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This article about organizational management is meant to be a launchpad to our discussion on structural authorizations– an unique and indispensable part of HR security. We ave already have had a brief idea on Org Mgmt or OM when talking about the PLOG authorization object. Lets take the discussion forward to the […]

SAP HR deals with private employee data much of which might be of sensitive nature. As a result the HR security is typically more stringent that security for the other SAP modules. In a lot of non HR applications, security is more geared towards prevention of wrongful entry of data […]

In our article on SU24, we saw the feasibility of selectively switching off checks for certain authorization objects. However, HR objects (objects for authorization class HR) can not be marked as “Do not check”. Howver, there is another option for selectively switching off checks for HR objects. This is done […]

Infotypes or Information Types always form an integral component of any discussion on SAP HCM. In general infotypes are structures to stores related HR data. For example, address of an employee is stored in an unique infotype 0006. Similarly we have different infotypes storing personal data (0002), bank details (0009) , basic salary (0008), […]

A discussion of SAP security for a particular application area, like HR, FICO, SD, MM generally starts with an outline of the applications/transactions for the particular area and the authorization objects needed to secure them. This is fully justified as most of the time, security administrators are given a list […]

We have already come across PA (Personnel Admin) master data in our initial discussion of different types of the HR data. Out of the box, SAP provides three main authorization objects for securing PA master data, P_ORGIN, P_ORGXX and P_PERNR. Lets see how we can use each one of these in […]

Personnel Development (PD) Data is part of the Personnel Planning (PP) Data model used in SAP HCM. The PP Data model is made up distinct HR object types like positions (S), Persons (P), Jobs (C), Tasks (K), etc. The main use of this data is in Personnel Development (PD), Organizational Management (OM) and the Training […]

The authorization checks for PA master data (through P_ORGIN, P_ORGXX, P_PERNR, etc) while running HR reports are very involved and pose a significant performance penalty to the system. For each pernr selected in the report, the authorization system carries out a check for each of the infotypes being accessed. The […]