SAP's Foreign Trade/Customs (FT) Legal Control component provides information on whether your purchasing and sales transactions involving international trade are legally permitted based on current laws and regulations. In cases where the data is not in order, FT assists you in keeping necessary licensing and legal data up-to-date to ensure that you can carry out your foreign trade transactions in a timely manner.

Implement this component if export licenses are required for countries with which you conduct foreign trade or if special legal regulations restrict trade with these countries.

The Legal Control component is integrated in the sales document flow so that when a sales order or delivery are created, the system automatically checks whether all legal data is complete and accurate.

Specifically, this component is integrated with the Sales and Distribution's Sales (SD-SLS) and Shipping (SD-SHP) components.

FT checks the relevant licensing requirements, and, if a license is needed, FT can create it and assign the necessary information to the appropriate document.

• Flexible management of foreign trade laws and other legal regulations (such as the monitoring of chemicals or hazardous materials)

The open nature of this component's structure allows you to keep export regulations up-to-date. For example, adding new Japanese or Australian laws to the system poses no problem.

• Full integration in SD document flow, as illustrated below: