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Business Partner Customer/vendor Integration

The document discusses setting up Business Partners in S/4HANA to centrally manage master data for customers, vendors, and business partners. It notes that Business Partner replaces the traditional customer/vendor object models, which had limitations like only one address and no relationship between customers and vendors. Business Partner allows general data to be shared across roles, one partner to have multiple roles, multiple addresses, and time-dependent attributes. It provides steps for setting up Business Partners including defining roles, customizing synchronization between Business Partners and customer/vendor objects, mapping account groups and number ranges, and creating number ranges.

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Business Partner Customer/vendor Integration

The document discusses setting up Business Partners in S/4HANA to centrally manage master data for customers, vendors, and business partners. It notes that Business Partner replaces the traditional customer/vendor object models, which had limitations like only one address and no relationship between customers and vendors. Business Partner allows general data to be shared across roles, one partner to have multiple roles, multiple addresses, and time-dependent attributes. It provides steps for setting up Business Partners including defining roles, customizing synchronization between Business Partners and customer/vendor objects, mapping account groups and number ranges, and creating number ranges.

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Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Setting up Business Partner S/4 HANA


There are redundant object models in the traditional ERP system. Here the vendor master and customer
Master is used. The (mandatory) target approach in S/4HANA is the Business Partner approach.
Business Partner is now capable of centrally managing master data for business partners, customers,
and vendors. With current development, BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display master
data for business partners, customers, and vendors

Customer/Vendor Object Model Limitations


1 Only one single address
2 No relation between a vendor and a customer for the same real world entity (no role concept)
3 No time-dependency

Business Partner – SAP Strategic Object Model


• General data are shared across different roles
• One business partner could perform multiple roles, e.g., customer and vendor (supplier)
• One business partner could have multiple addresses
• Time-dependency object attributes and relationships
• Provide harmonized architecture
• Customer/Vendor Integration (CVI) component ensure the synchronization between the Business
Partner object and the customer/vendor objects

Dependencies/Pre-requisites
Business partner has been mandatory with S4 Hana Enterprise Management version i.e 1511 and 1610
& old transactions related to Vendor and customers have become obsolete.
It´s recommended but not mandatory that BuPa ID and Customer-ID / Vendor ID are the same.
The Business Partner Approach is not mandatory for the SAP Simple Finance 1503
Check and activate Business Functions
CA_SUPPLIER_SOA
CA_BP_SOA Switch ‘VENDOR_SFWS_SC1’ and switch ‘VENDOR_SFWS_SC2’ have to be active for
the vendor contact person’s data to be synchronized with BP contact person’s data

The appropriate specific transaction like XD01,XD02, XD03 or VD01, VD02, VD03 / XK01, XK02, XK03
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration
or MK01, MK02, MK03 etc. are not available in SAP S/4HANA Enterprise management Version i.e. 1511
and 1610
Currently mass maintenance for customers and vendors via transaction MASS is not available.
Before you begin the BP conversion from an SAP ERP system to an SAP S/4 HANA system, you have to
answer the questions Whether the Business Partner ID and Customer-ID /Vendor ID should be the same
in the S/4 HANA System?
Business Partner Master Data Setup Proces
1 Setup BP General Data

Select General Business Partner Role and Grouping, here this grouping is linked with customer/ vendor
Number range and this Grouping is key in linking the Vendor/Customer & BP groups as well as
number ranges which is explained below in detail.
Table BUT000 will be updated once General BP role is completed.
2. Setup FI Vendor

BP Role FLVN00 FI Vendor extension enables Invoice to be posted directly in FI.


Here vendor master table LFA1 and LFB1 will be updated.
FI document can be posted but cannot create PO as purchasing data is not yet extended so for
extending purchasing data use ROLE FLVN01
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Table LFM1 will be updated once the BP Role is extended to Supplier BP Role
Once BP is extended to Purchase Organization using BP Role FLVN01 the vendor can be used PO can
be created.

Setting up Customer
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Table KNA1 will be updated once BP Role is extended to FI Customer and Finance can start posting
directly in FI for example FB70 etc.

Extend Customer to Sales Area


BP Role FLCU01 is extended to sales area.
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Table KNVV updated with Sales view details and henceforth Customer can be used in sales area.
Extend Customer to Credit Segment
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Table UKMBP_CMS_SGM updated


Note- S4 Hana credit Management setting should be enabled to check the credit limits for customers

Customizing
Business Partner Customizing
Activate the PPO Request for the synchronization object Business Partner
Cross-Application Components–> Master Data Synchronization –> Synchronization Control–>
Synchronization

Active Synchronization between Customer/Vendor and BP is active


Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Define BP Roles
Assign BP Role to BP Role Category
Cross-Application Components–> SAP Business Partner–>Business Partner–> Basic Settings –>
Business Partner Roles–> Define BP Roles

This setting is already available in standard delivered system for standard roles.
Account Group /Number Range Mapping
I am explaining below with an example of requirement for setting up One Time Vendor and One Time
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration
Customer Account and as a summary we need to setup Vendor/Customer Account group & assign
number ranges to respective Vendor/Customer account group as it was required in classic
ERP environment.
Additionally BP grouping is mapped with Vendor/Customer account group

Define Account Groups Vendor


Financial Accounting (New)–> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable–> Vendor Accounts–>
Master Data–> Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data

Assign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups

Similarly for Customers we need to define Account Group and assign number range to
Customer account groups.

Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to Vendor/Customer


Cross-Application Components–> Master Data Synchronization–>Customer/Vendor Integration –>
Business Partner Settings –> Settings for Vendor Integration –> Field Assignment for Vendor
Integration–> Assign Keys
Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to Vendor
Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Define BP Number Range and assigning to BP Grouping


Cross-Application Components–> SAP Business Partner–> Business Partner–> Basic Settings –
>Number Ranges and Groupings
Define Number Ranges-BP

Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges


Business Partner customer/vendor Integration

Create Number Ranges for Vendor/Customer


Financial Accounting (New)–> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable–> Vendor Accounts–>
Master Data –> Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data
Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts

Similarly create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts.

This will enable to start work with new Business Partner in S4 Hana Enterprise Management
Environment.

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