November 17, 2026

10:00 - 11:00

Lower SAP license costs by up to 60% – how authorizations affect the license value


What are we going to talk about?

  • How the SAP S/4HANA licensing model works and what the license costs depend on.
  • How user authorizations and roles affect the licensing classification.
  • What are the most common errors that lead to unnecessary increases in SAP costs?.
  • How to verify which permissions are actually being used.
  • How to find the differences between assigned and used permissions.
  • Where to look for savings and how to reduce license costs by up to 60%.
  • How to prepare the organization for migration to SAP S/4HANA without incurring unnecessary costs.

Who is this webinar for?

  1. IT directors
  2. Software Asset Managers
  3. IT Asset Managers
  4. IT Controllers
  5. SAP Security Administrators
  6. Compliance Managers
  7. Risk Managers
  8. Project managers of migration projects
Kamil Kuźbik

Speaker - Kamil Kuźbik

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Agenda

SAP S/4HANA license model.

Presentation of available implementation models of SAP S/4HANA and principles of user classification.

The impact of authorization on the costs of SAP licenses.

An explanation of how assigned roles and authorization objects affect the licensing classification of users.

Typical errors that lead to overestimating costs.

An overview of errors in the authorization model that can lead to assigning license levels higher than those actually required by users.

Verification of the actual use of the allowances.

A presentation of the approach based on the SAP standard that allows verifying which permissions are actually used by users in their daily work.

Allocating the delta between assigned and actually used allowances.

Comparison of the allowances assigned with the allowances actually used. Identification of areas where there is potential for optimizing license costs.

Practical examples of license optimization.

Discussion of real-life scenarios showing the impact of the authorization reorganization on user classification and potential savings.

How to prepare the organization for migration to S/4HANA.

Recommendations regarding the review of authorization before migration, limiting excess permissions, and building a more effective licensing model for the future.

About the speaker

Kamil Kuźbik

Kamil Kuźbik

SAP Security & Licensing Consultant

He specializes in SAP security and licensing, helping clients optimize license costs and build authorization models based on the actual use of the system.
It supports organizations in preparing for migration to S/4HANA and SAP audits.

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