My SAP Financials: How to Define Sensitive Fields for Vendors (S_ALR

Use

Changing an existing master data for vendors / customers such as bank data can lead to fraud if not properly monitored. For example, if the person authorized to edit master data can change the details without confirmation, he/she may change the bank account of the vendor to his/her own bank account which can be left unnoticed. Upon execution of the automatic payment, the fraudulent bank account is debited instead of that of the vendor. Even if this can be detected through executing the report for master data changes, this can a little too late to prevent the fraud.

To set a preventive over detective control for these master data changes, we can define sensitive fields in SAP that can automatically block a vendor invoice for payment until such change has been confirmed by an authorized person. This is to say that when a person changes a sensitive field in the vendor master, another person should confirm this change.

Here are the steps on how you can define sensitive fields for vendor master:

Procedure

CONFIGURATION

1. On IMG menu, go to Financial Accounting (New) > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Vendor Accounts > Master Data > Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data > Define Sensitive Fields for Dual Control (S_ALR_87003179).

2. On the Change View "Sensitive Fields": Overview, click New Entries.

3. Under Field Name, enter the table plus the technical field name or use F4 to find the available fields that you can set as sensitive

4. Click Save.