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chandan bhatnagar
November 13, 2022 | 4 minute read

SAP Enhancement & Modi�cation

Basics – Must read for Functional
Consultant
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I n t ro d u c t i o n
This document will help functional consultant to understand the di�erence
between enhancement and modi�cation. What kind of enhancement are available
and how to search the one based on requirement.

Purpose
There are many businesses requirement which are not possible in SAP standard
and we need to do enhancement or modi�cation with the help of technical team.
This document will help functional consultant to understand the available type of
enhancement and how can he/she search those as per business requirement.

Scope
We will cover di�erent types of available enhancement and how to use it.

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Enhancement
SAP object is the object that is delivered or created by SAP. Customer object is
the object that is created by a customer.

Enhancement is a way to add or change the SAP object functionality without

modifying the SAP object.

Below are the types of enhancement available in SAP –

1. Data dictionary enhancement

2. Customer Exit
3. BTE
4. BADI

Data dictionar y enhancement

We can enhance SAP standard table or structure by using two ways,

1. Append structure
2. Customising include

Append structure and customising include allow us to enhance SAP standard

tables or structures by adding �elds to them.

We can enhance table or structure by using customising include only if the table
or a structure has customising include Statement.

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U s e – I f t h e re i s a re q u i re m e n t t o s a ve s o m e a d d i t i o n a l � e l d s .

C u st o m e r Ex i t

Customer exit is one type of SAP enhancement. With customer exit we can
enhance the SAP standard program without modifying SAP Object.

There are three type of customer exit –

1. Functional Exit
2. Menu Exit
3. Screen Exit

We can see the list of customer exit by transaction code SMOD.

1. Debuting the program and create a breakpoint for command call customer
function.
2. Search in program “call customer-function”.
3. Use transaction SMOD

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U s e - I f t h e re i s a re q u i re m e n t t o a p p l y s o m e v a l i d a t i o n o n � e l d , w a n t t o
s u b s t i t u t e v a l u e s d u r i n g t h e p o s t i n g o r n e e d s o m e a d d i t i o n a l s c re e n
d u r i n g a ny t ra n sa c t i o n e t c.

B u s i n e s s t ra n s a c t i o n eve n t ( BT E )

BTE is a type of enhancement which is basically developed for FI module. BTE is

based upon function module, but it is di�erent from customer exit.

In customer exit only SAP and Customer is involved unlike BTE where partner is
also involved other than SAP and customer. So not only customer can modify the
SAP program, but other partner �rm can also modify the standard logic in BTE.

There are 2 types of BTE interface

1. Process Interface – Can in�uence the SAP standard object

2. Publish and subscribe interface – Cannot in�uence the SAP Standard object.

Enter T-code – FIBF , you can �nd both type of BTE.

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U s e - C a n b e u s e d i n F I re p o r t s , p a y m e n t a d v i s e, d u n n i n g , v a l i d a t i o n , a n d
substitution.

B u s i n e s s Ad d - i n ( BA D I )

When SAP developers were creating SAP standard program, they found that
customer may need di�erent logic in the future, So they created BADI and also an
interface.

1. BADI is based on object-oriented programming.

2. We can see list of existing BADI by t code SE18.
3. We can implement the BADI by t code SE19.

We can search BAdI Name is used for classical and Enhancement spot used for

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new.

You can check the documentation related to BAdI and used those as per your
requirement.

Click on display, we can check if this BAdI is already implemented or not.

There is a tab in header “Implementation” , click on that then display.

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So this BAdI is already implemented as we can clearly see above.

U s e - C a n b e u s e d w i d e l y t o a p p l y a d d i t i o n a l l o g i c i n s a p s t a n d a rd
p ro g ra m l i ke a p p l y i n g p a y m e n t b l o c k b a s e d o n c e r t a i n b u s i n e s s
re q u i re m e n t a s s h o w n a b ove.

Mo di�cation
SAP object is the object that is delivered or created by SAP. Customer object is
the object that is created by a customer. Modi�cation is a way to add or change
the SAP object functionality directly modifying the SAP object. This is not
recommended as it can leads to inconsistency.

Modi�cation is not recommended until unless you have complete knowledge of

�ow. There is modi�cation which is allows and it is user exit.

When we do modi�cation, we required SAP Software change registration.

SAP recommends us to use modi�cation assistance when modifying SAP

standard program.

U s e – U s e r ex i t i s o n e k i n d o f m o d i � c a t i o n w h i c h c a n b e u s e d t o m o d i f y
t h e SA P o b j e c t w i t h o u r ow n l o g i c.

Co n f u s i o n – So n ow t h e co n f u s i o n i s w h a t s h o u l d we u se ? E i t h e r
en h an ce me n t o r mo d i� ca t i o n . I f e n h a n cem en t t h e n w h a t ty pe of
e n h a n c e m e n t . A c t u a l l y t h i s i s d e � n e d b y S A P i t s e l f, S A P h a s d e � n e d
a l re a d y w h i c h o b j e c t c a n b e m o d i � e d . E n h a n c e m e n t i s p re - p l a n n e d by
SA P a n d SA P h a s a l re a d y d e � n e d w h a t k i n d o f e n h a n c e m e n t c a n b e u s e d
or not.

Please share your valuable feedback.

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P l e a s e fo l l o w m y b l o g fo r F I c u t ove r a c t i v i t i e s –

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activities/

P l e a s e fo l l ow my b l o g fo r va l i d a t i o n a n d s u bst i t u t i o n –

https://blogs.sap.com/2022/10/30/user-exit-in-validation-substitution-for-
functional-consultant/

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and read other posts on the topic –

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Marc Bernard
November 13, 2022 at 7:49 pm

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Nice overview. It's lacking some critical information for functional consultants, for example:

chandan bhatnagar | Blog Post Author

• What method is supported by what release or is deprecated as of what release?
November 14, 2022 at 2:47 pm
• Does it work on-premise and/or in cloud solutions?
Thanks for your comment. Being a functional consultant I might have limited understanding over
• Call to research if missing features are available in newer releases or provided by partner solutions
ABAP. But, Technically user exit comes under modi�cation since you are changing the SAP
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Marc Bernard
November 14, 2022 at 5:46 pm

This is not correct. Customer exits are not modifying any SAP code. The documentation
also lists them under "Enhancements":

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_750/2b28�a716c24348903f8�bfeb81df8
/c81975cc43b111d1896f0000e8322d00.html

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chandan bhatnagar | Blog Post Author

November 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm

Hello Marc, User exit and customer exit both are di�erent, isn't it. I have seen while
we were using user exit MV45AFZZ , it require the access key but in case of
customer exit it don't ask for access key. And I suppose we require access while we
do modi�cation of SAP object.

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Marc Bernard
November 15, 2022 at 8:12 pm

User exit is an older term for customer exit. You are going way back to
when you had to modify the user exit includes (when enhancements didn't
exist).

The nicer way is to use an enhancement within the include (no mod, no
need for access key). Here's a good example:
https://www.tutorialscampus.com/sap-abap/user-exits.htm

PS: At some point, SAP switched from "user exit includes" in the SAP
namespace to delivering the exit as includes in the custom namespace
(ZXxxxUyy). This also avoided the modi�cation.

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