What is the different SRM between trans BP and Manage Business Partners?

[Former Member]

Hi

Please can someone explain why two screens exist for maintaining vendor codes in SAP, I.E. transaction code BP and the web menu option Manage Business Partners. What is the difference between the two or are they for the same function?

Thank you.

SW.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The transaction BP is teh basic transaction for business partner maintenance in all systems. This can be found in all systems like SRM, ECC, XI, SCM etc. They can be used to create BP (User, Org etc with relationships as well).

Where as the transaction "Manager Business Partners" is more of SRM Specific. Apart from normal business partner functions this also supports Business Partner converion, procurement specific details like Pur Org, vendor details etc which are not available in the transaction BP.

Hope this provides some information on these difference.

Regards

Kathirvel

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Manage Business Partners - Here you have lot of options to manage BPs like you can create location/bidders .. maintain all businness partners. The equivalent GUI tcode is BBPMAININT.

regards

Muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Appreciate your reasponses. Is it possible to sync the SRM partner number automaticaly assigned to the BP ""Vendor"" to our existing vendor numbers in our R/3 system? At the moment, out end users are getting irate about having to remember 2 numbers and not happy to use the search functions in SRM.

Thnx,

SW.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes, when you are replicating vendors from R/3 into SRM using BBPGETVD, please select "Only Tranfer R/3 Numbers". This shoudl take care of your problem with respects to vendor numbers.

Regards

Kathirvel

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

GETVD only seems to be ignoring the R/3 4.7 vend master numbers and only generating business partner numbers. So, if a user creates a bid etc, the BP number is only shows. Our admin team are then having to manually assign the R/3 number to each of the generated BPs.

Any clues?

Thank you,

SW.

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Check BP grouping in SPRO ?

since bidders are created locally in ebp system it picks internal number range. However you check BP grouping configuration in spro.

regards

Muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Muthu,

For vendor masters, does the system also assign an internal number? If my R/3 vendor number can be used, where in BP grouping configuration do I enable this change?

Thanks.

SW.

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Once again you check it what is the BP grouping configuration in spro

Please create one BP (local ebp vendor ) and create one bidder locally. you may feel the difference.

regards

Muthu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

check the documentation under SRM IMG>SAP Implementation Guide>Cross-application components>SAP Business Partner>Business Partner>Basic Settings>Number Ranges and Groupings-->Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges

if your R/3 vendor code falls in the no range EB , & you choose R/3 vendor code in BBPGETVD

SRM will retain the ECC vendor code as BP no also

but if it falls out SRM will give internal BP no

you can create yr own no range and try to map all ECC vendor codes

BR

Dinesh

[vinita_kasliwal]

HI all

Please can some one also guide how we can have the same Location Number and BP number like in few cases below we were earlier having the same location number and BP number however soon enough we had differene in this behaviour .. the user is trying to manually entr the values in table  BBP_LOCMAP by clicking on customizing .. so please can some one suggest on what should be the right approach ?