Case Study: Carlisle Construction Materials achieves automated SAP access controls and audit-ready compliance with Symmetry

Carlisle Construction Materials - Customer Case Study

Carlisle Construction Materials (CCM), a $2B building-products division of Carlisle Companies, faced chronically poor SAP audit findings, an unwieldy manual access-control process, and a fragmented SoD tool that produced indecipherable output. With a complex security model of over 3,000 roles for 700 users, CCM spent hundreds of hours preparing for audits, endured repeated remediation failures, and lacked a clear path to get their SAP environment compliant.

CCM engaged Symmetry’s ControlPanelGRC Access Controls Suite (including the Accelerated Remediation Toolkit) to automate access controls, streamline remediation, and enable continuous monitoring. Symmetry’s solution cut remediation to four months (with one-week time-to-value), reduced roles from ~3,000 to 70 primary roles (plus 350 location variants), slashed SAP consulting costs by 80%, SAP security administration costs by 75% per year, lowered external IT audit costs by ~50%, and turned multi-hour reports into sub‑minute runs—delivering measurable efficiency, effectiveness, and audit confidence.

Carlisle Construction Materials