SAP PPM Resource Management and BP

[former_member602354]

Hi,

We have to deploy SAP PPM Resource management for a customer.

This customer run already PPM and IS-U. That means, Business partners are already active for IS-U

Pain point are:

- Number range used for BP is the same as the one used in HR for Employee ID

- Some employees are already defined as Business Partners because they are company customer.

- But, the today situation is:

Ex 1: Employee Paul's ID is 10350 in PA002 and another person, a customer, BP already exist in BUT000 with the same ID

Ex2: Employee Tim's ID is 12432 in PA002 and he is defined as customer with the BP ID number 12643 in BUT000

Questions:

How can we automatically create BP for PPM RM based on the fact that some employees already exist with with a Customer BP ID which is different but in the same range ?

How can we automatically create BP for the aither emloyees qhich are not customers ?

Thanks

BR

Thierry

[former_member602354]

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback.

If we take care about SAP Best Practices to migrate to S/4HANA, it's recommended (or mandatory) to align ID's ( ...Business Partner ID and Customer-ID /Vendor ID should be the same in the S/4HANA System,..)

If we include the BP rôle ''employee'' do we have to align this BP on same ID too ?

In SAP PPM Resource Management it's defined HR Sync Program for the automatic creation of BP's based on the created employee from HR. Additionally it's recommanded to align ID's between HR and BP.

At the end, it seems to be ''not possible'' to align all these ID's in the same number range.

Questions:

Even if in S/4 we need to have the same ID for Vendor and Customer, do we need to have same ID for the BP employee ID and the BP Customer (for an employe who is also Customer in IS-U)

If not, do we have just to manage the Relationship between BP's via transaction BP ?

BR

Thierry

[former_member346248]

You need to use transaction BP to create all the business partners irrespective of the fact if they are employees or customer. Please refer to below useful link:

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/07/30/sap-s4hana-hcm-employee-as-business-partner-implementation-steps-ti...

You may use below solution for the issues mentioned:

Ex 1: Employee Paul's ID is 10350 in PA002 and another person, a customer, BP already exist in BUT000 with the same ID

Create a new BP for Paul using transaction BP and assign ID 10350 under relationship using appropriate relationship category e.g. is employee of , is identical to etc.

Ex2: Employee Tim's ID is 12432 in PA002 and he is defined as customer with the BP ID number 12643 in BUT000

Add Tim’s employee ID 12432 under appropriate relationship category for BP 12643 using transaction BP.

You will be able to check the BP relationships in table BUT050