Business partner for Vendor

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We are planning to implement FSCM with Credits and Collections mgt. As we know, business partner is the key for FSCM and BP can be customer or vendor. We are planning to create customers as BP. My question is, do we have to create vendors aslo as BP when we activate FSCM. I mean both customers and vendors have to created as BP or creating only customers also works.

If we have to create vendors also as BP..if this is mandatory, then what are the advantages for maintaing this. I know from customer side but not from vendors perspective. And are all the fields in vendor master available in BP too. How do I config this?

Please suggest on how to go about with this.I appreaciate any help.

Regards,

Satya

[Former Member]

Based on the business case mentioned above, if you are only using Credit & Collections, there is no need for creating BPs for Vendors.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I thought it is compulsory to maintain both customers and vendors as BP when activating FCSM. This got cleared now that it is not a must.

The reason client wants to maintain both as BP is for consistency and maintenance of both centrally. And the other reason is P2P team is interested in scoring calculations, risk class and ranking fo suppliers. They are planning to maintain a table for this. I know that we have these fields avaible in credit management and when activated and having the config in place, this comes up for BP of customer. Is it possible to have these fileds for supplier. I mean can these be made avaiable for vendor also. If so, how? Is the config same?

Regards,

Satya

[Former Member]

If this is the only reason for creating supliers, it would be better off, creating a custom report for this, rather than have Vendor -- BP setup in the system.

[Former Member]

Thank you all for the responses and sorry for my delay.

Client is planning to maintain a table for this purpose. And this is not the only reason for creating vendors as BP. We also have vendors who are aslo customers and for netting purposes.

Instead of creating only those vendors as BP for netting purposes, we are planning to set up all vendors as BP.

My manager says there is no pint in doing only some of the vendors.

Any thoughts or suggestions on this.

Regards,

Satya

[Former Member]

Automatic synchronization of Vendor <--> BP will apply to all Vendors and not for some. So you cannot maintain the config for 1/some, it will apply to all Vendors

[Former Member]

Hi,

BP is the central organization unit or partner unit in SAP. The concept of BP is going to be common for all the modules. So whichever is relevant for your requirement, you can use them.

From a business sense, why would you have vendor for collections and credit management? It is enough if you create and link customers and business partners. No need to link with Vendors for using FSCM collections and Credit management.

Regards,

Ravi