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Business Partner

The document discusses business partners, accounts, contacts, employees, and their roles and relationships in SAP. It defines business partners as any parties a company has a business interest in, such as customers, vendors, and competitors. Accounts are described as companies, individuals, or groups that a business has a relationship with. Contacts are individuals associated with corporate accounts. Employees are members of a company involved in customer interactions. The document also discusses how roles and relationships between business partners are configured and managed in SAP.

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Business Partner

The document discusses business partners, accounts, contacts, employees, and their roles and relationships in SAP. It defines business partners as any parties a company has a business interest in, such as customers, vendors, and competitors. Accounts are described as companies, individuals, or groups that a business has a relationship with. Contacts are individuals associated with corporate accounts. Employees are members of a company involved in customer interactions. The document also discusses how roles and relationships between business partners are configured and managed in SAP.

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Business Partners

Business partners are any parties in which your company has a business interest. A business partner can be any of the following:

Accounts

An account is a company, individual, or group with which you have a business relationship. An account can be, for example, a customer, prospect, vendor, or competitor. Accounts are subdivided into the following types:

Corporate accounts (companies or organizations) Individual accounts (private individuals) Groups (any groupings, such as households)

Business Partners

Contacts

A contact is a person with whom you have a business relationship, and is mostly assigned to a corporate account. An employee is a member of your company, and involved in the interactions between your company and customers, prospects, vendors, and other parties.

Employees

BP Roles

A business partner can take on different business partner roles, thus reflecting the business transactions in which it is likely to be involved. Roles are important in Classification System that is used extensively during the ECC-CRM data transfer process.

BP Role Configuration

Roles are defined in [ SPRO -> IMG -> Cross Application Components -> SAP Business Partner -> Business Partner -> Basic Settings -> Business Partner Role -> Define BP Roles ]

BP Role Configuration

Important controls

Exercise

Business Scenario : Assuming that your business requires a Guarantor for the payer for transactions exceeding half a million, you have been asked to create a new BP role called Payer Guarantor.

BP Relationships

A relationship connects two business partners and is characterized by a business partner relationship category. SAP Easy Access Transaction [ BUPT ] Once you are in, go to Relationship Categories or [ BUBA ]

BP Relationship Categories Configuration

Exercise

Define a new Relationship Category Credit Controller as follows. The Credit Controller is always a Person

BP Archive

Transaction SARA for Archiving data

BP Delete

Transaction BUPA_DEL, which can be used in order to delete a particular or range of business Partner(s).

Archive Flag

Only Record with Delete Flag - If user checks the First Checkbox then it will delete only those BP's whose Archiving flag is set. Only System status "Deleted" - If User checks Second Checkbox, then it will delete only those BP's whose status has been set to be "deleted" by the user. Test Run, Check only - If User checks Third Checkbox, then it will run the transaction without deleting any BP.

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