Business Partners in SAP S/4hana: The Comprehensive Guide to Customer-Vendor Integration (Hardcover)

... Acknowledgments ... 13

... Foreword ... 15

... Preface ... 17

... Goals of This Book ... 18

... Target Audience ... 18

... Structure and Content ... 19

... Conclusion ... 22

1 ... Introduction ... 23

1.1 ... Concept of a Business Partner ... 23

1.2 ... Benefits of a Business Partner Approach ... 28

1.3 ... Business Partner in SAP S/4HANA ... 29

1.4 ... Structure of a Business Partner ... 30

1.5 ... Business Partner and Customer-Vendor Integration ... 34

1.6 ... Summary ... 36

2 ... Vendors ... 37

2.1 ... Customizing Vendor Account Groups ... 38

2.2 ... Customizing a Business Partner ... 43

2.3 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 52

2.4 ... Additional Business Partner Customizations ... 60

2.5 ... Summary ... 64

3 ... Customers ... 65

3.1 ... Customizing Customer Account Groups ... 66

3.2 ... Customizing a Business Partner ... 71

3.3 ... Customer-Vendor Integration ... 80

3.4 ... Additional Business Partner Customizations ... 88

3.5 ... Summary ... 91

4 ... Customizing for Customer-Vendor Integration ... 93

4.1 ... General Checks ... 94

4.2 ... Business Partner Customer Checks ... 99

4.3 ... Contact Person ... 105

4.4 ... Business Partner Supplier Checks ... 111

4.5 ... Summary ... 112

5 ... Conversion from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA ... 113

5.1 ... Business Partner Approach ... 114

5.2 ... Customer-Vendor Integration Implementation Approach ... 115

5.3 ... Basic Customer-Vendor Integration Customizing ... 117

5.4 ... CVI Cockpit Overview ... 121

5.5 ... Preparation ... 128

5.6 ... Customer-Vendor Integration Load ... 172

5.7 ... Upgrade Preparation ... 206

5.8 ... Post-Conversion ... 208

5.9 ... Customer-Vendor Integration Reports ... 216

5.10 ... Additional Tips and Tricks ... 222

5.11 ... Summary ... 232

6 ... Maintaining Business Partners ... 233

6.1 ... Navigating the Business Partner ... 233

6.2 ... Maintaining Vendors ... 237

6.3 ... Maintaining Customers ... 270

6.4 ... Summary ... 309

A ... Transaction Codes, Tables, and Roles ... 313

B ... SAP Notes and Additional Resources ... 319

C ... Migrating Additional SAP Solutions to SAP S/4HANA ... 333

C.1 ... SAP ERP Human Capital Management ... 333

C.2 ... Credit Management ... 336

C.3 ... SAP for Utilities ... 336

C.4 ... SAP for Retail ... 337

C.5 ... SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud ... 337

C.6 ... Interfaces with SAP S/4HANA ... 338

C.7 ... DEBMAS/CREMAS IDoc Types in SAP S/4HANA ... 338

C.8 ... Integration with SAP Customer Relationship Management ... 339

C.9 ... Integration with SAP Master Data Governance ... 340

D ... The Author ... 345

... Index ... 347