The goal of S/4HANA is not to fail the program, in fact, its emphasis is to bridge more simplified word meaning compatibility is major criteria. what happens to data stored in these tables? Question вЂ“ what will happen to all the existing data, all the existing data for customer master, vendor master etc. There is no customer/vendor it just a business partner with some basic details. Any time new business partner created data store in this table BUT000. IN S/4HANA world Business partner is a mandatory function. We know the customer and vendor master has three views and data of these three views stored in these tables If you want to extend a business partner to Vendor Master, you add these BP rolesДata Structure Similarity between BusinessВ PartnerВ and Customer/Vendor master If you want to extend a business partner to customer master, you add these BP roles How do you do that you go to change mode and add a BP role? Then this business partner extends to customer or vendor. Vendor master data created with transaction Xk01, Fk01, Mk01ДЄnd also with business partner with transaction is вЂBPвЂ™ It is a prerequisite.Д¬ustomer and vendor master data created these waysД¬ustomer master data created with transaction XD01, VD01, FD01 The only difference is in S/4HANA is that business partner is mandatory. Business partner is not new in S/4HANA it is there even before S/4HANA. First, we created a business partner where basic data like name, address etc., stored and then if we want to extend this business partner as a customer/vendor we extend the Role of that business partner to customer/vendor or both.

SAP has created a shell around customer and vendor data called Business partner. The old model for having one particular model for customer and one particular model for vendor no longer holds good for these new dimensional modules. The new dimensional module like CRM, SCM, SRM need the more integrated view of all business partner. The might need the different set of data. The lender is a business partner for them.ДЄll of them might not need sales data, finance data or purchasing data. SAP S/4 HANA -CUSTOMER/VENDOR MASTER DATA CHANGESДЄs we know in SAP ECC solution both customer and vendor master data divided into three views.Д«oth are the business partner but there are many business partners thinks of real estate sector, who is the business partner for them.

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