SAP Process Control

Insight

Winterhawk recently asked SAP’s Jan Gardiner, Senior Director, SAP Governance Risk and Compliance Solutions, for her insights into SAP’s Process Control application. We posed the question:

“Building a business case for GRC solutions is something our clients often ask us to support. Jan, in terms of SAP Process Control, what would you say are the key benefits that customers are realising?”

Jan’s reply:

“Customers have told me that SAP Process Control’s automation — whether automated testing, control performance, or continuous control monitoring — has produced the most traceable benefits and ROI.  By automating repetitive and even error-prone manual processes, customers find that it eases the burden on business users, compliance teams, and internal auditors alike, freeing them for more valuable work.  As the core of our Three Lines of Defense solutions, Process Control provides a ‘single source of truth’ within an end-to-end risk and compliance framework.” 

Why SAP Process Control?

Because it helps protect your business with continuous control and compliance monitoring. Improve the effectiveness of your internal control processes across SAP and non-SAP systems, and tightly align them with risk prevention and efficiency requirements.

Drive continuous control monitoring and reduce risk

Simplify your internal control system, get insight, and strengthen your business with SAP Process Control. This GRC software automates internal control and compliance management enterprise-wide – and gives you real-time visibility into your controls’ status and responses to key compliance needs and risks. Increase business process reliability and efficiency, and ensure compliance with a broad range of regulations.

Functional Capabilities

• Unified repository for compliance, control, and policy information: Ensure cross-function standardisation and drive consistency across your organisation. Manage multiple regulatory policies and compliance procedures with a single solution. Optimise the planning of control assessment and testing activities.
• Embedded controls to strengthen business processes: Align internal controls and policies with business objectives and risks. Monitor key business processes like reconcile-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, IT, and more. Leverage the power and speed of SAP HANA to monitor high volume of transactions in key S/4 HANA business processes in real time.
• Improved compliance and control processes at optimal cost: Perform comprehensive online and offline control evaluations with flexible workflows and configurable forms. Manage the complete policy lifecycle with collaborative tools and surveys. Streamline issue management and certifications with best practice workflows (ex. CAPA integrated with audit management).

Technical Capabilities

• Automated workflows and notifications: Receive automated notifications to shrink manual intervention efforts. Understand control exceptions and alerts to react quickly and appropriately. Ensure that all appropriate stakeholders are involved in relevant tasks: assessments, remediations, and sign-offs.
• Offline forms: Support offline procedures with interactive forms for compliance and control assessments, testing, control performance, remediation, and sign-offs. Support the policy management lifecycle by the distribution of new policies and updates as well as review and acknowledgement surveys.
• Continuous control monitoring: Integrate with SAP and non-SAP systems using connectors or web services, or SAP HANA views. Monitor master data, configuration settings and transactions in business applications via scheduled processes or in real-time. Monitor application data from internal and external systems in real-time.

Using SAP Process Control for GDPR – 15 minute webinar with Winterhawk

Winterhawk’s CTO, Cavan Arrowsmith, delivers a short 15 minute webinar on how customers have started using SAP Process Control to manage GDPR obligations.

Most SAP customers are nearing completion of their various GDPR projects, across data management, process review and technology implementation, but there is still work to be done. Our customers have had great success turning to SAP GRC to manage their ongoing GDPR governance.

Winterhawk’s innovative, new GDPR content framework and SAP Process Control can be used together to manage Data Privacy obligations in SAP Process Control. Find out more in this recorded webinar, which also covers:

• Request feedback on the status of implemented GDPR processes and controls from across the business
• Sending out and completing Data Protection Impact Assessments
• Raising Data Privacy issues and remediating with Action Plans
• Checking your GDPR Governance program’s health and status
• How Winterhawk customers are benefitting from using SAP Process Control for GDPR

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