Foreign Trade
Foreign Trade functionality in SAP SD covers the legal, customs and statistical requirements of cross-border sales and procurement, including export/import control, legal control checks, commodity codes, preference determination, Intrastat/Extrastat reporting and integration with foreign trade data on sales and billing documents. This topic explains the business drivers, the underlying master data and configuration, the document flow and integration with FI/MM/logistics, common production issues, and how S/4HANA and cloud deployments differ in scope and tooling (including the direction toward SAP Global Trade Services for advanced compliance).
Overview
Foreign Trade functionality in SAP SD covers the legal, customs and statistical requirements of cross-border sales and procurement, including export/import control, legal control checks, commodity codes, preference determination, Intrastat/Extrastat reporting and integration with foreign trade data on sales and billing documents. This topic explains the business drivers, the underlying master data and configuration, the document flow and integration with FI/MM/logistics, common production issues, and how S/4HANA and cloud deployments differ in scope and tooling (including the direction toward SAP Global Trade Services for advanced compliance).
Lessons in this topic
- Configuring Foreign Trade Data: Master Data, Document Flow, and Legal Control IntegrationExplains how Foreign Trade data is configured and maintained across material, customer, and document levels, how it flows through the order-to-billing cycle, and how legal control and statistical reporting integrate with FI/MM.
- Foreign Trade in SD: Why It Exists and What It ControlsIntroduces the business and legal purpose of Foreign Trade functionality in SAP SD, the data it captures, and where it fits in the order-to-cash process for cross-border transactions.
- Foreign Trade Data Flow Through the Sales Order to Billing Document LifecycleExplains how foreign trade data (commodity code, country of origin, legal control results, preference status) is determined, copied, and re-validated as a document moves from sales order to delivery to billing, and where breaks in this chain typically cause compliance or reporting failures.