SAP Audits & Value Discovery
SAP Audits & Value Discovery
Our Methodology
Approach to Audits & Value Discovery
The Value Discovery Exercise is a comprehensive process which identifies the general & niche areas where efficiencies can be improved. ITChamps has vast experience of carrying out similar exercises for other clients, as well. This methodology is a combination of Problem Management & Knowledge Management.
The methodology has three major phases.
Prepare
- SAP processes to understand the current flow
- Mapping of roles & authorizations
- Audit of SAP configuration settings to determine the correct mappings
- Financial compliance audit
- Licenses & other statutory compliance audits
- Performance audit to determine if ABAP codes & flows have been set properly to achieve the ultimate performance
- Audit of IT control systems such as disaster recovery, data backup, etc., to determine the required controls for a smooth workingList Item #1
Execute
In this phase, workshops are planned with all levels of management to access information and current processes from different angles. This is done with the objective of understanding the present working scenarios, transaction details with information & business process touch points. This process is achieved through interviews with users, managers and members of the senior management team.
Subject matter experts try to compare the current business processes with the best practices followed. They help to identify the duplication of data capturing, redundant data capturing as well as non-value transactions/processes. The assessment is done for data and information required by the decision makers and also from information captured, stored & presented to such a team. The SME team also conducts their own checks in the system to understand the current process configured, used, not used, or not configured, depending on the current business process of the organization.
Based on the information collected from different interviews, system checks & reports provided by participants, a detailed exercise is carried out and the results are mainly divided as follows:
- Improvements in transactions & processes
- Improvements in the change management
- Addition in functional areas & architecture
- Impact on the organization
- Time for execution
- Improvement in the overall SAP performance across the business
- Improvement in compliances for error-free working
- Optimization of resources
- Speeding ROI and cost cutting by correctly determining leakages in the system
Recommend
In this phase, the SME delivers the findings gathered from the execution exercises. A detailed report on the current usage of the system and its unutilized or underutilized functionalities is explained. Recommendations are made considering the best practice guidelines. The change management issues are explained and the priorities of possible quick achievements are advised.
A recommended SAP applications optimization plan is prepared which helps the business processes in the long run. The ROI for every recommendation is explained and a detailed roadmap over the stipulated period is suggested for the business organization.