Process, Controls, and Automation

Due to organization complexity and moves to SAP S/4HANA, many processes change from customized to standardized. How do you maintain vigilance, apply machine learning and artificial intelligence, to monitor and manage internal controls within your GRC landscape? Explore how companies are using automation and advanced control monitoring capabilities to protect business processes and ensure compliance. Learn how to apply intelligence and automation to become more efficient in your controls management. Build a more automated and integrated compliance and risk management landscape by enhancing your GRC investments with the addition of intelligent capabilities.

Sessions at SAPinsider GRC2021:

Featured Sessions:

Case Study | How Pfizer supports audit testing & enhances user experience in SAP GRC Process Control – Brian Lee, Pfizer

Effectively administrating and governing control creation and execution in SAP Process Control (PC) requires a series of developments, knowledge, and experience. Hear from Pfizer on proven control design administration and master techniques for effective control maintenance, execution, monitoring, and audit testing.

Managing trade compliance in a changing environment – Kevin Riddell, Tremco

The regulatory landscape for global trade is a constantly shifting environment, and its pace has increased in recent years. Trade compliance risk can be mitigated using SAP Global Trade Services (GTS), but there are some challenges to implementing SAP GTS globally and keeping it up to date. Learn tips and best practices to manage these processes while examining recent developments in the use of machine learning to automate product classification.

Creating and deploying automated controls in SAP Process Control – James Chiu, SAP

Are you taking full advantage of your SAP Process Control investment with automation? Attend this session to learn how to configure continuous control monitoring in SAP Process Control. Attendees will learn how to:

Define and test data sources to retrieve data from source systems using common sub-scenarios (reports, tables, queries, and so on)
Define business rules using those data sources to set up exception criteria to narrow the results
Return results based upon value or change log checks

Panel | Emerging regulations and technologies that impact audit practices

Join this panel discussion for an SAP, consultant, and customer view on how automation and intelligence can be applied to improve your overall control environment and to streamline and optimize your SAP investment.

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Integrating Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA Research Report

Efficient business processes are the lifeblood of any organization. The opportunity to leverage intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and various forms of robotic process automation are abundant today, but organizations need to carefully select the right technologies and solutions that are the right fit for their business culture, skillsets, and existing solutions.