Special Features When Converting Relationships 

Conversion of the relationship categories married couple, wife, and husband (0020, 0021, 0022)

The relationship category 0020 no longer exists, and can be replaced by a customer-specific relationship category, if required.

BUR004 Marriage replaces the relationship category 0021 Wife ® Husband.

BUR004 Marriage replaces the relationship category 0022 Husband ® Wife.

This means that when both relationship category 0021 and 0022 are converted to relationship category BUR004, you have to swap one of the partners in one or the other relationship category round, because you have to define either the husband or the wife as partner 1 in BUR004.

Example

Incorrect:

Business partner 1	Relationship category	Business partner 2
Charles Miller	is the husband of	Clara Miller
Carol Smith	is the wife of	John Smith
Charles Miller Carol Smith	Marriage	Clara Miller John Smith

Correct:

Business partner 1	Relationship category	Business partner 2
Charles Miller	is the husband of	Clara Miller
Carol Smith	is the wife of	John Smith
Charles Miller John Smith	Marriage	Clara Miller Carol Smith

  

You swap the business partners for one relationship category by setting the Sequence indicator for either of the two relationship categories in the IMG activity Relationship Category, prior to executing the conversion report RFTBUP02. You will find further information under Checking the Customizing Structure.

Conversion of the relationship branch/head office(0030)

The relationship category 0030 no longer exists, and can be replaced by a customer-specific relationship category, if required.

  

   You have to make sure that this new relationship category is assigned differentiation category 1, in other words, that it is company code-dependent, otherwise an error message appears when the conversion Customizing is checked.

Conversion of the relationships group subsidiary/parent, joint venture/company, OHG, KG with general partner, GbR with partners, affiliated to (0050, 0100, 1000, 1001, 1002):

The conversion report for business partner relationships, transfers the relationships 0050, 0100, 1000, 1001, and 1002 to the relationship BURC01 Shareholder. In the standard system, in a business partner relationship belonging to the category Shareholder, business partner 1 is the “lower”, (in other words, the subordinate) and business partner 2 the “superior”, (in other words, the superordinate) organization. You can assign as many of business partner 1 to business partner 2 as you wish.

Partner 2 is the shareholder; partner 1 is the one from whom partner 2 receives the shares (issuer).

If partner 1 and partner 2 exist in more than one of these relationships (for example, as a group or an affiliate), only one of the relationships is converted. All of the others receive an error message.

  

If required, you can keep both relationships with both partners. After you have created your own relationship category, you can then convert the corresponding relationships again.

When converting the partners, you must ensure that for relationship categories 0050, 1000, 1001, and 1002 the following applies:

Partner1 à Partner1 Partner2 à Partner2

whereas for relationship category 0100 the following applies:

Partner1 à Partner2 Partner2 à Partner1

You can see this in the conversion Customizing for the relationship categories. If you set the Sequence indicator for relationship 0100 here, partner 1 and partner 2 are swapped round.

The reason for this swap is that in relationship 0100 partner 1 is the organization, and in relationship BURC01 partner 2 has to be the organization.

In addition, the following relationship categories were created, which you can use instead of relationship category BURC01 Shareholder:

·         FSB001 is partner of

·         FSB002 is subsidiary of

Some SAP Business Partner relationship categories also require one of the business partners to have a specific role category. When you convert the relationship category BURC01 Contact Person, this is subsequently assigned the SAP Business Partner role Contact Person.