US Tax Determination with External Tax

Providers in SAP Business ByDesign

Rohit Acharya, SAP

June, 2019

Internal | SAP Employees and Partners OnlySMB Innovation Summit 2019

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Problem

▪ What are we going to talk about ?

Value to be added by the SAP Business ByDesign partners.

▪ Why should SAP Business ByDesign partners listen?

System Demo

▪ How ?

Agenda

“The Final Straw”

EXTERNAL

Colorado exempts cups from sales tax, but not straws and lids

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Government does a new thing everyday in

Taxes

Quill Corp. Vs. North Dakota

South Dakota Vs. Wayfair Inc.

SAP Business ByDesign Customers want fast

and efficient Sales Tax for United States.

How does SAP Business ByDesign keep up.

This is the problem…

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What did SAP Business

ByDesign do

▪ Connect SAP Business

ByDesign Tax processes to

Vertex and Avalara.

Who can offer what our

customers want

▪ Avalara and Vertex.

Tax automation services.

What do our customers want

▪ Up to date Taxes for transactions

in United States of America

▪ Taxes are already difficult. They

want ease of use.

▪ Simplicity

Breakdown the problem

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Tax Automation

Vertex Cloud Avalara

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Business ByDesign – Tax Automation for US process

Initial Setup

▪ Who ? Business ByDesign

Customer , Partner , Vertex/Avalara

Tax reporting

▪ Who ? Business ByDesign

customers and Vertex/Avalara.

Transaction

▪ Who ? Business ByDesign

customer

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Set up process

Enter into a contract

with Vertex/Avalara

▪ SAP Business ByDesign

Customer

▪ SAP Partner

▪ Vertex/Avalara

Test

▪ Business ByDesign

customer

▪ SAP Partner

▪ Vertex / Avalara

Set up Business

ByDesign

▪ Business ByDesign

Customer

▪ SAP Partner

Master data sync (opt.)

▪ Business ByDesign

customer

▪ SAP Partner

▪ Vertex / Avalara

Demo

WHAT CAN PARTNERS DO ?

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Business ByDesign – Partner Story

Help in the contract

process

▪ SAP Business ByDesign

Customer

▪ Vertex/Avalara

Test and Support

▪ Business ByDesign

customer

▪ Vertex / Avalara

Set up Business

ByDesign

▪ Posting to

Avalara/Vertex via

Studio.

Master Data

onboarding and Sync

▪ Account/Supplier

Exemptions

▪ Product Exemptions

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Customers

SAP Business ByDesign ,Vertex and Avalara and SAP

Partners are committed to make this process easy and

simple for you.

SAP Partners

Help SAP Business ByDesign customers to understand

the capabilities of the system and leverage to make tax

simple for them.

Key Takeaways

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Rohit Acharya

Developer .. Runner .. Tax guy ☺

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/05/03/avalara-and-vertex-

integration-in-sap-business-bydesign/

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/05/05/product-business-partner-

and-freight-taxability-for-avalara-integration-in-sap-business-

bydesign/

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/05/03/vertex-integration-and-sap-

business-bydesign/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJ2yJCLNC8

Thank you.

Contact information:

Rohit Acharya

Product Owner – Taxes Business ByDesign

Rohit.acharya@sap.com

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