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Difference between roles for PROCUREMENT EXECUTIVE & COMMODITY MANAGER

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Hi

What is the technical and funcational differences between the roles SAP_XA_PROCUREMENT_EXECUTIVE and SAP_XA_COMMODITY_MANAGER?

When doing role comparision in backend BW there is no difference, Moreover in PFCG upon checking the authorization data for respective roles there are no authorization objects

Regards

Neel

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Former Member
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Hi Rohit

Thanks for the response. I have following subsequent questions:

1) How do we tie these roles to particular folders?

2) Is there any reference material for this as this is not mentioned in the Standard Security Guide

3) Can we create more roles for custom functional reasons like these two roles?

Regards

Neel

Edited by: Vinaykumar Pothuganti on Dec 1, 2010 8:08 AM

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Hi Neel,

Yes, this functionality is documented and below is the link to the documentation.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_spm21/helpdata/en/ad/78ccfe0fe0414bbea93357b4377d4d/frameset.htm

This answers your first 2 questions.

And yes you can create additional blank roles in ABAP and use them to tie to SPM folders in UI.

Regards,

Rohit

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Former Member
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Hi Neel,

There is no technical difference between the 2 roles.

Like Ricardo mentioned they are used for differentiating functional / business roles. So one role could give access to a sub-set of reports & dashboards and the other role could have access to a completely different set of reports & dashboards. To control this access in the SPM application you would create different folders where you would store the reports & dashboards and then tie the roles to these SPM folders, when users are granted the roles they would be able to see the appropriate folders.

Regards,

Rohit

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Hi Neel,

These roles are relevant not in terms of BW authorizations but in terms of the authorizations you give on the User Interface. These Roles can be assigned to different folders, for example, where reports, dashboards and briefing books are stored.

If you don't want to restrict the folders to any Role, in a way that all users are able to see all the reports, then there wouldn't be much use for these roles.

Regards!

Ricardo