Business Partner

Definition

A business partner (BP) is

in which business interests exist.

Use

SAP Treasury is based on the business partner concept. Transactions are concluded with business partners within Treasury. Banks or central treasury departments are examples of typical partners.

Reports are available in the information system for analyzing business partner data.

Structure

You define the business partner functions in the transaction using business partner roles, such as counterparty, issuer, payment bank, or depository bank. You define the rights and obligations of the business partner when you assign the role category. A business partner may have several roles.

You define the roles of a business partner by assigning a Role Category. Depending on the role of the business partner, you can maintain certain General Data and Company Code Data screens in addition to the Central Data and Extras. This enables you to enter all the relevant data for a business partner for the role. You assign the role-view in Customizing for the business partner by choosing Define Role-View Assignment.

You can define Standing instructions for a business partner.

Relationships can exist between different business partners. You can represent these on the Relationships tab page.

See also:

Create Business Partner

Change Business Partner

Display Business Partner

Standing Instructions

Special Functions

Integration

See also: Business Partner - Release

From the business partner data, you can display which objects, financial transactions, and loan contracts were assigned to the relevant business partner. To do this, choose ‘Extras ® Usages'. This Usages function is also available when you use the ‘Inbound calls from business partners’ function via SAPphone (see below).

If a work center that is set up for SAPphone is called, the system identifies the business partner from the caller’s telephone number. A dialog screen appears on the work center, which the agent can use to display the business partner data of the caller. You can also branch to the Usages of the business partner.

By clicking next to a telephone number in the business partner master data, you can begin the call to the business partner.

See also: Archiving Business Partners