Average annual growth rate in the world and Turkey exhibits a 10% ERP system is a special and important in supporting the activities of the company with various business software products. Developed after the Materials Resource Planning and Manufacturing Resource Planning systems, ERP has become widespread in companies that provide production-based services in a short time. Integrating the basic business processes and functions of the business into a single structure, ERP system is a standard software package consisting of many parts. When the system is implemented correctly, it is a structure that provides a safe, information-sharing environment that provides efficiency, profitability and cost advantages to the business. However, there are some risks during project implementation.
The most important process in ERP applications is the correct planning of the institution's needs and the modification of the ERP package for these needs. During the applications, consultants work hard and the company project team and end users spend time to complete these steps. At this stage, one of the most important issues is not to ignore the audit.
Authorization, situations against the principle of separation of tasks with Superuser problems
In ERP systems, it is very important to define the user privileges correctly and to integrate them into the system. In this way, only the officers and related persons can perform transactions, the boundary between the officers will be protected and the segregation of duties (SOD) can be applied.
In ERP applications, user rights granted in some stages of the project without test based or correct identification involve some security risks when the system is started to be used live. This will ensure that the user rights are listed before the transition to the live system and the programs that will determine the conflicts according to the standards and the user rights are reviewed. Thus, the security level of the system will increase. However, it is very important to identify the users with whom superuser rights are granted as the right people.
Using predefined passwords
In ERP systems, operating systems and database management systems, the fact that the predefined high rights passwords are not modified when live use also causes problems. Such situations can pose security risks such as connecting unauthorized persons from outside and damaging the system.
Lack of policy and procedure
Identifying the people who will manage the system after the live environment in ERP systems, publishing the approved procedures that determine the activities to be managed and explaining the management levels will increase the awareness of security in the company and will enable users to adapt to the ERP system.
Performing and reporting controls during the processes is another factor that will affect the success of the whole project. In this context, the following steps can be followed:
- Identification of users with high level of access rights in the ERP system,
- Making authorizations for the profile of such users,
-Determination of users who will have critical rights,
-It will improve the security infrastructure in the ERP system and system at maximum efficiency
making the parametric settings to use,
- Analysis of principle of separation of duties of all users,
-Security and critical system tables analysis,
Managing the ERP system in software development and change management standards.
An independent audit firm's external review of the system can lead to risk reduction or reduction. A secure and systematic structure is extremely important for both the company and the ERP provider.
How can we help you?
As SDM Software Services, our aim is to increase your performance by supporting the activities of your company with various software products, to give you full support about ERP, which is an indispensable system of our century thanks to this feature, which manages all the data in different departments together. ERP, which has standard software packages that can be used in all sectors and can be customized during its installation, fulfills the needs of many companies in an appropriate way with its functions such as accounting transactions, creating specially shaped documents such as invoices, dispatch notes, receipts and human resources management. SDM Software Services, ERP Authorization Services, which provide services in line with the strategic goals and objectives of businesses, provide solutions and services in current approaches such as customer relations management, human resources practices.
