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 building-materials maker runs 64 exception checks on its full SAP data
Reviewing purchases, payments, assets and sales by sample left gaps. We moved the company's SAP data into one database and built a library of 64 checks that run on every record.
A restaurant chain finds the stores, orders and recipes that do not add up
A quick-service restaurant chain wanted to know which stores needed attention and where food cost was slipping. Four checks on sales, purchase prices, orders and recipes point to them.
A consumer-goods company puts six applications under one control framework
Six business applications around SAP were each governed on their own. One matrix of 91 controls and 103 segregation-of-duties rules, tested against real user data, showed what to fix first.
A fraud investigation that followed the people, the vendors and the money
Allegations of fraud at an interior fit-out company could not be settled by looking at accounting entries alone. Six workstreams, across 10+ people and 1,000+ vendors, were brought together into one picture.
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 pharma company watches its suppliers by what they do
Thousands of suppliers were assessed once, at onboarding, by questionnaire. Adding payment data, public records and news turned a yearly exercise into a risk view that updates itself.
An electronics maker checks every serial number its partners report
An electronics maker relied on its channel partners to report what they sold. Thirteen checks on serial numbers, returns, customers and vendors showed where the reports and the records disagreed.
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