How to customizig Multiple customers Assignment to one Business Partner

[cora_juste]

Hi experts,

in SAP S/4 1809 it is possible to assign multiple customers (or vendors) to one BP which we would really help us to manage adresses and dublicates. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2706243/E

I saw the CVI customizing path and I understand that I have to use the specific app "Manage Customer Master Data".

What customizing is needed to use this feature? Do I need extra roles and role types. How are numbers assigned and what settings the CVI is needing?

Is there a how to guide anywhere?

Thank you so much in advance

[kcc]

Do I get it right that it is possible to create multiple customers within one Business Partner? So like

BP 4711

• Customer FI 4711 (role FLCU00)
• Customer FI 5711 (role ZFLCU00 -> same role parameters as FLCU00)
• Customer FI 6711 (role ZFLCU01 -> same role parameters as FLCU00)

.. and if this worked.. could I assign each Customer FI role its own reconciliation account and its own dunning procedure?

Thank you

KC

[cora_juste]

Hey Sven, unfortunately I didnt get it running. And in my opinion SAP didnt promote this solution anymore. Obviously this hasent proven in reality. In my projects it was more important to keep numbers equal which is not possible assigning multiple vendors to one business partner.

SAP promised to revise the whole business partner adress handling by the end of 2021. I cant wait to experience a solution to manage different locations of one legal entity withing one business partner. Obviously we have to be patient. 🙂

[Gustavo_Vazquez]

Hi Cora,

I know it's been some time since this but I had it working on my system.

You can add Customer to the BP in Fiori (F0850A) , not GUI (no tx BP). No BP roles needed.

In Fiori you add a new customer (13) and this will create the BP (role 000000, FS0000) and Customer (KNA1, KNB1 table).

It will also add a record in MDG_MLT_ASSGMNT table with field STANDARD = "" and point to the Master Customer. The customers created in BP with role FCLU00 have STANDARD = X.

No relationship between both BP is shown in GUI or between customer but in Fiori (F850A) you could see there is a relationship. No balance consolidation in FBL5N. In tx FD03 I don't see the added Customer (13) but it shows Master Customer (1).

This scenario of Multiple Assignment does not work with Initial Load , so I could not use it.

I needed to consolidate multiple customers/vendors in one account, so it's of no use for me.

Kind Regards

[cora_juste]

Dear Veselina, thank you so much for your input. I havent get it right yet. I will keep on trying.

I will give you feedback. Thanx a lot, regards, Cora

[sven_hertig1]

Dear Cora,

did you solve your issue? And can you share an example bp creation with multiple assignment.

Thanks and

Best regards,

Sven

[VeselinaPeykova]

There is not much to configure, or at least I have not found lots of information on the subject.

The customizing for this feature is here:

The specific here is that you use a separate number range object MDG_BP_MA, for which you need to assign number range. I checked in a system with best practices activated and we have number range 01, which is set to internal assignment.

I did not find an option to use multiple number ranges for the same business object type (customer or vendor), it might be hardcoded.

For the number range you are expected to use numeric values (the domain in SNRO for MDG_BP_MA is MDG_BP_ASSIGNMENT_ID, which is NUMC12).

You do not need separate roles for additional customers. From what I can see the outcome of creating additional customers is entries in KNA1, KNVV, KNB1, but I did not see BUT* entries created as a result.