Jul 9, 2019
•1 minute read
SAP GRC
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
SAP GRC focuses on the governance, risk, and compliance practices, technologies, and processes used to keep SAP environments secure, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. For SAP customers, this includes SAP GRC products as well as related capabilities for access control, process control, risk management, threat detection, identity governance, financial compliance, and privacy governance across SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, cloud, and hybrid landscapes. The topic is relevant to IT, security, audit, finance, compliance, and business process owners who need stronger controls, better visibility, and more confidence in how SAP systems are governed
What is SAP GRC?
SAP GRC is the set of tools and business processes organizations use to manage governance, risk, and compliance across SAP systems. In practical terms, it helps enterprises control user access, monitor segregation of duties, automate compliance workflows, detect risk, support audits, and align business processes with internal and external requirements. SAP GRC can refer to SAP-native solutions such as SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control, as well as broader GRC activities connected to SAP environments. The goal is to reduce risk while making compliance repeatable, visible, and scalable.
How do enterprises use SAP GRC?
Access control and segregation of duties
Enterprises use SAP GRC to manage who can access sensitive transactions, data, and processes in SAP systems. Access control and SoD monitoring help prevent conflicts, reduce fraud risk, and support cleaner audit outcomes.
Continuous controls monitoring
SAP GRC supports ongoing monitoring of business and IT controls rather than relying only on periodic manual reviews. This helps compliance teams identify exceptions earlier and standardize control testing across SAP processes.
Audit readiness and evidence management
Organizations use SAP GRC to document controls, track remediation, and provide auditors with clearer evidence. In SAP environments, this is especially valuable for financial controls, user access reviews, and regulated business processes.
Risk management during transformation
SAP GRC becomes especially important during SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and business process redesign. Teams can reassess roles, controls, approval workflows, and compliance requirements as part of transformation planning.
Identity governance across hybrid landscapes
As SAP landscapes expand across cloud, on-premise, and third-party systems, enterprises use GRC and identity governance tools to maintain consistent policies. This supports access reviews, role design, and risk visibility across mixed environments.
Where does SAP GRC emerge in SAPinsider research?
State of the Market GRC in SAP Environments shows that SAP customers are modernizing GRC as regulatory complexity, audit fatigue, and fragmented access governance increase. The research found that 60% of organizations are automating GRC processes and 53% are centralizing control workflows.
The Automating and Integrating GRC Processes report highlights the push to make compliance and audit work more efficient. The report found that 65% of respondents focus on end-to-end automated processes to meet compliance and audit requirements.
Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges to SAP Systems connects SAP GRC priorities to security risk. The report found that 23% of respondents experienced credential compromise, social engineering, malware or ransomware, or another cyberattack impacting their SAP environment in the past year.
New Business Models In A New Global Landscape: Challenge Or Opportunity?In this e-book, discover the challenges and opportunities new global business landscapes are uncovering and how they are impacting platforms, selling models, legislation, tax and the customer experience.
Building a Successful Security and Compliance Program for Your SAP LandscapeIn a climate of ever-increasing regulatory requirements, external auditors and organizations such as the US-based Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which oversees audits of public companies, are increasing their scrutiny of security and privacy p
May 1, 2019
•1 minute read
GRC: Case study: Setting up your SAP environment for growth — lessons learned from American Outdoor Brands’ SAP implementation successLearn how American Outdoor Brands successfully deployed SAP ERP and managed a dramatic surge in business and the acquisition of 3 companies within 3 years without any major controls or business disruptions. Click this link to view the slides from this session — GRC2017_Lowy_Casestudysettingupyoursap. Joshua Lowy If you have comments about this article or publication, […]
Mar 10, 2019
•1 minute read
GRC: Case study: How Revlon completed a global security redesign on an accelerated timelineLearn how Revlon implemented a scalable segregation-of-duties-compliant role architecture in alignment with its GRC ruleset and business processes in its SAP environment. Click this link to view the slides from this session — GRC2017_Bell_Casestudyhowrevloncompleted. Betina Bell If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact […]
Mar 10, 2019
•1 minute read
GRC: Case study: How Honeywell provides GRC insights to C-level executivesHoneywell has implemented SAP GRC solutions for risk, compliance, and policy management across different business groups. Learn how the company developed powerful dashboards for the executive team. here Vinod Kumar If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
Mar 1, 2019
•1 minute read
GRC: Case study: How Stanley Black & Decker designed an efficient global role structureLearn how Stanley Black & Decker approached the design phase of its global SAP security redesign. here Erin Swartzmiller If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
Mar 1, 2019
•1 minute read
SAP GRC Collection 2019SAPinsider has assembled nine popular pieces for SAP GRC professionals. They provide both strategic and tactical insights for organizations using SAP® GRC solutions to manage risk and compliance, strengthen cybersecurity, detect and prevent fraud, and op
Dec 14, 2018
•1 minute read
Southwire Powers Up with Analytics to Redesign User Roles
Preventing access risk and ensuring regulatory compliance are top priorities for any business, and cable and wire manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC, understands how analytics are required to successfully achieve these goals. Concerned that access-related risks were unacceptably high, Southwire embarked on a multi-phased project that aimed to remove, reduce, and mitigate these risks and to design more efficient user roles. Learn how Southwire Company, LLC, leveraged Security Weaver solutions to identify risks, remove or reduce segregation-of-duties (SoD) conflicts, optimize user role design, and improve overall business processes.
Sep 13, 2018
•10 minute read
What’s new in SAP Process Control and SAP Risk Management version 12.0Panelists: Jan Gardiner, SAP Date: Thursday, August 30 Sponsor: SAPinsider SAP’s newest versions of SAP Process Control and SAP Risk Management are planned for release in September. Join a Live Q&A with SAP’s Jan Gardiner, a speaker at the upcoming SAPinsider GRC conference in Prague, to hear about the new features and functionalities of the […]
Aug 1, 2018
•29 minute read
GDPR Action Plan: Discover, Manage, Protect and ReportMatthew Shea On May 25th, 2018, the European Union began enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to protect customer privacy and data. GDPR adherence requirements apply to any organization in any country, inside or outside the EU, that handles or processes EU residents’ personal data. In the wake of GDPR, organizations should reconsider their […]
Jul 10, 2018
•17 minute read
Featured Insiders
Popular Insights
Research
View All
Events
SAPinsider New Orleans SummitNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
SAPinsider Copenhagen 2026Copenhagen, Denmark
Mastering SAP Collaborate, an SAP TechEd on Tour eventSydney, New South Wales, Australia
