How to Extend Your Business Partner by SAP 

In this article, you will learn how to extend your business partner, which is a new concept introduced in SAP S4/HANA, to a purchasing organization.

In SAP S4/HANA, the term business partner is the single point of entry to maintain all master data related to vendors, customers, and employees. The transaction code, BP, is relatively straightforward to use. The main advantage over older transaction codes is that code BP maintains harmony, diversity, and consolidation of all the partner’s data.

Extending your business partner in SAP S4/HANA follows different steps than ECC version because the transactions codes used in the past are now obsolete.

If you use any of the old ECC transactions in the new S4/HANA release, SAP will send you to the new transaction code BP and mention that the transaction is obsolete.

Example using MK01 from ECC:

Same goes for XK01:

I will create another article to talk about more about BP, but for now, I would like to show you how to extend your business partner or supplier to a new purchasing organization using tcode BP in SAP S4/HANA.

First Step:

Go to tcode: BP and search for the vendor you want to extend, either press start or Enter

Second Step:

Double click the vendor, and go on top to Business Partner, and click on Display Change

Third Step:

Go to field Change in BP Role to Vendor or Supplier

Third Step:

Once you are in the Vendor BP role, SAP will send you to the General View, you need to click on the Purchasing view:

Fourth Step:

Click on Purchasing Organization:

Firth Step:

Press to Create from here

Sixth Step:

Click on the magnifying glass, and choose the p.org that you desire:

Seventh Step:

Click on Transfer, then save.

The business partner plays a pivotal role in the procurement processes of the MM area of SAP S/4HANA. With BP, we can create, maintain, or extend purchasing information related to purchasing organizations, currencies, payment terms, dunning, average delivery time, GR based invoices, automatic POs, discounts in kind, rebates, and configuration controls.

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