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Purpose

The component SAP Business Partner enables you to create and manage business partners centrally. This is of prime interest if a business partner plays different roles for a company, such as sold-to party and ship-to party.

SAP Business Partner is designed to utilize technical benefits such as data integrity and freedom from data redundancy, and to place greater emphasis on aspects relating to customer maintenance and acquisition of new customers.

Features

You can create a business partner in different business partner roles, and during the course of the business relationship the business partner can assume other business partner roles. No new data has to be created each time, meaning that redundant data creation and retention is avoided, and there can be no inconsistencies.

By using SAP Business Partner, it is possible to merge the partner data already held by a company in more than one system in such a way that the potential for new contracts within the same customer contact can be identified.

When you enter data, the central data related to SAP Business Partner, and the application-specific data are integrated seamlessly on the processing screen.

Seamless integration of customer-specific data is possible without modification, ensuring full future maintenance, because defined interfaces exist for this purpose.

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