Define Business Partner Groupings in SAP S4HANA

Standard SAP S4 Hana system delivery various BP grouping for

After maintaining business partners number range intervals, the next step is defining BP groups and assigning number ranges.

You can define groups and Assign business partner number ranges by using the following navigation method.

  • SAP IMG Menu Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide -> Cross Application Components -> SAP Business Partners -> Business Partner -> Basic Settings -> Number Ranges and Grouping -> Define Groups and Assign Number ranges.

In this Business Partners configuration guide, you are going to maintain

  • BPG1 with Internal Number Assignment – BP
  • BPG2 With External Number Assignment – AB

How to Define Grouping and Assign Number Ranges in SAP S4 Hana

Refer to the below step-by-step procedure to maintain groups for business partners and assign the number range intervals.

Step 1: Execute t-code “SPRO” in the command field

Step 2: Click on “SAP Reference IMG”

Step 3: Refer to the IMG menu path and execute IMG activity “Define Groups and Assign Number Ranges”

Define groupings and Assign Number Ranges in S4 Hana menu path

Step 4: In the next screen “Change View BP Grouping”: overview, click on the new entries button to define BP grouping and assign the number range intervals.

BP Grouping new entries in SAP S4 Hana

Step 5: On New entries of the BP grouping screen, update the following details.

  • Grouping: Enter a new key that defines Grouping in the SAP S4 Hana system
  • Short name: Enter the short name of Grouping
  • Description: Update the complete description of BP Grouping
  • Number Range: Update the number range interval to assign the BP number range interval to BP grouping. After the assignment of BP number range intervals, press enters to continue.
  • External: This will automatically check the option for external number range assignment.

Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges in SAP S4 Hana

After defining the BP grouping and assignment of BP number range intervals, click on the save icon and save the details.

So in this scenario, we have defined BP groupings BPG1 and BPG2 and assigned internal number range interval for BPG1 grouping and External number range interval for BPG2 grouping.