How AkzoNobel Strengthened Compliance with Continuous Control Monitoring

From Fragmented Monitoring to Continuous Insight

For global organizations, maintaining visibility over control effectiveness across multiple ERP systems can be a significant challenge. As business processes become increasingly interconnected, traditional control monitoring methods often rely on spreadsheets, manual analyses, and disconnected reporting tools. This makes it difficult to identify issues quickly and provide management with a consistent view of compliance performance.

AkzoNobel faced a similar challenge. The organization was looking to replace its existing analytics tooling and gain improved insights and consolidated reporting across its global SAP landscape. With critical business processes running across multiple systems, the need for a more scalable and efficient monitoring approach became increasingly important.

Creating a Single Source of Truth

By implementing KPMG Sofy Continuous Control Monitoring, AkzoNobel established a centralized platform for monitoring key business controls across seven SAP systems worldwide. Rather than collecting and analyzing data manually, control execution became automated, allowing the organization to continuously assess business activities and identify potential exceptions.

This approach provided stakeholders with a consolidated view of compliance across business units, enabling faster decision-making and more effective risk management.

Focusing on What Really Matters

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is the volume of transactions and data generated every day. Continuous Control Monitoring helps cut through this complexity by automatically highlighting exceptions that require attention.

Instead of spending valuable time reviewing large datasets, control owners can focus directly on high-risk transactions, policy violations, and process deviations. Automated exception analysis helps organizations prioritize remediation efforts and reduce the risk of issues remaining undetected.

Benefits Realized

Through Continuous Control Monitoring, organizations like AkzoNobel can:

• Gain real-time insight into control performance across multiple systems.
• Consolidate compliance reporting into a single platform.
• Reduce manual effort through automated control execution.
• Detect process exceptions faster.
• Improve transparency for management and stakeholders.
• Strengthen governance and reduce compliance risks.

Looking Ahead

As organizations continue to digitize and scale their operations, continuous visibility into business controls becomes increasingly important. Continuous Control Monitoring enables organizations to move from periodic reviews to an always-on approach, helping teams detect issues earlier, improve compliance, and focus attention where it matters most.

By leveraging KPMG Sofy Continuous Control Monitoring, AkzoNobel gained greater insight into its global control environment and established a more efficient, data-driven approach to monitoring and compliance.

Interested in strengthening your control environment? Discover how Continuous Control Monitoring can provide real-time insights, automate compliance activities, and help your organization stay in control.