Some slides from „Best Practices for Managing Local Configuration and Custom Development in a Global SAP ERP HCM System“, a presentation given at one of our previous Conferences, including the key concept of Line-Oriented Authorization.
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In the document, we:
- Discuss the risks and pitfalls found in an international setting, where local experts are responsible for at least some of the system configuration relevant for their countries
- Explore the options to deal with these issues
- Focusing on configuration activities
- Showing how line-oriented authorizations can help to deal with the issues, but also have their limitations
- Demonstrate how line-oriented authorizations are configured and used in a user role
- Discuss the cost and benefit of technical solutions for these security issues, and ponder upon alternatives
