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Business Partner Concept in SAP S/4HANA
1.1 What is Business Partner?
In SAP S/4 HANA, Business Partner is the leading object and single-entry point to maintain
Business Partner, Customer, and Supplier (formerly known as Vendor) master data.
Business Partner allows maintenance of multiple addresses with corresponding address
usages.
It is not a new terminology it is also in ECC.

ECC have two options.
1. Customer or vendor 2. Business Partner

• In SAP S/4 HANA is only Business Partner
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• Business Partner is any entity is impact with our business and or impaction
our business is known as business Partner.
• The EWM, MDG, TM, CRM, SRM they are following Business Partner concept.
• Vendor customer is the role which is done by business partner
• It is mandatory in conversion ECC to S/4HANA, Business Partner must assign
to customer and vendor in ECC.
1.1.1 Which Table we are getting here
• BUT000 – General Data

• BUT020 – Address
• BUT100 – BP Roles
• KNA1- Customer Data
• LFA1- Vendor Data
1.1.2 Business Partner Role
SAP Business Partner Screening for SAP S/4 HANA is used to centrally manage master data
for business partners, customers, and vendors. Business Partner Application allows you to
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create, maintain, and manage business partners. You can also use this to perform
integration with other functions and data exchange.
You can use the BP Role to conduct a business classification of a BP role on the basis of
business transaction. The attributes of the BP role depend on the particular transaction
involved.
In S/4 HANA we have three distinct categories
A Business Partner can be :
• Organization,
• Person- Individual,
• Group- Group of person or partners.
1.1.3 Account Group
An account group is a named collection of accounts. CSA uses account groups in financial
statements to increase their flexibility and to enable you to use a financial statement for
multiple clients. Some account group names are pre-defined, but account group definitions
are client specific.
1.1.4 Customer Account Group
Customer account groups in SAP are used to classify customers into business partner
functions that fit best the nature of the business transaction. Customer account groups
control the customer hierarchy containing the customer master record. It determines the
role of a customer and customer master data.
We create Customer Account Group in Financial Accounting
Menu Path:
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Financial Accounting-> Account Receivable & Payable->Customer
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Customer Master Data-> Define Account
Groups with screen layout (Customer) Master data.
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Menu Path:
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Customer Master Data-> Create Number
ranges for Customer Account Group
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Menu Path:
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Customer Master Data-> Assign Number
ranges to Customer Account Group
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Vendor Account Group
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You use vendor groups to classify your vendor records into groups that share similar
characteristics. You define vendor groups adding vendor records.
Menu Path
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Financial Accounting-> Account Receivable & Payable->Vendor
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Vendor Master Data-> Define Account
Groups with screen layout (Vendor) Master data
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Menu Path:
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Financial Accounting-> Account Receivable & Payable->Vendor
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Vendor Master Data-> Create Number
ranges for Vendor Account Group
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Menu Path:
Accounts-> Master Data-> Preparation for creating Vendor Master Data-> Assign Number
ranges to Vendor Account Group
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1.2 Customer Vender Integration
Customer/Vendor Integration involves the following process phases: You process the
business partner or customer/vendor. ... If a customer/vendor master record is assigned to
the business partner, then the system updates the customer/vendor data in the business
partner at the same time, irrespective of role.
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Work before conversion is as follows:

· Archive redundant master data.
· Activate business functions.
· Integrate custom enhancements.
· Implement check reports (see below section for these standard tools).
· Configure CVI as customer/vendor to BP.
· Implement customer specific mapping, if necessary.
· Assign number ranges.
The Customer/Vendor Integration (CVI) component ensure the synchronization between

the BP object and the Customer/Vendor objects. Aside from the mandatory Business
Partner target approach in S/4HANA, it is also the approach used in both SAP Master Data
Governance (MDG) versions: MDG on S/4HANA as well as MDG on ERP.
Define BP Grouping & Assign Number Range
Menu Path:
T-code: BUCF
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SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Cross Application Components-> SAP Business partner-> Business
Partner-> Number Range & Groupings-> Define Number Range
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Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges
Define Business Partner Groupings
Use
In this activity, you define groupings for business partners.
Example
Requirements
The number ranges for business partners are defined.
Standard settings
The following groupings are supplied by SAP:
• 0001
• 0002
Activities
1. Check the standard groupings and change them if necessary.
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2. Define new groupings and define their number range if required.

3. You can define standard groupings for internal and external number assignment.
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Customer Integration
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Cross Application Components-> Master Data Synchronization->
Customer Vendor Integration-> Business Partner Settings-> Settings for Customer
Integration-> Field Assignment for Customer Integration-> Assign Keys-> Define Number
Range Assignment for direction BP to Customer
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Vendor Integration
Menu Path:
T-code: BUCF
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> Cross Application Components-> SAP Business partner-> Business
Partner-> Number Range & Groupings-> Define Number Range
SPRO-> SAP IMG Screen-> 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 Range
Assignment for direction BP to Vendor
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Create Business Partner
• BP as Customer
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• BP as Vendor
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1.3 Advantage of Business Partner
• Simplified master data creation

• Creation/Modification/Extension/…of a customer/supplier with only 1 Apps
• Single maintain centralized data addresses and so on
• Time dependent data like roles and addresses are tome dependent data,
multiple addresses can be put in it.
• Address like ship to address, sold to address.
• Adoption of FSCM need business partner approach.
• Another reason embedded like, EWM, TM, this all working on Business
Partner approach.
• Credit management FSCM credit management is working on business partner
approach.
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Business Partner Concept in SAP S/4HANA

1.1 What is Business Partner?

It is not a new terminology it is also in ECC.

1. Customer or vendor 2. Business Partner

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• BUT000 – General Data

1.1.2 Business Partner Role

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In S/4 HANA we have three distinct categories

A Business Partner can be :

1.1.3 Account Group

1.1.4 Customer Account Group

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1.2 Customer Vender Integration

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The Customer/Vendor Integration (CVI) component ensure the synchronization between

Define BP Grouping & Assign Number Range

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Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges

Define Business Partner Groupings

In this activity, you define groupings for business partners.