Case Study: Driving Governance at Bridgestone
Key Takeaways
⇨ Bridgestone Australia's need for effective management of financial risk in their SAP system led them to Soterion's GRC solution.
⇨ Customizing the solution helped the team avoid conflicts in the same role, review the rule set, and use SOD to define mitigating controls.
⇨ Regular review of mitigating controls is necessary to ensure their relevance and prevent revoking a role which can be difficult with a large number of users.
Bridgestone Australia faced challenges in managing financial risk in their SAP system with a growing team. After investigating several options, they discovered Soterion’s Governance Risk Compliance solution which provided a clear picture of their financial risk in the business, enabling the team to present the stats to the risk committee and executive team providing peace of mind to all. By customizing the solution, Bridgestone ensured no conflicts in the same role, reviewed the rule set, and used segregation of duties (SOD) to define mitigating controls, among other things.
But when it came to managing financial risk in their SAP system, they faced challenges. With a growing team,
maintaining access controls within their SAP system had become time-consuming, inefficient and costly.
High growth and legacy ERP set-up no longer sustainable
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Bridgestone Australia has used SAP since 1998 and over the years the volume of users has increased significantly. In 2008 they had a small number of SAP users due to running two systems within the company, namely SAP and iSeries. Due to the volume of users being fairly small, managing segregation of duties was relatively simple. The turning point came in 2013/14 when all Bridgestone users needed to be migrated to SAP and many new processes were introduced.
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