Business Partner Configuration

1. Define BP Number Ranges and Groupings

a) Define Number Ranges:
Path: SPRO – IMG-Cross Application Components -SAP Business Partner -Business Partner -Basic Settings -Number
Ranges and Groupings - Define Number Ranges

b) Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges

Path: SPRO – IMG-Cross Application Components -SAP Business Partner -Business Partner -Basic Settings -Number
Ranges and Groupings -Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges
 2. Define Vendor account group and Number range assignment
a) Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts
Path: Financial Accounting -Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -Vendor Accounts -Master Data -
Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data -Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts

• If we are assigning the same number range to Vendor then must check the external number range for
automatic assignment

b) Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Vendors)

Path: Financial Accounting -Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -Vendor Accounts -Master Data -
Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data - Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Vendors)
 c) Assign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups
Path: Financial Accounting -Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -Vendor Accounts -Master Data -
Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data - Assign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups

3. Mapping BP to Vendor
a) Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to Vendor
Path: 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

• Here we are using same number range for BP and vendor. So, need to check the same numbers

4. BP Roles configuration
Path: Cross-Application Components -Business Partner -Basic Settings -Business Partner Roles

• If we want to create any new roles we can use above path

a) Standard roles for MM

• General Business Partner – 000000
• Company Code Data – FLVN00
• Purchasing Data – FLVN01

5. BP creation

a) General Data:

b) Company code Data

c) Purchasing Data
6. Vendor and BP tables