The business partner (BP) is capable of centrally managing master data for business partners, customers, and vendors and the single point of entry to create, edit, and display those data.
The figure illustrates how the business partner approach and customer master are integrated.
You match Customizing for the SAP Business Partner to Customizing for the Customer/Vendor Account Groups. In particular, you match the required entry fields. You must set all fields that are required entry fields in the customer/vendor account as required entry fields in the field selection control for your customer/vendor business partner roles.
After setting up the Master Data Synchronization in general, the link between the BP and the account group is done by Mapping Number Ranges.
The Business Partner Grouping is linked with customer/vendor number range, and this grouping is key in linking the vendor/customer to the BP.
Prerequisite:
- You have defined and assigned number ranges and groupings for the business partner.
- You have determined the account groups and the number ranges assigned to the account groups for creating customer accounts in Customizing for Financial Accounting.
Now you must set up an Account Group/Number Range Mapping. You assign account groups for the customer master record to business partner grouping. This way, you ensure that the customer is updated at the same time as the business partner is processed as part of customer integration. With this assignment, you can choose whether the customer master record is created with an account group with internal or external number assignment or with identical numbers.
Customizing IMG: Master Data → Synchronization → Business Partner Settings → Settings for Customer Integration → Field Assignment for Customer Integration → Define Number Assignment for Direction BP to Customer.