The SAP Named User Licensing Survival Guide.

Six learning outcomes, drawn from 500+ Named User engagements.

1. How a Fortune 500 retailer cut a $12M Named User audit claim by 76%. The classification audit, the contractor reclassification, the engine interlock defence, and the eight-week settlement timeline.
2. The seventy-two-hour Named User audit response playbook. The seven moves to make in the first three days of an audit notification, the three written acknowledgements never to provide, and the internal team to assemble before responding to SAP.
3. The contractor classification trap, decoded. Why eight to twelve per cent of the user master is contractor or service-account, why seventy-eight per cent of these are misclassified, and the contractual language that fixes the position before USMM submission.
4. The engine interlock defence. How Named User and engine licensing measurements interact in audit, where the double-counting risks sit, and the four defensive moves that prevent both lines being inflated.
5. The evidence file for Named User defence. The five artefacts (classification log, deactivation log, role-architecture record, transaction-footprint analysis, validation evidence) that turn the cleaned position into a defensible audit response.
6. The settlement architecture for Named User matters. Beyond price — the rebalancing clauses, re-measurement caps, scope-of-use updates, and renewal-window protections that prevent the next Named User dispute from arising on the same terms.

Seven chapters. Fifty pages.

Four audiences. One survival handbook.