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Field “Trading partner” in the master data and reporting
Last Review: 09th June 2020, release 2005
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Trading Partners
In SAP, separate entities under the same parent company are defined with different company codes. In order to perform intercompany transactions in SAP, you must also define a trading partner on every transaction. A trading partner represents the company code that is in transaction with your company code.
Intercompany Business Partners
Intercompany transactions can be done at either a general ledger account or a sub-ledger level. Typically, as legal invoices are required between companies for certain types of transactions (outside of a cross-charge, miscellaneous billing, or allocation), companies choose to perform the majority of their intercompany transactions at the subledger level.
Customer and vendor accounts for trading partners
Trading partner can be filled in App Maintain Business Partners under role Customer/Supplier->General Data-> Control tab (in German: Partnergesellschaft Nummer; technical field name VBUND).
If the company code is not yet implemented in S4HC then the trading partners shall be maintained by SAP Support via ticket (component XX-S4C-SRV-CON). A special template should be filled specifying ID number, address and currency of trading partner.
General ledger accounts
If you want to use G/L accounts directly, instead of customer and vendor accounts, for the entry of receivables and payables you can also enter the trading partner into the G/L account master record used for direct posting on the balance sheet. It is not a common approach though.
List of Reports including field Trading Partner
App Market Segments – Actuals, App Market Segment – Plan/Actual
App Journal Entry Analyzer
App Display line items in General Ledger
App Manage Customer Line Items and App Manage Supplier Line Items
Also, other Design studio reports contain this field:
App P&L – Actuals, App P&L – Plan/Actual, App Trial Balance
App Cost Centers – Actuals, Cost Center – Plan/Actual
App Profit Centers – Actuals, Profit Center – Plan/Actual
App Functional Areas – Actuals, App Functional Area – Plan/Actual
App Projects – Actuals, App Project – Plan/Actual
Hi Maria,
good info but i have a small correction about the creation of the trading partners.
This is covered by the org structure app in the countries activated in the system so a customer can do it as self service if the country in case is provisioned.
If a foreign trading partner is required and that country is not available in the system then the impediment process should be followed with the corresponding configuration template attached so that the value is created by SAP support team.
Regards,
Lucian
Mariya Yanush good info, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing
Mariya, thanks for brining this topic!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for Sharing!
Thanks, Mariya!
Dear Mariya,
Thanks for sharing this information.
We are currently working on an S/4 implementation. In our ECC environment, we still use a validation, because we have various direct postings into the G/L without going through the subledger.
If we need to stick to that approach (allowing direct postings), are validations still the approach to be used? It looks like changing the field status group is not a good option and we did not find any other approach.
In future, SAP Group consolidation will be on the plate - if we would continue to use a validation, would that be a problem?
Thanks
Patrick
The Trading partner is present in customer and Vendor master data and in General data of control tab. But this also depends upon the BP role which we are selecting.
This is definitely the one that I was looking for....
Thank you!!!!!