How to Create Sensitive field or Dual Control for customer Master

How to Create Sensitive field or Dual Control for customer Master.

Scenario: Here a company have junior and senior users in finance team. Requirement is, if junior user made changes of payment term, reconciliation account or any field in customer or vendor master record should not confirmed until senior user approved.

Steps to follow for making Sensitive field or Dual Control for Customer master.

1. Make field as sensitive field in T code: S_ALR_87003378. Let us make “Terms of Payment” as Sensitive field or Dual control field.
2. Now, Change “Terms of Payment” in Customer Business Partner in the T code: BP.
3. Final step – Approve using other SAP user login (In Real time user will be senior user) in T code: FD08.

1. Make field as sensitive field in T code: S_ALR_87003378.

Go to T code: S_ALR_87003378.

Click on New Entries button.

Now give the technical name of “Terms of Payment” table – field (get from F4).

Click on save button.

Customizing request popup will come, select your request and click on continue.

2. Now Change “Terms of Payment” in Customer master (BP) in the T code: BP.

Give Customer number and press enter.

Double click on the Partner.

Displayed customer master.

Path – Click on Business Partner and “Display <-> Change”.

Under Company code data -> Customer: Payment Transactions and Change the Terms of Payment.

Give Terms of Payment

Click on Save.

Now system saying – Changes not yet confirmed.

Note: Mostly senior user will approve the changes made for the sensitive field – This is called Dual Control.

3. Approve the change in T code: FD08

Note: This approval should be give by other user in the same SAP server(Let us assume, other user is senior).

Go to T code: FD08.

Give Customer, Company code and press enter button.

Here Confirmation status of Company code is opened to Confirm or Reject.

Current status – To be Confirmed.

Now click on Confirm button.

Current status – Confirmed.

Click on save button

Changes have been made.

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Explained: How to Create Sensitive field or Dual Control for customer Master.