The document serves as comprehensive guide for configuring Business Partner (BP) integration SAP4/HANA during a conversion project, focusing on synchronizing and integrating customer/vendor data. Business Partner integration involves streamlining the SAP Business Partner framework to manage master data seamlessly, encompassing configuration steps to align BP roles, define number ranges, and set up field assignments for effective customer and vendor data management.
Key topics/steps covered in this configuration guide:
- Synchronization Control:
- Activating synchronization controls including PPO requests, essential for platform object synchronization within SAP systems.
- Customer/Vendor Integration:
- Setting up BP role categories for directing BP to customers and vice versa, defining business partner types, and ensuring number ranges are properly configured to prevent overlaps.
- Details include field assignment responsibilities, department and authority designations, and industry affiliations for customer integration.
- Settings for Vendor Integration:
- Similar to customer integration, ensuring BP roles are assigned correctly for managing vendor data.
- Emphasizes assignment of number ranges, unique keys, and ensuring coherent data flow between vendor master records and BP frameworks.
- Additional Settings for BP:
- Encompasses post-processing order activation, tax category maintenance, address form setups, and geocoding assignments for enhanced data management and localization support.
This guide facilitates SAP ERP professionals in configuring Business Partner roles and integrations effectively for customer and vendor data management, crucial in ensuring streamlined setups in S4/HANA conversion projects. It enhances both structural and functional coherence through carefully defined mapping and assignment steps.