Last Updated on August 18, 2022 by admin

In this SAP tutorial, we are going to define Business Partner Roles (BP Roles) for vendors in SAP S4 Hana.

The SAP S4 Hana system provides the standard business roles to meet the day-to-day business requirements. It is not advised to modify the standard BP roles provided by SAP, as SAP programs access roles and categories directly.

The standard BP Role categories for vendors are

  • FLVN00 – Business Partner Vendor
  • FLVN01 – Business Partner FI Vendor

The Standard BP roles for Vendors’ areas

  • FLVN00 – Business Partner Vendor
  • FLVN01 – Business Partner Vendor

In this scenario, we are going to copy standard BP Roles and BP roles category as per requirements.

To Define BP Roles for vendors, you need to configure:

  • BP Role Categories
  • BP Roles.

How to Define BP Role for Vendors

Step 1: Go to SPRO > SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Cross-Application Components -> SAP Business Partner -> Business Partner -> Basic Settings -> Business Partner Roles -> Define BP Roles

Define BP Roles menu path

Step 2: On the change view “BP Roles” Overview screen, double click on BP role Categories under dialog structure

BP role categories for vendors in SAP Hana

Step 3: Select the BP role category FLVN00 key and click on a copy as an option

BP role category for vendor copy as

Step 4: On change view “BP Role Categories” detailed selected set screen, update the following

  • BP Role Category: Update the BP role category with a new key
  • Click on Apply to save the details

BP Role categories copy in SAP S4 Hana

Click on the Save button to Save the configured BP role categories details.

Step 5: Now click on BP Roles and Copy BP role FLVN00 to ZFLVN0

Copy BP role in SAP Hana

Step 6: On change view “BP Roles”: Details of Selected Set screen, update the following

  • BP Role: Update the new key of BP Role for the vendor
  • General data: Update the Title and Description of BP Role
  • BP Role Category: Now update the BP Role category of Vendor “ZFLVN0” that we have defined
  • Click on Apply option

Define BP Roles for Vendors in SAP S4 Hana

Now click on the save icon to save the configured details in SAP

Successfully we have defined BP roles for vendors in the SAP S4 Hana system.