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 Business Partner Hierarchy

Definition

Hierarchy tree with several levels that is used to reproduce the involvement of various groups.

Use

The system uses the group involvements to determine whether an order can be assigned to a group contract.

Contracts can be displayed for all subsidiaries in a group hierarchy during contract monitoring by specifying the parent group as a business partner and using hierarchy selection to extend the search to all subsidiaries in the group.

Structure

Hierarchy tree

A contract-relevant business partner hierarchy reproduces all group hierarchies to be included in contract determination in your organization. Each first-level node in the hierarchy represents a group.

A business partner hierarchy consists of any number of business partner relationships. Each business partner relationship has a higher-level and lower-level business partner.

Note Note

You can assign each business partner to the hierarchy independently of the role in which they were created.

End of the note.

Assigning business partner to other business partners creates business partner relationships.

Validity period and involvement relationship

A validity period and an involvement relationship are defined for each business partner relationship.

The validity period defines the length of the business partner relationship. A lower-level business partner cannot be assigned to any additional business partners during the validity period.

The involvement relationship defines the percentage involvement of a higher-level business partner in a lower-level business partner.

The validity period and involvement relationship affect contract determination.

You define the involvement relationships that can be assigned to a group contract for each sales area in Customizing under Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Advertising Management Next navigation step Sales Next navigation step Contract Next navigation step Settings for Specific Sales Areas. End of the navigation path

Example Example

You stipulate that subsidiaries only have contract entitlement if the group parent’s involvement in these organizations exceeds 50% in Customizing for each sales area. If you have also included subsidiaries in the contract-relevant business partner hierarchy where the group parent involvement is less than 50%, the system does not assign orders for these subsidiaries to the group contract during contract determination.

End of the example.

Hierarchy type

The hierarchy type can be used to distinguish business partner hierarchies.

Example Example

You can only assign a lower-level business partner in a business partner hierarchy to one other business partner during the validity period. If a business partner is assigned at various hierarchy levels in various sales areas as a result of alternate contracts, you should create a business partner hierarchy with its own hierarchy type for each sales area.

End of the example.

You should make the following settings in Customizing to distinguish business partner hierarchies:

You want to do the following:

Choose:

Define hierarchy types

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Business Partner Next navigation step Control Next navigation step Definition of Business Partner Hierarchy Types (IS-M/AM) End of the navigation path

Define which hierarchy type in a sales area is relevant to contract determination

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Advertising Management Next navigation step Sales Next navigation step Contract Next navigation step Settings for Specific Sales Areas. End of the navigation path

Flexible hierarchy structures

You can change business partner relationships or reassign sub-trees to ensure that the business partner hierarchy reflects any changes that have occurred within a group. If you reassign a business partner relationship, the system reassigns all business partner relationships that are assigned below this relationship.

Integration

You define the circumstances in which the system determines a group contract in Customizing.

Use of group contracts indicator

Determination of group contracts

Situation 0

The system does not determine any group contract.

Situation 1

The system determines a group contract if an advertiser does not have a contract and is not a beneficiary of any contract.

Situation 2

The system determines a group contract:

  • If an advertiser does not have a contract and is not a beneficiary of a contract.

  • If an advertiser has a contract or is a beneficiary of a contract but the contract requirement is not suitable for the order data.

The Use of group contract indicator can be selected as follows in Customizing: Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Advertising Management Next navigation step Sales Next navigation step Contract Next navigation step Settings for Specific Sales Areas. End of the navigation path