How Exposed Are You to SAP Indirect Access Claims?
Answer 8 questions to quantify your indirect access risk, identify hidden exposure points, and get a prioritised action plan before SAP contacts you.
73%
Orgs Underestimate Exposure
$2.4M
Average Audit Demand
9
Document Types SAP Counts
Your ProgressQuestion 1 of 8
Question 1 of 8
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How many non-SAP systems currently create or modify data inside your SAP environment?
Include CRM, e-commerce, EDI, procurement portals, HR platforms, WMS, IoT, RPA bots, and any middleware that writes to SAP tables.
None
All data entry happens through SAP GUI or Fiori by licensed users
1 to 3 systems
A few integrations, limited scope
4 to 10 systems
Multiple integrations across business functions
More than 10 systems
Heavily integrated landscape
Question 2 of 8
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Do you have e-commerce, customer portals, or B2B platforms that generate sales orders, invoices, or deliveries in SAP?
Every order placed on your website or customer portal that creates an SAP sales document is a billable indirect access event under Digital Access licensing.
No customer-facing systems connected to SAP
Yes, low volume (under 10,000 orders/year)
Yes, moderate volume (10,000 to 100,000 orders/year)
Yes, high volume (over 100,000 orders/year)
Question 3 of 8
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Do supplier portals, procurement platforms, or EDI connections create purchase orders or goods receipts in SAP?
Ariba, Coupa, and EDI systems that create POs or goods movements in SAP generate billable documents. Purchase documents are counted per line item, not per header.
No. All procurement is done directly in SAP
Yes, a small number of suppliers via EDI or portal
Yes, significant procurement flows from external platforms
Yes, most procurement runs through Ariba, Coupa, or EDI
Question 4 of 8
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Do RPA bots, AI agents, or automated workflows create transactions in SAP?
UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, or custom scripts that create SAP documents are indirect access. A single bot can generate thousands of documents per day.
No automation touches SAP
A few bots with limited SAP interaction
Multiple bots actively creating SAP documents
Extensive automation at scale with no licence review
Question 5 of 8
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What types of SAP documents do your external systems primarily create?
Not all documents are weighted equally. Material movements and financial documents carry 0.2 weighting (5 = 1 billable doc). Sales orders, invoices, and POs are 1:1.
Mostly material movements or financial postings
0.2 weighted documents (lower cost per unit)
Mix of document types across categories
Both 1.0 and 0.2 weighted documents
Primarily sales orders, invoices, and purchase orders
1.0 weighted documents (highest cost per unit)
I do not know what document types are being created
No visibility into indirect document composition
Question 6 of 8
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Does your current SAP contract include Digital Access (document-based) entitlements?
Digital Access licensing was introduced in 2018. If your contract predates this or only covers named users, you may have no licence coverage for indirect documents.
No. Our contract only covers named user licences
No Digital Access provisions exist
I am not sure what our contract covers
Yes, but I have not validated if the allowance is sufficient
Yes, and we actively track consumption against our entitlement
Question 7 of 8
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Have you ever run SAP's Digital Access Estimation Service (DAES) or an independent indirect access analysis?
DAES is SAP's tool that scans your system to estimate document volumes. Running it yourself first is critical because SAP's numbers become the baseline in any compliance discussion.
No, we have never measured indirect access volumes
We have a rough estimate based on business volumes
Not based on actual SAP data
We ran DAES or an independent analysis at some point
But it may be out of date
We measure regularly and have current data
Question 8 of 8
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Are you planning new integrations, IoT deployments, or digital transformation projects that will connect to SAP in the next 12 months?
Every new system, API, or IoT data stream that writes to SAP increases your indirect access footprint.
No new integrations planned
One or two small projects
Several integration projects in the pipeline
Major digital transformation with many new SAP connections
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