SAP Transaction Usage Analyser
SAP Controls
Transaction Usage Analysis
Most of the companies who implement SAP system use somewhere between 1000 to 2000 transactions. SAP has over 90,000 transactions in the system. It is good to know which transactions are being heavily used and which are not being used. There are logs in SAP which track activities. But there is no easy way of accessing those logs and compiling the information. This tool tracks all the transactions performed in the system and acts as SAP Controls management tool.
SAP Controls Transaction Usage Summary
Features:
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- Easy report displays the transactions used by the user for the specified number of days
- Tracks also if the transaction is used in batch jobs or Batch sessions
- Investigates the transaction failure and repeated attempts
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Benefits of Tracking SAP Transaction usage for SAP Controls
Develop Testing Plan:
Once the companies review the transaction they can design and refocus their training on some of the heavily used transactions in the SAP System.
SAP Controls on Role Design:
The report can also high light some of the unused transactions in the system and belong to the roles. This will give the internal audit team to clean up some of the roles which have transactions which are not being used. This will act as SAP Controls for cleaning up unused andexcessive transaction access to the user
Upgrade Planning:
During upgrade one of the problems is to identify the transactions which are affected during upgrade. Armed with the transaction usage data you can compare the transaction which are affected during the upgrade and focus on testing those transactions
Tracking Transaction Usage
The Internal Audit Team with this SAP Controls can also see which group of people are using the transactions. For Example the Internal audit team can use these SAP Controls to see how many people people from users other Human resources are using HR transactions
