As a SAP services partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers teams with SAP to help our mutual clients with business transformation initiatives that drive performance improvement throughout the extended enterprise and the supporting SAP environment. Companies today are evolving, diversifying, acquiring, merging, divesting, outsourcing, offshoring, and restructuring to take advantage of a continually changing and dynamic marketplace. This accelerated rate of change means that companies must reduce complexity and increase flexibility to exploit today's global opportunities.
PwC and SAP have a long-standing strategic alliance and together have completed hundreds of successful SAP engagements across a wide range of industries. Unlike many consulting firms, PwC's 1,100 dedicated SAP professionals worldwide go beyond implementation services to provide integration of SAP solution components with business processes. PwC is a leading provider of business advisory services in support of SAP-enabled performance improvement related to risk management, process, technology, and organizational change.
You want to derive greater value from your existing SAP system.
Your business has changed—whether due to a sudden event or steady growth—and now you need to transform processes and systems to meet new business requirements.
You need an overall corporate performance management strategy that increases transparency into operational lines, business units, and financials, while empowering your executive team with visibility to financial and operational performance, risk profile, and compliance posture.
You want to reduce the complexity of disparate systems, proliferation of spreadsheets, and varied management processes and controls across your extended enterprise.
You need to consolidate multiple financial systems and platforms to improve the accuracy, timeliness and, most importantly, usefulness of financial information from which to manage, forecast, report and drive performance.
You are concerned about the rising cost of manual risk and compliance processes and controls, and the increased risks associated with fragmented compliance technologies.
You need to align your talent and human resources in support of business objectives and value-added analysis work rather than the time consuming tasks of data reconciliation and manipulation.
PwC’s strategy is squarely focused on enhancing the value of our clients’ new or existing SAP implementations. But PwC takes this substantially further and demonstrates leadership with a difference, through a combination of distinctive capabilities:
Enterprise transformation: PwC's functional, organizational and technical approach to supporting SAP implementation and upgrades focuses on establishing a foundation to help you realize your strategic intentions for business and enterprise process transformation. PwC helps your organization develop an enterprise strategy and architecture from process and organizational design, change and program management, to strategic deployment and use of your full range of SAP Enterprise, Business, and Business User application platforms. Our resources have SAP project-proven experience in process standardization as well as experience with large, complex implementations.
Our approach is based on our SIMPLE methodology, complemented by a suite of standardized work products, plans, tools, accelerators and deliverables that can be applied to a wide variety of engagements from implementations, upgrades, functionality enhancements, performance improvements, security, application optimization or other business and enterprise process transformation projects. Taken together with our structured, action-specific implementation plans, PwC's approach is designed to help mitigate critical risks associated with large-scale SAP implementations.
Financial transformation: Leveraging SAP's suite of business user applications such as Strategic Enterprise Management and Business Planning and Consolidations, we help clients gain timely, cost-effective access to financial and operational information and attain continuous performance improvement through improved analysis and planning. Key to this transformation is simplification via integrated standardization of people, processes, information and technology.
Strategic applications: We help our clients to put the "intelligence" into business intelligence by establishing the metrics, processes, governance structures and systems to support true corporate performance management and drive accountabilities, decision support and operational execution.
Governance, risk and compliance: Our SAP GRC trained professionals work with your organization to define the strategic vision for an integrated GRC program. We then translate this strategy into a technology architecture and roadmap configured specifically for your business. As the recognized leader and largest and most experienced global provider of SAP governance1 , risk management and compliance services, we are well prepared to design and configure controls and reporting mechanisms to help your organization meet client regulatory, compliance and risk management needs. Our team also supports the implementation of SAP solutions for GRC with knowledge and experience in key GRC-related areas, such as access control, process control, enterprise risk management, master data management, identity management and sourcing compliance.
1Forrester Wave Report, September 2007
Information security and controls: We work with your business and technical resources to create an actionable security and control strategy that unifies disparate business processes, controls and systems. We leverage SAP solutions for GRC and inherent controls in MySAP to establish an effective and efficient configuration of automated system controls in areas such as access and authorization, role management, segregation-of-duties, and business processes. We design and remediate SAP security based on cost-effective principles of role-based access controls.
