Thursday, 29 November 2018

Understand Your Business Partner to Improve Efficiency.

The term business partner ideally hints to term an entity which has some kind of interest in the business. It is usually endowed with some particular job roles and function in aid of performing the business process.


Source: https://www.apprisia.com/blog/sap-ecc/improve-your-business-efficiency-with-sap-business-partner/


Classifications of Business Partners
Business partners can be subdivided into the following:

Account: It is defines as a party with which there is a business relationship.
It can  be :

  • Individual
  • Corporate
  • Group account

Contact: It refers to a person with whom a business relationship is established.
Employee: An in-house member of the company is usually defined by this terminology.

Major category features

The classification of business partner on the basis of the type of entity is called business partner category.
SAP Business Partner category cannot be formatted once been created.

There are two types of grouping

Internal number range: An automated process that takes place while any new entry happens to appear. Here, the system automatically assigns the number from the number range interval.
External number range: Assignment of numbers is done manually here.

Business partner role:
A business partner role is indispensable various reasons.

  • It determines functioning of a BP thereby defining scope of business transactions in which he can potentially be involved.
  • Regulates the availability of assignment blocks.
  • Views and defines new BP roles and follow customizing path.

It is mandatory to keep in mind that a BP role exclusion group defines which roles can’t be simultaneously assigned to a business partner.

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