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Organization, person, group of persons in which your company has a business interest
When you want implement Credit management, collection management, Treasury management and
CRM Etc. you required Business partner.
It can be integrated with customers & vendors, collection management, distribute management.
It is one repository for all counter party information
Support for configuring various roles to enable efficient data capture.
Support for configuring relation ships to various parties
Configure screen design
Support for implementing company specific-de-duplication logic
Ex: All insurance companies deal with various parties- Customers, Third parties, agents, brokers,
you might find one party playing different roles on different policy contracts, the same person
might be a policy holder, insured person or premium payer on different policies. There is a high
chance of creating redundant records that impair operation efficiency and customer satisfaction.
SAP business partner offers solution to keep all your counterparty data one central location.
Ex: u required customer details for credit management, Collection management, dispute
management & Treasury, if you create one business partner and extend to all modules no need
of separate master data.
1. Manual integration
2. Automatic integration
1) one way
2) Two way creation
Configuration:
Path: Spro-Cross Application components-SAP business partner –Activation Switch for functions.
By default all functions are activated
BP Category: (Folder):
Which controls screens and fields
Select BP role
Ex: You are an employee of sales company Smith you have made contact with Lopez, you would like send
details about your products you are creating following business partner master data.
BP name Lopez
Role: Prospect for which u will define validity data, central data and address.
3 months latter Lopez creates a order and invoice should be sent to parent company Lopez and sons again
you create the following business partner master data.
You create a role prospect and assign Lopez sons the role sold to party
B) BP category to Business transaction:
It controls fields