The SAP License Optimization Handbook.

Six optimisation outcomes, drawn from active programmes.

1. Why optimisation is a discipline, not a project. The five-year economic case for continuous baseline, reclassification, and engine reconciliation work — and the twenty-two per cent average annual maintenance reduction it produces in the programmes behind this paper.
2. How to build a defensible baseline before any contract event. The eleven-source baseline assessment that establishes the actual licence consumption position, ahead of renewal, audit, or RISE conversion conversations.
3. How to rebalance the named-user pool to the lowest defensible tier. The reclassification matrix applied against ST03N transaction usage, which retires an average thirty-one per cent dormant-user share and reclassifies a further eighteen per cent downward.
4. How to reconcile engine licences against productive scope. The annual engine review that identifies the fourteen per cent average overprovisioning carried in most estates and produces the corrective shelfware position before renewal.
5. How to rebalance the contract shape itself. The pool-rebalancing economics that pay back in six to nine months and reset the trajectory of the maintenance line for the remaining contract term.
6. How to govern year-over-year so the gains hold. The quarterly measurement cadence and the annual board-level optimisation review that prevent drift from re-accumulating between contract events.

Seven chapters. Forty-seven pages.

Four audiences. One reference document.