How to Add a Custom Table to the Vertex Accelerator Menu in SAP

[Avnish_Goyal]

How to Add a Custom Table to the Vertex Accelerator Menu in SAP

Introduction:

The Vertex Accelerator tools provide solutions to complex tax requirements for SAP clients without the need for ABAP coding. These tools become essential for automating tax calculations, reporting, audits, and compliance when implemented along with Vertex Oseries. Vertex Accelerator is an add-on for SAP ECC or S/4HANA to support tax-related processes.

One of the features of Vertex Accelerator tools is the Tax Code Maintenance Setting (previously known as "Tuesday"). This tool automates the tax code determination in key SAP processes including Finance (direct postings), LIV (Logistics Invoice Verification), and PO (Purchase Orders).

The tool ‘Tax Code Maintenance’ provides default Pre-Processing and Tax Code Default tables to determine tax codes based on various combinations. However, often businesses require additional combinations to meet their unique tax needs. In these cases, a custom table with a custom transaction code is created. Unfortunately, this custom table doesn't automatically appear in the default Vertex menu of the Tax Code Maintenance Setting. Hence, it cannot be viewed and maintained from the Vertex Accelerator Menu.

The following are the steps to successfully integrate a custom table into the Vertex Accelerator menu.

Prerequisites:

Before proceeding, make sure:

1. The new table for defaulting tax codes based on the required combination has been created with the necessary ABAP coding.
2. The new table has been assigned to a custom transaction code.

Steps to Add a Custom Table to the Vertex Accelerator Menu:

Follow the below steps to include your custom table in the Vertex list of tables. Keep in mind, custom tables can be added using numbers 1 to 9.

Step 1: Execute Transaction Code SE43. Enter /VERTEX/ACCELERATOR in the area menu and click on the ‘Favorite’ button.

Step 2: Select /VERTEX/ACCELERATOR and click Change .

A popup message will appear. Select ‘Extend’ to proceed.

Step 3: In the next window, click on ‘Create Enhancement ID’. Enter a new Enhancement ID and provide a description.

For example, we’ve created the enhancement ID ‘ZVRTXMENU’ with the description ‘Vertex Menu’.

Step 4: Expand the Vertex Accelerator Menu and navigate to the level where the new table will be added. Select the level and click on ‘Add Entry At Same Level’.

For example, we added a custom table in the Tax Code Default Menu after the default table ‘U - Default by Purchase Document Type’.

Step 5: In the popup window, Enter the custom Transaction Code and provide a description for the table, prefix with number I to 9. Click to Save the changes.

For example, the table created to default tax codes based on the departure and destination countries uses the transaction code ‘ZTAXCNTR’.

Step 6: After saving, your custom table will be successfully added to the Vertex Accelerator Menu.