dbh goes Cloud with SAP BTP

Discover the future with the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

As a certified SAP partner, dbh offers a broad portfolio of SAP solutions for customs and foreign trade, which can be fully utilized everywhere. Experience with us a technology platform that combines data and analyses, artificial intelligence, application development, automation and integration in a standardized environment. We provide you with experts with many years of practical experience, a high level of consulting expertise and pragmatic solutions.

Excellence in your SAP Cloud Strategy

In a dynamic business world where agile, cloud-native transformation is the key to success, our dbh SAP BTP add-ons are a perfect fit. With the Rise with SAP approach, we enable you to leverage innovative applications and processes in the cloud while receiving regular product enhancements – without impacting your SAP core. Rely on our certified customs connections and our many years of dbh expertise to stay up to date with the latest compliance standards and benefit from smooth, future-proof IT operations.

Why SAP BTP?

Modular and flexible: With SAP BTP, dbh Logistics IT AG offers a cloud-native platform that is specially optimized for SAP applications. Regardless of whether you use SAP ECC, SAP S/4 HANA on-premise, private cloud or public cloud – our solutions can be fully deployed anywhere.
Innovative solutions for foreign trade: Our modern solutions for the origin of goods and preferences are now even more efficient and flexible. Thanks to the new side-by-side extension approach, customer-specific adaptations can be integrated as separate modules without compromising the stability of the core system.
Easy integration and automation: SAP BTP combines application development, data management, analytics, integration and automation in a centralized environment. This enables you to accelerate innovation and unleash business potential.

Your advantages at a glance

Fewer manual activities

API-driven data retrieval and automated interfaces take the strain off your SAP core – less manual intervention, more efficiency.

Transparency & security

Clear overview and control of all shipping processes and shipping costs. Integrated customs and compliance checks also protect you from risks.

Continuous digital transformation

With regular, automated updates and flexible scalability, you benefit in the long term – for greater agility and competitive advantages.

Direct support by dbh

Benefit from our comprehensive, personal support – our experts ensure that your operations run smoothly and that you can always work in compliance with customs and regulations.

Integration and automation

Our add-ons guarantee smooth data exchange between internal and external systems – thanks to standardized SAP APIs and proven integration services. Benefit from real-time data integration, intelligent workflow management and automated service processes that focus on efficiency and compliance.

Scalable cloud innovation

Our solutions are built on the SAP Business Technology Platform and are based on an agile, API-driven architecture that enables you to develop innovative applications quickly – without compromising your SAP core: keep-the-core-clean.

Rise with SAP-Mindset

Rely on a holistic transformation approach that modernizes your business processes and provides you with a future-proof, scalable IT application. Experience continuous product, customs and compliance updates without disrupting ongoing operations.

Practical example: Origin of goods and preferences

The Origin of goods determines the country of manufacture of a product for trade rules and customs duties, while preferences are customs concessions granted by trade agreements for certain countries of origin. The conversion of the solution for origin of goods and preferences from an ABAP-based plugin with heavy customizations to a modular cloud-native approach on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) was a key step in our cloud strategy.

In the previous ABAP environment, the Origin of goods and preferences solution was heavily customized to meet specific customer requirements. These individual customizations led to a complex system landscape that was difficult to maintain and expand, as customer versions remained on the respective on-premise systems. Each customer project required extensive customization and specific know-how, which extended implementation times and limited flexibility.

The new side-by-side extension approach makes it possible to design the Origin of goods and preferences solution in a modular and flexible way. Only the components that are actually required are activated, while customer-specific adaptations are integrated as separate modules on the SAP BTP. As a result, the core of the application remains stable and maintainable (“keep-the-core-clean”), while individual requirements can be implemented efficiently.

This approach minimizes the dependency on in-depth customizing by not developing similar requirements twice, but by managing them in a modular way. Customers benefit from a standardized solution that is easy to expand and is automatically supplemented by continuous updates without compromising the stability of existing systems.

Technical implementation & details

The SAP Build Work Zone is the central entry point for our customers into the dbh SAP Cloud solutions. It has a modular structure, which means that customers can only activate the specific functions they need, such as the data store, UI5 customizations or specific additional services. This reduces complexity and costs.

Cloud-native infrastructure:
Our dbh SAP BTP add-ons are operated in state-of-the-art data centers – certified according to international standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018.
High-performance network:
Flexible, scalable and redundant connections guarantee uninterrupted communication and efficient data transfer – essential for fast response times and global availability.
API-driven and integration-capable:
Thanks to the open and standardized API-first architecture, our add-ons can be seamlessly and quickly integrated into your existing SAP landscape, enabling rapid expansion.
Real-time monitoring:
Get complete transparency across all data flows. With the help of the integrated monitors, you can see in real time how data is automatically transferred from the SAP system to our customs and compliance solutions via SAP Event Mesh. This automated triggering ensures that relevant processes are initiated and monitored seamlessly.

Further benefits of dbh SAP add-on solutions

New modules or services can be added at any time without affecting existing implementations.
As the solution is based on SAP BTP, it can easily grow with the company
New users, more data or additional applications can be integrated with little effort

dbh is a certified SAP partner

dbh is an SAP service partner with extensive expertise in foreign trade, customs and transport logistics. We also offer a broad portfolio of plug-ins for SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA – easy to implement and tried and tested by our customers.

What is the SAP Business Technology Platform?

SAP Business Technology Platform, an innovation platform optimized for SAP applications in the cloud. It combines functions for application development, data management and analysis, integration, automation and AI in a central environment. With SAP BTP, cross-functional innovations can be accelerated to unleash business potential.

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