KGT's SAP add-ons to meet SAF-T and e-invoicing requirements in SAP

Our SAP add-ons installed enhance standard SAP itself. An SAP add-on facilitates the extraction of requested tax data, the legal format transformation, and the timely submission. The add-on contains cockpit functionality for go-live testing and tax risk management onwards. The SAP add-on solution can receive, check, and verify, for example, invoice data sent by the taxpayer with immediate access to accounting data.

SAP add-on components add extra functionalities that do not come with the central SAP product. Various organizations have different requirements. SAP has recognized that and facilitated that, and developers are allowed to add functionality as a component integrated with standard SAP.

An add-on is permitted by SAP – the code 'ABAP' is written and transported where SAP allows it. That means these add-on components sit above the core and access the same dictionary objects or repository objects and perform the required functionality. It contains custom authorization objects according to SAP standards.

SAP add-on solutions are, therefore, without an external interface or external software and can be implemented with no SAP impact in any other area. An SAP add- on does not change the programming code of SAP. As a result, SAP upgrades do not lead to any problems, and maintenance is straightforward.

It is 'User-friendly, manageable, scalable, extendable, upgradeable, reliable, sustainable, SAP-integrated, VAT compliant, and contains an audit trail.'

The SAP add-on solution is purchased in ownership at a one-time fixed fee (no licensing!) That fee includes turn-key delivery: performing the configuration to get the solution operational (KGT gets remote access to the development environment of SAP), remote training in English, working with the Business team during UAT until Go-Live, and user- and technical documentation in English.

At the moment of Go-Live, for the first month, KGT continues supporting businesses during this Hypercare period. If you have opted for maintenance, for any issues you experience, you can raise a ticket in the KGT's ticket system. Depending on the urgency as defined in the SLA, KGT will do the remediation.

When new e-invoicing requirements are introduced related to the SAP add-on in production, it will result that the source code is becoming outdated. KGT will provide updated source code and do all the configurations again until user acceptance testing succeeds. All SAP add- ons are compatible from SAP 4.7 and higher including S4 HANA.

KGT can develop any new country introductions within two months as we reuse the know-how of the e-invoicing R&D of countries currently operational at multinationals. Installation time will be 3-4 months as our solutions work standalone and does not share client-specific objects, so retesting other country modules installed is not needed during implementation. New country SAP add-on installed never impact other country modules already operational.

KGT considers mixing' country-specific objects the worst practice from a product development practice due to the increased level of unacceptable IT and tax risks for customers.

As a product company, SAP develops country-specific solutions so that changes done for one country do not impact other countries. KGT follows SAP's best practice, and its SAP add-ons developed work standalone and, therefore, do not mix country-specific objects (shared objects). Such a shared object approach would increase IT and tax risks for customers. Other vendors might share objects between their country modules.

The impact can be explained as follows. When that Software Vendor using shared objects, provides a new patch, customers must again retest all other country solutions installed, even if those changes were irrelevant for those countries. It can also result in non-tax compliance. Assume the Italian country module shares objects with the tax reporting module for Hungary. A maintenance update for Italy could result in the Hungarian module malfunctioning. That malfunction means that real-time submission in Hungary can no longer take place as remediation of the problem takes days. Even, when the shared object problem is resolved in two days, the customer is non-tax- compliant for that period, and the Hungarian tax authorities could levy significant tax penalties on the customers. That situation cannot happen with the KGT SAP add-ons, as all solutions work standalone from each other.