SAP Process Control: The Comprehensive Guide

Easier audits, protection again fraud, streamlined process controls―this is why you need SAP Process Control in your organization. With this comprehensive guide, see how to implement and configure the solution, from maintaining connectors to defining master data. Follow step-by-step instructions to use control evaluation procedures, report on and remediate ad hoc issues, and automate controls with continuous controls monitoring (CCM). With information on using standard reports, enabling SAP Fiori apps, and adding SAP Financial Compliance Management to your landscape, this SAP Process Control guide has everything you need!

• Implement SAP Process Control to manage compliance in your organization
• Automate your processes with continuous controls monitoring
• Evaluate internal controls, manage the policy lifecycle, remediate issues, and more

Implementation
Understand the hardware and software requirements to implement SAP Process Control and then dive into configuration activities. Perform workflow customizing, set up shared master data, create regulation hierarchies, map attributes, assign users, and more.

Control Evaluation and Monitoring
Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of your manual controls using survey libraries, performance plans, and test plans. Report issues identified on an ad hoc basis and then remediate them.

Continuous Controls Monitoring
Set up and test automated controls using data source types and business rules. Get step-by-step instructions for creating monitoring jobs, performing transports, and reporting through the Job Monitor.

• Internal controls
• Governance
• Configuration
• Master data
• Control evaluation
• Ad hoc issues
• Continuous controls monitoring (CCM)
• Policy lifecycle
• Reporting
• SAP Fiori
• SAP Financial Compliance Management

Raghu Boddu is the managing director of ToggleNow Software Solutions. He has more than 25 years of experience with SAP security, GRC, audits, and automations. Raghu is a certified information systems auditor (CISA), a certified fraud examiner (CFE), a certified data privacy solutions engineer (CDPSE), and a certified SAP security profession and GRC associate. He has served on the Information Systems Audit and Control Association state board and contributed articles, blog posts, automation stories, and vlogs to the security community. He was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for three consecutive years in the Windows Shell space. He has published more than 30 Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.

Ramakrishna Chaitanya is a chartered accountant with 10 years of experience in the areas of SAP GRC solutions, including SAP Process Control, SAP Risk Management, and SAP Audit Management. As an advisor, he has helped clients implement SAP GRC solutions for managing the risks and controls in an automated environment. He has exposure to analyzing business processes across various SAP modules to identify potential risks and control checkpoints. He has led multiple SAP Process Control implementation projects, as well as projects converting existing risk and control matrices to suit the SAP GRC environment. He has implemented survey design in SAP Process Control to monitor the GDPR compliance for a leading company in the consumer goods industry.