S/4HANA 1511 SPS1 : Vertex needed for a Canadian company ?

[Farid]

Hello,

We just finished installing and patching S/4HANA on premise edition 1511 to SPS1, we are now going though the SAP Best Practices Notes, and are really confused. Maybe you can help clarify ?

As far as I understand it, we only have two choices when deploying S4 Hana best practices ,based on "localization"

• SAP Best Practices S/4HANA on premise edition Germany
• SAP Best Practices S/4HANA on premise edition USA, (For which, Vertex licenses and installation are needed)

Am I missing something here ?

As a Canadian company, we would choose the USA edition ( based on localization), but on the other hand we do not need the US taxation tool (VErtex),

and definitely do not need

The SAP notes (2247743 - Information on the installation of SAP Best Practices S/4HANA on premise edition USV2)  insist that there are some serious risks NOT to install Vertex.

Any help.clarifications would be really appreciated.

Thank you

[Barry_Neaves · Accepted solution]

Hi

we had a similar issue.

We wanted a UK version so thought US would be the option.

I had a call with SAP on friday about some other issues, but basically, if you do not need to install vertex, use the German version.

this works fine for us - and is available in English too.

regards

Barry

[Farid · Accepted solution]

Thanks Barry,

We didn't install Vertex in the end

[MPS4HANA · Accepted solution]

SAP has provided a workaround for customers who do not want to use Vertex. - However this is for US V2.

Certain workaround while activation of Best practice required to be done & post activation of best practice, Taxation config needs to be done manually.

For more info please refer to SAP NOTE  2247743

2247743 - SAP Best Practices for S/4HANA, on premise edition (USA) (USV2)

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4. Activation guidance without the VERTEX Integration

In case you need to install the SAP Best Practices S/4HANA on premise edition USV2 without the VERTEX integration you may use the following attached documents:

a)      S4HANA 1511 OP BP USV2 Activation guidance without VERTEX integration.docx

Provides how to skip the Vertex check errors and remove the external tax configuration where required.

b)      S4HANA Manual tax configuraiton amendments (without Vertex Integration)– Provides the necessary tax configuration and sample tax rates in order to run the test scripts in sandbox. Please note that this document does not provide the correct tax rates for productive systems. You consultant needs to check and modify the manual configuration steps and the tax rates as per the needs of your customer.

[Joergen]

Hello Raoul,

Vertex is used in the Best Practice content for the US to calculate the sales tax.

As the Vertex connection is also used during the activation, a connection (including a valid license) to Vertex needs to be in place before the activation. Is you don't have this the activation will stop in some places with errors - hence the information about the risks by not having a Vertex connection when installing S/4HANA On Premise for the US.

An alternative would be to consider activating the German version. This includes settings for Value Added Tax which I understand is also used in Canada. You would have to delete the settings for Germany and add the settings that are needed for the Canadian requirements, but that way you would avoid the issue around the Vertex license.

Kind regards,

Joergen Jensen