Business Partner Rating 

Purpose

In addition to creating analyses, SAP Credit Management also uses functions of SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) to rate business partners from the view of credit management. This involves combining and transforming information about business partners that exists in SAP BW to provide new information that can then be used in operational credit management.

This new information can be obtained using analysis processes that determine new data from credit-relevant data from InfoProviders using defined procedures and store this new data in an ODS object. SAP Credit Management accesses this data via integrated interfaces to define it in the credit view of the business partner master record; from there, the data can be used for operational processes (for example, credit limit check).

As an example, SAP delivers the analysis process Score. You can use it as an example to determine the score of a business partner from different SAP BW sources.

Integration

OLTP Release	From Financial Basis 3.0
BW Release	From BI Content Release 3.5.2

Features

The analysis process Score uses a series of InfoProviders that are provided with transaction data from the transactional system. This data forms the basis for the subsequent execution of the process. Therefore, the schedule for loading data for the analysis scenario Business Partner Rating is the total of the load processes for the individual InfoProviders of the analysis process.