At which of the following organizational levels must you maintain a business partner master record for a supplier? Note: There are 3 correct answers to this question.

Question

Options

• APlant
• BPurchasing group
• CPurchasing organization
• DCompany code
• EClient

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  11% (3)
• C
  82% (23)

Explanation

In SAP, a supplier's business partner master record is maintained at three organizational levels because each captures a distinct layer of the business relationship: Client (E) holds general data (name, address) shared across the entire SAP system; Company Code (D) stores accounting/financial data (reconciliation account, payment terms) relevant to a specific legal entity; and Purchasing Organization (C) holds procurement-specific data (ordering currency, incoterms, purchasing payment terms) for the buying unit responsible for negotiating with the supplier.

Plant (A) is incorrect because plant-level supplier data lives in purchasing info records and source lists, not the BP master record itself. Purchasing Group (B) is incorrect because it represents a buyer or team of buyers within a purchasing org - it is not an organizational level at which master records are created or maintained.

Memory tip: Picture the hierarchy top-down - Client → Company Code → Purchasing Org - and remember that a supplier master record "lands" at each of these three levels. If you can sign a check (Company Code), negotiate a contract (Purchasing Org), or exist in the system at all (Client), you need a master record segment there. Plant and Purchasing Group are operational units, not master-record levels.

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