Business Partner

BP Category

 

A business partner can be a person, a group of people, or an organization, representing a businessinterest.

This categorization is known as the business partner category.

A group is the depiction of a married couple, or an executive board, that share common interests. Business partners are grouped according to user defined criteria

The organization represents units such as a company, a division of a company, a club, or an association. 

BP Groupings and Roles

 

BP Groupings

• §Controls the number range.
• §Can be External or Internal
• §Configuration – SAP IMG -> Cross Application Component -> SAP Business Partner -> Business Partner -> Basic Settings -> Number Ranges and Groupings

BP Roles

A role offers a particular view of the Business partner data

Depending on which business processes the business partner is involved in, completely different information about the business partner may be needed. You can create more than one business partner role for one business partner; general information, such as name, address, and bank details, must be entered only once. 

 E.g.. Of roles could be Sold-to-party, payer, contact person etc.

 Each partner role contains various data sets classified as:

• ØGeneral data
• ØCRM-specific
• ØRelationships