SAP GTS Training (Global Trade Services)
SAP GTS training teaches you to run global trade compliance and customs on SAP.
- 40 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
What is SAP GTS Training (Global Trade Services)?
SAP GTS training teaches you to run global trade compliance and customs on SAP. You cover the GTS architecture and its plug-in to the feeder system, compliance management with sanctioned party list screening, embargo checks and legal control with export licences, customs management for import and export declarations and customs warehousing, preference processing under free trade agreements, restitution and Intrastat, plus how GTS relates to the newer International Trade capabilities in S/4HANA.
What you get
- Explain the GTS architecture and its feeder system integration
- Classify products with commodity codes and export control numbers
- Configure and operate sanctioned party list screening
- Set up embargo checks and legal control with licences
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Trade compliance and customs professionals moving into SAP
- SD or MM consultants adding trade compliance
- Logistics staff at exporters and importers
Working professionals
- Consultants on a global trade programme
- Compliance teams at manufacturers and distributors
- Anyone supporting or upgrading a GTS landscape
Prerequisites
- SD or MM experience is important, because GTS screens the documents those modules create.
- Trade compliance or customs experience is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Explain the GTS architecture and its feeder system integration
- Classify products with commodity codes and export control numbers
- Configure and operate sanctioned party list screening
- Set up embargo checks and legal control with licences
- Process import and export customs declarations
- Explain customs warehousing and special procedures
- Run preference determination with vendor declarations
Salary range
- India
- 9-30 LPA
- United States
- 115k-165k
Market ranges for SAP GTS Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Global trade foundations and GTS architecture
Understand the compliance problem and how GTS plugs into your ERP.
- Why trade compliance is a board level risk
- GTS as a separate system with a plug-in
- Feeder system integration and document transfer
- GTS organisational structure: legal units and regulations
- Foreign trade organisations and legal regulations
- Numbering schemes and product classification
- GTS versus International Trade in S/4HANA
- Deciding scope: compliance, customs or both
Product classification and master data
Classify goods correctly, because every check depends on it.
- Commodity codes and customs tariff numbers
- Export control classification numbers
- Numbering scheme maintenance and upload
- Product master transfer from the feeder system
- Classification worklists and mass classification
- Country of origin and preference data
- Business partner transfer and address data
- Data quality issues that break screening
Compliance management: sanctioned party screening
Stop transactions with parties you must not trade with.
- Sanctioned party list screening concepts
- Loading and updating SPL data
- Screening logic, phonetic and fuzzy matching
- Blocked documents and blocking behaviour
- Release workflow and audit trail
- False positive handling and good guy lists
- Screening addresses versus partners
- Reporting and evidence for auditors
Embargo and legal control
Handle country restrictions and licence requirements.
- Embargo check configuration
- Country and country group definitions
- Legal control: licence types and determination
- Licence master data and value depreciation
- Export licence application handling
- Import and export control classes
- Blocking and release for legal control
- Dual use goods considerations
Customs management: declarations
File declarations and keep goods moving.
- Import declaration processing
- Export declaration processing
- Customs document structure and status
- Communication with customs authorities
- Electronic messaging and message monitoring
- Transit procedures overview
- Customs duty calculation basics
- Handling rejected and amended declarations
Special procedures and customs warehousing
Use the procedures that legitimately reduce duty.
- Bonded and customs warehouse concepts
- Inward and outward processing relief
- Stock and duty tracking in a customs warehouse
- Inventory reconciliation with the warehouse
- Free zone handling
- Reporting obligations for special procedures
- Duty deferment and guarantee management
- Audit readiness for special procedures
Preference, restitution and operations
Claim the benefits you are entitled to and run the system daily.
- Free trade agreements and preference rules
- Vendor declarations and their solicitation
- Preference determination runs
- Long term vendor declaration management
- Restitution processing overview
- Intrastat and statistical reporting
- Monitoring worklists and daily operations
- Regulation updates and content subscriptions
Projects you will build
Compliance screening build
Configure sanctioned party screening and embargo checks, transfer a sales order that hits a blocked party, then work the release process and document the audit trail.
Legal control scenario
Set up licence types and determination for a controlled product, process an order that requires a licence, and manage licence value depreciation.
Customs and preference
Process an export declaration end to end, then run preference determination using vendor declarations and explain the duty benefit claimed.
Tools you will use
- GTS cockpits
- Compliance, customs and risk management cockpits, the daily working screens for trade teams.
- Classification worklists
- Where products are assigned commodity codes and control classifications at scale.
- SPL screening
- Sanctioned party list data, matching configuration and blocked document handling.
- Licence management
- Licence master data, determination and value depreciation.
- Customs declaration processing
- Import and export documents and their communication with authorities.
- Preference determination
- Vendor declaration management and preference calculation runs.
Certification
- Exam
- No current SAP associate exam is dedicated to GTS. We prepare you against SAP's GTS and International Trade learning content, and note where GTS topics appear in the S/4HANA sourcing and procurement exam.
What learners say
Screening configuration and false positive handling is the day job and it is taught here properly. Most courses stop at the concept.
I knew the regulations and needed the system side. The compliance and legal control modules mapped straight onto our processes.
Good specialisation choice. Once you can do GTS, you are on shortlists that most SD consultants never see.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
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1-to-1 Training
₹49,000
Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI
Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.
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Self-paced Training
₹9,000
One-time fee, lowest-cost option
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Blocked documents
- Working the blocked list first thing, because every blocked order is a shipment not moving.
- Classification queue
- New materials that need commodity codes and control classification before they can be sold or shipped.
- Declaration errors
- A rejected customs message, usually a data quality issue in weight, value or origin.
- Compliance questions
- Whether a specific shipment to a specific country is permitted, and evidencing the answer.
- Content updates
- Applying regulation and sanctioned party list updates, which arrive constantly.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
Request a corporate quoteFrequently asked questions
Is there a GTS certification?
Is GTS being replaced by International Trade in S/4HANA?
Do I need SD or MM knowledge?
Do I need to know trade regulations?
Which industries hire GTS consultants?
Is there hands-on access?
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