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Personalization means to adjust the SAP System to meet the work requirements of specific users or user groups.

Personalization is aimed at accelerating and simplifying the business transactions that the SAP System processes. Application personalization thus refers to two sub-areas:

Simplifying Navigation

The standard point of entry into the system is the Structure link SAP Easy Access user menu. Each user of the SAP System can be assigned a user menu tailored to the individual activities of that user that appears when the user logs on to the system. System administrators can choose from a large variety of pre-defined Structure link standard roles and assign these roles to one, several or all users of a company.

Example

Employee John Miller works as an accountant in the accounts receivable department, posting and maintaining a set of customer accounts. The user menu would look like this:

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If necessary, the user can add his own reports, Intranet or Internet links, and so on, to the user menu.

Since the user menu contains only those functions that are relevant to the user, navigation is much quicker.

For more information, see Simplifying Navigation

Simplifying Transactions

You can adjust not only the menus but also the transactions of the SAP System to the business environment of your company. In many cases, the fields and options contained in the standard transactions are not needed for specific process flows. Besides other tools, you can use transaction and screen variants to adjust the transactions of the SAP System. Using transaction and screen variants you can:

For a description of the other tools for personalizing transactions in the SAP System, see Personalization of an Application.

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