SAP Simple Logistics - Business Partner
SAP Business Partner Screening for SAP S/4 HANA is used to centrally manage master data for business partners, customers, and vendors. With the current development, it is a single point of entry to create, edit, and display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.
You can open the user interface for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and On-premise solution using Transaction BP.
All the transactions in Customer/Vendor in ERP Business Suite are redirected to Business Partner Transaction. The following transactions - XD01, XD02, XD03 or VD0I, VD02, VD03 or XK0I, XK02, XK03 or MK01, MK02, MK03 are not available.
When you call these transactions they are redirected to BP Transaction. In Financial Supply Chain Management, BP Transaction is not new and is used to manage credit management, collections, and other functions.
Business Partner Application allows you to create, maintain, and manage business partners. You can also use this to perform integration with other functions and data exchange.
Note − SAP Business Partner Screening for SAP S/4HANA is not mandatory for SAP Simple Finance On-premise edition 1503.
There are various search functions that you can perform to search for business partners in the standard system. Following search functions can be used in Business Partner −
You can perform the following search in Business Partner functions −
- Addresses
- BUPA_ALL_CUSTOMER
- BUPA_ALL_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER
- BUPA_ALL_VENDOR
- External Number
- Name
- Number
- Search Term
You can select “Number” and click the Start button. You can see a list of all Business Partners in the system. The description of Business Partner is also displayed.
To open any Business Partner, you have to double-click the Business Partner number. As shown in the following screenshot, you have the option to create a Person, Group, or an Organization.
You can also maintain Relationship between objects as shown in the following screenshot.
