Business Partner Relationship Category (Biblioteca SAP - Gestión flexible de bienes inmuebles (RE-FX))

Business Partner Relationship Category

Definition

The business partner relationship category determines the business-relevant characteristics of a relationship between business partners.

Use

With the help of relationship categories you can define temporary contact persons and contact persons for a company, as well as certain data on members of a shared living arrangement or marriage. The latter might be necessary for liability reasons.

Relationship is the term used if a relationship category contains information on concrete business partners.

The business partner relationship categories that can be selected depend on the business partner category and on the BP role.

A distinction is made between one-way (unidirectional) and two-way (bi-directional) relationship categories.

In the case of a one-way relationship category, a relationship exists from a business partner (1) to a business partner (2), but not the other way round.

E.g.: The enterprise Miller & Co (BP 1) has the employee Mr. Smith (BP 2); Mr. Smith however does not have the employee Miller & Co.

In the case of a two-way relationship category, a relationship exists from a business partner (1) to a business partner (2), and the other way round.

E.g.: Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are married. Thus Mrs. Meyer is married to Mr. Meyer and Mr. Meyer is married to Mrs. Meyer.

The standard relationship categories are:

is contact person for

is married to

is temporary contact person for

belongs to a shared living arrangement

is identical to

has the employee

has the employee responsible

is shareholder of

is replaced by

Structure

In the dialog, all the supplied business partner relationship categories are displayed for selection in the relationship overview.

If you want only certain business partner relationship categories to be displayed in the selection list, you can hide the other business partner relationship categories. In the same way, you can replace the standard title and the standard description of business partner relationship categories with user-defined descriptions, and establish at which point the relevant business partner relationship category should appear in the selection list. In this way you also determine the order of the relationship category-specific tab pages in the BP maintenance.

Make these settings in the SAP Reference IMG under Cross-Application Components -> SAP Business Partner -> Business Partner Relationships -> Basic Settings -> Properties of Business Partner Relationship Categories.

With the help of field groupings in the Customizing you can hide or display fields.

An extension of the relationship categories to include attributes is possible. You can also create your own relationship categories.