Managing Your Business Partners

You use the Business Partners app to view the list of your connected business partners, view and send connection requests to a business partner, view and accept connection requests from your business partners and also to disconnect from an existing business partner connection.

Prerequisites

  • To send a connection request to a business partner, or to receive connection request from your business partner, the business partner must be a registered organization on SAP Asset Intelligence Network.

  • To send connection requests to those business partners who are onboarded on data centers other than your source data center, you must provide data federation consent for your partner's data center.

  • Before you accept a connection request from a business partner on a data center other than your source data center, you must provide data federation consent to the sender's data center.

  • To send connection requests, accept connection request and disconnect from an existing business partner connection your user ID has the roles PARTNERS_DELETE or PARTNERS_EDIT assigned.

  • To view company details, or connection requests, your user ID either belongs to the groups ORG_DATA_EXPERT or ORG_DATA_READ, or has the role PARTNERS_READ assigned.

    For more information, see Roles.

Context

The Business Partners application displays the details in both grid view and list view. For simplicity, we describe the procedure in the grid view.

Procedure

View connected partners and send connection requests

  1. Open the Business Partners app.
  2. In the Business Partners window, choose the Connections tab.

    System displays the list of business partners with whom you are connected. To view the company profile of one of your business partners, click the link with the Company Name

    System displays the quick view information of the company profile.

    If you want to view more details of the company profile, choose Display Company Profile. System displays the connection status, roles, contact information as well as locations, and subsidiary information of the business partner organization.

  3. To send a connection request to a business partner, choose Start of the navigation pathConnections Next navigation step AddEnd of the navigation path and perform the following tasks:
    1. In the Add Connection dialog box, search for the company your business partner belongs to.

      You can also search using industries, roles, and sectors.

    2. From the search results, select your business partner.
    3. Choose Send Connection Request.
  4. To view the connection requests that you sent to other companies in SAP Asset Intelligence Network, choose the Outgoing tab (in the Business Partners window).

    To view incoming connection requests and accept or reject them

    To view connection requests sent from your business partners, in the Business Partners window, choose the Incoming tab and perform the following tasks:

    1. Search for the company your business partner belongs to.

    2. In the Incoming Connection Requests section, select a business partner.

    3. Choose Accept or Reject.

    You can share business objects with your connected business partners. For more information, see Adding Business Partners and Business Objects to an Authorization Group.

To disconnect from a connected partner

  1. To disconnect from a connected business partner, choose the Connections tab in the Business Partners window and perform the following tasks:
    1. Search for the company you want to disconnect from.
    2. In list view, select the Disconnect button. In grid view, choose More on a tile and select Disconnect.
    You can view the list of the business partners you disconnected from in tab Disconnections.