FunctionControl Settings for Comparison Terms

 

These settings are the basis on which comparison terms are generated. Comparison terms are the foundation of sanctioned party list (SPL) screening.

You must make these settings to perform the SPL screenings. You can choose between general and phonetic settings.

Activities

To configure the control settings for comparison terms, go to the area menu of SAP Global Trade Services and choose   SAP Compliance Management   Sanctioned Party List Screening   Master Data   Comparison Terms   Control Settings for Comparison Terms   General Settings   or Phonetic Settings.

Note Note

You do not need to assign any comparison procedures to legal regulations for the system to generate comparison terms, as you have made these settings for SPL in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for SAP Compliance Management.

For more information about the Customizing settings, see the Configuration Guide for SAP Customs Management at the SAP Service Marketplace under service.sap.com/swdc   Download   Installation and Upgrades   Entry by Application Group   SAP Application Components   SAP GRC Global Trade Services   SAP GRC GTS <Release>   Installation and Upgrade  .

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General Settings

  • Creation of delimiters

    • You can create delimiters by selecting a comparison procedure in the table and in the dialog structure on the left of the screen, and then double-clicking on GTS: Sanctioned Party List: Indexing: Delimiter.

    • Enter the characters in the Delimiter field that you want the system to identify as separators in business partner addresses.

    • Save your entries.

  • Change lower case to upper case

    The system converts all lower-case letters in the business partner address automatically. You do not have to make any additional settings for this.

  • Delete duplicate letters

    The system automatically deletes duplicate letters in business partner addresses. You do not have to make any additional settings for this. If duplicate letters are important differentiation criteria, you can set this flag to improve the screening results.

  • Exclusion of certain terms

    • You can exclude certain terms by selecting a comparison procedure in the table and in the dialog structure on the left of the screen, and then double-clicking on GTS: Sanctioned Party List: Indexing: Exclusion.

    • Choose New Entries and enter the comparison procedure and the term that you want the system to exclude from the comparison index and SPL screening. This could be terms such as Corp., Ltd., Inc. and so on.

    • Save your entries.

  • Creation of aliases

    • To create aliases, double-click GTS: Sanctioned Party List: Indexing Aliases and then choose New Entries.

    • Then you need to enter the comparison procedure you defined in the IMG for SPL.

    • Enter the term you want the system to be able to match with an alias term. This improves the hit list quota and the runtime of the SPL screening.

    • For more information, see the field help.

  • Normalization

    This setting is useful for some languages if you want particular letters or combinations of letters to be replaced unconditionally by another letter or combination of letters. You can replace the "oe" and "ue" umlauts with "ö" and "ü", for example. For the system to recognize that the surname "Mueller" is the same as "Müller" in SPL screening, for example, you have to define the original and target character strings here.

Once you have configured all the settings, start the function to generate comparison terms. The system generates search terms for each legal regulation that you have defined in SAP Compliance Management.

You can display the results of the comparison term generation and see which search terms were compared with the system-generated comparison terms.

Phonetic Settings

To configure your own settings for phonetic replacement, proceed as follows: Choose   SAP Compliance Management   Sanctioned Party List Screening   Master Data   Comparison Terms   Control Settings for Comparison Terms   Phonetic Settings  .

  • Double-click Define Search Terms in the dialog structure and choose New Entries.

  • Enter the comparison procedure and the character substring or combination of letters you want to find and the target string to replace it with.

  • Save your entries.

  • Double-click Assign Relational Operators in the dialog structure. Here you define the conditions for test replacement with input help. For example, you want particular letters or combinations of letters to be replaced under the following conditions, depending on which characters precede or come after them:

    • If after

    • If not after

    • If before

    • If not before

    • If included in

    • If not included in

  • Save your entries.