SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2919148 - You are not authorized to use transaction KE53

Symptom

You double-click in Profit Center field through a Sales app, for example, and the system throws error 00172 : You are not authorized to use transaction KE53

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Change Sales Orders - VA02 app
  2. Choose sales order
  3. Select an item
  4. Go to Schedule Lines for Item
  5. Go to tab Account Assignment
  6. Double-click in Profit Center field
  7. The error You are not authorized to use transaction KE53 is raised.

Cause

Missing Authorisations.

Resolution

Displaying Profit Center master records, is covered by the business role SAP_BR_DIVISION_ACCOUNTANT (Business catalog SAP_FIN_BC_OH_MD_PCA_PC).

Assign this business role to the user via the Maintain business user app and they will then be able to navigate to the profit center master records.

Keywords

KE53, 00172, Profit Center, Account Assignment, Manage Sales Orders app, sales app, sales, SAP_BR_DIVISION_ACCOUNTANT, business role, authorization , KBA , SD-SLS , Sales , SD-SLS-SO , Sales Orders , FI-FIO-GL , Fiori UI for General Ledger Accounting , SD-SLS-2CL , Sales (Public Cloud) , How To

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions