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What is SAP Process Control?
Companies need to ensure their activities are carried out following board-level directives and internal policies while complying with applicable regulations. That’s where internal controls come into play, and process control is a method that companies use to streamline and automate the monitoring of business processes. SAP Process Control, part of the SAP GRC suite, is one tool that many SAP customers use to ensure their business is operating in an efficient and compliant manner.
What is SAP Process Control?
Companies need to ensure their activities are carried out following board-level directives and internal policies while complying with applicable regulations. That’s where internal controls come into play, and process control is a method that companies use to streamline and automate the monitoring of business processes. SAP Process Control, part of the SAP GRC suite, is one tool that many SAP customers use to ensure their business is operating in an efficient and compliant manner.
SAP Process Control and similar tools offer the following capabilities, among others:
- Continuous controls monitoring (CCM), which automates the monitoring of process data.
- Single source of process control data, including internal procedures and compliance policies
- Business objective and risk alignment with controls
- Automated workflows and notifications for issue response
- Internal controls evaluation
Process Control is largely manual without a targeted solution. Automation with the help of technology enables faster response to efficiency and compliance issues, while reducing workload for GRC teams.
There are many vendors that provide services and products around process control. For example, Appsian Security’ssolutions offer attribute-based controls monitoring, continuous monitoring, and real-time process analytics. System integrators such as Capgemini, Deloitte, and Accenture assist customers with establishing process controls policies and implementing SAP Process Control and other software.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:
- CCM automation is an appealing piece of SAP Process Control for many SAP customers. For example, as part of an SAP Process Control implementation, Eli Lilly utilized CCM to help track the company’s controlled activities. This has helped increase transparency and efficiency in the controls process.
- Business partners need to be involved in SAP Process Control. Get out in front of the process with your business partners so you can inform and co-create, making them aware of control considerations that will impact their decisions. Challenge your current processes and leverage technology and external expertise to support adoption and behavior change. Asking questions like “what is your biggest pain point” and “how do we benchmark against our peers” is important.
- Hershey is using process control to measure process and adoption rates during its phased SAP S/4HANA implementation. This phased approach allows the company to understand what extent GRC is being leveraged. Using SAP Process Control, rationalization of manual controls is targeted at 35% and control automation is expected to increase from 20% to over 50%.
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How to Boost Visibility in Your SAP EnvironmentMay 17, 2024 — As technological innovations provide more opportunities and offerings in business technology, at the same time, they also lead to greater internal and external threats to an organization’s IT infrastructure. CCM can be seen as a powerful resource that provides instant insight and oversight into a business’s business technology environment that may help an organization deal with anomalies before they become a problem in the future.
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Mitigating Risks by Moving on from Manual Controls MonitoringMar 26, 2024 — SAP users are aware of how important it is to develop a thorough risk management policy, especially in the age of constant digital transformation and modernization. As the IT environment grows more complex, workloads and applications move to the cloud and employees work remotely, there is a growing issue of control oversight. With the required […]
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Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance Supported by SAP GRC SolutionsMar 7, 2023 — While Enterprise Risk and Compliance provides a centralized and coordinated framework for an organization’s strategy on how to manage governance, risk, and regulatory compliance, the SAP GRC solutions support both the strategic as well as tactical and operational approach on the “how to”. It is important to understand what it takes from an organizational as well as from a technical perspective to set up a holistic enterprise risk and compliance system for a company. We are looking into organizational prerequisites as well as end-to-end integrated solution scenarios for the different business cases also comprising relevant aspects of the three-lines of defense. From understanding the risk appetite, compliance challenges to be addressed, areas to be monitored, provisioning of meaningful reporting up to the aspects and cooperation of internal and external audit—we outline the associated processes and how the SAP GRC solution portfolio can be leveraged to help.
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Enabling Digital Transformation with Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM)Sep 29, 2021 — This past year saw an unprecedented acceleration of digital transformation. Initiatives supporting cloud adoption, remote work, and business continuity quickly jumped to the top of every CIO and CISO’s agenda. Migrating to a modern ERP solution like SAP S4/HANA introduces a whole host of questions and changes, starting with how to secure the sensitive data […]
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Increasing Transparency & EfficiencyJun 30, 2021 — Sprawling multinational drug company Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) needed a way to centrally monitor its core enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The company had been using a manual method to track its financial and operational activities and related controls. But to increase transparency and efficiency, Lilly decided to implement SAP Process Control to automate the performance of business controls through continuous control monitoring (CCM).
Lilly found that SAP Process Control’s CCM saved process owners time and improved their productivity. They were able to schedule control executions without user intervention and monitor activities in its core SAP ECC environment and 18 other SAP platforms. The company also employed the foundational data supplied by SAP Process Control to set up geographic and functional area dashboards that offer business owners global visibility into control performance, providing a single source of truth and streamlining compliance.
The CCM function can be used to monitor the status of SAP ECC and SAP Process Control by sending out daily “pings” to provide feedback on whether system emails are being sent out properly, whether job sets are processing correctly, and whether jobs are displaying an “error” status. With the reports generated by SAP Process Control and its CCM feature, troubleshooting has become more streamlined and efficient. Overall, Lilly is now monitoring core business processes with better visibility into control performance and the capability to respond faster to problems, boosting business performance.
Read this article and learn:
- How Ely Lilly’s implementation of SAP Process Control boosted transparency and efficiency for the global pharmaceutical company.
- How CCM saved process owners time, improved their productivity, and enabled real-time monitoring of SAP ECC, SAP Process Control, and other SAP systems.
- The importance of centrally monitoring core SAP systems and providing business owners with global visibility into control performance for a single source of truth.
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How an integrated team can ensure SAP S/4HANA control and security successJun 8, 2021 — Migrating to SAP S/4HANA can provide organizations with multiple benefits such as real-time reporting, scalable platforms, simplified processes, and faster analytics. However, effective security and controls as an implementation afterthought can lead to inefficiencies and audit concerns later. How can your organization leverage GRC and controls to ensure a smooth and secure transition?
Attend this session to learn how to:
- Embed security and controls into your SAP S/4HANA implementation strategy to effectively impact your organization’s guiding principles and key decisions for build requirements, testing, and training
- Create a holistic security model and controls workstream that integrates project management, IT, system integration, business process, and change and engage teams from project inception
- Maximize your SAP automation investment while reducing manual control workaround
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Audits got you down? Improve them with SAP Process ControlJun 8, 2021 — Resource constraints, business deadlines, and financial reporting can make managing and executing audits in a normal year challenging enough—let alone the disruptions of a global pandemic and sudden remote environments. It’s important for organizations to make audits more effective and reliable so that resources can focus on the business and critical controls that can impact their business. How can a compliance team be supported to be more effective in all environments?
IT general control testing, internal audit, and financial reporting can all be implemented in SAP Process Control to effectively execute controls and monitoring of critical business areas, from control testing creating SAP reports to meet audit requirements, to audit testing and evaluation using multiple compliance framework, to leveraging audit processes.
Attend this session to:
- Learn to improve audits with SAP Process Control
- Understand how to use consistent testing data with multiple audit requirements
- Gain insight into improving accuracy of your testing of controls
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Panel | How automation and intelligence can be applied to Process Control or Internal ControlsJun 8, 2021 — Automating controls within SAP Process Controls is becoming more and more of a “must” than a “want” for organizations in terms of risk identification and transparency. SAP Process Control can perform both semi- and fully automated testing of controls that range from application controls (value checks, blank checks, change log checks) to master data controls (identifying empty fields, or fields without specific values) to transactional controls (with the integration of SAP HANA for even more sophisticated analytics). Continuous control monitoring tracks information continuously, providing critical updates and direction on how to react to alerts. Organizations are applying automation and intelligence to their process and internal controls to reduce data errors and manual processes, maximize ERP returns on investment, and reduce compliance costs such as retesting costs for failed controls.
Join this panel discussion for an SAP, consultant, and customer view of how automation within process and internal controls can help organizations more efficiently manage risk.
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Creating and deploying automated controls in SAP Process ControlJun 7, 2021 — Are you taking full advantage of your SAP Process Control investment with automation? Attend this session to learn how to configure continuous control monitoring in SAP Process Control. Attendees will learn how to:
- Define and test data sources to retrieve data from source systems using common sub-scenarios (reports, tables, queries, and so on)
- Define business rules using those data sources to set up exception criteria to narrow the results
- Return results based upon value or change log checks
- Control data returned based upon analysis type, field selection, filters, and more
- Automatically categorize result lines based upon deficiency definitions
- Understand technical settings and when to consider using calculations, aggregation, and BRF+ functions
- Assign business rules to controls and schedule them to run automatically
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Video: Hershey Demonstrates the Strategic Value of Controls & ComplianceJun 4, 2021 — The mention of Hershey might bring to mind an image of chocolate and it should, but there is a lot more to discover: a chocolate and confectionary leader, The Hershey Company has over 90 brands.
Hershey is continuously challenged to innovate and at speed to meet changing consumer preferences and in a global context, like a shift to better-for-you healthy eating, and omnichannel shopping experiences. The need for greater efficiency in core business processes and controls, better data, analytics and insights, and increased organizational agility, has never been stronger.
Watch the video to learn how Hershey integrates security and control initiatives within major systems implementations, and demonstrates the strategic value of controls and compliance.
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