Grant permissions for SAP background processing
Activity level
Many companies are currently converting their current SAP systems from an ERP state to an SAP S/4HANA system. Through this conversion, many technical and also organizational components come upon the respective companies. The time factor for determining, organizing and implementing the necessary components should not be underestimated. The area of security is often neglected in thought, but can lead to major problems and possibly image-related damage - and resulting financial losses - in retrospect. For this reason, the implementation of a comprehensive authorization concept should be considered as early as possible in the project phase, as several components are intertwined here.
In order to get an overview of the organisations and their structure, we recommend that you call the Org-Copier (in read mode!) for the various organisational fields via the transactions EC01 to EC15. The customising in the SPRO transaction allows you to define the organisation fields and their respective assignment in the corporate structure area.
Authorization tools - advantages and limitations
In principle, all eligibility fields can be upgraded to the organisational level; there are, however, technical exceptions and fields where this is not useful. Technically, the fields that are in the context of testing the startup capability of an application are excluded, i.e. the fields of the S_TCODE, S_START, S_USER_STA, S_SERVICE, S_RFC, S_PROGRAM and S_USER_VAL authorization objects. In addition, you cannot elevate the ACTVT field to the organisation level. Only the fields that can be assigned a value range within a role are meaningful. This must of course be considered across the board for the authorisation concept. For example, fields that have more than one meaning, such as the Authorisation Group (BEGRU), are not suitable for material management. The PFCG_ORGFIELD_CREATE report allows you to define a permission field as an organisation level. The report enters the field in the USORG table, changes the permission proposal values to that field, and performs all the roles that have a shape in the field.
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Particular attention should be paid not only to the award of transactions but also to the value characteristics of each of the eligible objects.