Optimizing SAP Business Integrity Screening for More Accurate Risk Detection

LeverX helped a global transport infrastructure company fine-tune its SAP Business Integrity Screening environment, reducing false positives and improving the effectiveness of internal audit activities.

Client

A global leader in transport infrastructure management, operating highways and railways across 11 countries. The company is committed to delivering operational excellence and advancing sustainable mobility through the efficient management of critical transportation assets.

Challenge

The client's internal audit department relied on SAP Business Integrity Screening (BIS) to monitor financial and operational anomalies across controlled subsidiaries operating in seven countries. Over time, the client identified that certain detection methods generated false positive results alongside valid findings. As a result, audit teams had to spend additional time reviewing alerts and determining which cases required further investigation.

To improve the accuracy and efficiency of the screening process, the client engaged LeverX to enhance selected detection methods within the existing SAP BIS environment. The objective was to fine-tune detection logic and related configurations in accordance with business and operational requirements while reducing the number of false positive alerts.

Solution

LeverX helped the client optimize its existing SAP Business Integrity Screening environment to improve detection accuracy and reduce the effort required to investigate false positive alerts. The project covered the SAP BIS environment used to monitor approximately 1,000 employees across the client's controlled subsidiaries operating in seven countries.

Step 1: Review of existing detection methods

LeverX worked with the client to review the detection methods identified for improvement within the existing SAP Business Integrity Screening environment. Based on the client's requirements and experience using SAP BIS, the team analyzed the current logic and configurations to determine how they could be refined to better support screening objectives and business requirements.

Step 2: Enhancement of detection logic

Based on the findings of the assessment, LeverX implemented improvements to the logic of existing detection methods. The enhancements were designed to increase the relevance of generated alerts and improve the system's ability to identify potentially high-risk financial and operational anomalies.

Step 3: Refinement of screening strategies

To further improve screening effectiveness, LeverX refined the existing screening strategies within SAP BIS. The updated approach helped better align screening activities with the organization's operational realities and internal audit objectives while reducing the number of alerts requiring unnecessary investigation.

Step 4: Calibration of detection parameters

LeverX adjusted and calibrated detection parameters to better reflect the client's business requirements across its international operations. This fine-tuning helped improve the overall accuracy of the screening process and supported more efficient risk monitoring across the covered subsidiaries.

Technology Stack

• Business integrity and risk screening: SAP Business Integrity Screening (SAP BIS)

  SAP BIS served as the core environment for monitoring financial and operational anomalies, supporting internal audit processes, and improving the accuracy of detection activities.

• ERP backbone: SAP S/4HANA
  SAP S/4HANA provided the underlying business data foundation for screening and analysis within the BIS environment.

Results

The optimized SAP BIS environment improved the accuracy of identifying high-risk financial and operational anomalies.

By reducing false positives, the project helped decrease operational overhead for compliance and audit teams, allowing them to spend less time on unnecessary alert analysis and focus more effectively on relevant findings.

The refined detection logic and calibrated screening parameters also enhanced audit trails and reporting transparency for stakeholders.