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Contents: Central business partner basics Roles, relationships, partner functions SAP business partner functions Exchange of CRM business partners R/3 customers
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At the conclusion of this unit, you will be able to: Understand Concept of Business Partners
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Output Determination
Business Partner
Products
Organizational Model
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Employee
Loan recipient
Creditor
Tenant
Vendor
Customer
Debitor
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neutral persons and organizations cross-application open infrastructure integration through business concepts
Plant
Person
Organization
Group
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Grouping
A business partner must be assigned to a group The grouping controls the number range
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Sold-to party
Bill-to party
Invoice
Payer
Data Parts
Address
Pers. data
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Sales
Shipping
Billing
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For describing relationships between business partners Attributes describe relationships Some relationships are time-dependent
RMG Inc.
Business Partner No. 60095 Ms White Business Partner No. 60111
1st May 1995 31st March 2001 Assistant to purchasing managers
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Function Department
Relationship Attributes
Employee responsible
Power of attorney
Communication data
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Partner Functions
Partner functions serve to map sales area-relevant relationships between two business partners
Business partner 1
Partner function
Ship-to party
Business partner 2
A partner relationship is created for each partner function, but a partner function is not created for each relationship
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BP80
BP90
3% Discount
Conditions and price agreements apply for all business partners who are assigned to the subordinate hierarchy nodes - dependent on the Customizing settings for pricing.
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Grouping
Marketing Attributes
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Attribute 1 Attribute 2 Attribute n
Interaction Center
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Attribute group A
Internet self-registration
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Business partner Attribute group Free time Hobby- value Music Sport - value Football
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Identified duplicates can be brought together with the dependent data and objects All dependent data / objects can be presented graphically in a tree structure After data cleansing, the duplicate can be archived automatically
Benefits
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Data cleansing
Inter face
B A P I
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Data records, which have been selected for archiving, can be written to an archive file After archiving, the business partner data can be deleted Customer enhancements to the business partner master are taken into account during archiving, without the need for modifications Testing data dependencies within the CRM system
The data is tested before archiving: if a business partner is to be used by another application it cannot be archived
Testing data dependencies for customer enhancements to the business partner is also possible without having to make modifications
Search and display of archived data
Benefits
High quality and consistency of data Improved performance due to reduced amount of data
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Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
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You are now able to: Explain the concept of business partner related to ERP systems
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