Global compliance
A global solution to ensure accurate financial reporting and maintain compliance with local laws and standards.
Automation
Fully automated process orchestration for outgoing and incoming electronic documents. Automatically submitted to business partners and tax authorities.
Centralised cockpit
Monitor errors automatically, underline transactions to enable seamless corrections, and communicate rejections to authorities.
Automated reconciliation
Proactive identification of missing transactions from the tax authorities’ portals.
A single source of truth for tax
Real-time reporting with no reconciliation required. Reporting data is not replicated to prevent data inconsistency and audit problems.
Harmonised dashboard
To monitor and manage all mandates, from electronic documents to statutory obligations. Real-time insights from preparation to submission.
End-to-end process
Adjustment, validation, and analysis of statutory reporting
Ease-of-use
User-friendly UI to easily review the data submitted without requiring technical or country-specific knowledge.
Workflow
Streamlined review and approval of all statutory reports. Automated notifications and follow-ups (mobile-friendly).
Embedded analytics
Trend analysis and data-driven insights to help users identify any irregularities.
Advantages of SAP DRC for IT teams
e-Invoicing
Statutory reporting
Compliance
Simple adoption of legal changes with pre-packaged content.
Reduce TCO
Fully integrated with SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA. Minimise IT efforts to manage data extraction, IDOC, and EDI setup.
Extensibility
The extensible platform helps meet industry-specific and business requirements.
Automation
It provides zero-touch invoice processing through integration with the vendor invoice management solution.
Security It offers robust security standards to meet every organisation's policies.
Electronic automated submission
Full integration with tax authorities via SAP Integration Suite on SAP Business Technology Platform.
Extensibility
New scenarios/reports or extensions to cover all your needs via “Design Time”. Reduce the development cycle to a few simple steps.
Automated regression tester
Check for error corrections, optimization, or deletion of existing features made in statutory reports by comparing the changes against a reference report run.
Traceability and audit trail
Fully automated and digital audit-proof documentation supporting both internal and external audits.
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We firmly believe SAP DRC is a state-of-the-art solution for real time validation, the exchange of outgoing electronic documents and statutory reporting. No reconciliation is needed, making things easier for tax teams. It also integrates seamlessly with SAP ERP, reducing the TCO.
Several governments are making progress to introduce electronic invoicing in B2B and B2C transactions. Other standards such as the Standards Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) apply in some European countries. Find out what countries are covered by SAP DRC for electronic invoicing and statutory reporting
Local legal name: Facturae, Suministro Inmediato de Información (SII)
Model: Centralised, Real-time Reporting
B2G: Mandatory
B2B: Voluntary for e-Invoicing (Mandatory in 2025), Mandatory for SII
B2C: N/A
Format: Facturae, XML
e-Signature: Required for B2G
Archiving: 6 Years
B2G: suppliers to public entities
B2B e-invoicing: businesses with turnover more than €8 million per annum
SII: businesses with turnover more than €6 million per annum
Exchange System:
B2G e-invoice: FACe
SII: AEAT Electronic Office and regional tax agencies
Sweden
Local legal name: -
Model: PEPPOL
B2G: Mandatory
B2B: Voluntary
B2C: N/A
Format: PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0
e-Signature: Not Required
Archiving: 7 Years
B2G: suppliers to public entities
Exchange System: PEPPOL network
Switzerland
Local legal name: -
Model: Interoperability
B2G: Mandatory
B2B: Mandatory
B2C: Mandatory
Format: UBL, CII, XML, Zugferd
e-Signature: Not Required
Archiving: 10 Years
B2G: suppliers to public entities for contracts value over 5000 CHF
Exchange System: Certified service providers
Taiwan
Local legal name: Electronic Government Uniform Invoice (eGUI)
Model: Real-time Reporting
B2G: Mandatory
B2B: Voluntary
B2C: Voluntary
Format: MIG-3.2.1 (XML)
e-Signature: Required
Archiving: 5 Years
All taxpayers including non-resident VAT registered businesses
Exchange System: Ministry of Finance's platform, Certified service providers
Deadline:
- B2B 7 days after the issuance of the invoice
- B2C: 2 days after the issuance of the invoice
Thailand
Local legal name: E-Tax Invoice and E-Receipt
Model: Real-time Reporting
B2G: Voluntary
B2B: Voluntary
B2C: Voluntary
Format: Local XML
e-Signature: Required
Archiving: 10 Years
All Taxpayers.
Exchange System: the Revenue Department portal, the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA)
There are 2 e-invoicing systems:
- e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt RTIR System
- e-Tax Invoice by E-mail System (for small companies with turnover less than THB 30 million)
Turkey
Local legal name: E-fatura and e-Arsiv
Model: Centralised
B2G: Mandatory
B2B: Mandatory
B2C: Mandatory
Format: UBL 2.1 TR
e-Signature: Required
Archiving: 5 Years for tax law and 10 Years for commercial law
All Taxpayers.
Exchange System: GIB Platform
FAQs
1. What is SAP DRC?
SAP DRC is a global solution to fulfil local compliance mandates, from electronic documents to statutory reporting, and automate compliance processes worldwide. SAP DRC is a holistic approach to a seamless transition from periodic statutory reporting to continuous transaction controls (e-invoicing and real-time reporting), with consistency between real-time business document submission and statutory reports.
SAP DRC consists of two parts:
SAP DRC on SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP, fully integrated with business processes without data replication to generate electronic documents and statutory reports in a local legal format.
SAP DRC on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to scale and simplify electronic submission to authorities. This can be SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, cloud edition or the customer-managed SAP Integration Suite tenants, depending on the country/scenario.
2. What are the benefits of SAP DRC?
SAP DRC will maximise the standardisation and increase your tax reporting efficiency. Thanks to automation, it will increase operational sustainability with a harmonised solution to manage e-invoicing and e-reporting worldwide.
SAP DRC is a scalable solution that will help you to transition to e-document mandates across different regions with a single solution instead of multiple integrations with several tools and providers.
SAP DRC offer one communication channel with authorities, automated checks to ensure consistency with authorities, and virtual learning opportunities.
SAP DRC can be extended to meet specific business industry needs.
SAP DRC is a scalable solution that can accommodate your organisation’s future growth and increasing invoices volume.
3. What countries are covered by SAP DRC?
SAP DRC covers over 55 countries for electronic invoicing and statutory reporting, addressing more than 430 regulations. SAP DRC coverage depends on the version and release of SAP.
You can find supported countries and legal mandates for each version in below links:
4. What if SAP DRC is not available in my country?
SAP DRC offers a powerful custom extension feature called “Extensibility for Electronic Document Processing” in both ECC and S/4HANA. This functionality allows you to create your own logic for a new country’s requirements using standard DRC components like the eDocument Framework, AIF, and SOAMANGER. Subsequently, you can deploy custom iFlows in the SAP Integration Suite to establish integration with local Tax authorities and digital signature providers. Such extensions are frequently applied for countries where SAP doesn’t cover such as Panama, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
5. Can SAP DRC be adapted for my needs?
You can extend the capabilities of the Electronic Document Processing Framework by leveraging Business Add-Ins (BAdI) to implement your own logic in different steps of the electronic document processing.
The following table provides a summary of the available methods for the EDOC_ADAPTOR BAdI.
Methods
What do you use it for
IS_RELEVANT
Determine whether a source type document is relevant for eDocument creation, despite the definition in Customising.
SET_OUTPUT_DATA
Fill or change eDocument data after mapping.
GET_VARIABLE_KEY
Define variable keys – country/region dependent.
CHANGE_EDOCUMENT_TYPE
Change the eDocument type after standard determination. You can define that the combination of country and accounting document type is valid for 2 eDocument types, instead of for only 1 eDocument type.
SET_VALUE_MAPPING
Fill value mappings according to your business needs.
SET_FIX_VALUES
Fill fix values according to your business needs.
RESTRICT_CANCEL
Restrict the cancellation of source document.
CHANGE_FORM
Change how the system determines which PDF layout to use.
6. Can SAP DRC be integrated with AP invoices solutions?
SAP DRC offers integration options with Vendor Invoice Management from Open Text (VIM) and alternative incoming automation solutions. All made possible through BAdI, it can be implemented per requirements such as triggering MIRO and handling errors/exceptions.
7. How can SAP DRC help me with reconciliation?
SAP DRC facilitates reconciliation between internal records and records available on tax authorities’ platforms. It offers one consistency check framework to automate checks, centrally review inconsistencies and initiate corrections, with the ability to identify inconsistencies and streamline remediation. It also helps identify missing records before the period ends while automatically verifying drafted returns prepared by authorities and accepting or rejecting them to finalise the periodic submission. The reconciliation function is available in countries where the authorities’ portals provide API and access to retrieve submitted records.
8. I have invoices generated outside SAP system, how to incorporate them into SAP DRC and submit to tax authorities?
SAP DRC has the capability to seamlessly integrate invoices or credit memos from external systems, enabling the monitoring and management of e-documents through the central cockpit. This includes the handling of responses and corrections in one unified platform.
You can import the files to your system, automatically create e-documents, and then submit them to the tax authorities.
9. What is the timeline for SAP DRC implementation in an e-invoicing project?
SAP DRC implementation timeline can vary from country to country depending on the complexity of local requirement, team experience, customer circumstance, and project scope (the number of company codes, customisations, landscapes, etc.).
SAP provides project timeline estimation as follows:
6 months for e-invoicing mandates with unique local formats such as Italy.
3 months for e-invoicing project in Peppol Network countries like Belgium.
These estimated timeframes primarily focus on technical aspects including tasks such as installation, customisation, connection setup, and testing.
From TJC Group’s perspective, profound understanding of local regulation is crucial to minimise compliance risks. Thus, we recommend our clients to invest more time during the design phase, engage key stakeholders to analyse legal requirements thoroughly, review invoicing processes and flows, and perform data quality checks to identify gaps and potential impacts. This approach facilitates the development of a gap closure strategy, thereby enabling a smoother transition to e-invoicing. Therefore, the project timeline may extend beyond the SAP-provided estimations, reflecting our commitment to a comprehensive implementation process.
10. What Service Level Agreement (SLA) for SAP DRC cloud services?
TJC Group signs agreement to resell and implement SAP® Document and Reporting Compliance solution
TJC Group is proud to announce an extension of its partnership with SAP to resell and implement SAP® Document and Reporting Compliance for e-invoicing and statutory needs.
Value-added tax (VAT) is a major source of revenue for EU member states, estimated at around 20% of total government revenue. As a result, VAT is also an indirect source of funds for the EU budget.
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Chile
China
Colombia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
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Sweden
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