SAP SoD, commonly called Segregation of Duties, is a control principle that prevents one person from having combinations of access that could create an unacceptable business risk.
5 Essential SAP SoD Checks
1. Review conflicting access
Review combinations of SAP access that could allow one person to perform incompatible activities within the same business process.
2. Check vendor and payment access
A classic example is combining vendor master creation with payment processing. These combinations should be reviewed according to the organization’s processes and risk policy.
3. Review purchasing conflicts
Another potential conflict may involve creating a purchase order and approving the related transaction. The appropriate rule set depends on the organization’s processes and risk policy.
4. Analyze users and roles
Large SAP landscapes may contain thousands of users and roles. Reviewing user-level and role-level access helps teams identify potentially conflicting combinations.
5. Document remediation decisions
Not every technical conflict represents an unacceptable business risk. Teams should validate findings, consider mitigating controls and document the remediation decision.
Why Manual SAP SoD Analysis Becomes Difficult
Large SAP landscapes can contain thousands of users and roles. Reviewing combinations manually in spreadsheets can be slow and difficult to repeat consistently.
A structured SAP SoD review helps security and audit teams apply consistent risk rules and focus investigation on higher-priority conflicts.
How an SAP SoD Tool Helps
An SAP SoD tool can support user-level and role-level SoD analysis, risk scoring and reporting.
SimpAudit supports SoD analysis to help security and audit teams identify higher-priority conflicts and focus investigation where it matters most.
Remediation Is an Important Part of SAP SoD
Identifying a technical conflict is only the first step. Teams should validate the finding, consider mitigating controls and document the remediation decision.
For broader SAP access-risk analysis, see SAP access risk assessment.
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