You can store various information describing the contact persons of a business partner in detail. You enter the contact person or persons at the business partner when you maintain the vendor master record. Detailed information on a contact person, such as name and address, is entered in the vendor master record.
You define the contact persons in the vendor master record at a general level, that is independently of organization units.
The definition of contact persons is optional. If you do not want to use this function, then you do not need to make any entries at this point in the customizing menu.
Your R/3 System is configured as an