#COE Recommendation requested for field to indicate 'primary use' for business partners

[Kmatth]

Hi,

All our business partners, no matter if it's a customer or a supplier, are getting the 5 roles below by default. We do that to enable always reversed flows (e.g.: a supplier is also a customer to enable the 'return to supplier' flow).

What's now less convenient, is that apps like for example 'Display Customer/Supplier list' are showing both business partners. Moreover, when we now want to interface to C/4, we only want the 'real customers' to be interfaced.

I'm looking for a field to indicate the 'primary use' (customer or supplier) for which we can make the distinction in those apps as a filter, and to select on for interfacing to C/4. I was thinking about 'BP Type' (it's always available in the general 'Business partner' role, it's available in the 'Display Customer/Supplier list'), but it cannot be customized in 'Manage Your Solution'.

Can you advise please?

o Business Partner (Gen.)

o Customer

o Customer (Fin.Accounting)

o Supplier

o Supplier (Fin.Accounting)

[Amith_Nair · Accepted solution]

Hi kmattheyssen

For Interfacing with any application outside of S4HC, we have a whitlested Business Partner API for Customer distinction as well Supplier distinction. This will help you with Real Customer segregation from Business partner.

https://api.sap.com/api/API_BUSINESS_PARTNER/resource: /A_Customer or /A_Supplier.

In addition to that we also have Whitelisted CDS view: I _Customer or I_Supplier that you could use within the S4HANA Cloud Tenant for reporting/Analytical capability if that is another option you would like to consider within your System.

However, as ‎@Varun mentioned, may be, we might not have direct intervention either through SSCUI or app itself.

Thank you!

Amith Nair

[Varun_Agarwal]

Hi,

There is no field to indicate primary use as required by you. BP Type(BUT000-TYPE) means if a BP is “Person” or “Organization” or “Group”.

Regards,

Varun

[Varun_Agarwal]

Hi,

we did a further investigation today and found that field BP Type highlighted by you can be used to determine whether it is a real customer or supplier. However, there is no SSCUI available in S/4HANA Cloud yet to configure the values for this field.

Also, I had an initial check and this field was not available in the Web-service Business Partner - Replicate from SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Client.

You can refer to https://help.sap.com/viewer/3c916ef10fc240c9afc594b346ffaf77/2002.500/en-US/9110f0ec-e7dd-4abb-add8-... for fields currently supported.

I shall investigate further and let you know

[Kmatth]

Thanks for replying. Which other fields can you recommend then?

[Varun_Agarwal]

HI,

We have checked and the field BP Type is not available in the Web Service Business Partner - Replicate from SAP S/4HANA Cloud to Client.

If you would like to create a feature request for this business requirement, please do so. This will inform our developers as to what additional functionality should be considered for future releases.

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