GST Ready (NZ)

Challenge: Providing a no fuss, jumpstart solution for the alignment of SAP and new NZ GST rate changes

Solution: Oxygen’s GST Ready SmartStart Solution

Oxygen’s GST Ready SmartStart solution provides a turnkey solution for the GST rate changes expected to come into effect in New Zealand on the 1st October 2010. Companies running SAP will benefit from a quick and reliable implementation approach that addresses tax legislation amendments relating to GST rate changes.

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The team at Oxygen has been busy researching the impact of the changes in GST rates in SAP, identifying all the key touch points inside SAP and integration points outside SAP. Oxygen has developed a package to address the SAP changes that are required as a result of the changes to GST rates.

The comprehensive solution covers configuration, master data conversion and a transactional transition approach that will be required at cutover, thereby providing a jump start for implementing the taxation changes in SAP.

For New Zealand based companies running SAP, Oxygen offers a one stop shop to address all the changes required within their SAP environments to handle the new GST rates; all with minimal impact and fuss.

This is supported by Oxygen’s:

Functional consulting capability across all aspects of SAP
Development resources covering custom programs, SAP Scripts, Smartforms, ABAP programs and i-doc interfaces
Project management and testing capabilities

Typical challenges
Changes in GST don’t happen very often, but when they do it typically sends the business community in to a state of chaos and confusion.

This ultimately makes its way to the CxO who is faced with the searching questions:

What impact will the changes have on our SAP environment?
Do we have the capability and capacity to effect these changes?
What custom developments, interfaces and business forms will be impacted?
How does the transition of GST Rates affect our current processes at the change date, and post cutover?
Will we be ready for the change?

This inevitably requires time to be spent by the business:

Assessing the impact and effect the changes will have on the business processes and the SAP environment
Building a one off project team to investigate and identify all the touch points and impacted configuration and customisations within SAP
Developing single use conversion processes for handling open items over the cutover date that are still in process, i.e. SRM, PIR, open purchase orders, incomplete sales orders, deliveries in progress not yet billed etc.

Realisable benefits
Oxygen’s GST Ready SmartStart solution offers the following benefits:

A low risk approach to managing the changes brought about by impending NZ GST rate changes
A process that has had thorough investigation with all the changes to SAP standard settings and required conversions being identified
A continually refined solution as the legislation develops and is fi nalised, negating the need for individual project teams to undertake this task
A template and roadmap negating the need for reinventing the wheel, allowing the project team to focus on customer specific objects requiring attention
A set of defined processes for handling required conversions
Reduced project delivery time
The business can focus on normal business operations
The ability to do it ‘right first time’

People, technology, process– the SmartStart approach
With the Oxygen GST Ready SmartStart solution you benefit from the extensive prework undertaken and continually enhanced by Oxygen, along with Oxygen’s proven project and implementation toolset.

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