Freelance tax technology
Frametech implements tax determination, e-invoicing and statutory reporting within the SAP ecosystem. From Vertex and Thomson Reuters to SAP DRC, with scope in more than sixty countries.
Platforms and standards I work with
Expertise
Six areas where things usually go wrong, and where I make them add up again. An engagement often starts in one of them and grows into the others once the foundation is in place.
Getting the VAT logic in SAP right and keeping it right: condition technique, tax codes, place-of-supply rules and the exceptions every country invents for itself.
Implementation and integration of external tax engines, Vertex O Series with Accelerator+, or Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Determination and GlobalNext.
Setting up Document and Reporting Compliance in S/4HANA: from the eDocument framework to periodic returns and country-specific reports.
Be ready before the mandate arrives. Peppol, KSeF, SdI, Factur-X and the run-up to ViDA, technically set up and tested per country.
Withholding tax that is right at the source. Extended withholding tax in SAP, treaty rates, certificates and the reporting that comes with it.
Rolling out a working template without every country becoming an island. Fit-gap per country, local requirements and aftercare after go-live.
Approach
The same method for a nine-month engine implementation as for a two-week fit-gap. At any moment you know where we stand and what the next step will cost.
What drives your tax determination today, and where does it go wrong? We map the flows, the countries and the bottlenecks, including what the business really does versus what the design assumes.
A concrete design: native SAP or an external engine, which countries in which wave, and what each scenario costs in licences, implementation and maintenance. You decide with all the information on the table.
Configuration, integration and test scenarios per country. Testing on real transactions, not on a handful of sample documents. That is where most implementations still fall apart.
Documentation per country, knowledge transfer to your tax and IT team, and a clear agreement on hypercare. Your team can handle the next country release on its own.
In numbers
Countries in scope
Years in tax & SAP
Implementations led
Tax engines in depth
Who you get at the table
I design and implement solutions for indirect tax and local legal requirements (“localizations”) within SAP ECC and S/4HANA. In practice that means making VAT and withholding tax logic add up in countries that each have their own rules and their own exceptions. I co-led the largest Vertex implementation in Europe, covering more than 60 countries, and led tax engine projects with Vertex and Thomson Reuters for multinationals such as LEGO, Agfa and Sibelco.
Knowledge base
Tax authorities are shifting to real-time e-invoicing. Discover how SAP S/4HANA and SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC) automate tax determination and eliminate audit risks.
Upgrading to SAP S/4HANA requires a clean core. Learn how decoupling custom code with SAP BTP reduces technical debt and prepares your enterprise for continuous cloud updates.
Briefly tell me what is going on: which SAP landscape, which countries, which mandate. Within one working day you get an honest answer about what I can do for you, and when someone else is a better fit.