SAP ERP Financials and FICO Handbook

240 CHAPTER 6 FICO QUICK TOUR
6.4 AP AND AR
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Like a G/L account group, you can create a vendor group
(through transaction code OBD2 and OBD3). The vendor
group/customer group controls the field status and number
range of the vendor master, and whether the vendor/customer is
a one-time vendor/customer.
The vendor/customer master is a client-dependent master.
Any company code within that client may use that master.
The vendor master has three views or segments: (1) general
data, (2) company code data, and (3) purchase organization/sales
organization data. General data is available to all company
codes within the client, company code data is company code
dependent and contains all information relating to accounting,
and purchase sales organization data is purchase sales
organization specific.
You will maintain a master record for your regular vendors.
The master for one-time vendors does not contain any vendorspecific
information. A one-time vendor master will be used for
more than one vendor. You will maintain vendor-specific data
while posting to a one-time vendor at the transaction level.
A vendor may also be a customer. In this case, you will maintain
a vendor master as well as a customer master. If you want to
clear the vendor against the customer or vice versa, you have
to fill out the highlighted fields in both masters, shown in
Figures 6.9 and 6.10.