Compliance calibrator, SAP's segregation of duties management tool uses rule sets to differentiate between rules generated for a risk. Thus, a risk might be two or more conflicting transactions within a business process. At the time of defining risks in… more »

In SAP MM materials management, Plant represents a location where valuated stocks are maintained. In other cases, plant can also be looked at as a location for maintaining or servicing. Transaction code OX10 can be used to define a plant in SAP. However,… more »

The ASAP implementation methodology lays down the step by step guide to implementing SAP. The transition from ASAP to ValueSAP and finally to SAP Solution Manager has been quite smooth. SAP Solution manager has the accelerated SAP implementation methodol… more »

Some months ago I discussed, the importance of business blueprint and correct configuration of SAP for a successful implementation. Today, lets take a look at the configuration of the SAP solution during the implementation phase. In any SAP implementatio… more »

The master data management application from SAP comes with the functionality of the import manager. The MDM import manager takes care of how to import data into SAP MDM. There are many advantages of using the SAP master data import manager functionality,… more »

Organizations implement SAP GRC compliance calibrator to manage segregation of duties within the SAP system. Compliance calibrator works on the premise of a SoD conflict ruleset which is defined at the outset. Segregation of duties conflicts or SOD viola… more »

Because of the inherent complexity of the SAP ERP system, system performance depends upon many factors. Factors such as the operating system, network, database and SAP configuration itself contribute to the system performance. SAP system comes with tools… more »

Data staging is an important step in the process of SAP BW implementation, Data staging means essentially holding data before it is transmitted to the target system. Many readers have requested an introduction to the concept of business warehouse data st… more »

Most organisations implement BW security at the infocube level. SAP provides an option to set up security at the infoobject level. Securing at the infoobject level is much more secure. With BW infoobject level security, a user working in a particular div… more »

Today, lets take a look at some of the authorization objects in SAP Business Warehouse from a point of administration. You may also want to read my post on the basics of BW authorizations as well as the auth_objects important for BW reporting before read… more »

SAP BW Security is controlled using authorization objects for reporting users and for administration users. Reporting users in SAP BIW need to have access to create a query. Two main authorization objects which provide the user with the access to create… more »

Security in SAP is controlled through authorization objects. The SAP Business Information Warehouse BIW, has a set of authorization objects specific to BW which control security in BW. Primarily there are two classes of authorization objects in SAP BIW.… more »

SAP users need to execute reports during their normal course of business. Users need to enter different selection criteria to access the dataset they need. Users need not enter the report selection criteria each time they need to access a report. Here, S… more »

Access enforcer is a tool within SAP's GRC suite of products which automates the entire user management process. Access enforcer works as web-based workflow configurable tool and automates user request approval and compliant provisioning. The great thing… more »

Over the last few months, I have written about materiality and how it is important from a SOX perpective. Since the inception of AS5, materiality questions become all the more important. Organisations which have multiple locations, subsidaries may find i… more »

Internal audit has always been an important function supporting senior management. Most internal audit work is performed by internal audit teams. These intenal audit teams normally consist of two or more auditors where one auditor acts as the team lead.… more »

SAP Netweaver implementations are normally complicated and long projects. Skilled SAP resources are very important for the overall project success. A netweaver implementation project may include various people resources such as SAP account executives, te… more »

Scoping an SOA service oriented architecture rollout project is not an easy task. SOA involves looking at a business oriented IT strategy with the main aim of ensuring that access to functionality is standardized and all existing infrastructure applicati… more »

At a recent SAP conference session, one of my colleagues presented a case study on how implementing SAP's GRC solution set can be useful to a company. His slides were based around how to build a business case for implementing Virsa. He used his own real… more »

A lot of readers over the last few months have asked about service oriented architecture and related concepts. Below, I am attempting to cover some of the basics one should know about service SOA oriented architecture. Traditionally, organisations have b… more »

Building good test cases is very important to ensure that SAP is properly tested before go-live. Test cases include test conditions, test data and also the expected results to check the design and functionality of SAP. Test cases should be comprehensive… more »

Many organisations today are embracing service oriented architecture. SOA aims at looking at business process as services which are delivered across the enterprise. In an organisation with dozens of legacy systems, integrating these to combine a common… more »