It’s your rule. Why can’t you see it?

A woman holding papers and a pink highlighter looks through frosted glass at a colleague working on a table of rules she cannot read.

You own the rules, and the system owns you.

You wrote the pricing policy. You defend it in audits. You change it when the market moves.

What you can’t do is see how SAP applies it.

A customer gets the wrong discount. You ask IT why. IT asks a developer. Two days later the answer arrives, and it starts with “well, we think that…”

Two owners, one rule

You own what the system must decide. The code owns the implementation. Over time the two drift apart, and you slowly lose control of a rule that still has your name on it.

A woman in a dark suit jacket faces the viewer, her hand under her chin and a knowing smile, a colleague at his screen behind the frosted glass.

A rule you can read again

Excel.

In BRF+ the rule can be a table: these customers, these quantities, this discount. You can see why SAP decided what it decided, check it against your policy, and ask for changes in your own words.

With the right governance you can go further. Download the table into Excel, make your changes, and load it back as a new version. The format your business already works in.

And your auditors get a rule they can read, not a program they have to trust.

Seeing it isn’t the same as changing it

Visibility doesn’t replace governance. Who may change which rule needs deciding up front. Decide it once, and the Excel route becomes a strength rather than a risk.