Business Partners 

Purpose

Business partners can be organizations (firms, branch offices), persons, or groups of persons or organizations in which your company has a business interest.

You can create and manage your business partners centrally for different business transactions.

This is of prime interest if a business partner plays different roles for a company, such as sold-to party and ship-to party.

You can create a business partner in different business partner roles. During the course of the business relationship, the business partner can assume other business partner roles. This means that general data, which is not specific to the business partner’s function, does not have to be repeatedly created for the business partner concerned, thus preventing data being created and stored redundantly.

For more information about the functions available for working with business partners, see Maintaining Business Partner Data.

Features

The following basic elements are available to you within the business partner data:

Business Partner Categories

The data that is available for your business transactions depends on the business partner category.

For more information, see Business Partner Category.

Business Partner Roles

A business partner can take on different business partner roles, which allow different views of the business partner data depending on the business function.

For more information, see Business Partner Roles.

Business Partner Relationships

A relationship connects two business partners and is characterized by the business partner relationship category.

For more information, see Business Partner Relationship.

Business Partner Group Hierarchy

You can represent the structure of an organization using a business partner group hierarchy.

For more information, see Business Partner Group Hierarchy.

 

Available as follows:

	SAP GUI	People-Centric UI	Mobile Client
Business Partner Categories	X	X
Business Partner Roles	X
Business Partner Relationships	X	X	X
Business Partner Group Hierarchies	X		X