Bussiness Partner in SAP S4 HANA
A brief intro on Business Partner.
In simpler terms, any entity that interacts with your SAP system is referred to as a Business Partner.
SAP introduced this concept to minimize data duplication. For example, suppose I have a vendor who wants to purchase something from me. In S/4HANA, I can easily assign them a Business Partner role as a customer. However, in SAP ECC, I would need to re-enter all their information, such as address, name, and postal code, to register them as a customer.
From a B2B perspective, the Business Partner concept makes even more sense. Let’s say I’m doing business with Microsoft’s Seattle office and handle all deliveries there. If I later want to purchase services from them, I can simply use the same Business Partner number assigned to Microsoft and treat them as a vendor.
Below are the config that you need to do.
- Defining the number range for business partner
- Assign number range to business partner groupings
- Define Business Partner Roles
- Define business partner role category
- Define Business partner Role Grouping
- Define Customer Account Group
- Define Customer Number Range
- Assign Customer Number range to Account Group
- Number Assignment for direction BP to customer
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