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How to find BP grouping from Business Partner
Hello Friends,
This blog post provides an information on How to find BP Grouping in Transaction Code BP.
I involved in many SAP S4 HANA conversion project, I shared this information as User always have a query, how to get the information about exact BP grouping which they used for creating Business Partner at transaction level.
Business Partner is the leading object in S4 HANA, Business Partner is always assigned to exactly one BP grouping when we create it. This determine the number range and also fixed. BP grouping can not be changed afterwards unlike the account groups for customers and vendors. Hence By going through this article, It will explain how to identify BP grouping in Business Partner. This Blog may be looks small but informative.
Go to Transaction Code BP and put the BP Number XXXXXXX
In menu bar click on Extras and than click on create/change and we can see the BP grouping used for Business Partner
We can find BP grouping used for BP in transaction itself instead of checking in table level.
Please feel free to reach out to me via the comments section if you need any further information or clarification on the topic. Also, you can post your queries in the Q&A tag area
With Regards
Bijaya
Dear Bijaya,
Thank you for the post, it was useful. I have other question which is not really related to your post, but maybe you know: is there any possibility to make the field 'Grouping' as required in BP t-code? We played with customizing of field groups customizing but it doesn't work for some reason with the exact field.
Do you have an idea how to make the field as mandatory?
Thank you in advance for your help!
BR, Natalia
Hi Natalia, I am also looking for the same, did you figure out how to make the field 'Grouping' as required in T-code BP ? Thanks Sri
Hi Sri,
yes, we raised OSS message, asked SAP, they answered - there is no way how to make the field as mandatory within customizing. The only way is to do modification. We made custom implementation for BADI BUPA_FURTHER_CHECKS, in method IF_EX_BUPA_FURTHER_CHECKS~CHECK_CENTRAL. Additionally we maintained the user parameter 'BPP' with value ' ', to clean up the 'Grouping' field for each next session of the BP t-code call. I hope it helped.
Thanks!
Natalia, thanks this information is helpful.
Hi Natalia,
Thanks for your kind word.
Sorry for late response.
If you want fields to be required/optional or suppressed based on the role of Business Partner Roles then it is possible. We can do the customization in SPRO - Cross application component - SAP Business Partner- Basic Setting - Field Grouping - Configure field attribute per BP role
As we are resting field based on the role so it is better to create Z BP Roles as per Business requirements.
Thanks & Regards
Bijaya
Dear Bijaya,
yes, we tried with the customizing. it works for a lot of fields, except BP Grouping (BU_GROUP). I think it's nothing to do with BP Roles as the field is checked or filled much earlier than BP roles will be created/changed.
Also as I mentioned before we raised OSS message to SAP, and they answered that this filed cannot be changed to 'mandatory' or 'required' within the customizing - only modification could help. What we actually did successfully in one of our customers.
Anyway thank you for your response!
Simple, yet very helpful as I have struggled to find this basic information. Thank you.
Hi Bayu,
Thanks for your Compliment.
Regards
Bijaya
My customer is asking to display the BP grouping information directly on the screen. Is there a plan to do that? I don't understand why a user has to go all the way to find this basic information while we have vendor/customer account groups displayed on the screen.
Thanks! I was having trouble find the Grouping. I'm surprised its buried in a menu even though it's one of the key attributes that must be set when creating BPs.
Dear Bijaya Kumar Pandia,
Thanks and it is another infomative to learn basic information about BP.
We are facing issue that while creating BP, we could not find the filed "Grouping" to select the bp number range group.
Please provide your suggession to enable this field.
Thanks.
With regards,
V.Krishnamoorthy
Dear Bijaya Kumar Pandia,
Thanks and it is another infomative to learn basic information about BP.
We are facing issue that while creating BP, we could not find the filed "Grouping" to select the bp number range group.
Please provide your suggession to enable this field.
Thanks.
With regards,
V.Krishnamoorthy
Hi Bijaya
very good piece of information. Just a quick question, is there a possibility to change the Grouping of a BP after it was created?
thanks
Salam
Hi all
At my client, when they create a new business partner, they have an option to choose Grouping called xxx Joint Venture partner. They are an oil and gas company.
When creating a new BP on this group they want to make input on Tax number (VAT) mandatory on the tab Identification. I have looked in IMG but I dont find where to do this on Grouping Joint Venture partner
Hi,
Can we change the Grouping of a BP already created?
Regards
Anuj