Access Request Approval

Use

The SAP Access Control application provides a standardized and centralized framework to request user and system access and to review and manage those requests. The basic user provisioning process, as suggested by most system and security administrators, involves the steps described below.

Prerequisites

  • Outside the application, you have identified your business needs and evaluated your approach for managing user and system access.

  • Within the application, you have maintained the review and approval workflows.

    You maintain the workflows in the Customizing activity Maintain MSMP Workflows, under Start of the navigation pathGovernance, Risk, and Compliance Next navigation step Access Control Next navigation step Workflow for Access ControlEnd of the navigation path.

Process

User Provisioning consists of the following procedures:

  1. Reviewing access requests

  2. Analyzing access risks

  3. Managing risks

  4. Approving requests

    The application then provisions the user access requests.

    You can configure provisioning settings such as e-mail notification, auto provisioning, and so on, using the Customizing activity Maintain Provisioning Settings, under Start of the navigation pathGovernance, Risk, and Compliance Next navigation step Access Control Next navigation step User ProvisioningEnd of the navigation path.