Deployment of S4HC to a country where there is no country version provided by SAP?

[former_member94298]

Hi,

If a customer has a subsidiary in a country which is not currently covered by any of the country versions provided by SAP, but wishes to deploy a S4HC solution in that country, is this possible.  My understanding is that the SAP Localization Hub, Tax Service is available to do precisely this, and can feed in tax rates etc for that country.  However, presumably you would first need to have a country / company code etc deployed in that country, and in the questionnaires for deployment of an additional country, you only have the option to select countries for which SAP provide a version.

Can anyone help?

Is this possible - and if so, can you point me towards some practical documentation as to how this can be done?

Thanks!!

Clare

[Feras_Al-Basha · Accepted solution]

Hi ccsmith ,

As usual, you raise another great point. As you mentioned the vision is towards leveraging SAP Localization Hub to address localization requirements (please see the latest deck attached). That said, this initiative is still at an early stage.

My recommendation would be to refer to the below OSS note on localization restrictions as well as the road map to have an idea on where an interested party could drive value in localization development.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1902, Country Versions: Release Information & Restriction Note

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2745441

S/4HANA Cloud Road Map (please refer to the localization subsection)

https://www.sap.com/canada/products/roadmaps.html?tag=products:enterprise-management/sap-s-4hana-clo...

That was from a theoretical standpoint.

In practice, during my last implementation the customer required a company code to be created in the Cayman Islands for which there was no direct corresponding localization. To address the need we had decided to create the company code under the UK localization due to the nature of this use-case and subsequently configure required tax codes. In case you are facing a similar situation perhaps this could be path to consider.

Hope this information helps please do not hesitate to get back,

Thank you,

Feras

[Feras_Al-Basha · Accepted solution]

Hi ccsmith ,

This detail is quite important to clarify! The legal entity was created under the UK country and the legal entity still remains under the country UK.

In addition however the required additional tax specific configuration for the company code was maintained. In case you were to move in this direction please do synchronize with a product expert from SAP.

Hope this is clear and do not hesitate to get back,

Thank you,

Feras

[former_member94298 · Accepted solution]

ferasbasha3 - thanks for that - very useful!

So - to clarify - if I needed to create a Cayman Islands legal entity, I would just create an additional entity within my UK country - but then set its country as 'KY' (or whatever it actually is) - I wasn't sure that the system would let you do this. Can you confirm - as obviously the country code would need to differ from wherever you cloned the entity from to make sure that any intercompany / tax type issues were picked up correctly.

[former_member53744]

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