Brokers, Define Business Partner, Maintain Business Partner
Application component: Dialog SAP-GUI
App type: SAP GUI
Scope items: Sell from Stock|Automated Purchase-to-Pay with SAP Ariba Commerce Automation|Accounts Payable|Intrastat Processing|Money Market Mutual Fund Management|Direct Debit|Accounts Receivable|Collections and Dispute Management|Debt and Investment Management|Delivery Processing without Order Reference|Purchase Contract
Description:  You can create, edit, and manage business partners, and integrate them with other functions. You can use the following channels:  Dialog (SAP GUI)  Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)  Central API   
Key features: You can use the following functions: Business Partner FunctionsFunction Comment Search for business partners using different search criteria You can also search for business partners using the quick entry function in the input help. Creating business partners Depending on the settings made in Customizing and the role selected, different tab pages and data are available to edit business partners. Displaying and changing business partner data Making Mass Changes to business partner data  Using the Temporal Validity for business partner data  Displaying Business Partner Relationships on the SAP GUI in a figure  Displaying the Change History for a business partner  Authorization Management of business partners Configuring and extending business partner data with the help of the Business Data Toolset  Distribution of Business Partner Data Integrating business partner data in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) For more information, see SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/bicontent. Select BI Content  Cross-Application Components  Business Partner in the application help for the relevant release.  
Business roles: Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant (FI-CA)| Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager (FI-CA)| Accounts Payable Accountant| Accounts Receivable Accountant| Master Data Specialist - Business Partner Data| Cash Manager| Cash Management Specialist| Trader - Commodity Derivative Orders| Trader - Commodity Derivative Orders| Collections Specialist (FI-CA)| Customer Service Manager - In-House Repair| Customer Service Representative - In-House Repair| Service Technician - In-House Repair| External Auditor| External Auditor - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA)| Grant Specialist - Grantor Programs| Insurance Policy Clerk| Intrastat Specialist| Master Data Specialist (ACM)| Operations Clerk (ACM)| Reconciliation Specialist - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA)| Revenue Accountant| Administrator - Revenue Accounting| Retail Store Associate| Retail Store Manager| Settlement Clerk (ACM)| Trader (ACM)| Transportation Manager| Transportation Planner| Trade Compliance Specialist
Accounts Payable Manager : 
Carries out all functions in accounts payable accounting with an emphasis on setting guidelines and period-end closing.

Accounts Payable Accountant - Leasing: (is an add-on role to the Accounts Payable Accountant)
Is responsible for posting activities of Lease Contracts.

General Ledger Accountant for Italy: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Italy.

Project Financial Controller : 
Is responsible for all financial aspects of one or several projects, including the creation of work breakdown structures, project planning, budgeting and forecasting, period-end closing support as well as project financial monitoring and reporting. 

General Ledger Accountant for Belgium: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Belgium.

Treasury Specialist - Back Office : 
Processes financial transactions, sends confirmation to counterparties, imports market data and runs the valuation.

Accounts Payable and Receivable Accountant (FI-CA) : 
Deals with payment and credit clarification of B2B and B2C customers and works off complex customer requests according account clarification.

Grant Specialist - Grantor Programs : 
Is involved in creating and searching Grantor Programs, Applications, Agreements and Claims.

Trade Compliance Specialist : 
Is responsible for trade compliance topics such as Legal Control (export and import) and Sanctioned Party List (SPL) screening. Releases also the relevant documents.

Shipping Specialist : 
Processes outbound deliveries.

Administrator - Legal Content Management : 
Is responsible for the adminstration in Legal Content Management. 

External Auditor for Austria: (is an add-on role to the External Auditor)
Reviews the accounts of organizations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of their financial records for Austria.

Bank Back Office Employee : 
Is responsible for manually processing service requests from customers and for resolving errors that occur during automatic or manual processes. Acts according to pre-set guidelines. Does not directly interact with customers.

Project Manager - Commercial Services : 
Manages execution of commercial projects ensuring scope, time, budget & client satisfaction.

Asset Accountant : 
Capitalizes costs of assets during purchasing and production processes, defines depreciation parameters, and records depreciation. Ensures correctness, completeness, and documentation of the balance sheet for fixed assets.

Accounts Receivable Accountant for Poland: (is an add-on role to the Accounts Receivable Accountant)
Carries out the most important functions in accounts receivable accounting in Poland.

Collections Specialist (FI-CA) : 
Deals with the collection process in the company including contacting individuals who have defaulted on debts and/or who have not paid past-due bills to discuss the handling of the overdue items (e.g. using payment agreements).

Development Manager - Discrete Industries: (is an add-on role to the Development Manager)
Manages a team of design enegineers and analyzes changes and their impact in line with given targets.

General Ledger Accountant for Poland: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Poland.

BOM Engineer : 
Creates bills of material and consistent overall product model, drives changes across organizations, and is responsible for the change process until handover to manufacturing. Is typically a member of the R&D group of the company.

Inventory Manager : 
Manages inventory with respect to quantity and value.

Legal Counsel : 
Provides, composes, consumes and manages Legal content like Contracts, Templates, Clauses etc.

Reconciliation Specialist - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA) : 
Is responsible for the reconciliation of Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA) with the General Ledger (FI-GL) and all reconciliation accounts and tax on sales and purchases Clearing accounts.

General Ledger Accountant for Spain: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements.

Intrastat Specialist : 
Generates Intrastat reporting in different EU countries.

Cost Accountant - Sales : 
Analyzes markets, products, customers, distribution channels, and discount strategies. Reports and monitors KPIs for incoming orders, revenue, and margins. Contributes to fulfilling the organization’s sales strategy. 

Employee : 
Performs all work related activities which are not directly relevant for one's work performance.

Development Manager - Process Industry : 
Manages a team of formula developers and analyzes changes and their impact in line with given targets.

Billing Specialist - Projects : 
Prepares the billing data for the billing elements across a customer project and triggers creation of a billing document request.

Accounts Receivable Accountant - Leasing: (is an add-on role to the Accounts Receivable Accountant)
Is responsible for posting activities of Lease Contracts.

Transportation Planner : 
Manages transportation planning activities.

Credit Controller : 
Manages credit limits based on the credit policy of the company, and monitors customers' creditworthiness in close cooperation with the Sales and Distribution department and the Accounts Receivables Accountant.

Administrator (Convergent Invoicing) : 
Is responsible for executing jobs and mass activities for critical business processes within Convergent Invoicing, setting up technical properties of billable and consumption items, and configuring processing rules in billable item management.

Invoicing Specialist (Convergent Invoicing) : 
Is responsible for all customer questions regarding the invoicing process, such as checks and corrections of customer bills.

Master Data Specialist - Transportation Management : 
Maintains master data documents related to Transportation Management, like Locations, Schedules, Default Routes, Trade Lanes, Resources.

Customer Service Manager : 
Understands overall status and performance of the service management process, which gives insights into financial performance of the service process.

Project Steering Committee Member : 
Influences or makes decisions on a project, program, initiative, or bucket of an investment portfolio. Has typically the organizational authority to allocate resources and defines priorities for organizations, projects, programs, or initiatives.

Real Estate Specialist - Location Management : 
Manages the overall Location Portfolio of Real Estate Objects (Sites, Buildings, Floors, Spaces, Land) and processes them for different usage and occupancy (internal, inter-company, external) types.

Dispatcher (Transportation Management) : 
Monitors incoming transportation demands. Initiates necessary actions in case of planning backlog. Monitors planning and execution of transportation orders. Executes initial delivery creation.

Quality Planner : 
Sets up master data (specification, inspection planning, FMEA) and advanced quality planning.

Quality Technician : 
Prepares and executes quality inspections of products and materials and manages inconsistencies.

Operations Clerk (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Perform clerical or administrative duties in a variety of business for ACM. 

Solution Order Specialist : 
Manages solution orders for customers. Creates, updates, orchestrates and monitos the solution order, order execution and coordination across delivery organizations, delivering reports on orders, executing order changes, etc.

General Ledger Accountant for Thailand: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements in Thailand.

Employee - Procurement : 
Executes a self-service requisitioning process. Creates a purchase requisition via access to procurement catalogs or creates free text requests. Keeps an overview of their self-service requests and confirms the receipt of goods or performed services.

Project Controller - Resourcing and Procurement : 
Enables transparency to all stakeholders on assigned resources and procurement of materials and services needed for capital projects and for providing support to Project Managers.

Customer Service Manager - In-House Repair : 
Manages In-House Repair service processes, including repair planning, monitoring, process optimization and personnel management.

Insurance Policy Clerk : 
Creates, changes and reverses policies on a daily basis.

Settlement Clerk (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Compiles and computes payment due and recoveries to be made for ACM.

Warehouse Operative (Extended Warehouse Management) : 
Executes daily warehouse operations, such as picking, putaway and physical inventory.

Cash Manager : 
Is responsible for overall liquidity status of group corporate, executes cash transactions and centrally manages bank accounts with rich attributes, including overdraft limit and signatories, approves for opening or closing bank accounts, etc.

Administrator - Revenue Accounting : 
Schedules and runs periodic jobs for RAIs processing,  revenue postings, etc. 

Master Data Specialist (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Maintains the master data such as material master, business partner and business location as well as tolerance schedules, valuation points and condition types for DPQS and Optionality for ACM application. 

General Ledger Accountant for Finland: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Finland.

Accounts Payable Accountant : 
Carries out the most important functions in accounts payable accounting with a special focus on creation and execution.

Service Technician - In-House Repair : 
Is responsible for repairing devices or components which have been sent to the In-House Repair service. Executes and documents repairs.

Treasury Accountant : 
Makes postings in accounting to reflect treasury activities.

Pricing Specialist - Professional Services : 
Keeps prices for services current, makes them available on time. Sets up price lists, maintains prices, carries out mass changes of prices, issues price lists, changes prices, cross-checks prices and discounts for customers.

General Ledger Accountant for Norway: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Norway.

General Ledger Accountant for Denmark: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Denmark.

Maintenance Planner : 
Carries out preliminary costing, work scheduling, material provisioning, resource planning, and, if necessary, requests permits to ensure that maintenance activities can be performed most efficiently and safely.

Grant Specialist : 
Is responsible to initiate and perform all grant-related administrative processes, such as preparation of sponsor financial reports, maintenance of master data, grants lifecycle management and execution of grant related transactions like billing.

Tax Specialist : 
Maintains SD tax rates.

Customer Service Representative - In-House Repair : 
Is responsible for coordinating In-House Repairs and ensuring their correct commercial processing. Manages received devices, quotations, repair orders and billing.

External Auditor - Product Compliance : 
Reviews and checks product compliance documents like compliance assessments and compliance disclosures at the end of their information lifecycle.

Design Engineer : 
Creates product designs, i.e. functional specifications, CAD drawings, etc. Is typically a member of the R&D group of the company and is measured by the quality and innovation of his outputs in line with given design targets.

External Auditor : 
Reviews the accounts of organizations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of their financial records.

Purchaser : 
Ensures that demands of materials and services are fulfilled by creating and monitoring purchase orders.

Cash Management Specialist for Hungary: (is an add-on role to the Cash Management Specialist)
Executes cash transactions, centrally manages bank accounts with attributes, including overdraft limit and signatories, utilizing approval process for opening or closing bank accounts, and regular inventory/auditing process in Hungary.

Accounts Payable and Receivable Manager (FI-CA) : 
Minimizes overdue receivables and bad debt losses, analyzes and improves customer payment behavior, and optimizes receivables processing costs.

Quality Engineer : 
Supports the quality manager in making sure that the company’s quality and safety compliance goals are met. Makes usage decisions. Performs statistical analyses of test results. Coordinates activities within QM.

General Ledger Accountant for Germany: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Germany.

Data Privacy Specialist - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA): (is an add-on role to the Data Privacy Specialist)
Maintains and performs appropriate tasks specific for Accounts Payable/Receivable (FI-CA) to comply with the corporate privacy policies and procedures.

Trader (Agricultural Contract Management) : 
Maintains schedule, prices and executes spot contracts, trading contracts etc. for ACM.

Accounts Payable Accountant for Poland: (is an add-on role to the Accounts Payable Accountant)
Carries out the most important functions in accounts payable accounting in Poland.

Cash Management Specialist : 
Executes cash transactions and centrally manages bank accounts with a wide range of attributes, including overdraft limit and signatories, utilizing approval process for opening or closing bank accounts, and the regular inventory/auditing process.

Warehouse Clerk : 
Executes daily warehouse operations, such as carrying out stock transfers, analyzing stock-out situations, reverse material documents, etc.

General Ledger Accountant : 
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements.

Contract Specialist - Freight Management : 
Negotiates contracts with suppliers, carriers, and customers. Creates and updates freight agreements and rates in the system based on negotiated contracts.

General Ledger Accountant for Austria: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Austria.

Configuration Expert - Business Process Configuration : 
Performs business process configuration and other tasks required for implementing SAP solutions, such as scoping the solution, configuring the business processes, performing manual rework activities, and changing business process configuration.

Project Manager - Professional Services : 
Manages execution of commercial projects ensuring scope, time, budget & client satisfaction.

Revenue Accountant : 
Displays and edits revenue contracts relevant information, check and reconcile postings for revenue contracts. 

General Ledger Accountant for France: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements in France.

Administrator - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA): (is an add-on role to the Administrator)
Is responsible for the planning, scheduling and execution of jobs and mass activities within FI-CA, including critical Business processes, such as payment run, payment lot, dunning run. 

General Ledger Accountant for Switzerland: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in  Switzerland.

General Ledger Accountant for Portugal: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Portugal.

Accounts Receivable Accountant : 
Carries out the most important functions in accounts receivable accounting with a special focus on creation and execution.

External Auditor - Accounts Payable and Receivable (FI-CA) : 
Reviews the accounts of organizations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of their financial records. Determines if the financial statements of an organization fulfill all required legal accounting policies, and procedures.

General Ledger Accountant for Hungary: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out the tax and financial reporting tasks needed to fulfill the legal requirements in Hungary.

Data Privacy Specialist : 
Maintains and performs appropriate tasks to comply with the corporate privacy policies and procedures. 

Cost Accountant - Overhead : 
Defines overhead master data and the period-end allocation cycle. Implements period-end allocation and monitors overhead costs. Reports expenses on the income statement in the period in which they are incurred.

Project Manager : 
Ensures the successful delivery of specific project objectives while taking into account respective boundary conditions and constraints of the same.

Accounts Receivable Manager : 
Carries out all functions in accounts receivable accounting with an emphasis on setting guidelines and period-end closing.

Warehouse Clerk (Extended Warehouse Management) : 
Plans and controls processes in a simple warehouse with a strong focus on inbound, outbound, physical inventory, and maintenance of warehouse specific master data.

Maintenance Technician : 
Performs and confirms planned and unplanned maintenance work on machines, equipment, and facilities efficiently and safely.

Pricing Specialist : 
Keeps prices current, makes them available on time. Sets up price lists, maintains prices, carries out mass changes of prices, issues price lists, changes prices, cross-checks prices and discounts for customers.

Service Technician - Customer Service : 
Is responsible for fixing the issue with the equipment at site. Travels to the customer location and identifies the issue with the equipment. Proceeds with the necessary steps for fixing the issue which may include procuring additional spare parts.

General Ledger Accountant for Luxembourg: (is an add-on role to the General Ledger Accountant)
Carries out daily activities in general ledger, for example by recording transactions and making adjustment postings, and prepares financial statements in Luxembourg.

Transportation Buyer : 
Deals with tendering of transportation contracts and manages relationship with carriers.