your tax content, rates, and compliance requirements are always up to date. Whether you're operating across the U.S. or expanding internationally, Vertex enables your new system to handle complex tax scenarios without costly customizations or manual workarounds.

Ready to Go When You Are

Don’t wait until after your system goes live to think about tax. Vertex is ready to integrate now—bringing automation, accuracy, and control into your new ERP or commerce environment from the start.

As a certified SAP partner, Vertex offers real time and precise tax determination, e-invoicing and compliance solutions globally with pre-built tools designed for scale. Vertex Accelerator+ for SAP ERP, our wider catalogue of PLUS Tools, and Vertex on SAP BTP distinguish our portfolio for S/4HANA. Vertex Accelerator+ and PLUS Tools are embedded directly in SAP to support tax automation. These tools replace manual workarounds with configurable dashboards, drag-and-drop data mapping, and pre-built SAP reports—accelerating deployment and reducing IT dependency. With global country coverage, industry support across the supply chain, and deep content coverage (including highly regulated spaces such as communications, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, tech and leasing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail, and more), our embedded tax tech and integrations simplify tax compliance and streamline operations.

SAP S/4HANA tax automation streamlines tax calculation and compliance by integrating with solutions like Vertex. It helps businesses automate complex tax processes, provides full transparency and control over your tax operations across channels, functions, and regions. With automated workflows and centralized compliance, you can:

  • Reduce costly errors and avoid audit penalties
  • Improve cash flow with faster, accurate invoicing and payments
  • Minimize the internal effort required to support tax compliance
  • Scale confidently as your system, teams, or business footprint expands

Vertex offers S/4HANA real-time global tax determination for  local and cross-border transaction accuracy.  Localized and up to date regulations, rates and rules supporting sales, purchasing, credits, accruals, invoicing, e-invoicing and billing.  The ability to handle transaction volumes and manage tax complexity and industry-specific challenges and scenarios including B2B registration validation and exemption management without core modifications.  Tax intelligence backed by gen-AI to streamline configuration, maintenance and user experience.  

Vertex provides S/4HANA tax-compliant invoices tailored to local regulations, languages and currencies, streamlining processes for businesses operating worldwide.  The ability to address multiple, country specific mandates within a single, unified e-invoicing system, eliminating the inefficiencies of managing multiple vendors and creating custom integrations to each clearing and administrative site to remain compliant.  And because invoicing is not the last step in the compliance process, the ability to more easily reconcile their transaction data with their e-reporting and periodic filings.

Vertex supports over 20,000 jurisdictions globally with automated updates to tax rates, rules, and compliance content. Whether managing VAT in Europe, SUT in North America, GST in APAC, or The Tax Reform in Brazil, Vertex ensures consistent, accurate tax treatment across all SAP applications.

Automating tax across the SAP landscape.  Vertex delivers certified, clean-core-compliant integrations across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA (on-premise, private, and public cloud), SAP Ariba, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Business ByDesign, and SAP Central Invoice Management. These integrations enable real-time tax determination, exemption handling, and compliance automation across both O2C and P2P processes—without custom code or disruption to SAP core. Global tax determination extends to 195+ countries including EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and Brazil Tax Reform.

Purpose-Built for SAP ERP and S/4HANA. Vertex Accelerator+ and PLUS Tools are embedded directly in SAP to support tax automation for Sales & Use Tax (SUT), VAT, GST, and CUT. These tools replace manual workarounds with configurable dashboards, drag-and-drop data mapping, and pre-built SAP reports—accelerating deployment and reducing IT dependency.

Vertex ensures tax compliance during SAP S/4HANA migration by delivering SAP-validated integrations and a unified tax platform that eliminates complexity. With prebuilt connectors, open APIs, implementation tools and composable architecture, Vertex integrates seamlessly across SAP ECC, S/4HANA (on-premise, private, and public cloud), Ariba, Commerce Cloud, Business ByDesign, and Central Invoice Management. This approach removes costly customizations, reduces implementation risk, and guarantees compliance readiness throughout your modernization journey.

At Vertex we know Implementing tax processes early ensures that your financial system is compliant with tax regulations from the start, reducing the risk of non-compliance issues later-on. It allows for thorough testing and validation, ensuring accurate calculations and reducing the chances of errors in tax reporting.  At Vertex we guide and  incorporate tax processes early, helping businesses streamline workflows and minimize the need for manual interventions, leading to overall process efficiency and reduced cost later on.  Identifying and addressing tax considerations early in the implementation process can help avoid costly retroactive rework or adjustments and fines due to non-compliance.  Vertex facilitates a smoother transition to S/4HANA, minimizing disruptions in operations and preventing potential bottlenecks.

Built for global scale and enterprise performance, Vertex automates real-time tax calculation, exemption handling, e-invoicing, and continuous transaction controls across 195+ countries. Features like O Series Edge ensure low latency and high availability during peak traffic, while advanced capabilities—such as VAT validation, ViDA compliance, and marketplace facilitator support—help you stay ahead of evolving regulations. By centralizing tax workflows and automating updates, Vertex gives finance, tax, and IT teams the agility to migrate confidently without increasing compliance risk or IT overhead.

Implementation timelines vary by project scope, but Vertex provides pre-built connectors and expert support for rapid deployment. Most integrations are completed in weeks, not months.  

“When you're processing 25,000 tax returns a year and 146 audits a year it's extremely important to have a partner, Vertex, where you can rely on their tax calculations. We moved 7 systems off our previous provider onto the new Vertex tax calculation engine, moved 3.5 million tax exemption certificates, and set up our us tax accrual program in less than 6 months.  After a bit, we then moved Oracle in 3 weeks onto the Vertex system.*  Increased accuracy on our consumers use tax filing and accuracy on our customer billings (which has led to helping us increase our customer satisfaction scores). We have standardized processes in the background..not just quicker in the process itself…but being more thorough…automized so the colleagues which are working in the tax area can then concentrate on other tasks.” *[50 total systems globally over time]  
Sandra Blair - Head of Indirect Tax, Siemens

Yes, Vertex enables real-time tax calculation within SAP S/4HANA, ensuring every transaction is accurately taxed based on the latest rules and rates.

Vertex tax technology helps streamline customer and audit defense, improving audit performance across sales, purchasing, billing, returns, and filing by providing automated accuracy and structured data. With features like historical data, look-up tools, and archiving, our solution ensures compliance and reduces the risk of audit penalties and consulting fees.

In the event of an audit, Vertex provides comprehensive, accurate transaction and compliance records to meet tax obligations, helping businesses prepare, manage, and respond to audits. This reduces the need for external professional services and mitigates potential penalties.

Vertex provides robust audit trails, reporting, and compliance controls for SAP S/4HANA helping business prepare for tax audits and maintain regulatory compliance. In addition, Vertex offers role based security, user authentication and authorization, in transit data encryption, in-depth audit logging, and is designed for Sarbox 404 compliance controls. Annual SOC 2 Type II assessment performed by an independent auditing agency to validate the design and implementation of controls. Audit logs help ensure SOX compliance. Federated security enhances protection. And single sign-on (SSO) improves convenience.  With BPT take advantage of centralized governance.

Vertex automates decision models based on tax relevant data including commodity, storage locations, shipping points, jurisdiction, place of supply, multi-party transactions, company codes, registration, plants, relevant meta data, etc. We provide auto-assigned tax codes with setup tools. (Including dynamic tax codes for VAT enabling customization without hassle.) Vertex auto-updated rates, location rules, with transaction audit history built-in. Vertex enables automatic tax code defaults on POs, Service entry and MM/FI Invoices with configurable dashboard tables, instead of hard-coded ABAP logic.

Vertex for SAP automates continuous transaction controls - e-invoicing, e-reporting transmission, and receipts, enhancing data security and reducing the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches. By providing accurate and timely compliance data, Vertex empowers businesses to make informed decisions and maintain full compliance with ease.

Vertex supports multi-country VAT/GST reporting, streamlining and automating the process for businesses operating globally. This ensures compliance with the latest jurisdictional requirements and reporting timelines.

Vertex VAT Compliance offers a single, integrated platform for multi-country periodic and real-time reporting requirements when used together with Vertex e-Invoicing. This helps businesses meet localization requirements more effectively.