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What Is Risk Analysis?
Risk analysis is the assessment of potential risks on the business or market and the likelihood of adverse effects from those events. In a supply chain context, for example, companies model various disruptions to determine their impact and apply risk mitigation strategies to avoid them.
According to Investopedia, risk analysis can be divided between two types: qualitative and quantitative.
Qualitative analysis: Qualitative analysis incorporates a definition of uncertainties, evaluation of the potential impacts, and risk mitigation measures. Examples include SWOT analysis and cause and effect diagrams.
Quantitative analysis: Quantitative analysis relies on statistical modeling and assigning numeric values to potential risks. Within a risk model, those values produce graphical outputs to help determine risk mitigation strategies.
Through both risk analysis approaches, companies can glean an holistic view of their risk profile.
What Is Risk Analysis?
Risk analysis is the assessment of potential risks on the business or market and the likelihood of adverse effects from those events. In a supply chain context, for example, companies model various disruptions to determine their impact and apply risk mitigation strategies to avoid them.
According to Investopedia, risk analysis can be divided between two types: qualitative and quantitative.
Qualitative analysis: Qualitative analysis incorporates a definition of uncertainties, evaluation of the potential impacts, and risk mitigation measures. Examples include SWOT analysis and cause and effect diagrams.
Quantitative analysis: Quantitative analysis relies on statistical modeling and assigning numeric values to potential risks. Within a risk model, those values produce graphical outputs to help determine risk mitigation strategies.
Through both risk analysis approaches, companies can glean an holistic view of their risk profile.
SAP and Risk Management
As more companies migrate to SAP S/4HANA, it’s critical that their risk strategies are integrated within the system. SAP provides risk management solutions that put governance, risk, and compliance at the forefront of business activities.
According to SAP, “stakeholders want to see evidence, on demand and in real time, that an organization which they are backing is managing their financial, social, and environmental activities efficiently, profitably, and responsibly … Any risk management measures must focus on the specific value drivers unique to the business, and these can be difficult for you to identify. Managers must look beyond financial line items to the activities and processes that are integral to the organization’s business model.”
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
Building More Effective Access Control Through Business-Centric GRC. In this article, learn how companies are utilizing access control solutions to identify risk within their user base. These solutions and processes are often technical and driven from audit and IT perspectives with very little input from business users who might find the technical GRC language hard to decipher. That’s where the idea of business-centric GRC comes into play for access control — providing the business with easier to understand, less technical language so that they can better interpret the data.
Application Security Imperiled by Attackers. Application security is being threatened by cyberattacks on the application layer, such as SAP S/4HANA systems, which target valuable resources organizations store there. In this article, learn about new security concepts necessary to protect the “crown jewels” stored in SAP systems. Companies need to deploy real-time detection and response to deal with the rise in attacks against the SAP application layer level.
Vendors that can help SAP customers with risk analysis include: Appsian Security, DXC Technology, EcoVadis, and Onapsis.
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Sale of Unit Spurs CCPR’s Move to SAP S/4HANANov 22, 2021 — Founded in 1948, Cooperativa Central dos Produtores Rurais (CCPR) is the largest Brazilian milk-producing cooperative. It processes and transports more than 90 million liters of milk per month in the provinces of Minas Gerais and Goiás.
As part of a restructuring effort, CCPR decided to sell one of its subsidiaries. The main company and subsidiary shared the SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) environment and IT infrastructure, explains Daniel Paiva, IT Manager at CCPR.
The 2019 sale required the dairy cooperative to undertake an IT carve-out project to separate the two systems. As part of the carve-out, CCPR upgraded to SAP S/4HANA and simplified its IT infrastructure, resulting in capabilities for future innovation, such as data analytics and cloud computing, Paiva says.
Read this article and find out more about CCPR's move to SAP S/4HANA.
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Regulators Mull Climate Change Risk Disclosure RulesJan 12, 2022 — More regulators are considering requiring companies to disclose the potential impact of climate change on their business and the mitigation measures they are putting in place. For example, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is developing rules for companies to disclose their exposure to climate change risk and detail climate change mitigation plans […]
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Impact20: How Data Archival Reduces Cloud Spend and Business RisksFeb 1, 2022 — Learn the benefits of leveraging Data Archiving Services for SAP
Massive database sizes directly impact the complexity and cost of cloud migration, and often impact not only migration timelines, but also the possibility of compliance risks. The solution: Controlling data volumes by safely archiving data before it impacts performance, cost, availability, and migration success.
Join this session hosted by Virtustream’s Lofan Leung, Director of Go to Market and Alliances, and Mike Becker, Director of Sales, to learn about the business benefits that Virtustream’s customers have achieved from leveraging Data Archiving Services for SAP, such as:
• Simplified cloud migration
• Improved system performance
• Lower TCO and IaaS costs
• Greater system availability
• Reduced business risk
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance: State of the Market 2022May 31, 2022 — GRC teams are stretched, and their scope of responsibility continues to grow. In traditional areas of GRC, changing business models and regulations are creating new challenges. However, security threats have risen to the top as a driver for GRC strategy. GRC professionals are now tasked with playing a role in security risk assessment and threat […]
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Is Your P2P at Risk for Fraud?Oct 28, 2022 — The impact of fraud on today’s businesses and organizations is staggering. While there can be dozens of potential tip-offs that a fraud scheme may be underway, this whitepaper addresses six of the most common that you should definitely have on your radar screen.
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Reducing Risk, Cost and Complexity for Zurich InsuranceNov 17, 2022 — To reduce costs and improve efficiency, Zurich Insurance Group embarked on a Finance Transformation Program that involved consolidating 23 legacy SAP systems into a single production instance. As a multi-year, multi-wave program Zurich needed a reusable migration solution and methodology for future waves.
Read this case study to learn how Zurich Insurance leveraged automation, rebuilt content, reusable templates, and expert services to achieve success in all aspects of data migration.
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Using Low-Code to Navigate Cost and Risk, and Innovate Through Economic UncertaintyFeb 22, 2023 — Retrenchment. Cost-cutting. These are common enterprise reactions to economic uncertainty. But they do not offer a competitive edge when the recovery comes. Smart companies and leaders continue to invest intelligently during uncertain times. And one of the big ways you can leverage technology to support both efficiency and innovation is through low code solutions and platforms. In this webinar we’ll walk through three examples how you can use low-code solutions to navigate cost and risk in economic uncertainty. Learn how you can quickly stand up automation solutions that can help you streamline core business processes and digital workflows that can complete tasks that previously took you weeks or months to complete so that they are done in days, hours, and minutes.
Session Takeaways:
Enhance individual worker productivity through automated processes and digitized workflows
Create a culture of innovation to empower creativity at all organizational levels
Build automated workflows much more simply than you could writing complex customizations
Follow the examples of real-world customers who have invested in low-coded solutions including how they achieved practical ROI and created a strong foundation for efficiency and innovation.
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Why SAP GTS?Feb 6, 2023 — As businesses expand and offer their products worldwide, trade compliance has become more crucial than ever. At the same time, international trade regulations are becoming more complex as countries formulate stricter regulations. Businesses need to equip themselves with systems and solutions to address and navigate complex global trade compliance rules and requirements accurately and efficiently. The complexities of global trade, the need for accurate documentation, and an efficient process requires businesses conducting international trade to utilize a global trade management system. In 2001, SAP released SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), SAP’s solution for managing the complex trade compliance requirements. SAP GTS has evolved through the years into a world-class trade compliance system, and the latest release is GTS E4H or GTS Edition for HANA.
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Secure your SAP environment – Improve Security and Reduce Operational RisksApr 6, 2023 — SUSE solutions secure your SAP environment from the source – the platform’s core – to provide solutions built with a secure software supply chain. Along with SAP-specific features and industry-leading certifications, SUSE makes it a top priority to protect you from all security risks, including known and zero-day vulnerabilities.
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How to Add Value and Mitigate Risk for an SAP ImplementationMar 29, 2023 — Click Here to View the Session Deck SAP implementation services give organizations the support they need to deploy SAP solutions that allow their company to grow successfully. Adding value and mitigating the risks of the implementation process will be shared in the lessons learned on SAP implementations. View this session deck to: Identify relevant areas […]
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