SAS^® Continuous Monitoring for Procurement Integrity

SAS^® Continuous Monitoring for Procurement Integrity Features

Data management

Accesses and integrates all relevant structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources (including third parties) across systems, platforms, etc.
Matches, cleanses and fuses data elements together for a consolidated view of all information relating to a particular person or entity.
Provides master data and metadata management capabilities.

Imports business rules from existing rules engines to identify known risks.
Uses an iterative, closed-loop process to modify or add to business rules as new schemes are uncovered.

Includes a procurement analytics data model and procurement-specific scenarios.
Provides a large set of heuristic rules with anomaly detection capabilities.
Uses advanced predictive modeling to risk-score suspicious activities early in the procurement process.
Enables you to customize models to uncover suspicious activities not detected by existing business rules.

Scores all transactions (purchase orders, payments, etc.) in real time with an online scoring engine that uses a combination of business rules, anomaly detection, predictive modeling and associative link analysis.
Calculates the risk associated with each entity or transaction, then rescores at each stage of the procurement life cycle as you capture new data, including delivery notes, invoices, amendments, etc.

Assembles alerts from multiple monitoring systems and associates them with common individuals or entities.
Calculates risk scores based on specific characteristics of the activity, with transparent reason codes.
Prioritizes alerts and routes high-risk items to appropriate team members.
Can assign work automatically to specific investigators or analysts based on user-set rules and requirements.

Detects and prevents organized abuse by going beyond transaction and account views to analyze all related activities and relationships at a network dimension.
Provides an intuitive interface that lets investigators identify linkages among seemingly unrelated events and entities.
Produces independent and combined risk scores.
Annotates nodes and groups, including text and basic HTML tagging and HTML linked images.
Allows group content to be viewed without expanding the group, and single-click “undo” to regroup the last group expanded.
Enables administrators to tag certain nodes as anchor nodes and indicate whether, by default, to anchor purchase orders, invoices and other artifacts.

Provides an easy-to-use interface that includes interactive visualization and search components.
Enables analysts to intuitively gather, explore, visualize and manipulate data pertinent to their investigations.