SAP ABAP Data Element CMS_DTE_BPF (Business Partner Function)

Hierarchy

☛ EA-FINSERV (Software Component) SAP Enterprise Extension Financial Services
   ⤷ FS-CMS (Application Component) Collateral Management System
     ⤷ CMS_COMMON (Package) Tools & Common Interfaces used by CMS

Basic Data

Data Element	CMS_DTE_BPF
Short Description	Business Partner Function

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	CMS_BPF
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	6
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	6
Value Table	TCMS_BPF

Further Characteristics

Search Help: Name	CMS_BPF
Search Help: Parameters	BPF
Parameter ID
Default Component name
Change document	☑
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	PFunction
Medium	15	PartnerFunction
Long	20	PartnerFunction
Heading	16	Partner Function

Documentation

Definition

Specifies the business function in which a business partner is assigned to an entity object(collateral object, collateral agreement or receivable). The partner functions may belong to individuals, institutions or establishments.

Use

• Business partners may assume various functions with respect to the entities in Collateral Management. A partner function may also be of legal or natural significance such as the notary, administrator, utilizer and other beneficiaries.These functions drive various business processes in Collateral Management (CM). For example, the partner function Owner must be maintained for all collateral objects. Similarly, the partner function Collateral Giver for receivables.
• For each partner function in Collateral Management, you must maintain the corresponding partner function in the implemented business partner system.

Dependencies

You define business partner functions for all entity objects in the Implementation Guide (IMG) activity Define Partner Functions.

To use partner functions, you must assign them to partner function sets. Further, you must assign a partner function set to each entity type in the Customizing of the respective entity types. These assignments together determine the allowed and required partner functions for an entity type.

Example

Some possible partner functions are:

• Collateral obect - owner, collateral giver, favoring party and collateral taker
• Collateral Agreement - collateral giver, collateral taker, guarantor, notary and broker.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20030430
SAP Release Created in	200