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Inventory Management Business Cycle - Audit Program and Testing Procedures for SAP R/3



This audit program is designed to help audit, risk and security professionals assess the Inventory Management business cycle (links into the Financial (FI, CO) & the Logistics (SD, MM, PP) modules). This audit program will help you identify any inherent risks, minimize exposure to such risks, ensure that necessary controls are in place and operate effectively, and ascertain reliability of the SAP R/3 inventory business cycle.

This audit program is based on the latest auditing standards. It contains a comprehensive listing of control objectives and recommended controls to meet the objectives. It also contains detailed testing procedures, rather than generic descriptions of the controls & the tests to be performed. You'll receive step-by-step directions on extracting the configurable options & user access reports from the system in support of individual control activities. The purpose of the testing instructions is to enable anyone to execute the tests & evaluate risks and controls in the SAP R/3 environment.

*NOTE* Please refer below for more details and to view a part of the audit program to ensure it's right for you.

Audit Programs

Preview SAP Inventory Audit ProgramTable of Contents:

The audit program contains 64 tests designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the key configuration settings, monitoring techniques and access restriction mechanisms to sensitive transactions in the in SAP R/3. The audit program covers the following inventory management sub-processes:

Managing Inventory
Controls and testing guidance to ensure that inventory is salable or usable and that adjustments to inventory prices or quantities are valid, recorded accurately, timely and in the appropriate period:
  • Monitoring procedures for slow-turnover inventory
  • Monitoring changes to inventory prices & quantities
  • Access to maintain work centers in SAP R/3
  • Access to input physical inventory counts
  • Access to maintain material master posting periods
Receiving and Storing Raw Materials and Purchased Inventory
Test steps to ensure that purchased inventory (including raw materials) represent materials acquired by the entity, recorded accurately, timely and in the appropriate period:
  • Monitoring changes to goods received
  • Access to maintain goods received 
  • The Goods receipt/Invoice receipt
  • Access to settle POs using Evaluated Receipt Settlement functionality
Requisitioning Materials, Producing & Costing Inventory
Testing procedures to ensure that transfers of raw materials to production are appropriately recorded and that production costs are consistent with actual expenses associated with production:
  • Access to maintain Bill of material
  • Monitoring inventory in transit
  • Goods issue & posting transfers between plants
  • Monitoring costs associated with process and production orders
Handling Finished Products
Controls and testing procedures to ensure that finished goods are appropriately recorded:
  • SAP R/3 edits and validates input data for goods received 
  • Reconciliation of inventory counts to the inventory records & to quantities recorded in the G/L
Shipping Finished Products
Controls to ensure that shipments are appropriately recorded:
  • Access to maintain sales orders, inquiries, quotations, contracts, scheduling agreements, delivery & billing documents
  • Monitoring incomplete & blocked sales orders
  • Configuration of valuation areas, valuation classes, chart of accounts, & assignment of the G/L accounts
Maintaining Inventory Master File
Controls to ensure that only valid changes are made to the inventory management master file:
  • Access to maintain material master file
  • Segregation/separation of duties within SAP R/3 inventory functions
  • Monitoring procedures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and validity of the material master data, and much more.
Everything has been conveniently pre-documented with fill-in fields for company-specific information (entity name, date, data extracted from the system, etc.) which will allow you to proceed with your assessment immediately.

Please click here to view a part of the audit program to ensure it's right for you.


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