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What is Business Partner?
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: -
Customer or vendor
Business Partner
• In SAP S/4 HANA is only Business Partner.
• Business Partner is any entity is impact with our business and or impaction our business is known as business Partner.
• Vendor, customer are the roles which is done by business partner.
• While Conversion from ECC to S/4HANA, In ECC it's mandatory Business Partner must be assign to customer and vendor in ECC.
Tables
• BUT000 – General Data
• BUT020 – Address
• BUT100 – BP Roles
• KNA1- Customer Data
• LFA1- Vendor Data
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 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 carry out 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 different categories,
A Business Partner can be: -
• Organization
• Person- Individual
• Group- Group of person or partners
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