If you are working on SAP S4 Hana Finance, understanding the Business Partner (BP) concepts and its related tables helps you to get the complete knowledge on customer vendor integration (CVI), SAP BP data management, and its related tables for business partner.
These Business Partner stored all the required master data of customers and suppliers that are needed to integrate and manage relationships across various SAP modules like Finance (FI), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Procurement (MM).
In this SAP tutorials, you will learn the important list of Business Partner tables in SAP.
What is a Business Partner (BP) in SAP
In SAP S4 Hana system, the customer master data and Vendor Master Data are now creating as the Business Partner through the transaction code BP. Previously, customers & vendors master data are created separately using the different transaction codes.
- For customer master Data, XD01 tcode is used to create the data & for vendor master data XK01 tcode is used.
- The transaction codes of XD01, XD02, XD03, XK01, XK02, XK03 are absolute. If you try to execute this tcodes, it will be automatically redirected to the BP (Business Partner) screen.
- The business partners are created with a roles and can be a person, a group or an organization.
- Now business partner plays a
Important List of Business Partner Tables in SAP
SAP Business Partner Tables – Important list of Business Partner (BP) tables are follows
| Table | Description |
| BUT000 | General Business Partner info, like BP number and category |
| BUT001 | Identification details like internal and external numbers. |
| BUT020 | Business Partner addresses |
| BUT051 | Tax details for the Business Partner. |
| BUT050 | Relationships between different Business Partners. |
| BUT021_FS | Roles assigned to the Business Partner (e.g., customer, vendor). |
| BUT0BK | Field group data for Financial Services. |
| CVI_VEND_LINK | Links Business Partners to vendor master records. |
| CVI_CUST_LINK | Connects Business Partners with customer master records. |
How to Access Business Partner Table in SAP
To view the business partner table in SAP, refer to the following steps
Step 1: Execute the transaction code ‘SE16′ or SE16n’ to access the data browser table
Step 2: Give the table name, for example: BUT000
Step 3: After entering the desire BP table name, click on execute.
Step 4: Now the business partner table results displays on the screen. You can analysis and validate the BP data.