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The report includes:

• The most affected modules in your ERP system
• Obsolete BAPIs you need to replace
• Cloned programs you need to correct
• Authorization roles you need to modify
  

• SAP Support Package Stack (SPS) 17 contains 19,896 individual correction notes;
• This represents a 34% increase over SPS 16, which had only 14,861 notes;
• For about 70% of SAP customers, only 2% of the corrective notes will impact functions that are currently in production use;
• The modules most impacted by SPS 17 are the Finance Modules (16.55% of the notes), then the HR modules, the Logistic modules, and then the Industry Solution modules;
• About 84% of the notes are Program Error Fixes; 10% are categorized as correction of legal function or legal changes;
• There are 237 notes that relate to performance issues;
• In a recent study, SAP customers reported that they spend, on average, 73 person days implementing a single Support Package stack;
• The same study showed that many SAP customers implement support packages two to four times a year;
• This effort results in cumulative expenditure of over $4 billion per year that could be utilized for a better purpose.