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SAP authorizations:
Tips and tricks from experienced consultants

In more than 20 years as an SAP consultant, you gain a lot of experience. Good and bad. We share the good ones here – the secret tricks that make working in SAP authorization easier. Do you need more individual support? Feel free to contact us for a personal offer!

Basic role for all users

A basic role combines almost all authorizations that all users need. It can be assigned automaticall…

Using parameter transactions

Preventing input errors and speeding up processes – to ensure this, parameter transactions are often…

Using SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW correctly

The standard SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW profiles allow you to assign a user full authorizations for all tra…

Implementing authorizations in SAP BW/BI correctly

Finance, controlling, logistics: As an authorizer, the trade is the same in most modules. However, a…

Role types in SAP systems

SAP authorizations function via the assignment of roles, which in turn contain authorizations. Now, …

Authorization objects that almost always run to error – but are never the real problem

There are a number of authorization objects that run into errors in almost every SU53 and often in t…

The most important user transactions

Before the authorization comes the analysis. Which roles, transactions, profiles and authorization o…

S/4HANA: Welche Fiori-App ersetzt welche Transaktion?

In der Tabelle unten finden Sie die 40 wichtigsten SAP-GUI-Transaktionen – und ihr Fiori-App-Äquival…

How To: Fiori Apps finden, integrieren und berechtigen

Mit Fiori bekommt SAP ein modernes Gesicht. Apps statt Transaktionscodes. Doch wie kommt die richti…

SAP Query: Reports from database tables

With "SAP Query", you can read out and analyze tables, i.e. bundle and present data in such a way th…

Everything new with Fiori

With Fiori, SAP users have to adapt to a whole new way of working. Tiles instead of transactions, gr…

Which trace is the right one?

A user cannot execute a certain transaction and we want to find out why. Or a user needs a new, addi…

PFCGMASSVAL: authorization changes for multiple roles or objects at the same time

With transaction PFCGMASSVAL, SAP has introduced a function that can save a lot of time, especially …

General authorizations in SAP HCM

General authorizations are one of a total of 3 authorization concepts in SAP ERP HCM. In HCM, data i…

Authorizations in SAP HCM

Like any other area in the company, the HR area is also managed via authorizations. In this way, it …

SAP HCM: Structural authorizations

Do you want to assign authorizations in HR that still work when a department grows or structures in …

Master roles, child roles and inheritance

In corporate reality, it is often the case that a large number of roles should have identical charac…

HANA: Where are my authorization objects?

SAP has a fairly mature and sophisticated authorization system. It can be used to protect virtually …

SAP authorizations: The most important transactions

There are a handful of transactions to get you through the world of SAP authorizations. Not complica…

The most important tables in SAP authorization management

In SAP, tables are a very effective way of obtaining information in daily authorization work. They c…