3364675 - You have to add the Supplier role (FLVN00) to Employment BP

Using the Business Partner apps, upon trying to add the Supplier (Fin.Accounting) role to the Business Partner, system throws the error: "You have to add the Supplier role (FLVN00) to Employment BP"

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

1. Go to the app Maintain Business Partner
2. Find and open the Business Partner ID
3. Switch Between Display and Change
4. Change in BP Role: Supplier (Fin.Accounting)
5. System throws the error

You have to add the Supplier role (FLVN00) to Employment BP

As per the new BP model, Supplier role should be part of the Employment BP and not the Employee BP. It is not recommended to manually create a Supplier role. You may refer the following link for more details on the BP model and the Supplier role of Employment BP.  

Business Partner Model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Refer the section Additional Information where it is mentioned that if payment information isn't provided, the Supplier role isn't added for the employment BP instance. In this case, the Company Code information can't be maintained. As a result, you can't use the Workforce person in any Supplier-related business processes, for example, financial postings. Note that SAP doesn't recommend to manually create suppliers.

If you created the Employees in the system using the Import functionality available in the Manage Workforce app, then go to the Manage Workforce app and use the first option Worker and Work Agreement in Import function. You can follow the How to Fill In Downloaded Templates to enter values into the excel template, ensure that all the data is correct. Further, verify that that you entered Payment details in the template file, which can create Supplier role to employment role automatically in the system.

If the payment details are maintained in Employee profile of Successfactors, creation of Supplier will be taken care by standard replication. That is, when we add payment information in the SuccessFactors, then it will create the Supplier role in S/4HANA Cloud system once the payload is received. We prefer the users following this way instead of manually maintaining Suppliers on S/4HANA Cloud system. However, we continue supporting creation of Suppliers on BP as before but with the change that Suppliers should be created on Employment BP going forward.

Refer the KBA: 3149360 - Manual Vendor Creation for Workforce Person

The documentation on how to delete the Supplier Role from the Business Partner can be found in the KBA: 2809366 - How To Remove / Delete a Business Partner Role in S/4HANA Cloud

To remove the Supplier role, the Supplier will need to be blocked. Refer the KBA: 2742388 - S4HC: How to delete Business Partner, Customer or Supplier Master Data in S/4HANA Cloud

Refer the SAP Help Portal for Block Master Data – Business Partner

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