SAP S4HANA Business Partner: Same Number Range for BP and Vendor
Hi Guys,
Since the advent of S/4HANA we have seen a lot of changes/simplifications in the application, one of them being – Business Partner.
Today I would like to talk about a scenario where we need to maintain same number for Business Partner and Vendor.
STEP 1 : BP Role Configuration
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components / SAP Business Partner / Business Partner / Basic Settings / Business Partner Roles / Define BP Roles
Step 1.1
- Create New Entry
- Enter BP roles, Title, Description,
- BP Role Category – Either standard or ZCategory (only to define acceptable catg – People, Organization or Group)
- Interface Control – Select among standard BP Role Category to view respective screen of Company Code , Purchasing Org
- Position – Define (1,2 etc) to select position of BP Role in the drop down list.
Step 1.2
- Create New Entry – Enter BP Role Categories to define acceptable catg – People, Organization or Group
Step 1.3
- Enter Allowed Business Transaction for the BP Role (ZBCON2)
- BPUS : Business Partner Usage
CHAN : Change (Business Partner)
STEP 2 : BP Role Grouping configuration
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components / SAP Business Partner / Business Partner / Basic Settings / Business Partner Roles / Define BP Role Groupings
Step 2.1 BP Role Groupings
- Create New Entry
- Enter BP roles, Title, Description
Step 2.2 Define Internal Number Range for BP (Auto Generated)
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components / SAP Business Partner / Business Partner / Basic Settings / Number Ranges and Groupings/ Define Number Ranges
STEP 3 : Number Range configuration for Business Partner
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components / SAP Business Partner / Business Partner / Basic Settings / Number Ranges and Groupings/ Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges
Define Number Range and Groupings
STEP 4 : Vendor Account Group configuration
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Financial Accounting (New) / Accounts Receivables and Payable/ Vendor Accounts/ Master Data / Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data
Step 4.1 Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Vendors)
Copy KRED and create new Vendor Account Group and Create ZBC
Here we can change the field settings for General , Company Code and Purchase Organization
Step 4.2 Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts
If we want the BP number and Vendor Number to be same, then we should maintain same Number Range here also for Z3
Also we have to select EXT, Since the BP numbers will act as Ext number range for Vendor Number range.
Step 4.3 Assign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups
We need to update this as it picks up Number Range of copied Group KRED.
STEP 5: BP and Vendor Link Configuration
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components/ Master Data Synchronization/ Customer-Vendor Integration/ Business Partner Settings/ Settings for Vendor Integration
Step 5.1 Set BP Role Category for Direction BP to Vendor
Create New Entry and enter BP Role Category
Step 5.2: Assign BP Grouping Number Range to Vendor Number Range. Check Same Nos.
Path: /spro / SAP Reference IMG/ Cross Application Components/ Master Data Synchronization/ Customer-Vendor Integration/ Business Partner Settings/ Settings for Vendor Integration/ Field Assignment for Vendor Integration/ Assign Keys
Successful creation of BP 7000000001, ZBCON2 BP Role as Vendor and they have same Number Range.
Hope you guys found it useful, do provide your feedback in comments & messages.
Regards
Shekhar Prasad
Well studied blog is presented here; it carries explained information that helps the readers with every detail about the subject.
Thank you, Dipanwita!
This is what I call a helpful post. Very detailed, precise and with screen shots. Thanks to that I could fix a similar problem when integrating BP with Customer.
Two thumbs up Shekhar Prasad
Thanks Érico 🙂
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. This was very helpful and easy to follow.
Please confirm How the BP Grouping (ZBC2) gets assigned to BP Role (ZBCON2) .. ?
As per your screenshots above, BP Role Grouping ZBC2 is getting assigned to Vendor account grouping ZBC2 and they both have same number range Z3 …. BUT how is the BP Role ZBCON2 and BP Role Category ZBCON2 getting assigned to BP Role grouping ZBC2 and number range Z3.. ?
Please confirm with the screenshot of the missing config.
thanks
What would be the scenario and how to handle if i am having vendor 12345 and customer 12345 ( both are same number range ) in SAP ECC and want to migrate into S/4HANA?
Hello Shekhar,
Thanks for sharing detail information.
As per screenshot, BP number range start from 8888888801 to 8888888899 and vendor number range start from 7000000001 to 7999999999.
Now, BP has been created with 7000000001 number, however you have selected same number range tick mark.
As per my understanding, both BP and vendor number ranges are not equal even though it has been created with same number. Can you please elaborate how it can be possible?
Regards,
DP
Hi Shekhar,
Good step by step document. Can you provide your viewpoint, on how to maintain Vendor code the same as that of BP code post cutover is completed? If few suppliers and customers as well then how to handle it?
Regards