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3540547 - Error "You have to add the Customer role (FLCU00) to Employment BP" in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Symptom

  • An error "You have to add the Customer role (FLCU00) to Employment BP" is encountered.
  • The error occurs in the context of Business Partner Employee Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public

Reproducing the Issue

  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: Customer(FLCU00)
  5. System throws the error

Cause

standard behavior

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

Business Partner Model in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Resolution

The customer role FLCU00 needs to be manually added in the employment BP only.

See Also

For reference, please refer to SAP Note 0003364675 - "You have to add the Supplier role (FLVN00) to Employment BP".

Keywords

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Business Partner, Employee Handling, Error, FLCU00, Employment BP, Customer Role. , KBA , AP-MD-BP-EMP , Business Partner Employee Handling , How To

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions