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

Product Description Get the latest book from the author of the best-selling Materials Management: Business Processes and Configuration! In SAP S/4HANA, all your customers and vendors must be set up as business partners―let us show you how! From configuring vendor and customer account groups to defining new number ranges, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for setting up business partners from scratch. Moving from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA? We’ve got you covered with comprehensive directions for using customer-vendor integration (CVI) to get your old information into your new system. Once your system is active, see how to maintain and validate your data. Master your business partner master data!Configure business partners in SAP S/4HANA for new implementations and system conversion projectsPerform your customer-vendor integration and synchronizationMaintain customer, vendor, and contact data with apps and transactionsGreenfield ImplementationsConfigure vendors and customers as business partners for new SAP S/4HANA implementation projects. Set up account groups, roles (both individual and multiple), field attributes, number ranges, and more.Brownfield ImplementationsMake the switch from managing customers and vendors in SAP ERP to business partners in SAP S/4HANA. Use CVI to perform the conversion and synchronization process with step-by-step instructions.Maintaining Business PartnersLearn how to maintain business partner data and business partner relationships in a live system. Walk through extending a business partner to other areas of your SAP S/4HANA system, such as financial accounting, sales, and purchasing.Vendor (supplier) dataCustomer dataAccount groupsNumber rangesRolesTransaction BPMigration cockpitMaterials managementFinancialsNew implementationSystem Conversion About the Author Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has more than 20 years of professional experience, 16 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP implementation project lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify the root causes of business issues and address those issues with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Ariba, and SAP Customer Experience.