External Business Partners support and collaborate Internal Business Partners. Examples are:
- Accounts / Customers
- Contacts
- Suppliers
SAP Business Partner Relationships
A business partner relationship forms a business-relevant connection between two business partners. Business partner relationship categories describe the business-relevant relationship between business partners. A business partner relationship can be given a time limit with start and end dates.
You create a contact-person relationship with the relationship category has contact person between a business partner with the business partner category Organization and a business partner with the business partner category Person. You create, for example, the contact person relationship with the relationship category "Is Contact Person for" between the business partner "Laura Schmitt" with the business partner category Person and the business partner "Baltic Sea Energy - H2 Power" with the Bbusiness partner category Organization.