Pillar · Secure
Build a Smarter SAP Role Model
Reduce excessive access and create a scalable, business-aligned authorization model.
The challenge
Legacy SAP Roles Create Security and Operational Complexity
Complex, duplicated role landscapes
Thousands of duplicated roles, roles designed around individual users, inconsistent naming conventions, and uncontrolled derived roles make the model impossible to reason about.
Excessive access and SoD conflicts
Excessive access, obsolete transactions, high SoD conflict volumes, and poor role ownership turn every audit into a costly exercise.
High maintenance effort and poor readiness
Manual role maintenance, difficult access requests, limited documentation, and role models that do not support SAP Cloud ERP slow the business and block transformation.
A poorly structured role model increases security risk, administrative effort, provisioning time, and audit complexity.
How we help
End-to-End SAP Role Redesign Services
Global Core Technologies helps organizations redesign their SAP authorization model with a structured approach that covers analysis, design, build, and transition.
Current-State Assessment
We analyze the role inventory and usage, review user assignments and transaction usage, examine authorization objects, and evaluate SoD and critical access.
Role Architecture Design
We define the business and technical role models, the single and composite role strategy, master and derived role design, organizational level strategy, and naming conventions.
Business Process Alignment
We map job functions, define business activities, validate with process owners, classify access levels, define organizational scope, and assign role ownership.
Role Build and Testing
We create roles, maintain authorizations, and run unit, integration, and user acceptance testing along with SoD simulation.
Deployment and Transition
We map users, migrate role assignments, plan cutover, retire legacy roles, provide hypercare support, and deliver documentation and training.
Business benefits
Build a Cleaner and More Sustainable Authorization Model
Reduced Excessive Access
Ensure users receive access aligned with their actual business responsibilities.
Fewer SoD Conflicts
Design roles with risk considerations embedded from the beginning.
Simplified Administration
Reduce duplication, manual maintenance, and inconsistent role structures.
Faster Access Provisioning
Enable clearer access requests and more predictable approvals.
Improved User Experience
Provide users with the access they need without unnecessary menus, transactions, or applications.
Stronger SAP Cloud ERP Readiness
Prepare the authorization model for Fiori, new business processes, and SAP Cloud ERP.
Methodology
A Structured SAP Role Redesign Methodology
Our methodology moves from analysis to governance so the new role model stays clean after go-live.
- 01
Assess
Analyze the existing role landscape, assignments, usage, risks, and maintenance processes.
- 02
Design
Define the target role model, standards, ownership, organizational structure, and governance.
- 03
Build
Create roles according to approved business requirements and technical design principles.
- 04
Validate
Test functional access, organizational restrictions, SoD risks, and user experience.
- 05
Transition
Map users, deploy new roles, retire legacy access, and support cutover.
- 06
Govern
Establish lifecycle processes for role requests, changes, reviews, and retirement.
Engagement scenarios
Role Redesign Scenarios
Legacy Role Cleanup
Consolidate duplicated, obsolete, unused, or excessively broad roles.
SAP Cloud ERP Role Redesign
Adapt roles for new transactions, applications, authorization objects, and business processes.
SAP Fiori Authorization Design
Design catalogs, spaces, pages, groups, business roles, and backend authorizations.
SoD-Driven Role Redesign
Reduce conflicts by restructuring access around compatible business activities.
Organizational Redesign
Adapt role structures to changes in companies, plants, sales organizations, purchasing organizations, or other business units.
Merger and Acquisition Integration
Harmonize role models following organizational consolidation or system integration.
Why Global Core Technologies
Why Organizations Choose Global Core Technologies
Authorization Expertise
Our specialists understand SAP roles, authorization objects, organizational restrictions, Fiori, and technical security.
Business Process Alignment
Roles are designed around real job responsibilities and business activities.
Security by Design
Least privilege, SoD, critical access, and governance are integrated into the role model.
Controlled Transition
We minimize disruption through structured testing, user mapping, cutover planning, and hypercare.
Sustainable Governance
We establish standards and ownership to prevent the role environment from becoming complex again.
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Emergency Access Management
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SAP Cloud ERP Security Readiness
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Create a Scalable SAP Authorization Model
Whether you need to clean up legacy roles, prepare for SAP Cloud ERP, enable SAP Fiori, or reduce access risk, our experts can help design a role model that supports your business today and in the future.