Change in the WHT Code

If you are trying to make changes to the withholding tax as per the new rates please look at the following notes

 

SAP Note		Legal Requirement Changes
1333889	New requirement / format changes for Challan - Form17	Top of Form TDS payment challan ITR 281 has been replaced with Income Tax Challan Form No 17. Form No. 17 has to be furnished electronically every month giving deductee wise details Bottom of Form
1335088	New requirement / format changes for Certificate-Form 16A	Top of Form Form 16 and Form 16A has been replaced with New Form 16 and Form 16A Bottom of Form
1335089	New requirement / format changes for quarterly returns-24C	Top of Form TDS Compliance Statement in Form No 24C has been introduced under the Rules. This Form has to be submitted on quarterly basis in place of existing eTDS returns Bottom of Form

 

In reference to the Withholding tax rate changes with budget 2009 SAP is still working with their legal counsel and will update  the following note '1359268'

 

Updates as on July 31st
Please refer note 1369775 for more information on the budget changes.
Please refer note 1371380 for information on change in configuration

SAP: Leap Years

In order for postings to be made in the correct period even in a leap year, you should keep the following in mind:

You need to take special precautions for leap years only if your fiscal year differs from the calendar year.

If your fiscal year differs from the calendar year, but your posting periods correspond to calendar months, you must enter the day limit for February as 29. If you have entered 28 as the day limit, the system enters the transaction figures posted on February 29 in the next posting period if this is open for posting. Otherwise, the system displays an error message.

Retrofit Process

In system landscapes in which several releases are processed at the same time, changes can be made in different development systems: new developments can be made in the development system, and errors can be corrected or improvements can be made in a maintenance system for the production system landscape, at the same time. The system release levels must be adjusted regularly. Changes are made in parallel, so changes cannot be transport between systems in requests, because current software can be overwritten and inconsistencies can occur. To avoid this, import into the target system is controlled. This is called retrofitting.

Prerequisites

A logical component in the SAP Solution Manager project contains at least one system with the role Retrofit System.

You have performed the task Assign Retrofit System to Development Systems in the overview of the task list, to specify into which system changes are to be imported.

When you define retrofit systems, the system only offers you transport requests from the maintenance systems you assigned to the development systems when you started the retrofit. If you have not made any assignments, the system offers you all transport requests from all
maintenance systems, when you start the retrofit.

You have created and saved BC sets in the maintenance system, to be able to transfer customizing settings from the maintenance system into the retrofit system.
For more information, see SAP Note 669542 and under Creating Business Configuration Sets and Activating Business Configuration Sets. The also applies to handling deleted objects in BC Sets.

You have created transport requests for the retrofit in the retrofit system into which you want to import the changes from the maintenance system.

Retrofit is available as part of Enterprise Edition for Solution Manager. There are no specific T-Codes, but rather actions in the Task List of a Solution Manager CHaRM enabled project. See this link on the service marketplace for a brief slide deck with some screen shots.

SAP: Stability Study - Quality Management, Asset Life-Cycle Management , Materials Management

Stability studies or shelf-life studies are conducted to track and examine how different environmental conditions (for example, temperature, brightness, moisture) affect a compound, a material, or a batch over a specified period of time.

 

For this purpose, you create physical samples of the material or batch and store them under controlled conditions for the duration of the study. At specified intervals during the study, you remove these physical samples or parts of these samples from the various conditions and test them according to predefined inspection plans.

 

You can then use the results of these tests which have accumulated over the course of the study, for example, to check and confirm whether the desired or guaranteed life expectancy of the product conforms to the predefined recommendations for storage.

 

Stability Study

Conducting a Stability Study (Overview)

Status Management in the Stability Study

Physical Samples in a Stability Study

Basic Data for Stability Studies

Initiating a Stability Study

Performing the Initial Test

Planning the Stability Tests

Performing the Stability Tests

Completing the Stability Study

Unplanned Activities in the Stability Study

SAP & SABRIX

Sabrix Managed Tax Service (MTS) is an outsourced sales and use tax service managed by highly skilled tax professionals on an enterprise-grade platform.

Seamlessly integrating with SAP Financials, Sabrix MTS supports the end-to-end transaction tax life-cycle, from SAS 70 certified tax rate research, tax determination and calculation, returns preparation and review, remittance and e-filing, reporting, audit support and more. Sabrix's team of tax experts manage the entire transaction tax process for you.

 

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• Address Validation: Sabrix's Intelligent Validation, which uses real-time zip plus four address validation combined with real-time tax authority recognition to deliver the highest degree of address accuracy possible
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• Tax Determination: Sabrix Managed Tax Service (MTS) automatically determines and calculates the correct sales and use tax for inter-state and intra-state transactions by evaluating a combination of factors on your A/R and A/P invoices line by line.
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