Authorization and Security

You can use Authorization and Security functionality to set up authorization and assign permissions to employees or employee groups for various business processes ( Project, Contract, Requisition, Procurement, Sales, Warehousing, Financials, Production, Intercompany Trade, and Invoicing and also for entities such as Item, Business Partner and Service).The authorization for entities (such as Item and Business Partner) is defined as a new (secondary) authorization object. The permission for the secondary attribute enables an employee to modify the secondary authorization object. And, also create and modify a new line using the secondary object.

Authorization Level for Business Processes

The authorization level for the business process linked to the secondary object can be set to Project Permissions, Business Partner Permissions, or Warehouse Permissions apart from the regular Authorization Level.

The data permissions can be defined based on:

  • Authorization Roles
  • Authorization Policies
  • Assigned Rules

After assigning permissions to new employees, you can apply and enforce the authorization levels for the same. These roles, polices and rules can be used individually or in a combination.

The authorization for entities and the secondary attributes can be set using these sessions:

  • Contract Permissions (tcsec3620m000)
  • Item Permissions (tcsec3635m000)
  • Business Partner Permissions (tcsec3640m000)
  • Warehousing Permissions (tcsec3625m000)
  • Sales Permissions (tcsec3630m000)
  • Service Permissions (tcsec3665m000)
  • Requisition Permissions (tcsec3610m000)
  • Project Permissions (tcsec3600m000)
  • Production Permissions (tcsec3655m000)
  • Procurement Permissions (tcsec3615m000)
  • Invoicing Permissions (tcsec3650m000)
  • Financials Permissions (tcsec3660m000)
  • Intercompany Trade Permissions (tcsec3645m000)

Business Process Documents for Authorization

The user can set authorizations for the following Documents of the business processes:

  • Sales
  • Purchase
  • Billable Line
  • Invoice
  • Manual Sales Invoice
  • Transaction Types
  • Dimensions
  • Ledger Accounts
  • GL-Code
  • Work Center
  • Work Cell
  • Project (PCS)

Data authorization

Item security has been added to the workbenches in Quality and to FRACAS.