Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component⤷
FS-BP (Application Component) Business Partner⤷
FSBP_BAPI2 (Package) SAP BP FS: BAPIs
Basic Data
| Data Element | BAPI_BP_CRITER |
| Short Description | Differentiation Criterion |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | BP_CRITER | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 10 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 10 | |
| Value Table | TP23 |
Further Characteristics
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| Search Help: Parameters | ||
| Parameter ID | BP_CRITER | |
| Default Component name | ||
| Change document | ||
| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Criterion |
| Medium | 15 | Diff. Criterion |
| Long | 25 | Differentiation Criterion |
| Heading | 25 | Differentiation Criterion |
Documentation
Definition
A business partner characteristic that you can set to determine the criteria (such as a branch of a bank, for example) according to which certain business partner attributes can be differentiated, or distinguished.
Use
You can use the differentiation criterion when differentiating the following business partner information:
- Business partner roles
- Business partner relationships
- Additional information
- Ratings
Differentiation enables you to differentiate certain business partner components according to different perspectives. You process these components on the Maintain Business Partner screen, using the Differentiation pushbutton. This provides you with an additional processing interface for this data. You can therefore subdivide or differentiate values for similar business partner data according to your requirements.
Dependencies
You can only process the differentiation criterion in business partner roles that have been defined for differentiation.
You can determine the differentiation criterion in Customizing for the SAP Business Partner for Financial Services under Settings for Financial Services-> General Settings-> Basic Settings-> Differentiation in the IMG activity Define Differentiation Criterion and Set Differentiation Criterion.
Example
The bank customer Mercato AG exists as a customer at several branches. In order to process specific business partner attributes such as ratings for each different branch, each individual branch was defined as a differentiation criterion. When processing ratings in the transaction Maintain Business Partner, the Stockstadt branch can also create different ratings for the business partner Mercato AG under Differentiation to those for the Eberbach branch.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in | 20 |
