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SAP · Case Study · US Food

US food manufacturer SAP indirect access. Eighty nine percent exposure reduction.

SAP digital access framework, integration framework, document creation framework, named user framework, audit response framework, and the buyer side moves on the SAP indirect access audit framework at the leading US food manufacturer.

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Customer
US food manufacturer
Anonymised. Leading US food manufacturer.
Vendor
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SAP indirect access audit cycle.
Outcome
89% reduction
Against the publisher's preferred SAP audit framework.
Engagement
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Multi phase audit defense engagement.

A leading US food manufacturer operating across the broader US region with a substantial SAP framework reduced SAP indirect access exposure by eighty nine percent at the SAP audit cycle. The publisher's preferred SAP audit framework anchored the broader SAP audit framework against the customer's broader integration framework rather than the customer's actual SAP estate. The buyer side framework anchored the SAP audit framework against the customer's actual digital access framework, the customer's actual integration framework, the customer's actual document creation framework, and the customer's actual broader SAP framework. Read the related SAP advisory practice, the SAP digital access licensing, the SAP audit defense service, and the SAP audit defense framework.

The SAP audit defense framework intersects with five principal commercial dimensions across the customer's SAP estate:

  1. The audit framework. Segments the audit population.
  2. The deployment data framework.
  3. The entitlement framework.
  4. The exposure framework.
  5. The response framework.

The five dimensions compound across the SAP audit cycle.

The audit framework

The audit framework anchored the broader SAP framework at the audit cycle around the indirect access dimension. The buyer side framework anchored the audit framework against the customer's actual digital access framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad SAP indirect access framework.

The SAP audit framework typically segments the audit framework across the four principal audit populations. The aggressive audit framework typically anchors the audit framework against the customer's broader SAP framework at the upper customer scale. The structured audit framework typically anchors the audit framework against the customer's structured audit framework. The soft audit framework typically anchors the audit framework against the customer's soft audit framework. The buyer side framework anchors the audit framework against the customer's actual audit framework. Read the broader SAP EAM and Industry Engine pillar.

The deployment data framework

The deployment data framework is the second principal commercial framework at the SAP audit defense framework. The buyer side framework anchors the deployment data framework against the customer's actual deployment data framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad deployment data framework. The framework typically segments the deployment data framework across four principal deployment data populations.

The first deployment data population is the configuration management database (CMDB) framework, which anchors the framework against the customer's CMDB framework. The second deployment data population is the discovery tool framework, which anchors the framework against the customer's discovery framework across the SCCM, Tanium, BigFix, ILMT, Flexera, Snow Software, and broader discovery population. The third deployment data population is the IT service management framework, which anchors the framework against the customer's ITSM framework. The fourth deployment data population is the software asset management framework, which anchors the framework against the customer's SAM framework.

The entitlement framework

The entitlement framework is the third principal commercial framework at the SAP audit defense framework. The buyer side framework anchors the entitlement framework against the customer's actual entitlement framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad entitlement framework. The framework typically segments the entitlement framework across four principal entitlement populations.

The first entitlement population is the contract entitlement framework. The second entitlement population is the certificate entitlement framework. The third entitlement population is the support entitlement framework. The fourth entitlement population is the merger and acquisition entitlement framework. The cumulative effect of the four entitlement populations is the SAP entitlement framework that runs across the customer's actual entitlement framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad entitlement framework.

The exposure framework

The exposure framework anchored the SAP audit cycle against the customer's actual SAP estate. The framework typically segmented the exposure population across the SCADA integration framework drift, the work order integration framework drift, the API integration framework drift, and the file based integration framework drift. Read the broader SAP digital access licensing.

The audit response framework

The audit response framework is the fourth principal commercial framework at the SAP audit defense framework. The framework typically segments the response framework across four principal response phases. The first response phase is the audit notice acknowledgement phase. The second response phase is the audit scope phase. The third response phase is the audit findings phase. The fourth response phase is the audit settlement phase.

The audit response framework typically delivers material exposure reduction across the SAP audit cycle, with the cumulative effect that the audit response framework produces the response framework that anchors the SAP audit cycle. The buyer side framework anchors the response framework against the customer's actual response framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad response framework.

The buyer side moves

The buyer side framework had eleven moves that compounded across the SAP audit framework:

  1. Anchor the SAP estate. Anchored the SAP audit framework against the customer's actual digital access framework, integration framework, document creation framework, and the broader SAP framework.
  2. Audit framework. Anchored the audit framework.
  3. Deployment data framework. Ran the deployment data framework.
  4. Entitlement framework. Ran the entitlement framework.
  5. Exposure framework. Ran the exposure framework.
  6. Audit response framework. Ran the audit response framework.
  7. Audit settlement. Negotiated the audit settlement framework.
  8. Digital access. Negotiated the digital access framework.
  9. Integration framework. Negotiated the integration framework.
  10. Document creation. Negotiated the document creation framework.
  11. Renewal framework. Ran the broader SAP renewal framework against the audit framework.

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SAP framed the audit as the immediate uplift across the broader integration framework. Redress reframed the audit around the digital access framework, with the document creation framework matching the actual integration framework. Eighty nine percent reduction across the SAP indirect access exposure.

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Leading US food manufacturer
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