SAP Audit Management vs. SAP Process Control

Best on my experience, SAP Audit Management is best suited for larger corporations, particularly those that want to work with bigger OEMs in a more efficient manner over time. Furthermore, it is best suited in managing capacity, quality, production planning, work in progress in manufacturing, project tracking and project planning and management.

Incentivized

SAP Process Control is well suited for managing the end to end lifecycle of controls across different regulations. When managing a risk and controls framework it is better suited for public companies that have regulation requirements. The tool does not offer good capabilities for managing robust IT regulations. It would be good if there's improvement to the tool so it can be used to manage IT assets.

Incentivized

• Safely managing big data involving in many fields like quality, project tracking, and manufacturing-related stuff,
• Integrating with many other tools widely utilized in plant teams.
• Ford and IATF auditors used to track down the details with a similar interface, making SAP familiar.

Incentivized

• Workflows - The workflows of SAP Process Control are extremely helpful
• Reporting - Standard reports as well as the connection to SAP AC is very helpful
• Continuous Control Monitoring is the way to go in ICS Topics in the future.
• Handling of users - Assignment and Replacements
• Spot Checks - Helpful workflows and setup

Incentivized

• Currently an integrated solution - would prefer to see a continuous solution
• Limited predictive audit functionality
• The big data functionality is more marketing than reality

Incentivized

• Integrated attachments functionality (i.e., edit Word/Excel documents within SAP PC, rather than having to download the files locally)
• More flexible dashboarding capabilities
• Better out of the box reporting
• No out of the box content for Controls, Regulations

Incentivized

This tool helps internal auditors for scoping, risk assessment, resource management, and project management of internal audits. Due to the streamlining and automated audit process, it lowers audit cost and time for auditing. This can be integrated with analytics tools for risk analytics and make KPI of higher management. Issue tracking, audit, and log report generation are very simple.

Incentivized

I wouldn't say there is a true peer to SAP Audit Management currently available on the market. SAP Audit Management is the only software that is. It is designed by and developed for audit practitioners across the world. Further, the software unlocks the disparate information for Internal Audit departments and supports audit experts in their day-to-day activities with an easy to use. collaborative, and risk-based approach towards audit procedures.

Incentivized

The connectivity with other SAP products out of the SAP GRC suite, like Access Control and so on, was key for the decision. Also we had an already mature SAP System landscape as well as having internal processes that were similar to the SAP Process Control standard processes helped us with the decision to implement SAP Process Control.

Incentivized

• Lower audit cost due to streamlining of the audit process and reporting.
• Integration of risk management, process control, and access control.
• Can be integrated with analytics tools for proper analytics.
• If an organization using multiple ERP systems, this tool is not much useful.
• For SMEs, it is more expensive to manage.

Incentivized

• Significant control on risks
• Significant savings on audit testing can be achieved
• Automation of risk management has a lot of audit standardization and confidence in compliance
• Reliability of automated controls reduces time vested in testing the standard controls