Since we follow "Business Partner first" approach in SAP S/4HANA,

Batch Input programs will now work with API-based approach, which
would replace the traditional Batch Input technology as classical
customer and supplier transactions have been made obsolete. You may
use any of the following as an alternative:
Business Partner SOAP Services; refer to SAP Note 2472030 for
more information.
IDocs (CREMAS/DEBMAS)
Mass Transactions (XK99/XD99)
40. In SAP S4HANA 2020, is there any change of the "Business
Partner Approach" functionality?
In SAP S/4HANA, Business Partner is the leading object and single
entry point to maintain Business Partner, Customer and Supplier
(formerly known as Vendor) master data. This is to ensure ease of
maintenance of the above master data and to achieve harmonization
between it. As compared to classical ERP transactions, maintenance of
Customer and Supplier master data via Business Partner has multiple
advantages; some of them are as follows:
Business Partner allows maintenance of multiple addresses with
corresponding address usages; one customer can only be
associated with one account group in classical transactions.
However, in Business Partner, multiple roles can be associated to
the same Business Partner; maintenance of multiple relationships
to the same Business Partner, maximal data sharing and reuse of
data lead to easier data consolidation. General data is available
for all different Business Partner roles, and specific data is stored
for each role and maintenance of Time Dependency is performed
at different sub entities roles, address, relationship, bank data, etc.
Redundant object models, the vendor master and customer
master, are used in the traditional ERP system. The (mandatory)
target approach in S/4HANA is the Business Partner approach.
Business Partner is now capable of centrally managing master
data for business partners, customers, and vendors. With current