Business Partner Group Hierarchy 

Purpose

You can use this application for maintaining business partner group hierarchies.

The business partner group hierarchy (BP group hierarchy) allows you to map complex organizational structures of a business partner (e.g. buying group, co-operative or chain of retail outlets).

On the basis of the group hierarchy, processes can also be carried out in the applications (for example, the pricing in mySAP CRM).

When you create a hierarchy tree, you form groups of business partners (for example for purchasing groups), which you can use in mySAP CRM for Marketing analyses, for instance.

You can also use the hierarchy nodes without assigning business partners to them.

Features

With the help of business partner groups, you can create hierarchy nodes in order to construct a hierarchy structure. For this purpose, the type of hierarchy is first determined via the hierarchy category.

By clearly separating the hierarchy structure and business partner master data, the creation of dummy business partners during the construction of the hierarchy is avoided, and performance is improved.

Example

The graphic shows the organizational structure of a company with various branches, according to the region to which they belong.