Objective: The Main aim of this post is giving the brief idea about the SAP S4hana business partners and configuration settings for the business partners to customer integration.

SAP Business partner is a person, Organization, or group of organizations. It is a single point of entry to maintain company code, vendor and customer data. BP is an integrated with SRM and CRM modules into core module.

For creation of Vendor and customer to a business partner we need the inputs of General data, company code data, Purchase organization data and Sales organization data.

In sap S4HANA system we have multiple options to create the business partners. Those are

• Business partner as a customer
• Business partner as a Vendor
• Business partner as a customer and vendor

Based on the business requirement we need to configure the required business partners.

Here I will present you the customer with business partner integration process.

Prerequisites to create Business partners to customer:

1.Define Number ranges for the BP

2.Define groupings and assign number ranges to BP

3.Define Business partners roles and grouping

4.Create customer account group

5.Create the Customer number ranges and account groups

6.Number assignment for direction BP to customer & BP to Vendor

7.Creation of business partners

For proceeding the above steps, we need to configure the S4Hana system by following configurations.

1.Define Number ranges for the BP:

For configuring the BP number ranges and group we need to procced the following path

Path: SPRO->Cross application components->SAP Business partners->SAP Business partners ->Basic Settings ->

Here we need to define the number ranges for the business partners

For the Customer vendor integration to business partners we must select the business partners number range is internal.

2.Define groupings and assign number ranges to BP:

3.Define Business partners roles and grouping:

Path: SPRO->Cross application components->SAP Business partners->SAP Business partners ->Basic Settings ->

Here we need define the BP roles and assign those to particular BP role grouping.

Normally SAP standard BP roles are

• 00000-BP General data
• FLVN00- FI vendor data (company code data)
• FLVN01- Purchase org data
• FLCU00- Customer company code data
• FLCU01- Customer sales org data

Define Roles:

Define roles grouping:

Here we need to give the relevant roles for BP grouping. Suppose for BP to customer  we required BP roles 00000,FLCU00 and FLCU01.

4.Create customer account groups:

Here we need to create the customer account group based on the requirement.

5.Create the Customer number ranges and account groups:

Path: SPRO->Financial Accounting ->Accounts receivable and Accounts payable-> Customer accounts->Master data-> Preparations for creating customer master data

Here we need to configure the Customer accounts number ranges

Assign number ranges to the relevant customer account groups

6.Number assignment for direction BP to customer & BP to Vendor:

Path: Cross Application Components –> Master Data synchronization –> Customer/Vendor Integration –> Business Partner Settings –> Setting for Customer Integration –> Filed Assignment for customer Integration –> Assign Keys –> Define Number ranges for Direction BP to Customer

Here we need to maintain the same number range for the BP to customer.

7.Creation of business partners:

Create Business partners using BP Transection code.

Where we need to give the input fields in the tabs General data, company code data and sales and distribution data.

For Existing business partners data, we can check in the below tables.

BUT000- BP general data

BUT001- BP roles

CVI_VEND_LINK-Assignment Between Vendor and Business Partner

CVI_CUST_LINK-Assignment Between Customer and Business Partner

I Hope this information get the clear idea about the SAP S4hana business partners configuration.

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Arun Kumar C