Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) assessments

Overview

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are complex software suites that integrate various business processes across an organization. Given their central role in supporting operations, financial transactions, and decision-making, the integrity and security of these systems are crucial.

At PwC, we assess and optimize the controls in ERP systems, examining the measures and mechanisms in place to ensure data integrity, security, accuracy, and compliance.

SAP controls review

SAP’s technologies such as S/4 Hana, SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, among other offerings can streamline your company’s business processes and redefine efficiency. However, implementation of these technologies often comes with challenges such as:

Ineffective SAP configurations and assignment of user access privileges resulting in data integrity issues.
Underutilized SAP functionalities, resulting in manual processes that are more susceptible to errors or simply inefficient.
Inadequate tracking of license allocation and usage, resulting in higher annual license or maintenance costs with SAP.

Consequently many businesses have failed to reap benefits from their investments in SAP technologies such as; access to accurate real time data and enhanced analytics to support decision making, scalable and highly automated end-to-end business processes, integration and seamless flow of data between business functions.

Significantly efficient: We perform a review of the SAP controls and configurations using PwC’s proprietary tool, Auditing and Consulting Engine for SAP (ACE-S). This is up to 28x faster than using manual methods.

Accurate results: PwC’s proprietary tool contains a standard library with over 700 tests across core business processes, basis layers, the Hana Database and SAP Fiori. These tests are a product of refined research and development from industry experts since 1994 and are constantly updated to give standard and customisable accurate assessments.

Access to a wealth of specialists: Our global reach and resources provide unmatched insights from deep experts within the industry both from the region and globally.

How we can add value

SAP basic review
Hana database review
Business process controls review
SAP license optimisation

SAP basic review

This covers a review of configurations supporting user access management, program changes, batch processing and error management, backup and archiving.

Hana database review

A review of Hana database access, security and configurations controls.

Business process controls review

Involves a review of end-to-end business processes such as procure to pay, order to cash, recruit to retire, acquire to retire, record to report all geared to identify process risks related to inappropriate access, segregation of duties, missing configurations and making recommendations to baseline the current configurations with industry/best practice standards.

SAP license optimisation

An analysis of SAP purchased licenses compared to actual assigned access and usage of the system, in order to identify incorrect licensing and recommend improvements. Also involves identification of unutilised system functionalities within the different modules and business processes.