Use cases.
One problem, the checks we ran and what they found. Most come from our own project work with the client names removed; the rest are illustrative scenarios, and each one is marked.
Use cases
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A cement maker cuts the cost of every tonne delivered
Freight is one of the largest costs in cement. Planning which plant serves which customer, by which route and vehicle, from data instead of habit lowered the cost per tonne without slowing deliveries.
Segregation of duties where one application feeds SAP
A distributor system and a cloud procurement platform both feed SAP, and neither had a segregation-of-duties rule set. We defined 293 functions, found 41 conflicts and rated each by whether one person alone could cause a loss.
A logistics business audits every freight invoice before it pays
Thousands of carrier invoices a month were checked by hand, a few at a time. Checking every one against rates, routes and proof of delivery found overcharges that had been paid for years.
Checking every rent agreement against what was actually paid
An infrastructure group rents offices, homes and guest houses for its staff. Reading every agreement, recalculating each rent and checking the documents themselves showed where the payments and the paperwork drifted apart.
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