With Maintain Business Partner app, you can maintain master data like business partners, customers, and suppliers. It serves as a single point of entry to create, display, and edit business partner, customer, and supplier.
Q2: How can I create a business partner, customer, or supplier?
You can create a business partner, customer, or supplier by selecting Maintain Business Partner, choosing a business partner category, entering the necessary details, selecting a role from the Create in BP role drop down list, providing the necessary details of the business partner, and saving your data.
Q3: How can I display a business partner, customer, or supplier?
You can display a business partner, customer, or supplier by selecting Maintain Business Partner, entering the business partner ID on the Maintain Business Partner screen, and viewing the details on the Display screen.
Q4: How can I edit a business partner, customer, or supplier?
You can edit a business partner, customer, or supplier by selecting Maintain Business Partner, entering the business partner ID on the Maintain Business Partner screen, selecting the Switch Between Display and Change icon on the Display screen, changing the desired fields, and saving your data.
Q5: What is a business partner relationship?
A business partner relationship represents the business connection between two business partners. To create a relationship between two business partners, you have to assign a business partner relationship category to the business partner relationship. There are three business partner categories: Person, Group, and Organization.
Q6: What is the concept of business partner roles?
The data that you create using Maintain Business Partner can be reused in other business transactions. This prevents data being created and stored redundantly. You can use the business partner roles to carry out a business classification of a business partner, customer, and supplier.
Q7: What is the Permitted Payee feature?
The Permitted Payee feature allows you to add multiple alternative payees, so that the business partners can perform transaction by choosing a permitted payee for each invoice. This feature is available for business partners with Company Code.
Q8: What is the Central API feature?
Central API feature enables you to create and update master data including both core and external applications. It also enables mass data processing.
Q9: What is the Account Group feature?
The Account Group feature includes Flexible Account Group and Account Group Change. If flexible account grouping is enabled, you can choose an account group while creating a new customer or supplier. If authorized, you can modify the customer or supplier account group even after the master data record is saved.
Q10: How can I maintain customer tax licenses?
You can maintain customer tax licenses for output tax maintained for different countries by going to Customer Sales Area Billing, selecting an entry from the Output Tax table, clicking Licenses button, entering the License Number, License Confirmation, and Validity period, and clicking OK.
Q11: How can I maintain payment card master data for business partner?
With Payment Hub Integration, you can maintain payment card master data for business partner. The payment hub enables integration of Payment Service Providers (PSPs) in which the payment card data get validated. You can create, edit, and delete payment cards data.
Q12: How can I navigate from partner functions to the corresponding business partner?
From partner functions, you can
navigate to the corresponding business partner by double clicking the business
partner number from the partner functions table.
