Configuration Business Partner As Customer in SAP S/4HANA SD

Configuration Business Partner as Customer in SAP S/4HANA SD
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René Rodrigue Efila Minkoulou (SAP S/4HANA MM/SD Consultant)
Introduction
In SAP S/4HANA SD, maintaining the BP as a customer is a very critical task. Why...
because the customer master record is the primary master data in SAP SD and all
important transactions use the customer master record.
It is therefore very important to know how to configure it.
With FIORI the customer master record has been completely revisited and is now
more intuitive. This allows you to create the customer master record much faster
than before and with the possibility of copying a customer master record for
example to a typical customer or to a reference customer which saves time.
In this document we will learn how to set up a business partner as a customer and
how to create a customer record with FIORI.
Overview Process:
1) What is Business Partner in S/4HANA?
2) Configuration Business Partner as Customer:
 Customer account group
 Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts
 Assign Number Ranges for Customer Accounts
 Partner Determination for Customer Master
 Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges
 Assign BP Account group and Customer group
3) Customer creation test in Fiori

1) What is Business Partner in S/4HANA?
BP is a new concept for some and also an old concept for others
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Business Partner: SAP Business Partner is a person, organization, group of

persons, or group of organizations that a company has a business interest in. One
would use this business object for a variety of business transactions. Most notably
it is used in order processing. It is used to create both Sales and Purchase Orders.
SAP ERP T-codes (like XD01, XD02, XD03 or VD01, VD02, VD03/XK01, XK02, XK03
or MK01, MK02, MK03 or VAP1, VAP2, VAP3 etc.) related to Customer/Vendor are
Obsolete in S/4HANA and we will be using the transaction code: BP for creating
Business Partners (Customer, Vendor, Contact etc.)

 Customer account group
Customer Accounts Group: a Customer account group is a classifying
feature of customer master records in SAP ERP. ... Interval from
which a unique number is assigned to a customer. Whether the
number is assigned by the user (external number assignment) or by
the system (internal number assignment)
Our case we will create 1 customer account group:
Internal Customers (INT)
Configuration Path – Create Customer Account Groups:
 Transaction code: OBD2
 SAP IMG Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Financial Accounting
> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Customer Accounts > Master
Data > Preparation for Creating Customer Master Data > Define Account
Groups with Screen Layout (Customers)
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The account group is defined to allow certain fields to be seen and

maintained on the Customer master
Internal Customer (INT)
Click to new entry
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 Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts:
Configuration Path – Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts:
SAP IMG Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Financial

Accounting > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Customer
Accounts > Master Data > Preparation for Creating Customer Master Data >
Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts.
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You can notice that I check this button why?

Because in our case we want that BP and Customer will have the same number

 Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups.
Configuration Path – Assign Number Ranges for Customer Accounts:
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SPRO-> Financial Accounting -> Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable ->
Customer Accounts -> Master Data -> Preparations for Creating Customer
Master Data -> Assign Number Ranges to Customer Account Groups

 Partner Determination for Customer Master
Sales partner are business parties which are involve/relevant to a sales
process/transaction. Each partner are defined/identified based on role &
function they play in those sales process/transaction. These can internal or
external to an organization.
These are called the partner function: SP, SH, BP, PY
 SP-Sold to party : the customer who places the order
 SH-Ship to party : the customer who receives de stock
 BP-Bill to party : the customer who receives the goods purchased
 PY-Payer : the customer who pays for the bill
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Click to new entries

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Create Partner Determination Procedure
Maintain relevant Partner to determine under Partner Determination Procedure

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Assign Account Group to Partner Determination Procedure
Assign partner function to account group

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Create a new group for Business Partner Grouping and assign the number range
SAP IMG Path:
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Assign Both Customer Master Account Grouping and Business Partner Grouping
You can notice that I check this button why?

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Remember our case we want the same number with BP and Customer that means
the same number will be assign in the both
After configuration we will create a Customer with Fiori
Important: Remember we have configured the system so that the BP and the
Customer have the same number
Select: Organization
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In << create BP role >> select: this and click to create
Enter Grouping:
Enter all mandatory fields and after select Company code and enter the name of
company code and reconciliation account and save
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After select this:

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3) Customer creation test in Fiori

Business Partner: SAP Business Partner is a person, organization, group of

2) Configuration Business Partner as Customer:

The account group is defined to allow certain fields to be seen and

2) Configuration Business Partner as Customer:

Configuration Path – Create Number Ranges for Customer Accounts:

SAP IMG Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Financial

You can notice that I check this button why?

2) Configuration Business Partner as Customer:

2) Configuration Business Partner as Customer:

Click to new entries

Create Partner Determination Procedure

Maintain relevant Partner to determine under Partner Determination Procedure

Assign Account Group to Partner Determination Procedure

Assign partner function to account group

You can notice that I check this button why?

After configuration we will create a Customer with Fiori

In << create BP role >> select: this and click to create

After select this:

Thank you very much

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