SAP write governance ROI calculator: estimate write-side risk exposure and audit cost

Your inputs

SAP version SAP modules in scope (multi-select)

Estimated write-side actions per month (all modules) Estimated hours per month on manual approval routing and reconciliation

Loaded hourly cost (USD) — for the operations / IT controller role Estimated annual cost of an audit finding (USD) — internal estimate

Estimated annual probability of a costly audit finding (%) Number of regulated entities (SOX scope, GDPR, industry regulator)

Honest boundary: Audit cost is your internal estimate; Syntheka does not publish industry-wide audit finding averages. The probability is your internal assumption. This calculator does not produce a benchmark.

Estimated annual cost of the current process

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Routing + reconciliation labor: $0 per year (hours/month × 12 × loaded cost).
Expected audit finding cost: $0 per year (audit cost × probability × entities, weighted by module count).
Total estimated cost: $0 per year, before Syntheka.

Estimated with Syntheka

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Routing + reconciliation labor: estimated reduction when the typed business ontology drives the approval DAG server-side. Industry estimate: 50-70% reduction in coordinator hours.
Expected audit finding cost: estimated reduction when segregation of duties is server-enforced and the audit trail is append-only and hash-chained. Industry estimate: 60-80% reduction in costly audit findings.
Syntheka Enterprise subscription: quoted per deployment; illustrative $60,000/year for a mid-size S/4HANA footprint with 3-5 entities.
Net estimated savings: $0 per year, with Syntheka.

Honest boundary: The reduction percentages are industry estimates, not a benchmark. They are not the result of an audited customer deployment. They are the lower bound of the case a Syntheka pilot is built to test. The pilot itself produces the real numbers for your environment. SAP AI Agent Hub 500-agent free tier (per-customer/month) expires 2026-12-31 per SAP EAC Supplement v7-2026; Syntheka is positioned as the cross-system governance plane, not as a SAP-native alternative.

What the pilot produces

The pilot is where the numbers become real.

The calculator above is the upper-bound case for Syntheka. The pilot ends where you replace the estimates with measured values from your own SAP environment.

Weeks 1-2: Define the SAP interfaces in scope (OData / IDoc / BAPI / Events / CDC). Identify one module to start with (FI/CO recommended).
Weeks 3-4: Syntheka composes the agent from the SAP write governance template plus your ontology (your chart of accounts, your cost centers, your vendor master).
Weeks 5-6: Run shadow mode. Every Syntheka-proposed write is compared against your existing process, side by side.
Weeks 7-8: Report. The pilot produces the actual three-way reconciliation pass rate, the actual segregation-of-duties coverage, the actual hours saved. The decision to adopt, extend, or end is yours with the measured comparison data.

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