Drive Greater Value from Global Trade with SAP GTS
As globalization accelerates, companies are required to manage intricate international regulations, diverse customs procedures, and dynamic trade agreements. To operate efficiently and competitively on a global scale, enterprises must adopt a robust and flexible Global Trade Management system. SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) is designed to centralize and automate international trade processes, ensuring businesses remain compliant while gaining operational efficiency.
Nsight brings hands-on implementation experience to help businesses make the most of SAP GTS. Our expertise spans configuration, process optimization, and change management—so organizations don’t just adopt technology, they fully embed it· Clients often report 50% faster onboarding, 20% fewer compliance violations, and improved supplier collaboration—outcomes driven by seamless workflows and intelligent automation.
We partner with businesses and help them in every step of their global trade modernization journey by offering faster time-to-value solutions.
Why Nsight: Assert yourself in Global Competition with SAP GTS
Businesses today operate on a global stage, where the speed and accuracy of trade operations can make or break competitiveness. Nsight helps supply chain leaders proactively respond to new trade zones, tariff fluctuations, or regional trade agreements-ensuring they enter new markets swiftly and compliantly. Whether deploying SAP GTS on-premises, in the cloud, or via a hybrid setup, we build systems tailored to each company’s geography, volume, and compliance posture.
By automating high-impact processes such as export license determination, country-of-origin declarations, and HS code-based compliance checks, SAP GTS mitigates risk and preserves margin for our clients. Implemented correctly, these capabilities allow businesses to convert compliance into advantage—quickly onboarding new trade lanes, reducing bottlenecks at ports, and reacting rapidly to regulatory updates.
Strong SAP Partnership
Our longstanding relationship with SAP enables early access to roadmap updates, beta functionality, and platform innovations in SAP GTS. Nsight architects technical solutions aligned with your business goals—from layered risk management strategies to scalable system design that accommodates global subsidiaries.
Versatile Implementation Approach
We tailor deployment strategies for SAP GTS to your organization’s maturity and goals—whether you need a greenfield build, a brownfield migration, or a hybrid model. Our proven methodology blends iterative rollouts for export, import, preference, and risk modules, each followed by testing and business validation. This minimizes disruption and enables learning at each step.
Widely Experienced Team
Nsight’s GTS team includes more than 100 certified consultants experienced in complex global trade environments—across manufacturing, retail, chemicals, and life sciences. They bring deep functional and technical expertise—from CIF languages and ECO declarations to API integrations with customs authorities and third-party logistics providers (3PLs).
Deep Capabilities Across SAP GTS Functional Areas
Nsight supports both cloud-based and on-premise deployments, tailoring architecture to compliance requirements and existing infrastructure. Our team helps businesses manage the entire import/export process—from electronic filing and real-time shipment tracking to the automation of customs documentation.
With experience in handling Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), we configure SAP GTS to determine product origin automatically and apply preferential trade terms, saving substantial duty costs. Our implementations also support legal control functionality, including embargo checks and real-time screening of sanctioned parties.
In customs management, we enable automatic document generation and digital submission, significantly reducing manual intervention and dwell time at borders.
Real Business Impact with SAP GTS
SAP GTS, when deployed with Nsight’s guidance, drives substantial return on investment. Businesses report faster cross-border shipments, smoother customs clearance, and stronger partnerships with suppliers and customers due to reliable delivery timelines. Operational costs decrease as manual processes are automated and compliance-related errors are reduced. With SAP GTS, compliance is no longer a bottleneck but a strategic capability that supports international growth.
Your Next Step in Global Trade Compliance
Navigating global trade is more than checking boxes—it’s about building a responsive, efficient, and reliable trade network. Nsight offers the technology, people, and processes to help you achieve that vision.
Explore global trade compliance with SAP GTS and learn how to make your cross-border operations a competitive advantage with integrated SAP solutions.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) support the automation of international trade processes, seamless management of partners, and efficient management of compliance-related requirements. The GTS ensures that the organization complies with the ongoing revisions and global legal requirements.
SAP GTS helps manage trade management with critical features like export management, single data repository, import management, trade preferences management, and regional procedures. All the elements together help reduce time and cost and meet regulatory requirements.
The four major components of SAP GTS are:
- SAP Custom Management – helps handle all customs processes.
- SAP GTS Compliance Management – supports all import and export-related processes.
- SAP Electronic Compliance Reporting – help prepare all the statistical reports during a trade.
- SAP Risk Management – helps reduce the financial risks of their trade activities.
SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) helps:
- Reduce IT costs
- Mitigate business risks
- Enhance communication between different stakeholders
- Ensures compliance with existing trade regulations
- Enables organizations to leverage trade regulations to their advantage
- Can avoid shipment delays
SAP Global Trade Management (GTM) is a logistics trading solution and part of SAP ERP. It contains order management, logistics execution management, trading expenses management, and commodity position management. SAP Global Trade Service (GTS) is a solution for international trade compliance and is part of SAP GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance). The modules in SAP GTS are import, export, trade preference, and restitution management.
SAP GRC consists of Financial Compliance, SAP GRC Access Control, SAP GRC Process Control, Trade Management, SAP GRC Global Trade Service, Environment Regulations, and EH&S (Environmental Compliance EC Compliance for Products CFP).
An experienced SAP GTS implementation partner can consult you and direct you toward the right path, recommend custom expertise, share extensive knowledge of foreign trade, and help accelerate the deployment of SAP GTS as a holistic global trade management system.
SAP GTS allows integration with Contracts, Accounts Receivables, and Payables to meet legal regulations. To learn more about the prerequisites and process flow for integration with SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), check the SAP Help Portal documentation.
Nsight is an SAP GOLD Partner. We have certified and experienced SAP professionals to provide end-to-end services. Delivering sustained value to customers, we have the right experience and best practices to support project implementations. Nsight is committed to creating winning solutions for clients as a long-standing partner.
