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If you are already using SAP Global Trade Management (GTM) within the SAP Business Suite then you may want to know, what is new with SAP S/4HANA Global Trade Management.
Or maybe you have already implemented SAP GTM in SAP S/4HANA and you are planning a release change and want to know now, what is new from the past years?
Based on community interest on both of these scenarios, I am inspired to share this update with you.
Let us start from the beginning...
First, the good news! SAP Global Trade Management became part of the SAP S/4HANA core and is shipped to customers with the very first Release 100. A few highlights to consider:
Business Partner, Material, Credit Check
SAP GTM integrates the business partner, and it is adapted to the longer material number. Since only SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) credit check is allowed in SAP S/4HANA, you can now use scope, which is identical to the SD (Sales & Distribution) credit check in SAP ECC, with the license you already own.
Only SAP S/4HANA on premise
SAP GTM is only available with SAP S/4HANA on premise and SAP S/4HANA private cloud. Not in S/4HANA public Cloud. The reason is, that there are no best practice processes defined and there are also no native SAP Fiori apps.
SAP Fiori Apps are available
With SAP S/4HANA new SAP Fiori apps available, but there are only two native apps. The standard transactions from SAP GUI are rendered as Web HTML. You are not able to maintain the typical SAP GTM user parameters for the organizational data ion the Fiori launchpad.
Two new business roles are defined:
- Trader and
- Trading Manager
| Role-ID | Role Name | Technical Business Role | Role Description |
| R0071 | Trader | SAP_BR_TRADER | Buys and sells physical products. |
| R0215 | Trading Manager | SAP_BR_TRADING_MANAGER | Responsible for trading business. |
With release S/4HANA 2022 SAP has delivered the first two native fiori apps: The Manage Trading Contract App (App-ID: F6649) and the Schedule Follow-On Document Processing App (App ID: F6438).
Some functions were deleted or deactivated
No Retail calculation is possible because Retail was delivered later than SAP GTM within SAP S/4HANA. It is deactivated and should not be used anymore. If you are already using it in the Business Suite, it can be migrated, but should be replaced afterwards.
Invoice Forecasting, logistical options, raw exposer update and differential invoice are Commodity Management Function, and therefore not part of SAP GTM core anymore. If you need them, you must implement the respective SAP S/4HANA component.
Also, the Trading Contract@Web code was deleted in SAP S/4HANA.
New Implementation Guide (IMG)
In the SAP GTM IMG (Implementation Guide) the nodes of the deleted functions were removed here as well. Furthermore, the remaining entries were restructured.
SAP ECC IMG left and SAP S/4HANA IMG on the right
Database Field Changes within Global Trade Management
If you have own custom code, you might have to adjust your code to the new database design to avoid syntax or processing problems.
In the following tables the primary key as well as the field DOCUMENT and PRED_DOCUMENT have changed:
| Table | Description |
| WBASSOC | Global Trade: Association Table |
| WBGT | Global Trade: Generic Document Information |
| WBHF | Trading Contract: Document Flow |
| WBIT | Association Item at Step Level |
Furthermore, the table KONDIND (General Document Index for Conditions) is not used anymore. Instead of, the fields are available in table KONH (Conditions (Header)) directly.
For more details as well as how to deal with these changes please read SAP-Note 2198031.
Obsolete Reports, Transactions and PFCG Roles
The following Transactions and their reports are obsolete or replaced by a new version:
| Obsolete Report | Obsolete TCode | Successor Report | Successor TCode |
| RWB2B001 - Trading Contract: General Document Overview | WB24 | RWB2BREL - Trading Contract: Follow on document processing | WBRR |
| RWB2B001 - Trading Contract: General Document Overview | WB25_COMP | RWB2BMAS - Mass Processing (Release and Status update) | WB24N |
| WB2B_CREATE_TC_USER - Create User for TC At Web | WB2B_NETUSER |
The following transactions are obsolete:
| Obsolete TCode | Description | Successor TCode |
| POFO1 | Create Portfolio | POFO31 |
| POFO2 | Change Portfolio | POFO32 |
| POFO3 | Display Portfolio | POFO33 |
The PFCG Roles SAP_EP_LO_WB20N_N and SAP_EP_LO_WBCB are obsolete. Please use PFCG Role SAP_EP_LO_WB20N or SAP_EP_LO_WZR0N instead.
See also SAP-Note 2204137 for more details.
Process Detail Folder
Process Detail Folder on Trading Contract Item Level is deprecated because the displayed data are providing on other screens as well. So, there is no business needed to display the same information on an additional screen as well.
Letter of Credit
Letter of Credit functionality of Foreign Trade Application is no longer support within sales processing. Therefore, you cannot run reports or processes within trading contract processing related to this kind of letter of credit functionality.
See SAP-Note 2270544 - S4TWL - Credit Management.
New structure of help documentation
Although the Trading Contract is document which allows you to enter Sales and Purchasing Trading Contracts in a unified way, to sell goods to customers is the main purpose of a trading company.
Perhaps this alignment is the reason why within SAP S/4HANA the help documentation is not located anymore in logistics, but in sales.
Output Control
Nothing has changed for SAP GTM regarding the output control. BRF+ (Business Rule Framework plus) routines are not needed. Sample Smartforms as well as Adobe interactive forms are shipped with SAP GTM.
Profit Simulation
To use the full potential of profit simulation for double-sided as well as single sided trading contracts from release 1509 to 1809 please implement the following SAP-Notes: 2835922, 2894667, 2895597, 2895876, 2897030, 2899441, 2902730, 2916850.
There will be also a performance improvement of transaction WB29_PROFIT.
Stock Transfer Posting
With Release 1809 an action class is provided, which allows you to post stock transfers which respect the association.
If you implement SAP-Note 2882478 you can cancel stock transfers with action class CL_WB2_ACTION_GR_CANCEL. You can only cancel the document if it is not associated. Table WBIT will be updated accordingly.
Goods Receipt in Inbound Delivery
The inbound delivery can be used to integrate SAP GTM with Transportation Management (TM) using Handling Units. In such a case, you must post the goods receipt from within the inbound delivery. Please Implement the SAP-Notes 2837459, 2869894, 2921046 to be able to associate the goods receipt afterwards.
Quality Management Checks
When a trading contract is released, certain checks are done on level of the trading contract, others are done in the purchase order resp. the sales order. If a check in follow-on documents fails, the created document is rolled back.
From 1809 on the QM checks are done on level of the trading contract. You must implement the SAP-Notes 2893904 and 2900464.
Integration of International Trade
From release 2021 on the trade compliance integration is done also for Trading Contracts. Therefore, the check is only done on the level of the trading contract and not on level of its follow-on sales order resp. purchase order anymore. (More information you find in SAP Help)
Multiple Address Handling in the Sales Side of Trading Contracts using
You can define additional addresses in the Business Partner. If you create a new trading contract the systems will ask you, which of those additional addresses you want to take over in which partner role. Additional creating of business partners for this purpose is not necessary anymore.
To use this feature, you must activate certain business functions. (See SAP-Help)
Two native Fiori Apps Manage Trading Contracts and Schedule Follow-on Documents are available
From release 2022 on two native Fiori Apps are available. The Manage Trading Contracts App and Schedule Follow-on Documents App. Furthermore, the key user extensibility is integrated.
Reports WB29_PROFIT and WB29_OPEN extended. As well as item overview in Trading contract.
With SAP note 3337192 the reports WB29_PROFIT and WB29_OPEN are extended with additional data fields. In the result table you can now add Material, Item Description, Customer, Customer Name, Supplier, Supplier Name, Plant, Plant Name und Material Group into the layout. Customer individual fields can be added via the structures WB2_PROFIT_CALC_WITH_POS_ENH resp. WB2_STATUS_CALC_WITH_POS_ENH.
Furthermore, the supplier's name was added into the item overview of the trading contracts.
The SAP note is not only valid for all S/4HANA releases, but also for ECC608.
<From here update from 2024/04/18>
Enablement for Information Retrieval
Archiving Trading Contract has been integrated into the Information Retrieval Framework (IRF). See SAP Note 2646204. You find the documentation here. This feature is available from ECC 608 onward.
Extension of the Manage Trading Contract App
During the creation of a new Trading Contract a popup was integrated so the user can enter the TEW type, the trading contract type, the organizational data as well as the default values of the trading contract to be created. This feature is available from S/4HANA 2023 FPS1.
Deactivate Workflow for Purchase Orders
If you use a purchase order type for follow-on documents of a trading contract as well as for business processed without GTM and want to use the release workflow for purchase orders, then you can switch the workflow off in case the purchase order is a flow-on document of a trading contract.
You go customizing table Global Trade Mangement > Trading Contracts > Define Control Groups Purchasing.
This feature is available from S/4HANA FPS0 and SAP-Note 3396609.
Display Financial Document
If you use a Payment Guarantee Procedure e.g. a letter of credit you can now display the financial document by double clicking on the number of the financial document. The system will direct you to transaction FTRTLC03.
This is available from S/4HANA 2021 onward with SAP-Note 3424069.
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