development, BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and

display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.

Additional remarks
It is planned to check the introduction of the Customer/Vendor
Integration in the pre checks and the technical Conversion
procedure of SAP S/4HANA on premises edition 1511, 1610,
1709, 1809, 1909, and 2020. A system where the
customer/vendor integration is not in place will be declined for
the transition.
The Business Partner Approach is not mandatory for the SAP
Simple Finance, on premises edition 1503 and 1605.
Only SAP Business Suite customer with C/V integration in place can
move to SAP S/4HANA, on premises (Conversion approach). It is
recommended but not mandatory that BUPA ID and Customer
ID/Vendor ID are the same.
The user interface for SAP S/4HANA is transaction BP. There is no
specific user interface for customer/vendor as known from SAP
Business Suite (the specific transactions like XD01, XD02, XD03 or
VD01, VD02, VD03/XK01, XK02, XK03, or MK01, MK02, MK03,
etc. are not available in SAP S/4HANA on premises).
Points to Note in SAP S/4HANA
In addition, note the following points while using the following
functionalities in SAP S/4HANA:
Consumer: While creating a consumer, ensure that you use the
BP Grouping that is associated to the customer account group
(Consumer) in TBD001 (Assignment of Account Group BP
Grouping). Note that customer itself is a contact person; hence,
no further relationships can be maintained.
One time Customer/Supplier: While creating a one-time
customer or supplier, ensure that you use the BP Grouping that is
associated with the customer/supplier account group (One time
customer/supplier) in TBD001 and TBC001 (Assignment of
Account Group BP Grouping).