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.
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 lender moves its payment controls from quarterly to daily
An internal audit team tested vendor payments and disbursements once a quarter, on a sample. Moving the same controls onto every transaction, every day, found issues while they could still be stopped.
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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