1. Eli Lilly and Company: Responding to Global Health Needs While Strengthening Compliance with SAP® Process Control
Company ​Eli Lilly and Company Headquarters ​Indianapolis, Indiana Industry Life sciences Products and Services ​Development, manufacture, and sale of medicines Employees ​41,000 Revenue ​US$20 billion Web Site ​
Objectives
Create a central global repository across business units while helping the finance group reduce the number of controls
Eliminate disparate and regionalized manual work by control owners
Maximize scalability, consistency, and reliability of control performance and compliance reporting
Implement an automated, manage-by-exception, self-documenting monitoring process to reduce internal control efforts and improve business process performance
Why SAP
Ability to integrate across 14 systems in the global SAP® solution landscape
Positive experiences with legacy SAP solutions across the company
Easy entry and lower total cost of ownership
Resolution
Implemented the SAP Process Control application across 72 countries, including four regional shared-service centers and three outsourcing hubs
Integrated with the SAP Access Control application to automate controls over segregation of duties
Adopted new business rule parameter functionality to maximize reuse of business rules
Future plans
Expand SOX and FCPA regulatory monitoring, self-assessment, and testing across global financial, supply chain, and order-to-cash processes
Increase visibility using dashboards in SAP Process Control
>200​ Business rules deployed for ​exception-based continuous control monitoring (CCM) ​75% ​Reduction in manual effort on selected control activities by managing by exception using CCM 80% Estimated reduction in time required for CCM business rule creation and maintenance Increased Management confidence thanks to complete visibility on the status of controls and changes Better​ Consistency and completeness of control performance, helping streamline processes and support audits ​
​"With SAP Process Control, we have saved time and money through automation. Most important, we have freed up resources to focus on higher-value activities for Lilly.” ​Emily Swaim Damson, Security and Controls Lead, Eli Lilly and Company
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