Business Partners in SAP S/4HANA

The distinction between “customers” and “vendors” is now a relic of the past—jump into the future with this all-in-one guide to business partners in SAP S/4HANA! Learn how to set up business partners from start to finish for greenfield implementations. Or, if you’re transitioning from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA, walk through customer-vendor integration (CVI) with detailed instructions. With guidance on maintaining and validating business partner data, this is the only book on business partners you’ll ever need!

• Configure business partners in SAP S/4HANA for new implementations and system conversion projects
• Perform your customer-vendor integration and synchronization
• Maintain customer, vendor, and contact data with apps and transactions

You'll learn about:

• Greenfield Implementations:
  Configure vendors and customers as business partners for new SAP S/4HANA implementation projects. Set up account groups, roles (both individual and multiple), field attributes, number ranges, and more.
• Brownfield Implementations:
  Make the switch from managing customers and vendors in SAP ERP to business partners in SAP S/4HANA. Use CVI to perform the conversion and synchronization process with step-by-step instructions.
• Maintaining Business Partners:
  Learn how to maintain business partner data and business partner relationships in a live system. Walk through extending a business partner to other areas of your SAP S/4HANA system, such as financial accounting, sales, and purchasing.

Key Highlights:

• Vendor (supplier) data
• Customer data
• Account groups
• Number ranges
• Roles
• Transaction BP
• Migration cockpit
• Materials management
• Financials
• New implementation
• System conversion