Unsure how to navigate the wild waters and changing tides of corporate compliance and governance? With this comprehensive guide to SAPs Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) module, plot your GRC course with confidence. Written for todays busy GRC consultants, project managers, and analysts, this book will explore the core components of the GRC moduleAccess Control, Process Control, and Risk Managementand their implementation. Learn how to configure and implement the necessary dimensions, master data, and rules setup for all three core components of GRC. Build a strong GRC foundation that is both adaptive and reactive to regulatory pressures, corporate policies, and unanticipated risk.
Manage financial risk more effectively with this comprehensive guide to SAPs treasury and risk management solutions, and learn how SAP ERP can help you meet legal and regulatory compliance requirements with ease. This book extensively presents the best ways to use the components of the Treasury and Risk Management solution, and identifies practical business solutions. Youll quickly learn how to maximize the potential of SAP Treasury and Risk Management and how to apply practical financial concepts to system interfaces. Reduce workflow inefficiencies and save process time with automated confirmation for completed transactions. Updated for SAP ERP 6.0, EHP6, this book includes expanded coverage on Customizing settings and all new content on transaction management, position management, market data, and hedge management.
Throughout the world, high-profile large organizations (aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, chemicals, financial service providers, healthcare, high tech, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, and utilities) and governments are using SAP software to process their most mission-critical, highly sensitive data. With more than 100,000 installations, SAP is the world's largest enterprise software company and the world's third largest independent software supplier overall. Despite this widespread use, there have been very few books written on SAP implementation and security, despite a great deal of interest. (There are 220,000 members in an on-line SAP 'community' seeking information, ideas and tools on the IT Toolbox Website alone.) Managing SAP user authentication and authorizations is becoming more complex than ever, as there are more and more SAP products involved that have very different access issues. It's a complex area that requires focused expertise.This book is designed for these network and systems administrator who deal with the complexity of having to make judgmental decisions regarding enormously complicated and technical data in the SAP landscape, as well as pay attention to new compliance rules and security regulations.Most SAP users experience significant challenges when trying to manage and mitigate the risks in existing or new security solutions and usually end up facing repetitive, expensive re-work and perpetuated compliance challenges. This book is designed to help them properly and efficiently manage these challenges on an ongoing basis. It aims to remove the 'Black Box' mystique that surrounds SAP security. - The most comprehensive coverage of the essentials of SAP security currently available: risk and control management, identity and access management, data protection and privacy, corporate governance, legal and regulatory compliance - This book contains information about SAP security that is not available anywhere else to help the reader avoid the "gotchas" that may leave them vulnerable during times of upgrade or other system changes - Companion Web site provides custom SAP scripts, which readers can download to install, configure and troubleshoot SAP
This book covers all processes and components of the SAP solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). With a focus on Process Control, Access Control and Risk Management, the book provides the standard implementation scenarios and information on customizing using a standard case-study example. You will learn how you can guarantee the compliance of business processes and IT systems with Process Control, how Access Control can be used for company-wide role definition and segregation of duties and how to perform analysis and elimination of risk related to user creation and superuser authorization. You will subsequently explore the relevant phases of risk management in order to supervise financial as well as legal risks. Moreover, you will receive insight into the SAP solutions for compliance in the foreign trade, SAP GTS, and for compliance with guidelines in the environmental protection and labor safety, SAP EHS.
This comprehensive book provides you with detailed descriptions of the functions and usage of SAP Treasury and Risk Management. Readers will be introduced to all of the standard functional areas, including possible solutions for specific problems, and the most important Customizing settings. Significant attention is paid to reporting, risk management, and integration with other SAP applications and components, including SAP ERP Financial Accounting And the New General Ledger. The authors provide a wide range of tips, tricks, and notes on how you can optimize and use your Treasury system using BAPIs and BAdIs. Drawing upon a wide array of screenshots, charts, and real-life examples, the book describes the areas of transaction management, position management, market data, and hedge management in great detail. In addition, it discusses topics such as risk and performance analysis as well as reporting with the Information System. Separate chapters deal with the interfaces and integration with system tools, and offer solutions to meet legal and regulatory compliance requirements. The book is based on the most current release, SAP ERP 6.0.
Now that GRC is embedded in SAP S/4HANA, it’s time to take a fresh look at your GRC practices and processes. In this book, learn how SAP S/4HANA 1709 meets your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. See what's changed with access control and process control, and get to know the new functionality for managing risk, audits, fraud, and more.
This book provides cross-enterprise configuration instructions and best practices for SAP GRC Access Control implementations in companies with multi-system architectures. The author provides the implementation strategies, configuration steps, and best practices necessary to implement and manage a global access control, risk remediation, and compliance framework across a multi-system landscape, including non-SAP and legacy systems. Readers discover how to use Offline Risk Analysis, Real Time Analysis, and Management Update Report to manage risk analysis across the enterprise and quickly come to understand how to build and manage a rule matrix for a multi-system enterprise using the Real Time Agent (RTA), as well as the functional use of the Rule Architect. Plus, learn how to configure AC for use with the most common non-SAP systems such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, and others. You'll find out how best to determine the setup of cross-enterprise mitigation controls and alternative controls to mitigate risk as well as how to educate management about conflicts approval and monitoring. Finally, the author shows you how you can develop and execute a plan for Continuous Compliance using best practices for simulation, monitoring, and control.
In this book, we provide 115 practice certification questions and answers designed to prepare you for taking and passing the application associate consultant certification exam for SAP BusinessObjects Access Control 10.0 (C_GRCAC_10) at a single sitting. The book was prepared based on experiences gained via teaching the SAP GRC Access Control 10.0 academy curriculum and numerous project implementations. Aside being useful as a certification preparation resource, it can also be used to prepare for technical interview for the job role of SAP GRC Access Control 10.0 Consultant. The book contains in-depth explanation of concepts covering the areas of common GRC settings, MSMP workflow, Integration Framework, User Provisioning, Role Management, Access Risk Management, Business Rules Framework and Emergency Access Management.
Governance, risk, and compliance—these three big letters can add up to one giant headache. But GRC doesn't have to be a boil on your corporate behind. SAP GRC For Dummies untangles the web of regulations that confronts your company and introduces you to software solutions the not only keep you in compliance, but also make your whole enterprise stronger. This completely practical guide starts with a big-picture look and GRC and explains how it can help your organization grow. You'll find out why these regulations were enacted; what you can do to ensure compliance; and how compliance can help you prevent fraud, bolster your corporate image, and envision and execute the best possible corporate strategy. This all-business handbook will help you: Understand the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Control access effectively Color your company a greener shade of green Source or sell goods internationally Keep your employees safe and healthy Ensure that data is kept secret and private Manage information flow in all directions Enhance your public image through sustainability reporting Use GRC as the basis for a powerful new corporate strategy Complete with enlightening lists of best practices for successful GRC implementation and conducting global trade, this book also puts you in touch with thought leadership Web sights where you can deepen your understanding of GRC-based business strategies. You can't avoid dealing with GRC, but you can make the most of it with a little help from SAP GRC For Dummies.
