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Business Partner Customer Vendor Integration S4HANA
Business Partner Customer Vendor Integration S4HANA
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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
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
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 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?
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.
FI document can be posted but cannot create PO as purchasing data is not yet extended so for extending purchasing data use
ROLE FLVN01
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
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.
Table KNVV updated with Sales view details and henceforth Customer can be used in sales area.
Extend Customer to Credit Segment
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–> 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.
I am explaining below with an example of requirement for setting up One Time Vendor and One Time 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.
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
This will enable to start work with new Business Partner in S4 Hana Enterprise Management Environment.
Thanks
Ajeet Agarwal