Oct 28, 2022
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SAP Fraud Management
SAP Fraud Management focuses on how SAP customers identify, investigate, and reduce fraud risk across financial, procurement, supplier, access, and transactional processes. The topic spans SAP Business Integrity Screening, GRC controls, continuous controls monitoring, exception detection, business partner screening, and workflow automation for fraud analysts, finance leaders, compliance teams, auditors, and security stakeholders. SAP Fraud Management creates business value by helping organizations centralize risk signals, prioritize high-impact exceptions, and move from manual review toward automated detection and response.
What is SAP Fraud Management?
SAP Fraud Management is the practice of using SAP data, controls, and screening capabilities to detect potential fraud across business processes before it causes financial, legal, or reputational damage. It helps organizations analyze transactions, monitor exceptions, screen business partners, test controls, and investigate suspicious activity using tools such as SAP Business Integrity Screening and related GRC solutions. The outcome is stronger visibility into fraud risk across SAP and non-SAP workflows, with automated alerts and prioritized cases that support faster action by compliance, finance, audit, and security teams.
SAP Fraud Management focuses on how SAP customers identify, investigate, and reduce fraud risk across financial, procurement, supplier, access, and transactional processes. The topic spans SAP Business Integrity Screening, GRC controls, continuous controls monitoring, exception detection, business partner screening, and workflow automation for fraud analysts, finance leaders, compliance teams, auditors, and security stakeholders. SAP Fraud Management creates business value by helping organizations centralize risk signals, prioritize high-impact exceptions, and move from manual review toward automated detection and response.
What is SAP Fraud Management?
SAP Fraud Management is the practice of using SAP data, controls, and screening capabilities to detect potential fraud across business processes before it causes financial, legal, or reputational damage. It helps organizations analyze transactions, monitor exceptions, screen business partners, test controls, and investigate suspicious activity using tools such as SAP Business Integrity Screening and related GRC solutions. The outcome is stronger visibility into fraud risk across SAP and non-SAP workflows, with automated alerts and prioritized cases that support faster action by compliance, finance, audit, and security teams.
How do enterprises use SAP Fraud Management?
Detecting suspicious transactions
Finance and compliance teams use fraud management capabilities to flag duplicate payments, unusual supplier payments, and abnormal transaction patterns in SAP systems. This helps organizations prioritize exceptions for review before losses occur.
Monitoring procurement and supplier risk
Procurement teams use fraud controls to screen vendors, monitor partner activity, and identify red flags in purchase-to-pay processes. In SAP environments, this can support stronger supplier governance and reduce exposure to payment fraud.
Strengthening segregation of duties
GRC and security teams analyze user access, roles, and segregation-of-duties conflicts to identify where employees could execute or conceal fraudulent activity. This connects fraud management with SAP access governance and privileged access management.
Automating continuous controls monitoring
Organizations use continuous controls monitoring to replace periodic manual sampling with ongoing review of high-risk transactions, controls, and exceptions. This supports faster remediation and gives audit teams a more current view of fraud exposure.
Centralizing fraud risk visibility
Enterprises consolidate fraud signals from transactions, controls, business partners, and user access into a more unified risk view. This helps leaders compare risk severity, assign ownership, and focus remediation on the areas with the greatest business impact.
Where does SAP Fraud Management emerge in SAPinsider research?
State of the Market GRC in SAP Environments shows that fraud management is part of a broader push to modernize SAP GRC, with 60% of organizations automating GRC processes and 53% centralizing control workflows. The report also finds that SAP customers are combining SAP Process Control and SAP Integrated GRC Suite with third-party technologies to extend automation and continuous control monitoring across hybrid landscapes.
Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems connects fraud risk to access, monitoring, and internal threat detection, noting that 31% of organizations experienced credentials compromise or password misuse impacting SAP systems. The report also shows that 34% use automated monitoring and compliance solutions, reinforcing the role of continuous detection in protecting SAP processes from fraud and misuse.
The Securing RISE with SAP benchmark report shows why fraud management must evolve with SAP cloud transformation, finding that only 45% of organizations follow the shared responsibility model for SAP Cloud ERP Private security. For fraud and GRC leaders, this points to the need for clearer ownership of controls, hardening, monitoring, and compliance across modern SAP landscapes.
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How JetBlue Prevents Fraud, Duplicate Payments and Fines hosted by apexanalytixJoni Geurts, Director, Accounts Payable & Fraud at JetBlue Airways, tells her story of joining the AP department and addressing the biggest issue for her team: limited visibility into SAP. She couldn’t get the information she needed about suppliers, identify duplicate payments or flag suspicious supplier payments as potentially fraudulent. Attend this webinar to hear […]
Dec 16, 2021
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How JetBlue Prevents Fraud, Duplicate Payments and FinesJoni Geurts, Director, Accounts Payable & Fraud at JetBlue Airways, tells her story of joining the AP department and addressing the biggest issue for her team: limited visibility into SAP. She couldn’t get the information she needed about suppliers, identify duplicate payments or flag suspicious supplier payments as potentially fraudulent. Attend this webinar to hear […]
Dec 16, 2021
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New Security Platform at Lundbeck Helps Ensure Business Continuity and Eliminate Risk of FraudAs one of the most highly regulated industries, the pharmaceutical industry takes an aggressive approach to supply chain risk management. Employing a global security system that supports access governance and authorization areas is critical in preventing fraud and maintaining business continuity.
A case study on Lundbeck, a biopharmaceutical company based in Copenhagen, details how it chose a new security platform to not only digitize but automate its segregation of duties (SoD) and privileged access management processes. As an SAP customer, Lundbeck utilizes a hybrid SAP landscape with one instance of SAP ERP and implementations of SAP Ariba, SAP Concur and SAP SuccessFactors.
Kirsten Kjerkegaard, Solutions Architect for Access and Security at Lundbeck, explains that her primary mission is to ensure smooth audits and identify and minimize security issues for the company. Prior to implementing its new security platform, she says “the company’s access provisioning process was digitized, but the SoD and privileged access management processes were managed manually through spreadsheets, which created some challenges and cumbersome reporting.” Those challenges included conducting repetitive tasks and analyzing historic data rather than performing exact analysis.
How did Lundbeck overcome its challenges? With top management support, the company implemented a solution that provides a holistic and transparent view into SoD conflicts throughout the company’s landscape, while streamlining its automated privileged access by replacing the manual review of audit logs for discrepancies. It was also critical to invest in a ruleset that focused on business processes on the SAP Ariba side of the enterprise, allowing for control implementations that mitigated risks specific to the business.
Read this article and learn:
- How Lundbeck pursued an automated security platform that met its security needs while integrating with the company’s hybrid SAP landscape;
- Why the investment in SoD rulesets is critical to meeting the SoD needs of your business processes and avoiding process inefficiencies;
- How Lundbeck now automates audit log review for discrepancies and streamlines the review task.
May 3, 2021
•10 minute read
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