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When we think about Segregation of Duties (SoD) and internal controls, the focus is almost exclusively on money: stopping fraud, preventing bad payments, and securing financial ledgers. However, in the era of GDPR (Europe) and POPIA (South Africa), the data sitting inside your ERP is just as valuable—and highly regulated—as the cash in your bank. Protecting personal data is no …
For most businesses, payroll represents the single largest operational expense. Because payroll runs are frequent, highly automated, and massive in volume, they are the perfect hiding place for occupational fraud. At the heart of the most devastating payroll schemes—such as the creation of “Ghost Employees”—is a classic failure in Segregation of Duties (SoD). The Anatomy of a Ghost Employee A …
For years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting was viewed largely as a corporate communications exercise. Sustainability reports were glossy PDFs filled with high-level promises and unaudited estimates. In 2026, that era is officially over. With the rollout of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and equivalent global regulations, ESG has rapidly transformed from voluntary public relations into strict …
Inventory shrinkage—the loss of products between the point of manufacture and the point of sale—is often written off as the cost of doing business. It gets chalked up to damaged goods, clerical errors, or minor external theft. However, when shrinkage numbers quietly tick upward, the root cause might be a fundamental flaw in your ERP access controls within the warehouse. …
When a corporate fraud scheme is uncovered, the reaction is almost always the same: “I can’t believe it was them. They’ve been with us for 15 years.” The uncomfortable truth about internal fraud is that it is rarely committed by career criminals. It is usually carried out by trusted, capable employees. To understand how this happens—and how to stop it—we must …
In many organizations, the compliance department is seen as the internal police—a group that slows down business and enforces rigid rules. This dynamic creates a dangerous environment where employees try to bypass controls rather than uphold them. To truly protect an organization, compliance cannot be just the Risk Officer’s problem. It must be woven into the fabric of the company. …
The cloud has transformed how we deploy, scale, and maintain enterprise software. For many organizations, migrating ERP systems like Infor LN, SAP S/4HANA, or Oracle Cloud to the cloud promises lower infrastructure costs, faster deployment, and improved flexibility. But when it comes to Segregation of Duties (SoD)—one of the foundational pillars of internal controls—does the cloud make life easier or …
We have all seen it happen. An ERP system is implemented five or ten years ago with a clean, theoretical security model. But then, reality sets in. Employees change departments, people leave, “temporary” access is granted during crunch times, and new users are set up by simply copying the permissions of existing ones. Fast forward to today, and your ERP …
Welcome to the final post in our series on optimizing onboarding with Dynaflow Solutions. So far, we’ve covered the basics of onboarding and provided a step-by-step guide. Today, we’ll explore best practices to ensure a smooth onboarding process, especially when employees change roles or job functions. Best Practices for Onboarding Standardize Processes: Develop a standardized onboarding checklist to ensure consistency …
Compliance is the first thing sacrificed to a go-live date and the most expensive thing to retrofit afterwards. This guide sets out how to implement segregation of duties in an ERP system properly: what to do during the implementation project, how to find conflicts without building a rule set from scratch, how to make an unmanageable conflict list manageable, how …
