SAP Sales Business Objectives Risk & Control Matrix

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Process

Sub Process

Process Objective

Risk (Prior to establishing control)

Control

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Pricing information is accurate.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Pricing database has been created to provide customer service with price information developed and approved by management.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Pricing information is accurate.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Standard price forms are used internally to provide relevant information about prices, rebates, and payment conditions.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Pricing information is accurate.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Standard forms are used internally to capture relevant information regarding rebates and payment conditions.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Pricing information is accurate.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Written confirmation of commercial and financial contract conditions, whether by specific notification or communicated through invoice terms and conditions, is sent to the customer.

Pricing set up/adjustments, instructions for rebates and cash discount conditions decided by local sales/account managers are supported by written evidence or authorization from a higher level.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Pricing information is accurate.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Supply Agreements

Locked into an unfavorable agreement.

Agency contracts with third parties or other Huntsman entities exist and are reviewed and approved by legal before implementation.

Contracts with outside customers/suppliers or other Huntsman entities exist and are either uniquely drafted and reviewed by legal before execution or a pre-approved master legal contract form is utilized for the arrangements.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Supply Agreements

Locked into an unfavorable agreement.

Sales

Sales & Marketing

Sales margins are reasonable.

Sales margins are not regularly reviewed by Management reviews sales margins on a management for reasonableness and regular basis. accuracy.

Sales

Order Entry

Sales data is complete.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Data integrity and completeness is ensured by utilizing consistent forms with sequentially assigned order numbers.

Sales

Order Entry

Sales data is complete.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Financial information contained within customer master file cannot be changed/overridden by employees entering order information.

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Process

Sub Process

Process Objective

Risk (Prior to establishing control)

Control

Sales

Order Entry

Sales data is complete.

Data may be entered incorrectly, resulting in delays or errors in sales order information.

Customer terms and credit information contained within customer master file cannot be changed/overridden by employees through the order entry function.

Sales

Order Entry

Credit Review

Customer's ability to pay.

Proper credit review and authorization is required from credit organization. Order acceptance is adequately authorized.

Sales

Order Entry

Credit Review

Customer's ability to pay.

Customer credit limits have been appropriately established. Blocking facility exists before accepting new orders above customer's credit limit.

Sales

Order Entry

Credit Review

Customer's ability to pay.

Delivery block is placed on orders for overdue customers.

Sales

Order Entry

Credit Review

Customer's ability to pay.

Sales or Delivery block is placed on orders from customers that are considered a 'high risk' and have an overdue balance. Credit notification occurs for 'medium' or 'low' risk customers with an overdue balance.

Sales

Order Entry

Free of charge' Sale order

Free of Charge sales orders are not subject to management review and approval. Appropriate order types have been Customers may be inappropriately supplied configured for ‘free of charge’ orders. with goods or services free of charge.

Sales

Order Entry

Inventory availability / Production plan Stock outs, inability to fill customer order

Sales

Order Entry

Issue Shipping/Delivery Notification/Bill of Lading

Sales

Order Entry

Product Returns / Claims

Customer returns may be not be recorded accurately or completely. The balance of Proper authorization is required to resolve inventory and sales may be misstated in the customer claims. financial statements.

Product Returns / Claims

Customer returns may be not be recorded accurately or completely. The balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Sales

Order Entry

Improper documentation may violate local statutory requirements. Potential fines.

Customer Service/Sales representative has read only access to inventory management system.

Adequately trained customer service representatives are familiar with necessary documentation and statutory requirements. Adequate checklist has been established to prompt customer service to follow document requirements.

Return order types are configured and are associated with appropriate goods movement types and sales order. The inventory system is reviewed to ensure that goods have been returned and inspected before credit is granted. 2

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Process

Sub Process

Process Objective

Risk (Prior to establishing control)

Control

Reconciliation of ledgers and sub ledgers is performed to ensure that all inventory shipped was properly invoiced and recorded. Open orders are appropriate monitored.

Sales

Order Entry

Maintenance of Customer balance, Accounts Receivable, and Inventory records.

Loss of revenue from unbilled shipments. Under/Overstatement of inventory and accounts receivable balances.

Sales

Order Entry

Maintenance of Customer balance, Accounts Receivable, and Inventory records.

Loss of revenue from unbilled shipments. Under/Overstatement of inventory and accounts receivable balances.

Open orders and missed shipments are appropriately monitored.

Sales

Pricing, Rebates & Commission Master Payment terms File

Negative impact on working capital

Authorization to establish/change payment terms is appropriately restricted. Management review and approval of change is required.

Sales

Pricing, Rebates & Commission Master Maintenance of Customer Master File File

Customer credit limits or banking information could be changed or compromised.

Access to customer master file is restricted to authorized individuals. Sufficient audit trail of changes to database is maintained. Review of exception reports showing any deviation from the master file profile is performed.

Sales

Pricing, Rebates & Commission Master Maintenance of Pricing Database File

Loss of revenue due to unauthorized price changes

Authorization lists for additions / updates / exceptions to pricing database. Access to pricing tables is appropriately restricted.

Failure to invoice customer for all shipments that occurred in the month. Potential loss of revenue from: inaccurate billing, exchange rate conversion

Reconciliation of customer accounts to customer shipments are performed. Sales order information is reconciled with invoices. Billing document types are configured to automatically generate and post the associated accounting document. Sequentially numb

Sales

Invoicing

Invoicing for single order or monthly billing

Sales

Invoicing

Credit notes are issued to support customer rebates. The authority to release these notes Credit notes are properly prepared and Credit notes may not be properly prepared, is appropriately assigned within the authorized. authorized, and/or issued. organization. Administrative controls are in place to monitor credit notes issued.

Sales

Invoicing

Distributors

Balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Regular physical inventory occurs of distributor if inventory is housed at distributor location. Monthly reconciliation of inventory balance with Distributor's records is performed.

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SAP Business Process: Sales & Customer Service Ref #

Process

Sub Process

Process Objective

Risk (Prior to establishing control)

Control

Sales

Invoicing

Distributors

Balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Monthly reconciliation of inventory balance with Distributor's records is performed.

Sales

Invoicing

Consignment Sales

Balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Ensure regular physical inventory occurs at customer's location. Monthly reconciliation of inventory balance with location records is performed.

Sales

Invoicing

Consignment Sales

Balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Sales

Invoicing

Consignment Sales

Balance of inventory and sales may be misstated in the financial statements.

Customers are invoiced on a regular basis (daily, monthly) for product consumed.

Management reviews all outstanding partial deliveries via standard reports which enable management to determine whether partial deliveries are invoiced correctly and the balance of the delivery is completed and invoiced.

Monthly reconciliation of inventory balance with location records is performed.

Sales

Invoicing

Partial deliveries are appropriately monitored and controlled.

Partial deliveries are not appropriately monitored; resulting invoices may be based on the full delivery rather than the quantity actually delivered. The remaining portion of the delivery is not completed on a timely basis and/or invoiced accurately.

Sales

Segregation of Duties

Adequate segregation of duties may not exist between the maintenance of customer master files and the issuance of credit notes / rebates.

Employees may be able to inappropriately change customer master files and issue customer rebates / credits without proper authorization.

Adequate segregation of duties exists between day-to-day order processing and pricing, rebates/credit notes and commission master file maintenance.

Sales

Segregation of Duties

Order entry personnel may override credit Maintain separate job responsibilities limits established by the finance among employees to reduce the organization which would result in selling opportunity of defalcations or override to customers that have a higher risk of management objectives. defaulting on payment.

Responsibility to perform order entry and the ability to add/update credit limits is performed by separate individuals.

Sales

Segregation of Duties

Maintain separate job responsibilities among employees to reduce the opportunity of defalcations or override management objectives.

Responsibility to perform the setup of rebates and authorize payment of rebates is performed by separate individuals.

Sales

Segregation of Duties

Maintain separate job responsibilities Personnel that have the ability to maintain Responsibility to maintain customer master among employees to reduce the the customer master file and issue credit file and issuing credit notes is performed by opportunity of defalcations or override notes may misallocate corporate resources. separate individuals. management objectives.

Sales

Revenue Recognition Policy

US GAAP Compliance

Personnel that have the ability to set-up a rebate and authorize the payment of rebates may misallocate corporate resources.

Sales revenue is posted to the financials before the revenue cycle is comple.

Specific criteria is met before a product movement is classified as a sale: (1) Documented customer arrangement exists (2) Title has transferred to the purchaser (3) Seller's price is fixed or determinable (4) Customer collectibility is reasonably assure

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