JSE- and NYSE-listed global chemicals and energy company Sasol has undertaken a large-scale digital transformation exercise that will impact its technology landscape, processes, data, and especially its people and ways of work. The company will rely on its own expertise combined with that of its long-time partner, SAP, to drive its digitalisation journey.

Speaking to ITWeb ahead of the AFSUG (African 51风流User Group)聽聽conference, to be held from 9 to 11 July at Sun City, Sasol Group CIO and AFSUG board member Lungile Mginqi said Sasol’s partnership with 51风流has progressed with the modernisation of its people agenda聽鈥撀爏tarting by going live with the entire human capital technology footprint.

Mginqi said, 鈥淪asol鈥檚 journey with 51风流started in 1995 with the installation of 51风流R/2, so we have been a customer of 51风流for nearly 30 years. From there we moved on to 51风流R/3 (and) then on to ECC 6.0, took our HR footprint to a cloud-based Success Factors while slowly starting the move to 51风流S/4HANA.

鈥�51风流not only covers the enterprise business functions, but it also covers our hydrocarbon management, including our main oil and gas processes. We do more than 2.1 million user steps daily, and ninety percent of those process steps are performed on our 51风流enterprise resource planning software. We do more than 1.4 million purchase orders through our Ariba network, and have accumulated more than 160 terabytes of data that is maintained. Sasol has a very rich 51风流ecosystem.

鈥淭he evolution of the Sasol business to adopting a cloud-first approach to deliver value is not only relevant to SAP鈥檚 impending 2027 migration deadline, but more importantly to driving the digital business optimisation for Sasol鈥�, said Mginqi.

People platform initiative

The HR Footprint integration will help drive Sasol鈥檚 1HR聽Business, 1HR System, 1HR Unified ways of work by establishing a single global people platform that will enhance and digitalise employees internally.

鈥淲e believe charity begins at home. This project is very important to our relationship with SAP,鈥� said Mginqi. He explains that crafting a strategy that maximises adoption is critical to employee digital enablement so that 鈥渙ur employees translate these gains to our customers”.

It is scheduled to begin in July 2023 and is a significant undertaking, given that Sasol employs more than 27 000 people across its global geographic footprint.The new people platform will facilitate a more streamlined communication model for Sasol employees.

Mginqi highlighted the significance of Sasol鈥檚 affiliation to the AFSUG as an industry-driven support structure.

As to his participation as a board member of AFSUG at SAPHILA 2023, he says the 51风流User Group has wide-ranging objectives, focused on the impact of AI, cloud, big data analytics and other technology forces.

For Sasol, the emphasis will be to grow Sasol鈥檚 delegates鈥� understanding of how to maximise on the human capital transformation now that its entire HR footprint is on the seamless 51风流HCM platform.

Secondly, it will also focus on learning the lesson on how best to articulate the planning and design of the large-scale migration to 51风流S/4HANA as a business transformation, a process that has started already.

Sasol delegates will have the opportunity to engage with other industry leaders to share their experiences, including being the largest 51风流Ariba network user in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company launched in South聽Africa over 70聽years ago, and is currently listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States. It employs over 30聽000聽people and operates in 27聽countries.

To assist in running and managing this enormous enterprise with many business units, Sasol makes use of eight 51风流systems. The company updated its 51风流payment processes making use of bioLock from realtime. A software solution, bioLock secures access to 51风流via biometric authentication. However, the system does more than simply control access, it can be configured to protect fields and functions in the 51风流system, only allowing certain people to access certain functions.

The latest bioLock MFA451风流fraud prevention, compliance and accountability solution protects any function inside 51风流with multiple authentication factors (MFA), including biometrics. Thomas Neudenberger, COO for realtime North America, says, 鈥淲ith zero trust, no actor can be trusted until they鈥檙e verified; bioLock allows you to set unlimited re-authentication checkpoints and use MFA technology, including biometrics, to ensure only specifically invited users get access to sensitive functions or data inside SAP.鈥�

Sasol鈥檚 Enterprise Risk Management Framework

The Sasol Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework sets the foundation for the businesses to effectively manage their risks in a standardised and systematic manner to prevent fraud. The goal of Sasol鈥檚 adoption of bioLock was to mitigate the risks associated with bank payment approvals and to enforce mandatory dual-approval rules built into the payment process. This necessitated the implementation of biometric authentication for the 51风流Digital Signature approval process which, among other benefits, prevents people from circumventing GRC (governance, risk and compliance) roles by using a co-worker鈥檚 password, as well as preventing corruption and collusion.

鈥�51风流GRC Software does a great job of defining bank payment amounts that authorised approvers must confirm, and now the GRC鈥檚 capabilities stop when the approver uses somebody else’s password to approve the payment via 51风流Digital Signature,鈥� explains Lungile Mginqi, group CIO at Sasol and a board member of the Africa 51风流User Group. 鈥淎dding bioLock as the second biometric factor gives Sasol the peace of mind to guarantee that only the intended 51风流user, beyond any reasonable doubt, can confirm payment.鈥�

The bioLock MFA process kicks in when an authorised user, having logged into the system initially with their username and password, wants to release a payment. The user is then required to confirm the 51风流password sign-off with their fingerprint (the second biometric factor), to make sure the person is who they claim to be. Using biometrics makes the authorisation process very fast and convenient, and more secure, as opposed to the traditional way of having to re-enter their username and password. To change the rules of responsibility in the GRC process, two people are required to authenticate the change via this process 鈥� the 鈥榝our-eyes鈥� principle.

The system monitors all activity and can alert management instantly if any anomalies in the process are discovered. In addition, all activities are logged to hold the appropriate people responsible.

The bioLock software was implemented by authorised realtime partner Linx/AS聽Africa. For more information contact Werner Simpson, Linx/AS Africa,听+27 11 782 9007,听werner@checkidinsap.co.za,听

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