Case Study: Essar Group achieves global controls and 65% improved assurance with ACL

Essar Group Global Controls And Process Assurance With Acl Technology

Essar Group, an India‑based multinational with 75,000 employees and annual revenues of about US$22 billion, needed a scalable, technology‑driven assurance program to meet regulatory and stakeholder expectations across 25+ countries. The internal assurance team faced large SAP data volumes, high fraud risk, and reliance on sampling and IT support; their goals were automated, repeatable fraud detection, 100% population testing, and stronger controls for compliance, IT effectiveness and process assurance.

Essar implemented ACL Analytics and ACL Direct Link for SAP to standardize data, run repetitive automated tests and cover full populations across Procure‑to‑Pay, Order‑to‑Cash, General Ledger, Inventory and Retail. The solution processes ~150GB of data, identifies exceptions for review, eliminated sampling risk, and delivered outcomes such as faster P2P cycles, improved master‑data and revenue assurance, stronger duplicate‑billing controls, and a reported 65%+ improvement in assurance effectiveness.

Essar Group

Umesh Jadhav

Head IT Assurance