Customer/Vendor

[Former Member]

Just a basic question Guys...why do you assign Vendor to Customer in Customer Master's General Data (in control data view)?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Nitesh,

Pls find below the excerpts from the SAP's Help:

A business partner can be a customer and a vendor at the same time if, for example, your customer also supplies goods to you or if a vendor is also one of your customers. In this case, you must create a customer master record and a vendor master record for the business partner. You can create a link between the two master records by entering the vendor number in the customer master record and the customer number in the vendor master record.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/53/c98641ca3711d2b494006094b9114a/frameset.htm

FI Perspective:

Clearing Between a Customer and Vendor

If a vendor is also a customer, or vice versa, you can have the payment program and the dunning program clear the vendor and customer open items against each other. You can also select the customer line items when you display the vendor line items for this account.

Before you can clear items between a vendor and customer account, you must:

Create a customer master record for the vendor who is also a customer.

Enter the customer account number in the Customer field in the control section of the general data in the vendor master record.

Enter the vendor account number in the Vendor field in the control section of the general data in the customer master record.

Select Clrg with vend. and Clrg with cust. in the company data in both the customer and vendor master records. In this way, each company code can decide separately whether it wants to clear the customer with the vendor.

SAP Business Partner :: Customer/Vendor Integration:

Customer/Vendor Integration for the business partner may be required if you want to use Financial Accounting (FI) and SAP Business Partner in parallel.

In Financial Accounting (FI) for company external accounting, accounts receivable and accounts payable accounting is used as part of the Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) subledgers to manage accounting data for all customers and vendors. Financial Accounting does not rely on the SAP Business Partner to manage the business partners, but uses its own customer/vendor master records, which are integrated in all accounting transactions, such as creating business transactions on accounts and processing posting data.

Many SAP customers have been using Financial Accounting for a long time and are now increasingly using other applications, such as Loans Management (FS-CML) or SAP Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), which use the SAP Business Partner to manage business partners. These customers require business partners that are managed as customers/vendors in Financial Accounting and as business partners in other applications, to exist synchronously.

Business partner Adams is one of your company’s customers. In the business partner he is managed under the number 4556, and in the customer master record under number 7894. If certain data, such as his address or bank details, changes, this data should be changed in both business partner management systems.

You can use customer and vendor integration independent of each other. There are applications that use only customer integration, and others that also require vendor integration. Customer/vendor integration is intended as a one system/one client solution.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/42/d433deccdf6bace10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

Hope this helps.

Reg

Sachin

[Former Member]

There may be a possibity that our customer is also our vendor. In such scenario, we van link the customer vendor the through Customer & Vendor master & establish a link between them. This may be of use for financial reconcilation.

Regards,

Rajesh Banka

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[Former Member]

hi,

it is because a vendor can sometimes also be a customer. Can so happen you are buying some goods from him and at the same time he is also the vendor for some.

Thanks

Sadhu Kishore

[Former Member]

Don't mind ramki...i appreciate for your promt reply..but i am not asking wthether you have used or not. It's just that i want to know the reason for the assignment.

[Former Member]

Boss,

we assign vendor to customer, bcoz if the client has lot of vendors and if the A vendor is near to cutomers , so we assign here so that whenever 3rd paty processeing happens to the customers it automatically propose A vendor ...

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Ramki

[Former Member]

not required... in my project i didnt assign vendor...

i think its useful in 3rd part oder..

Reward if it helps.

Ramki