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Reduce Risk with Effective SoD Controls

Identify and prevent conflicting access across critical SAP business processes.

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The challenge

SoD Conflicts Can Remain Hidden Until an Audit or Incident

Access that accumulates over time

Users accumulate access as they change positions, responsibilities conflict across departments, and complex cross-system conflicts escape any single system's view.

Rule sets that don't reflect the business

Generic or outdated SoD rule sets generate excessive false positives, while limited business ownership and inconsistent risk acceptance undermine the analysis.

Weak controls and disruptive remediation

Weak mitigating controls, inadequate periodic reviews, poor documentation, and remediation initiatives that disrupt operations keep risk unresolved.

Without a business-aligned SoD framework, organizations may either underestimate genuine risk or generate excessive findings that cannot be effectively managed.

How we help

Comprehensive SAP SoD Risk Management

We help organizations identify SoD conflicts, understand their business impact, redesign access, implement mitigating controls, and establish sustainable monitoring across the SAP landscape.

SoD Risk Assessment

We analyze conflicts at the user, role, and cross-system level, review critical access, map risks to business processes, and classify findings by severity.

Rule Set Design

We define business activities, map functions and actions to transactions and authorization objects, design risk combinations, consider organizational levels, and reduce false positives.

Conflict Remediation

We analyze user assignments, recommend role adjustments and access removal scenarios, support role redesign, validate changes with the business, and track remediation.

Mitigating Controls

We define controls, assign control owners, establish execution frequency and evidence requirements, assess effectiveness, and manage expiration and renewal.

Ongoing SoD Governance

We establish the risk ownership model, integrate SoD checks into access requests, and set up periodic reviews, monitoring procedures, dashboards, and audit evidence management.

Business benefits

Improve Control Without Disrupting Business Operations

Reduced Fraud Exposure

Prevent users from controlling incompatible steps within critical business processes.

Better Compliance

Strengthen internal controls and improve alignment with audit and regulatory expectations.

More Accurate Risk Analysis

Reduce false positives by aligning the SoD rule set with actual business processes and system usage.

Clear Risk Ownership

Ensure business leaders understand, approve, mitigate, and periodically review access risks.

Sustainable Governance

Move from one-time conflict cleanups to a repeatable SoD management process.

Methodology

A Business-Centered SoD Framework

Our methodology connects business processes, access data, and governance to manage SoD risk end to end.

01
Understand
Map critical business processes, responsibilities, applications, and regulatory requirements.
02
Define
Establish incompatible activities, critical actions, risk levels, and control expectations.
03
Analyze
Identify actual user, role, and cross-system conflicts.
04
Remediate
Remove inappropriate access, redesign roles, or apply validated mitigating controls.
05
Govern
Embed SoD checks into access requests, role changes, certifications, and monitoring.
06
Sustain
Continuously review risks, controls, rule sets, and organizational changes.

Engagement scenarios

Business Processes We Cover

Procure-to-Pay

Conflicts involving vendor creation, purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice processing, and payments.

Order-to-Cash

Conflicts involving customer management, sales orders, deliveries, billing, credit, and collections.

Record-to-Report

Conflicts involving journal entries, account maintenance, financial closing, and reporting.

Hire-to-Retire

Conflicts involving employee records, payroll data, compensation, and payment processing.

Inventory and Warehouse Management

Conflicts involving inventory adjustments, movements, counts, and material management.

Basis and Technical Administration

Critical access involving user administration, role maintenance, transports, system configuration, and technical operations.

Why Global Core Technologies

Why Organizations Choose Global Core Technologies

Business and Technical Expertise

We combine SAP authorization knowledge with an understanding of end-to-end business processes.

Risk-Based Analysis

We focus on meaningful business risk instead of producing large volumes of generic findings.

Practical Remediation

Our recommendations consider operational continuity and avoid unnecessary disruption.

Strong Governance

We help establish risk owners, mitigating controls, review cycles, and escalation mechanisms.

SAP GRC Integration

We can implement or optimize automated SoD analysis using SAP GRC Access Control.

Strengthen Control Across Critical SAP Processes

Whether you need an initial SoD assessment, a new rule set, conflict remediation, or an ongoing governance model, our specialists can help reduce risk while maintaining business continuity.

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