Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 2 · Security and Data Access
Why this is a third security model
Lesson 12 of 188 · 3 min
If you have taken the Financials or the HR course, start here. SCM data security is a third model. Not a variation — a third one. Financials keys on ledgers and business units. HCM keys on person security profiles. SCM keys on security contexts — inventory organization, manufacturing plant, cost organization — granted per user or per role. Assuming any of the three transfers is the fastest route to a broken configuration, and it is better to arrive here knowing nothing than to arrive confident. The function security chain is the same everywhere: user, role, duty, privilege. That part transfers, and it is the only part that does. The data security layer is specific to SCM, and the question it answers is which organizations' data can you touch — answered by granting security contexts. Three contexts carry the load in this course: inventory organization, manufacturing plant, cost organization. There are…
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In this module: Module 2 · Security and Data Access
- 1Why this is a third security model
- 2The roles a manufacturing project needs
- 3Provisioning implementation and business users
- 4Security contexts explained
- 5Granting inventory organization access
- 6Granting plant and cost organization access
- 7Segregation of duties on the shop floor
- 8What breaks
- 9Lab: build the access grid for two plants