Function documentation Business Partner Search Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

The business partner search allows you to determine existing business partners for processing or displaying. Before creating a business partner, you should check whether the business partner in question already exists in the system. This minimizes the risk of entering the same business partner more than once.

Example

The duplicate entry of an insurance provider, for example, would result in two customer master records being created for this insurance provider and, consequently, two accounts in Financial Accounting. This would make for incorrect results in sales evaluations.

Features

Search terms are available on the initial screen of the function for editing the general business partner or the business partner functions.

The business partner search returns a list of the business partners that match the search terms specified. If you call the business partner search from the initial screen of a business partner function in change or display mode, the system only lists the business partners that exist in this function. If you call the business partner search from the initial screen of a business partner function in create mode, the system lists all of the business partners that satisfy the search criteria. In this way you can determine whether the business partner to be created already exists in a different business partner function.

For more information about the result of the search, see Business Partner List.