SAP Value & Risk Intelligence

A consultant-led SAP S/4HANA diagnostic — 56 transaction-level checks across five executive indicators, and one prioritised action list.

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Transactions can close in SAP. The financial questions may not.

A payment has been processed — but could a duplicate payment have occurred?
Goods have been delivered, yet the corresponding billing remains open
A purchase cleared approval, and the same user created, approved and paid it
Three orders to one vendor in a week, each just under the release limit
The same material billed at different rates on the same day, to two customers

SAP S/4HANA Value and Risk Intelligence

VISCAP’s Value & Risk Intelligence assessment examines financial transactional activity through 56 intelligence checks, bringing potential financial and operational risks into five executive indicators and a prioritised action list. Every transaction leaves a record; the assessment reads those records as business risk rather than as processing history.

56 SAP Transaction Checks Across Five Business Risk Areas

Financial Leakage Exposure

Where could money be leaking? Payment irregularities and vendor-related transactions can introduce financial exposure. This indicator brings potentially concerning payment activity into focus, helping finance teams determine what requires investigation.

Duplicate invoice payments
Vendor bank-detail changes before payment runs
Manual payments bypassing the payment program
Duplicate and one-time vendor accounts
Round-amount high-value payments
Payments without a goods receipt

12 checks · CFO

Working Capital at Risk

Where could cash be tied up? Open purchase orders, outstanding advances and deliveries awaiting billing can leave working capital questions unresolved. The assessment highlights relevant transactions that may warrant financial or operational follow-up.

Ageing open purchase orders
Advances paid against a PO with no goods receipt
Delivered but not billed
Forgotten open purchase requisitions
Advances outstanding beyond policy days
Open sales orders despite available stock

8 checks · CFO · COO

Control Breach Exposure

Are business controls operating as intended? Approval practices, conflicting responsibilities and unusual transactional activity may indicate potential control weaknesses. This indicator helps internal audit and business teams identify matters that deserve closer examination.

Same user creates and approves the same document
PO release versus invoice posting
Credit-limit maintenance and release patterns
Backdated entry and posting dates
Park and post of a user's own document
Service entry sheet self-acceptance

20 checks · CIO · Audit

Procurement Value Leakage

Is negotiated purchasing value reaching the invoice? Purchasing and invoicing activity can reveal differences between expected and actual procurement value. This indicator focuses on potential commercial exposure within purchasing and supplier-related transactions.

Orders split below the release threshold
Invoice rate above the PO rate
Off-contract (maverick) buying
Emergency and free-text purchasing
Price and quantity change after release
Quotation comparison skipped

9 checks · CPO

Revenue & Compliance Exposure

Are revenue and compliance risks receiving enough attention? Billing gaps, sales pricing exceptions and selected statutory transaction patterns can raise important questions about revenue realisation and compliance. The assessment brings these concerns into a consolidated business view.

Manual price overrides in sales orders
Returns and credit-memo patterns
Delivery without billing
HSN/SAC and tax-code mismatches
Pricing condition backdating
TDS under Section 194Q

7 checks · CFO · CRO

11 · 15 · 10 · 5 · 12 · 3

The Same 56 Checks, Grouped by Transaction Area

Segregation of duties 11

Where one person can create, approve and complete the same transaction — on the document itself, not only in the role design.

PO creation vs approvalPR creation vs releaseInvoice posting vs payment runPark vs post own document

Procure-to-pay 15

Requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts and invoice verification, including ageing, after-the-fact orders and price movement after release.

Ageing open POsAfter-the-fact POsOrder splittingPO price vs invoice rate

Vendor master and payments 10

Vendor records, bank-detail changes, duplicates, and how payments are actually executed.

Duplicate vendorsBank-detail changesDuplicate invoice paymentsManual payments

Vendor bias and concentration 5

Award patterns, buyer–vendor pairing, price trends against other quotes, and spend concentration by material group.

Single-vendor win rateBuyer–vendor pairingPrice trend vs marketSpend concentration

Order-to-cash 12

Sales orders, pricing and credit practice, billing completeness, returns and credit memos.

Manual price overridesCredit-block releasesDelivery without billingReturns and credit memos

Statutory and tax compliance (India) 3

HSN/SAC and tax-code alignment between purchase order and invoice, and TDS under Section 194Q.

HSN/SAC mismatchTax-code mismatchTDS 194Q threshold

Executive Risk Dashboard and Prioritised Findings

Finding an irregularity is one part of the assessment. Understanding its possible financial significance and deciding what to investigate first is equally important.

A consolidated view of exposure

Five CXO indicators present potential concerns across financial leakage, working capital, internal controls, procurement and revenue.

Financial leakageWorking capitalInternal controlsProcurement and revenue

Financial and operational context

Relevant transaction values, frequency of findings and risk classifications help leadership understand the scale and significance of matters flagged for review.

Transaction valuesFrequency of findingsRisk classification

A prioritised management action list

Instead of working through individual audit findings without a clear order, leadership receives a focused view of the areas that warrant further investigation.

Ranked by exposureOwner per itemWhere to look first

The Value and Risk Intelligence dashboard: a dial summarising all six transaction areas on the left, and a severity-ranked list of findings on the right, each naming its check, its area and how many SAP documents it flagged. — **56 checks on one dial**Filter by area and severity; every finding shows how many SAP documents it flagged.

A single check opened in detail: the documents evaluated and flagged, a health score, and three panels reading what the pattern really says, its business impact, and the one detail that changes the decision. — **The check behind the number**Plain-language reading, business impact, and the one detail that changes the decision.

Note

Assessment findings indicate potential exposure. Flagged transaction values do not represent confirmed financial losses or guaranteed recoverable amounts.

Screens from a VISCAP Value & Risk Intelligence report. Figures belong to that single scan; every system produces its own.

A Governed Path From Scope to a Prioritised Action List

Scope

VISCAP works with your team to establish the business priorities, the relevant SAP environment and the transactional scope for the assessment, and agrees exactly what data the checks need.

Agree the business priorities
Confirm the SAP environment in scope
Set the transactional scope and period
Define the data the checks require
Name the stakeholders and owners

Diagnose

The agreed SAP transaction data is assessed using VISCAP’s proprietary diagnostic capabilities across the defined intelligence checks. The extract is read-only and nothing is changed in your production system.

Read-only extract of the agreed data
All 56 transaction-level checks run
Findings grouped by transaction area
Findings classified by severity
Every finding traced to its SAP documents

Report

The results are brought together in executive-level indicators, a risk dashboard and a prioritised action list, and walked through with the functions that will act on them.

Five executive indicators
Risk dashboard with transaction context
Prioritised management action list
Walkthrough with finance, audit and procurement
A structured starting point for follow-up

Who reads it

CFOs and finance leadersPotential financial leakage, working capital exposure and revenue-related concerns.
Internal audit and risk leadersControl weaknesses and transactions that require further investigation.
Procurement leadersPotential purchasing value leakage and supplier-related concerns.
COOs and operations leadersOperational implications of unresolved transactions and cross-functional risks.
CIOs and SAP leadersRelevance of the diagnostic to their SAP environment and its technical requirements.

Industries

Manufacturing

Procurement, plant spend and supplier transactions read as business risk

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Consumer Products and FMCG

High-volume billing, returns and trade-spend patterns across regions

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Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences

Audit-ready findings inside validated, regulated processes

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Chemicals

Vendor concentration, contract pricing and statutory tax alignment

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Professional Services

Project billing completeness, credit practice and revenue realisation

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Engineering, Construction and Projects

Advances, open orders and subcontractor payments across long-cycle delivery

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Case study

Five modules restructured for Cloud4C Services

A landscape revamp with IAS/IPS, single sign-on and Story Reports — 88% HR process automation across the environment.

Case study

One system across Suminter’s distributed business

The full employee lifecycle on one consistent SuccessFactors layer across distributed agribusiness and organic products operations.

Insight

Custom code remediation: what SAP Readiness Check does and does not tell you

The report gives you a count. It does not tell you which objects still matter, which are dead, or what they will cost to rebuild.

Insight

Why two dashboards disagree on the same KPI

Reconciling numbers is rarely a data problem. It is usually two teams using the same word for different measures, and nobody owning which one is right.

Frequently Asked Questions

It is a VISCAP-developed, consultant-led diagnostic service supported by proprietary analytical technology. Organisations engage VISCAP to conduct the assessment and receive its findings.

The diagnostic examines SAP S/4HANA transactional information across areas such as purchasing, payments, supplier activity, business controls, sales and billing. The extract is read-only and the assessment scope is established as part of the engagement.

No. A finding indicates a transaction or pattern that warrants investigation. Potential exposure must be examined before any financial loss or recovery can be established.

No. The diagnostic provides additional transaction-level findings and business-risk perspectives that can support further investigation. It does not replace formal audit procedures or statutory compliance obligations.

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What deserves a closer look in your transactions? If financial leakage, working capital, procurement value or business controls are priorities for your organisation, VISCAP can help you explore how Value & Risk Intelligence fits your environment.