New ERP Deployment: Control Design and Implementation

Approva’s Approach

Approva’s Controls Intelligence Suite builds automated controls into your ERP design and implementation. So whether you are upgrading your environment or preparing to go live with a new implementation, Approva builds automated controls for access, configurations, and operations into your system. This way, you can meet your go-live deadlines without significant risk exposure and avoid costly and time consuming redesign of processes and controls later on. Approva can even help you speed your go-live by strengthening controls, improving risk visibility in your current environments, and easing the transition to a new system.

Key Benefits

A More Streamlined Implementation Process

Complete your ERP implementation or upgrade on time in one smooth process, without immediate rework on process and security design, and retraining users. By building automated controls in to the system design, avoid delays in rollout and provide strong risk management capabilities from day 1.

Less Costly, More Effective Controls

By designing automated controls into the system and processes, eliminate time consuming and costly manual controls. Save time not just for managers who own the controls, but for internal audit, risk management, and compliance teams who are testing controls and external audit teams as well. In addition, automated controls can be continuously monitored and are often more effective.

Reduced risk of mistakes, fraud, audit findings, and non-compliance

With automated controls built into the system from the start, you will have strong and timely visibility into business risks. With Approva, material mistakes are flagged immediately so the right manager can take action, fraud risk is significantly lower, and it is easier to ensure that divisions around the world are complying with corporate policy. Controls are continuously monitored so you have no surprises, even in a new system environment.

More Efficient Operational Processes

Continuous controls monitoring from Approva provides visibility into inconsistencies in business process execution. There is so much change associated with a new ERP deployment, often it’s difficult to know whether processes are being consistently followed in all business units. Approva enables organizations to identify inconsistencies, standardize processes more quickly, and implement best practices globally.

Additional Product Resources

“Ensuring controls is a top priority for our SAP rollout,” said Mark Weber, director of internal audit at Wabash National. “With Approva’s solution, our goal is to strengthen our overall controls environment and reduce the time spent on monitoring and testing our ERP controls. (from August 7, 2006 press release)