Customer Business Partner Role

Definition

Business partner role in which a customer master recordcan be assigned to the business partner.

Use

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

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

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

Structure

Customer business partner roles

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

The following roles are customer business partner roles:

  • Customer

  • Contract partner with a customer account

  • Subsidizer with a customer account

Optional customer business partner roles

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

The following roles are optional customer business partner roles:

  • Main loan partner

  • Authorized drawer with a customer account

  • Contract partner with a customer account

  • Issuer

  • Counterparty

  • Alternative payer

Integration

You can define BP roles as customer 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 Customer Integration End of the navigation path in the following IMG activities:

  • Set BP Role Category for Direction BP to Customer

  • Define BP Role for Direction Customer to BP

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

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