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Business Partner Data Management

process component


Definition

Includes all basic data on employees and business partners.

Note:

The Business Partner Data Management process component is a part of the ERP foundation. The business content described here refers only to the enterprise services relevant to SAP ECC.

Technical Data

Software Component Version ESM ERP 606
Technical Name BusinessPartnerDataManagement
Namespace http://sap.com/xi/ESM/ERP


Business Context and Use

You can use the Business Partner Data Processing process component to manage all business partner data that is necessary for controlling business processes such as Sales and Distribution, Purchasing and Accounting. You can also use this process component to provide services for queries related to person-specific information on employees, as well as information along the organizational structure.

Integration

This process component communicates with other process components using the following interactions:

Structure

The following entities are part of this process component:

Service Interfaces

Customer Replication Requesting Out  
Employee EMail Data Management In  
Employee Event Out An interface to inform about changes in employee data asynchronously.
Employee In An interface to query employee data asynchronously.
Employee Notification Out An interface to respond employee queries asynchronously.
Employee Payment Card Management In  
Entries for Employee  
Manage Business Partner In  
Manage Business Partner Sales Account In Group of operations that create, maintain and update a Business Partner Sales Account, or parts of it.
Manage Customer In Group of operations that provide information about a customer.
Manage Employee In Group of operations that retrieves personal information about an employee and creates, changes, or deletes an employee's Personal Address via several Employee interfaces.
Manage Payment Card In An interface to manage payment cards. A payment card is an issued identification card that authorizes the holder to pay an invoice without cash at a merchant.
Manage Product Sales Arrangement In  
Manage Sales Arrangement In  
Manage Supplier In An interface to manage supplier related master data.
Procurement Arrangement In  
Query Business Partner In  
Query Business Partner Out  
Query Customer In A group of operations for finding customers and their address master data.
Query Employee In Group of operations for retrieving organizational information about an employee using individual Employee interfaces.
Query Sales Arrangement In Group of operations that allow you to search for sales arrangements.
Query Supplier In Group of operations that enable suppliers to be searched for, restricted according to different criteria.
Supplier In  
Supplier Notifying Out  
Supplier Replication Requesting Out An interface to request the replication of a supplier.

Business Objects

Business Partner A person, an organization, or a group of persons or organizations in which a company has a business interest.
Business Partner Sales Account Representation of a business partner, including the sales arrangements, trade receivables payables accounts and payment agreements belonging to the business partner in question.
Customer A Customer is a business partner who is offered or sold materials or services.
Employee Person who contributes, or has contributed to, the creation of goods and services within the enterprise. This includes internal and external employees. As opposed to external employees, internal employees are bound by instructions and are subject to job-related organizational control.

Note:

The Employee
business object is part of the ERP foundation. The business content described here refers only to the enterprise services relevant to SAP ECC.

Payment Card A card that facilitates the card owner to purchase goods or services  without cash payment from merchants or companies affiliated to clearing houses.
Procurement Arrangement An arrangement used to control procurement transactions.
Product Sales Arrangement A ProductSalesArrangement is a source of information for the selling of a certain material or service to a certain customer.
Sales Arrangement Arrangement between a sales department and a customer for transacting sales. The arrangement deals with, for example, payment conditions, invoice currency, and Incoterms. The arrangement in no way represents a contract with the customer. 
Supplier A Supplier is a business partner who offers or sells materials or services.

Notes on SAP Implementation

Processing


Take into account the following behavior of the change and update operations of this process component when you use it:


The data transferred by request messages overwrites only those affected objects in the databases of the back-end system that are also filled in the message structure. This also applies to the individual items of list-like elements.


Caution:

This means that if optional elements are not filled in a request message, the back-end system leaves the values as they are in the affected fields in the database. The only exception to this behavior is when these values are automatically updated due to changes to other data.