Business Partners in SAP S/4HANA: The Comprehensive Guide to Customer-Vendor Integratio

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In SAP S/4HANA, all your customers and vendors must be set up as business partners―let us show you how! From configuring vendor and customer account groups to defining new number ranges, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for setting up business partners from scratch. Moving from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA? We’ve got you covered with comprehensive directions for using customer-vendor integration (CVI) to get your old information into your new system. Once your system is active, see how to maintain and validate your data. Master your business partner master data!

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

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.

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