Vendor account group definition

[Former Member]

Are the delivered vendor account groups and their number ranges considered best practice or is this field one that the users decide on the number ranges and which vendor account groups to use.

What is the SAP recommendation on vendor account groups we don't plan to use?

Thank you.

Cindy Collins

[atif_farooq]

Hi,

The standard configuration provided by SAP AG in OBD3 for vendor account group creation serves as a template to copy and create your own account group with differnt number ranges and field statuses. The reason for not using standard vendor account group is mostly field status customization for various fields (e.g VAT Regs number in vendor master data) as per your legal requirment.You should create your own vendor account group by copying standard template provided by SAP and ammend them as per your need. Hope this will help you.

Regardr

[Former Member]

What about the number ranges. Is it agains SAP best practice to do the following:

If one of the delivered account groups, we are not planning to use. Is it ok to use that number range in an account group we define?

THanks

[atif_farooq]

Hi,

It depends on the nomenclature of number you would like to use. If you are ok with the number ranges provided then ynu can go ahead. Check in XKN1 if system allows you to use that i think it will let you. For diffrent vendor account group you should use unique number ranges that could easily distinguish them like for local vendor account group you can use 1xxxxx and foreign vendor account group you should different number range. Hence number ranges provided in standard template can be used for vendor creation. Hope it answers your question.

Regards

[gladys_xing]

Hi,

you can create number range for vendor account in XKN1, and assign this number range to vendor account group in OBAS.

account group : number range = N:1, in other words, one number range can assign to difference vendor account groups. the customizing should be maintained by your own business requirements.

Best Regards,

Gladys