creation of vendor master data

Vendor Master data is the information maintained about vendors/suppliers of good or services provided to the company in order to make purchases and payment processes. It includes vendors name and address, bank account details, contact details etc.

Before creating vendor master data their are some configurations to be done on BP and Vendor side. BP is the central master record used to record all kind of business relationships whether its a customer,vendor,or even an employee. Instead on maintaining separate master records on customer/vendor side a central record is maintained.

First we can customize on vendor side

DEFINE VENDOR ACCOUNT GROUP

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PATH:SPRO>SAP REFERENCE IMG>FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING>ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE>VENDOR ACCOUNTS>MASTER DATA>PREPARATIONS FOR CREATING VENDOR MASTER DATA>DEFINE ACCOUNT GROUPS WITH SCREEN LAYOUT

CREATE VENDOR ACCOUNT GROUPS WITH SCREEN LAYOUT

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PATH:SPRO>SAP REFERENCE IMG>FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING>ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE>VENDOR ACCOUNTS>MASTER DATA>PREPARATIONS FOR CREATING VENDOR MASTER DATA>CREATE VENDOR ACCOUNT GROUPS WITH SCREEN LAYOUT

ASSIGN NUMBER RANGES TO VENDOR ACCOUNT GROUP

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PATH:SPRO>SAP REFERENCE IMG>FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING>ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE>VENDOR ACCOUNTS>MASTER DATA>PREPARATIONS FOR CREATING VENDOR MASTER DATA>ASSIGN NUMBER RANGES TO VENDOR ACCOUNT GROUP

After Vendor side customization BP customization can be done

DEFINE NUMBER RANGES

PATH:SPRO>SAP REFERENCE IMG>CROSS APLLICATION COMPONENT>SAP BUSINESS PARTNER>BUSINESS PARTNER>BASIC SETTINGS>NUMBER RANGES AND GROUPING>DEFINE NUMBER RANGES

DEFINE GROUPING AND ASSIGNING NUMBER RANGES

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DEFINE GROUPING AND ASSIGNING NUMBER RANGES

Now we can link BP to Vendor

DEFINE NUMBER ASSIGNMENT FOR DIRECTION BP TO VENDOR

PATH:SPRO>SAP REFERENCE IMG>CROSS APLLICATION COMPONENT>MASTER DATA SYCHRONISATION>CUSTOMER/VENDOR INTEGRATION>BUSINESS PARTNER SETTINGS>SETTINGS FOR VENDOR INTEGRATION>FIELD ASSIGNMENT FOR VENDOR INTEGRATION>ASSIGN KEYS>DEFINE NUMBER ASSIGNMENT FOR DIRECTION BP TO VENDOR BASIC SETTINGS>NUMBER RANGES AND GROUPING>

DEFINE GROUPING AND ASSIGNING NUMBER RANGE

GL CREATION FOR ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

We need to create a gl accounts for accounts payable before creating vendor master data as all the gl need to be updated to gl as it is a reconciliation account.

VENDOR MASTER DATA CREATION

So all the configurations needed to create vendor master data is created, now we can create vendor master data

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