Requirement to release · station 1 of 7Analysis and design
Business analysis
Owns
Process discovery from documents, tickets and workshops: the process as is and to be, requirements and user stories written to acceptance criteria, the impact on other processes and systems traced.
Reserved by your policy
The priorities and the order of the backlog, the scope of each change, sign-off of the requirement.
Requirement to release · station 2 of 7Analysis and design
Functional analysis
Owns
A business requirement turned into a functional specification: the process as is and to be, the data and the rules, the screens and the reports, the test cases that prove it, the open questions put to the owner and closed.
Reserved by your policy
Approval of the specification, the priority, the business decision behind it.
Requirement to release · station 3 of 7Analysis and design
Solution architecture
Owns
The technical design across systems: integration patterns, data flows, fit to the standard and the gaps, the non-functional requirements, the design document every build follows.
Reserved by your policy
Decisions that change the estate, technology choices, exceptions to the client's standards.
Requirement to release · station 4 of 7Development
ERP development
Owns
A functional specification turned into a change in SAP (ABAP, RAP, Fiori), Oracle (Fusion extensions, PL/SQL) or Dynamics 365 (X++): the technical design, the code, the unit tests and their results, the authorisation and performance checks, the documentation, the transport imported clean to QA.
Reserved by your policy
Code review sign-off, release to QA, the transport to production.
Requirement to release · station 5 of 7Quality engineering
Functional and regression testing
Owns
Release testing against approved expectations: test cases from the specification, the run, defects raised with their evidence, regression suites maintained.
Reserved by your policy
User acceptance, the go or no-go for a release.
Requirement to release · station 6 of 7Quality engineering
Test automation
Owns
Automated tests written and kept working (Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, Playwright, the platform's own tools), the suite run on every release, unstable tests found and fixed.
Reserved by your policy
Which processes must be covered before a release, the test data that may be used.
Requirement to release · station 7 of 7Release and change
Release and change management
Owns
Transport and deployment packages assembled, dependencies checked, change-board packs prepared, release notes written, rollback plans tested.
Reserved by your policy
Change-board approval, the release window, the move to production.
Build across the platforms · station 1 of 4Development
CRM and platform development
Owns
Changes on Salesforce (Apex, Lightning, flows), ServiceNow (scripts, flows, catalogue items) and Workday (integrations, reports, calculated fields), built in a sandbox and moved with the platform's own tools.
Reserved by your policy
Promotion to production, licences and permission sets, anything that changes who can see which data.
Build across the platforms · station 2 of 4Development
Custom application development
Owns
Features and fixes in the client's own applications (Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript): the code with its tests, a pull request to the client's repository, the review notes answered.
Reserved by your policy
Merge approval, the release decision, production credentials.
Build across the platforms · station 3 of 4Development
Integration development
Owns
Interfaces built and changed on SAP Integration Suite (CPI and PI/PO), MuleSoft, APIs and EDI: the mappings, the error handling, the monitoring hooks, the interface specification kept current.
Reserved by your policy
New connections to outside parties, certificates and keys, partner agreements.
Build across the platforms · station 4 of 4Development
Data and reporting development
Owns
Reports, data models and pipelines (SQL, SAP BW and Datasphere, Power BI, Tableau): the extract, the transformation and the report, every figure reconciled to its source.
Reserved by your policy
Which data may be combined or shared, access to personal data, the definition of a measure the business reports on.
Incident to resolution · station 1 of 5Service desk
Service desk
Owns
Tickets triaged and resolved from runbooks, access requests processed within policy, incidents investigated with the evidence assembled.
Reserved by your policy
Change approval, security exceptions.
Incident to resolution · station 2 of 5Service desk
Access and identity administration
Owns
Joiner, mover and leaver access provisioned to the approved role design, requests checked against segregation of duties, periodic access reviews prepared with the evidence.
Reserved by your policy
Approval of access, exceptions to segregation of duties, privileged and emergency access.
Incident to resolution · station 3 of 5Application management
Application support, L2 and L3
Owns
Incidents on business applications diagnosed from logs, dumps and data; workarounds applied within authority; problems traced to their root cause and the fix routed into the build chain.
Reserved by your policy
Data corrections above the delegated limit, emergency changes, what the business is told during an outage.
Incident to resolution · station 4 of 5Application management
Batch and interface monitoring
Owns
Job chains and interfaces watched through the day: failures investigated, IDocs and messages reprocessed within policy, the next run protected, the overnight report written.
Reserved by your policy
Rerunning a job that would post financial data twice, changes to schedules, manual postings.
Incident to resolution · station 5 of 5Application management
ERP technical administration
Owns
SAP Basis and its equivalents: system health checks, transports imported to non-production systems, technical users and roles maintained, housekeeping jobs, system copies prepared.
Reserved by your policy
Imports to production, kernel and release upgrades, emergency access.
Keep the estate running · station 1 of 4Infrastructure and cloud
Monitoring and event management
Owns
Alerts read and correlated across the client's tools, known events resolved from runbooks, the rest routed to the right team with the evidence attached.
Reserved by your policy
Declaring a major incident, changes to production systems, contact with the client's vendors.
Keep the estate running · station 2 of 4Infrastructure and cloud
Patching and vulnerability remediation
Owns
Patch cycles prepared from vendor releases, applied within agreed windows, verified afterwards, every exception recorded with its reason.
Reserved by your policy
Patching business-critical production systems, deferring a critical vulnerability, the maintenance windows.
Keep the estate running · station 3 of 4Infrastructure and cloud
Cloud operations
Owns
Provisioning requests carried out from approved templates, backups checked and restores tested, cost and usage reports, idle resources flagged.
Reserved by your policy
New spend above the agreed limit, changes to networks and security groups, deleting data.
Keep the estate running · station 4 of 4Security operations
Security alert triage
Owns
First-line security alerts investigated across the client's tools, false positives closed with the reasoning recorded, real ones escalated with the evidence and a timeline.
Reserved by your policy
Containment, declaring a security incident, notifying regulators and customers.
Procure to pay · station 1 of 3Supply chain and procurement
Buyer, procurement specialist
Owns
Requisition to purchase order, price and lead-time checks against contracts, confirmations chased, delivery follow-up, supplier queries answered.
Reserved by your policy
Supplier selection, contract award, negotiated terms.
Procure to pay · station 2 of 3Master data management
Supplier master data
Owns
Supplier creations and changes validated against documents and registries, duplicates found, bank details checked through the call-back procedure, the record kept clean.
Reserved by your policy
Approval of a new supplier, bank-detail changes under dual control, blocking a supplier.
Procure to pay · station 3 of 3Finance and accounting
Accounts payable
Owns
Invoice intake, duplicate investigation, two- and three-way matching, variance resolution, supplier follow-up until closed, release within authority, the payment run end to end: proposal, exceptions, run, payment medium, transmission to the bank.
Reserved by your policy
Whatever your policy reserves today: approval of the payment proposal, release at the bank as signatory, supplier bank-detail changes under dual control.
Order to cash · station 1 of 6Master data management
Customer master data
Owns
Customer creations and changes validated, tax and credit data checked against their sources, duplicates merged within the rules, hierarchies kept current.
Reserved by your policy
Credit limits, payment terms outside policy, blocking a customer.
Order to cash · station 2 of 6Customers and sales
Sales order entry
Owns
Orders captured from email, EDI and portals, validated against pricing, credit and availability, confirmed to the customer, changes managed to delivery.
Reserved by your policy
Pricing exceptions, credit releases.
Order to cash · station 3 of 6Customers and sales
Customer service
Owns
Order, delivery and invoice queries answered from the systems, returns and claims initiated, escalations routed with the case assembled.
Reserved by your policy
Goodwill, commercial concessions.
Order to cash · station 4 of 6Finance and accounting
Billing and collections
Owns
Invoice accuracy checks before issue, statements, dunning sequences by policy, promise-to-pay follow-up, account reconciliation with the customer.
Reserved by your policy
Credit limits and holds, negotiated settlements.
Order to cash · station 5 of 6Finance and accounting
Cash application
Owns
Bank, lockbox and remittance intake; receipts matched exact, partial, multi-invoice and on-account; unidentified cash found and cleared; deductions identified and coded.
Reserved by your policy
Write-offs above tolerance, credit decisions, refunds.
Order to cash · station 6 of 6Finance and accounting
Deductions and disputes
Owns
A dispute owned from claim to close: evidence assembled, validity judged against contract and policy, the decision obtained, the credit or denial executed, the customer told.
Reserved by your policy
Claims above threshold, settlements, legal escalation.
Record to report · station 1 of 6Finance and accounting
Asset accounting
Owns
Asset master proposals, capitalisation from purchase and receipt, depreciation runs checked, transfers and retirements prepared, the register reconciled to the ledger.
Reserved by your policy
Capitalisation policy, impairment decisions.
Record to report · station 2 of 6Finance and accounting
Revenue accounting and recognition
Owns
Contract and order data turned into revenue schedules, allocation proposals, deferrals and releases, period-end revenue entries prepared with their support.
Reserved by your policy
Accounting-policy judgments, material estimates, sign-off.
Record to report · station 3 of 6Finance and accounting
General ledger, record to report
Owns
Account reconciliations, journal preparation and permitted posting, supporting schedules, close-checklist execution, investigation of balance differences.
Reserved by your policy
Accounting policy, estimates, final sign-off of the close.
Record to report · station 4 of 6Finance and accounting
Financial analysis
Owns
Recurring reports assembled, movements investigated, every figure traced to source, commentary prepared with the evidence behind it.
Reserved by your policy
Validating explanations, deciding what action to take.
Record to report · station 5 of 6Finance and accounting
FP&A
Owns
Forecasts consolidated, models updated, scenarios compared, budget packs prepared, assumptions tracked to their owners.
Reserved by your policy
Setting assumptions, negotiating budgets, recommendations.
Record to report · station 6 of 6Finance and accounting
Internal audit
Owns
Control tests executed to the programme, samples pulled and traced, walkthrough evidence assembled, exceptions documented, follow-ups tracked to closure.
Reserved by your policy
Scoping, the opinion, reporting to the committee.
Plan to produce · station 1 of 5Master data management
Material and product master data
Owns
Material and product records created and extended across plants and sales organisations, units, classifications and valuation data checked, obsolete records flagged.
Reserved by your policy
New product introductions, valuation and costing decisions, deleting records.
Plan to produce · station 2 of 5Supply chain and procurement
Demand planner
Owns
History cleansed, statistical baseline produced, consensus pack prepared, bias and accuracy tracked, promotion and event adjustments proposed.
Reserved by your policy
The final forecast, commercial assumptions.
Plan to produce · station 3 of 5Supply chain and procurement
MRP controller
Owns
Exception messages worked daily, reschedule proposals, shortage investigation, planned orders converted within rules, master-data gaps flagged to their owners.
Reserved by your policy
Planning parameters, expedite spend.
Plan to produce · station 4 of 5Supply chain and procurement
Inventory control
Owns
Cycle counts scheduled and reconciled, discrepancies investigated, slow and obsolete stock flagged, transfers prepared, write-off proposals with evidence.
Reserved by your policy
Write-off approval, safety-stock policy.
Plan to produce · station 5 of 5Supply chain and procurement
Production and shop-floor support
Owns
Production reporting, work-order administration, shortage investigation, downtime analysis, maintenance coordination.
Reserved by your policy
Physical operations, safety, supervisory judgment.
Hire to retire · station 1 of 3People
Recruitment administration
Owns
Requisitions opened, interviews scheduled, offer letters prepared from approved templates, background checks tracked, new joiners handed to HR operations.
Reserved by your policy
Hiring decisions, offers outside the approved range, the interviews themselves.
Hire to retire · station 2 of 3People
HR operations
Owns
Joiner, mover and leaver transactions, employee data changes verified, benefits administration, letters and documents prepared, policy queries answered.
Reserved by your policy
Hiring, compensation, disciplinary decisions.
Hire to retire · station 3 of 3Finance and accounting
Payroll
Owns
Time and absence data validated, inputs reconciled to HR changes, gross-to-net checked against the prior run, exceptions investigated, filings and payment files prepared.
Reserved by your policy
Approval of the run, pay changes, disputes with employees.