NTT DATA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED

NTT DATA Business Solutions - Automatic Approval of Documents, Makira Approval

Makira Approval provides automation of the financial approval of vendor invoices/purchase orders. The buyers business approval rules and regulations are configured within the solution providing the ability of document approval with the minimum of effort. Makira Approval can automate the creation and approval Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, and Invoices.

Features

• Purchase requisition creation and approval
• Purchase order creation and approval
• Creation and approval of invoices
• Automatic approver determination based on cost centre
• User friendly approval screen for approving all document types
• Full history on all approval actions
• Cockpit for Accounts Payable to monitor documents in approval process
• Comprehensive timestamping and logging

Benefits

• More efficient handling of the procure-to-pay process
• Shorter Approval Cycles
• Optimised cash flows
• Reduced cost per invoice
• Full document history all through the approval process
• Automatic compliance to approval rules
• Central or local viewing of ongoing or completed documents
• Controlled and transparent approval process

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

951832003755488

Contact

Philip Newman
07554555951
Info-solutions-uk@bs.nttdata.com

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Enterprise resource management

  • Procurement

  Financial

  • Financial and Accounting Applications
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes
• What software services is the service an extension to: Makira Approval is an add-on for automated document handling for SAP ECC & S/4 HANA
• Cloud deployment model: Private cloud
• Service constraints: Makira Approval is compatible for SAP ERP Systems only
• System requirements:
  • Release SAP ECC 6.0 (EHP6 or later)
  • SAP S/4HANA (1610 or later)

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Response times based on priority of the incident raised. Initial response times based on priorities outlined below:; ; P1 – IRT: within 1 hour of case submission.; ; P2 – IRT: within 4 hours of case submission.; ; P3 – IRT: within 1 business day of case submission.; ; P4 – IRT: within 2 business days of case submission.; ; No support during weekends.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Maintenance Support is included in the maintenance fees outlined for this add-on. NDBS can provide additional support for change requests and service requests and will work with the buyer to determine a support contract during the project. ; ; NDBS provide a fully tailored application and technical management support service having been providing support services to the SAP community since 1989, unique in the market. A global SAP certified partner, we offer the benefit of global capabilities with local presence. ; ; Global SAP PCoE Certification which ensures adherence to standards set by SAP. NDBS are ISO9001 and ISO27001 certified providing assurance of quality for our flexible support models that are flexible to demands from the customer. ; ; Governance of the service is provided by an assigned NDBS UK Service Delivery Manager, providing governance across all areas of the service including service management, incident and change management, continual service improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Onboarding to the service is generally undertaken as an activity during an implementation project, where Makira Approval is personalised to the customer. ; ; Skills transfer is provided through a combination of ; ; in-project coaching, ; ; User documentation. ; ; Additional training can be provided through the implementation process, such as classroom training, at additional cost.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats:
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
• End-of-contract data extraction: The Makira Approval solution is specific to the customer and forms part of the customers SAP System therefor NDBS do not store any customer data for the add-on Makira Approval
• End-of-contract process: If the customer ends the contract for Makira Approval, they will no longer have access to the product, the customer will need to inform NDBS in writing of the decision not to use the product. NDBS will arrange for the specific configuration for Makira Approval to be removed from the customers SAP system and the functionality will no longer be available to the buyer. The time spent by the consultants to de-activate the functionality will be billable to the buyer and the cost of this will be advised at the time of termination.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Other
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems: Other
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Makira Approval does not have an app available however users are able to access the solution via a browser. The use and functionality available via the browser is the same for across devices.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The service interface is via SAP ERP using a Fiori frontend. Users will have access to transactions to review the approval screens and validate documents which have been automatically approved and those that require manual intervention.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 AA
• Accessibility testing: N/A
• API: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: The product supports the concept of configuration, and extensions ; ; Configuration supports the definition of the governance and rules to be applied for approval of financial documents. Extensions are used to extend the approval functionality ; ; Typically configuration and extensions are carried out by an expert business user or business process owner.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: SAP applications are designed and developed from the outset to be highly scalable. Data centre and server infrastructure is based on proven SAP reference architectures which provides both scalability and consistency of performance. ; ; For all Public Cloud products SAP continuously monitor and adapt resources to meet load requirements. In Private Cloud environments this is monitored on an individual customer basis and adapted as required

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed / Cryptographic Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Makira Approval allows the export data specific to the buyer via Excel export available as a function within SAP ERP
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Data import formats: Other

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: Other
• Other protection between networks: Data is always encrypted in transit and transferred securely. ; ; Alternative (TLS 1.2 or higher) is used as standard, and various VPN technologies are supported, if the customer wishes.
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: TLS 1.2 or higher is standard in our application. ; ; In addition we do perform additional symmetric encryption in transit with RSA2048 or AES265, for various types of sensitive data (e.g. credentials for customer systems). ; ; We also employ network peering and other secure cloud practices.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Makira Approval is hosted by the buyer and as such availability is the responsibility of the buyers hosting partner
• Approach to resilience: Makira Approval is hosted by the buyer and as such resilience is the responsibility of the buyers hosting partner; however internally we have a Cloud disaster recovery plan in place which is tested once per year
• Outage reporting: Email alerts to affected customers

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Support staff require a User ID and Password for the customer specific instance of the service, which remains under control of the customer at all times. System access by user ID is auditable.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: No
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: In the delivery of the software service, NDBS are certified according to the following security policies: ; ; ISO 9001 – Quality Management System ; ; Based upon quality management principles including strong customer focus and with the involvement key stakeholders with the ultimate goal of continual improvement. NDBS ISMS procedures and IT-security policy insured through the audit program
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: The Makira Approval solution will be configured to the buyers specification, our consultants will follow the standards set by SAP for customisation. Any changes will follow the buyers internal change management processes and procedures. Once the project is completed changes will be the responsibility of the buyer and the buyer will be educated during the project how to perform the changes.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Makira Approval is hosted by the buyer and as such vulnerability is the responsibility of the buyers hosting partner, however where NDBS are also responsible for hosting of the buyer then Vulnerability management includes/utilizes a.o. scanning and monitoring in Azure (i.e. Defender for Cloud), code vulnerability scanning, patch management routines for frequent update of 3rd party libraries.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Makira Approval is hosted by the buyer and as such protective monitoring is the responsibility of the buyers hosting partner; however when NDBS are responsible for hosting the buyer then Central monitoring of logs and audit information from all application components as well as relevant scanning, detection and monitoring systems. Alerts are monitored centrally in addition to distribution to defined stakeholders. Response is handled through our processes for incident management and major incident management.
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Incident management approach: NDBS use a common incident management process for all products and services based on ITIL V4 principles. Buyers will have access to our support desk where incident ticket types are raised, incident is triaged and forwarded to the team responsible for the resolution. The consultant working on the ticket will update with the incident status and inform the user of actions taken to resolve. ; ; The service delivery manager responsible for the buyer will issue monthly reports which detail incidents raised and status. ; ; All processes and policies are defined following industry standards and audited in our SOC2 audit (biannually).
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 0%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 0%
• Over £5,000,001: 0%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Alcumus ISOQAR
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: UK Delivery & Customer Success division only are covered.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: Alcumus ISOQAR
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Monday 23 June 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: UK Delivery & Customer Success division only are covered.
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 142464cf-9a84-4402-8b19-fd145bce34a8
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 7beb12d1-310f-4c78-a37f-1235786af23a
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: ISO 20000-1

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
    • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
    • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
    • How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
    • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
    • Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
    • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
    • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
    • Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
    • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
    • Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
    • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
    • Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Info-solutions-uk@bs.nttdata.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.