Shift to Remote, Continuous, and Risk-Adjusted Management with SAP Three Lines of Defense Package

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With 90% of compliance leaders expecting evolving business, regulatory, and customer demands to significantly increase compliance-related operating costs, it is no surprise that half of them are already aiming to automate controls monitoring and management capabilities.

The Three Lines of Defense add-on package is designed to help RISE with SAP customers shift to remote, continuous, and risk-adjusted management that drives down risk and compliance costs and builds trust.

By embedding integrated solutions for internal control and compliance, enterprise risk management and internal audit into the very foundation of their SAP software landscape, organizations can automate tasks and decision-making, gain real-time visibility on their compliance status, and equip people to anticipate and respond to the risks standing in the way of achieving business objectives.

Managing risks, controls, and regulatory requirements directly in business operations and monitoring compliance status in real-time is key to supporting risk-based decision-making.

As part of the Three Lines of Defense add-on package, SAP Process Control and SAP Risk Management natively integrate with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Signavio, etc. and work together to automate continuous control and risk monitoring. Effortlessly supporting continuous, automated risk and compliance monitoring across systems and processes. With embedded rules, configurations, and intelligent monitoring capabilities these solutions assist in doing the hard work of detecting, predicting, and mitigating threats in real time and invoking exception processes, when needed.

Furthermore, real-time reporting allows organizations to demonstrate compliance status to stakeholders on demand, reducing the overall assurance effort.

By leveraging this single source of truth, SAP Audit Management further enables organizations to increase assurance and improve audit efficiency - and enables the audit teams shift their focus from providing basic assurance to delivering trusted insight and advice to the business.

With integrated solutions from the Three Lines of Defense add-on package, companies can increase transparency and standardization of their multiple compliance initiatives and focus on the processes and activities that are most important. By aligning value drivers, objectives, and high-impact risks, they can seize opportunities and mitigate risks promptly for increased profitability using instant access to crucial risk indicators.

If you are a RISE with SAP customer, you can benefit from this cost attractive package to optimize collaboration across all three lines, and ensure the reliability, coherence, and transparency of the information required for decision-making.

If you’d like to read more about this package and its components, then have a look at the following links:  

• Solution brief: Strengthening the Three Lines for Governance, Risk, and Compliance 
• Overview video: Integrated Risk and Controls Management for SAP S/4HANA 
• Individual product pages: SAP Process Control, SAP Risk Management and SAP Audit Management