Tack­ling the test­ing gap for taxes

In the ear­ly 1990s, Ver­tex start­ed inte­grat­ing its Q‑series tax cal­cu­la­tion soft­ware with SAP for real-time sales tax cal­cu­la­tions. In the decades since, Vertex’s solu­tion suite for SAP cus­tomers has evolved to include high­ly sophis­ti­cat­ed data integri­ty, report­ing, exemp­tion cer­tifi­cate, and cor­rec­tive tools, enabling glob­al tax automa­tion embed­ded in the Sales, Billing, Pro­cure­ment, and Payables busi­ness functions. 

As Ver­tex has worked along­side hun­dreds of cus­tomers and part­ners to auto­mate the end-to-end tax process­es in the SAP ecosys­tem, the test­ing gap for tax­es has man­i­fest­ed itself in almost all com­pa­nies. The num­ber of tax sce­nar­ios that need to be test­ed can­not fea­si­bly be accom­plished giv­en resource, time­line, and data lim­i­ta­tions present with­in almost every orga­ni­za­tion. Instead of test­ing a full set of pos­si­ble tax sce­nar­ios, only a rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple can be cov­ered. This is the test­ing gap.

While there are numer­ous test­ing tools avail­able for SAP cus­tomers, none have been pur­pose-built for the tax func­tion. Ver­tex devel­oped Test­Suite, an SAP-based test automa­tion tool that mines data and trans­ac­tions in SAP and exe­cutes simul­ta­ne­ous auto­mat­ed test­ing of SAP and Ver­tex applications.

Super­charge Tax Test­ing with Ver­tex TestSuite 

Tax teams typ­i­cal­ly strug­gle with get­ting IT, MM, FI, and SD resources to assist with test­ing tax sce­nar­ios on SAP trans­ac­tions. This is large­ly due to the com­plex­i­ty of find­ing SAP data to fit tax sce­nar­ios and the time it takes to process SAP doc­u­ments from order to invoic­ing. As a result, Tax teams are typ­i­cal­ly grant­ed a small num­ber of sce­nar­ios to test in SAP, forc­ing them to find oth­er ways to test more tax scenarios. 

That is where Ver­tex Test­Suite comes in.

Ver­tex Test­Suite is a pur­pose-built SAP test­ing solu­tion designed for SAP-Ver­tex tax test­ing. Installed direct­ly in SAP, Test­Suite empow­ers users to cre­ate com­pre­hen­sive test scripts using val­i­dat­ed SAP data, exe­cute mass num­bers of test cas­es in SAP, quick­ly ana­lyze results, and retain a detailed test doc­u­men­ta­tion report.

Key fea­tures:

Test­Suite is installed in SAP and is com­pat­i­ble with ECC and S/4HANA ver­sions (on-premise and pri­vate cloud).

Exten­si­ble test cas­es cov­er trans­ac­tion tax­es (e.g., sales, use, VAT, GST) and dif­fer­ent tax­ing variables. 

Advanced data min­ing pop­u­lates your test scripts with val­i­dat­ed SAP data by min­ing your SAP trans­ac­tions and mas­ter data.

End-to-end test cycle exe­cu­tion in SAP, includ­ing:

• Pur­chase Order
• PO Release
• Ser­vice Entry
• Goods Receipt
• Logis­tics Invoice Ver­i­fi­ca­tion (LIV)
• FI invoice
• Sales Order
• Deliv­ery
• Billing (includ­ing Col­lec­tive Billing)
• Account­ing Documents

Log­ging cap­tures com­pre­hen­sive mes­sag­ing and logs, includ­ing the SIC and Accel­er­a­tor logs.

Com­pre­hen­sive reports cap­ture the test details and analy­sis of tax results for doc­u­men­ta­tion purposes.

Easy re-pro­cess­ing of test cas­es for regres­sion test runs

Enables mul­ti­ple points of val­i­da­tion, including:

• SAP mas­ter data 
• SAP doc­u­ment processing
• SAP account­ing
• Ver­tex SIC interface
• Ver­tex O‑Series cal­cu­la­tion – includ­ing rates, rules, and configuration
• Accel­er­a­tor Data Map­ping, Tax Code, Chain Flow pro­cess­ing and Reports
• PLUS tools – includ­ing VEN­DORe­con and Diagnostax

Say Good­bye to the Test­ing Gap

Ver­tex Test­Suite stream­lines the entire test­ing process from test script build through exe­cu­tion, analy­sis, trou­bleshoot­ing and reporting. 

Exe­cute more tests in less time — at a frac­tion of the cost.

Reusable test cas­es and end-to-end automa­tion reduces test devel­op­ment and exe­cu­tion times from thou­sands of hours to min­utes — sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing the cost of test­ing dur­ing new deploy­ments, upgrades, ser­vice packs and ongo­ing con­tent updates.

Enable expo­nen­tial scalability.

Process and re-process thou­sands of test cas­es with min­i­mal man­u­al effort, and test real-life sce­nar­ios from his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ments on-demand. 

Accel­er­ate time-to-val­ue of essen­tial tax operations.

Auto­mat­ed test­ing built into your SAP envi­ron­ment ensures scal­a­bil­i­ty to address new tax sce­nar­ios as they arise. With real-time insights, cal­cu­la­tions, and pro­cess­ing, Test­Suite deliv­ers imme­di­ate busi­ness val­ue and reduced tax risk.

Ver­tex takes the pain out of tax man­age­ment so com­pa­nies can grow and scale their tax oper­a­tions in sup­port of that growth. Ver­tex Test­Suite enables tax teams to gain peace of mind enabled by exten­sive test cov­er­age and an easy-to-use self-ser­vice UI. By reduc­ing your depen­dence on cross-func­tion­al teams in SAP, Test­Suite opens up an expo­nen­tial num­ber of sce­nar­ios that can be test­ed and re-test­ed at any time.

Con­tact your Ver­tex rep­re­sen­ta­tive for a demo of Test­Suite or vis­it us at www​.ver​tex​.com

About Ver­tex

Ver­tex, Inc. is a lead­ing glob­al provider of indi­rect tax soft­ware and solu­tions. The company’s mis­sion is to deliv­er the most trust­ed tax tech­nol­o­gy enabling glob­al busi­ness­es to trans­act, com­ply and grow with con­fi­dence. Ver­tex pro­vides cloud-based and on-premise solu­tions that can be tai­lored to spe­cif­ic indus­tries for major lines of indi­rect tax, includ­ing sales and con­sumer use, val­ue added and pay­roll. Head­quar­tered in North Amer­i­ca, and with offices in South Amer­i­ca and Europe, Ver­tex employs over 1,200 pro­fes­sion­als and serves com­pa­nies across the globe.

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