Vendor Business Partner Role

Definition

Business partner role in which a vendorcan be assigned to the business partner.

Use

Vendor business partner roles are used in the following processing scenarios:

  • To update vendor master records belonging to Financial Accounting (FI) from business partner maintenance

  • To update business partners from vendor master records belonging to Financial Accounting (FI)

Structure

Vendor business partner role

When you create the business partner in these business partner roles, a vendor master record is automatically created at the same time and assigned to the business partner.

The following roles are mandatory vendor business partner roles:

  • FI vendor

  • Vendor

  • Landlord with a vendor account

  • Partner with a vendor account

Optional vendor business partner roles

When you create or change a business partner in these business partner roles, you can set the Create Vendor indicator on the Vendor: General Data tab page to determine that a vendor master record is assigned to, and processed together with the business partner.

Integration

You can define BP roles as vendor roles for each processing direction in Customizing for Master Data Synchronization by choosing Start of the navigation path Customer/Vendor Integration Next navigation step Settings for Vendor Integration End of the navigation path in the following IMG activities:

  • Set BP Role Category for Direction BP to Vendor

  • Define BP Role for Direction Vendor to BP

For further information about vendor integration, see Customer/Vendor Integration .

For general information about business partner roles, see Business Partner Role (BP-Role).