Master data is one of the most important assets within any ERP system.

Today, companies realize the importance of a consistent and reliable master data base (customers, suppliers, material ...).
A decentralized master data management, maintained by multiple staff members, with a lack of procedure, increases risks of error, abuse and/or fraud…with potential consequences of incorrect bank accounts, payment file being rejected, duplicates vendors/customers…

axl & trax can support you in ensuring master data consistency, integrity and availability through quality and process assessment, procedure reviews and implementation of best practices and control methods.

Established security roles and user assignments must be adequately maintained to ensure a sustainable protection for valuable information assets. axl & trax helps companies to administer and maintain their SAP security on a day-to-day basis or for a short period in time e.g. when in-house administrators are ill or on vacation. Onsite, remote or on-call activities can be organized to ensure appropriate level of flexibility to best meet your support needs.

Is your company in control over its SAP system security and internal control? If internal staff is fully capable of running projects in-house, doing the security administration and delivering qualitative results, it does not make sense to hire external staff.

axl & trax recognizes the need for efficient staffing and at the same time, it has become clear that even experienced staff need specialist advice on specific security issues, a peer helping to keep the quality levels high or on how to deal with new features or issues in SAP. axl & trax has many experts that are confronted daily with security challenges in different companies. Involving axl & trax as a coach or Quality Assurance staff member, keeps the number of consultancy days low and allows any company to benefit from the exposure and strong experience of the axl & trax experts.

No matter what industry you are in, approval processes take place in every organization. Approval processes like purchase order release, invoice approval, credit note release, vacation approval, user account approval, authorization request approval are still handled by e-mail or paper documents in many organizations. When these processes are becoming complex, it will be hard to manage them manually. By means of SAP Workflow, these manual approval processes can easily be automated.

SAP Workflow helps you to enforce your internal control through consistent execution of the approval processes and explicit requirement of the approvals to complete a process. It also enforce your compliance process by providing document trail of approvals.

But process automation should not go along with removing or bypassing existing controls and security measure.  It is thus critical to ensure security is being considered during workflow implementation. axl&trax can help you in the set-up of your automation requirements and also in ensuring they remain under controls.

Segregation of Duties as an organizational control measure has gained increasing importance as a key control in the last decade. Establishing an SoD ruleset or matrix that fits the risk environment and adequately addresses risks specific to an organization is a multi-disciplinary and specialized task. Good matrices don’t come off the shelf, but good reference material does. axl & trax helps organizations defining a tailored-to-fit SoD ruleset or matrix in close collaboration with the stakeholders from business, internal control and security.