SAP Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Book excerpt: 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.