Use
You assign business partners to one or more industries, in order to categorize these business partners.
Prerequisites
You have defined at least one industry system in the Customizing, to which you have assigned several industries.
Procedure
If you have defined an industry system as the standard industry system in the Customizing, this will be displayed automatically in the Business Partner dialog.
If you have defined several industry systems, you can display them with the pushbutton All industry systems.
When you call up the input help, the hierarchical presentation of the industry system that is defined in the Customizing is displayed.
If you have not selected an industry system, the description of the industry and the relevant industry system is completed automatically by the system when you select the industry.
You should always identify one industry as the standard industry in the standard industry system.
Result
You have assigned a business partner of the category organization to one or more industries.
Via the pushbutton Change history you can display the change information for an industry within an industry system.