Effective internal controls and compliance with corporate approval authority policies and reporting hierarchies are key components of an organization’s code of conduct and for uninterrupted execution of business.
Approvals Adhering to Commitment Authority Policies and Hierarchies.
Our set of approval management apps allows the organizations to quickly model their various commitment authority policies in SAP, build custom approval hierarchies in reference to these policies, certify out-of-policy exceptions, and integrate them in the various corporate approval workflows.
Based on SAP Fiori Design Principles and SAPUI5 technology
On-premise or cloud deployment
Seamless integration with backend SAP Business Workflows for various corporate functions, such as, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Services, Accounts Payable, etc.
Personalized and optimized user experience
Approval policies, managed and executed.
Policy Manager
Whether it is CapEx investment, Indirect Procurement, or Direct Purchase Order in reference to long term agreements, the Approval Authority Policy Manager app allows you to easily define your corporate commitment authority policy in SAP, tightly coupled with procurement release strategies in Customizing.
Key Features
Your corporate workflows requiring approvals rely on various org hierarchies for approver determination. The corporate policies can be associated with approval hierarchies, assigning approval limits to the hierarchy elements (approvers) for your approval workflows.
Define your policies for various procurement categories by coupling the policy levels to release strategies defined in Customization.
Associate policy levels to multiple org roles as defined in corporate commitment authority guidelines.
Link policies to custom hierarchies for approver determination (role resolution).
Quickly update the approvers’ designated authorities by updating policies due to changing segregation of duties.
Monitor user authorization based on the assigned policy specific roles and approval amounts in various hierarchies in comparison to the SAP authorizations for specific release codes.
Define validation rules for policy associations with various hierarchies for your SAP Workflow based approvals.
Custom approval hierarchies, rapidly built and deployed for approver determination.
Hierarchy Builder
Hierarchy Builder app empowers your various corporate value streams to define custom approval hierarchies with reference to approval policies, for the approver determination of your SAP Workflow engines.
Key Features
Create custom hierarchies with multiple data sources including HR employees, SAP users, SuccessFactors Employee Central, and third party solutions such as Workday.
Based on latest SAP Fiori framework, offering simple and intuitive user experience.
Assign your hierarchy elements (approvers) the necessary roles from linked corporate approval policies (optional).
Real-time user authorization analysis based on role based approval limit vs. SAP authorization for the release codes.
View hierarchies in tree and tabular views with various rule based validations for immediate resolution.
Define various workflow administrators hierarchies for approval workflow exception handling.
Out-of-Policy waivers, certified and applied.
Out-of-Policy Manager
Out-of-Policy (OOP) app allows the definition and application of waivers to the approval hierarchies, influencing the approver determination in your corporate workflows.
Key Features
Waivers definition with attributes including mass postings, notes and attachments requirements.
OOP exception certification for approver in a specific hierarchy per modeled rule.
Reminders on time-sensitive events related to active OOP exceptions.
Ability to store unstructured data (notes and attachments) within SAP or in 3rd party solution such as OpenText SAP ArchiveLink.
Annual recertification of OOP exceptions per your organizations compliance guidelines.
Awards
Converge provides the expertise you need, packaged in a portfolio of innovative solutions, consulting services, and support.
Gold Award
SAP Quality Award, 2013-14
Silver Award
SAP Quality Award, 2013-14
Best App Award
SAP Innovation Challenge for Manufacturing Apps, 2012
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