The License Optimization Field Guide.

Six learning outcomes, drawn from standing optimisation programmes.

1. How a global manufacturer cut SAP run-rate by 22% in twelve months. The four optimisation workstreams, the population segments addressed, and the $8.4M recovered without a single net-new licence purchase.
2. The dormant user cleanup procedure. The ST03N query that identifies the 12% of users contributing nothing operational, plus the HR-validation workflow that keeps the cleanup defensible at audit.
3. Role-mapping for licence efficiency. Why authorisation-role design drives bucket inflation, and the seven role-architecture patterns that produce defensible downward reclassification.
4. Engine measurement optimisation. The five SAP engine metrics where customer-side technical work routinely reduces apparent consumption by 25-40% — and the contractual language that locks the reduction in.
5. The standing optimisation programme. The monthly, quarterly, and annual rhythm that prevents drift from re-accumulating, plus the governance model that keeps the programme funded across budget cycles.
6. The audit-ready evidence file. The five artefacts that turn an optimisation programme from a discretionary cost-saving exercise into a defensible audit position.

Seven chapters. Forty-eight pages.

Four audiences. One operational handbook.