Understand Complex Business Partner Relationships

Navigate your business relationships using clear, interactive diagrams and category organization. Switch between hierarchical trees, network graphs or matrix layouts to explore different nodes and aspects of your connections.

Click into specific entities and contact person relationships to see complete, accurate information, and use filters to focus on the parts of your network that matter most.

Distinguish different types of relationships through color coding, icons and business partner relationship categories, plus interactive elements that show you more context about entities and their connections as you explore.

Pan, zoom and reorganize your view to understand complex relationship structures and business partner roles from any angle.

Build multiple views of your organizational structures to match how you do business. Set up separate hierarchies for legal entities, sales territories, product hierarchies, brand relationships and other important dimensions.

Move entire branches with drag-and-drop tools, and automatically update attributes across levels when things change.

Copy existing hierarchies to create new variations while keeping original structures intact.

Adapt to organizational changes quickly by using time dependency and end date controls to reorganize hierarchies, all while preserving a complete record and history of how your previous arrangements have evolved over time.

Find and validate connections in your business partner data and vendor master records using machine learning algorithms. Then compare company details, addresses and contact information to uncover likely relationships automatically.

Pull in additional data from multiple data sources, including D&B, to validate your connections and add valuable context like industry classifications and corporate family trees.

Get alerts when data changes suggest new relationships, and verify these connections through your data stewards.

Keep your relationship data accurate and current through continuous monitoring, validation and general data maintenance.

Add new entities to your account structures quickly while maintaining accurate relationships.

Create templates for common expansion patterns and set rules for copying attributes to new entries automatically.

Send new additions through approval workflows and check them against existing data to prevent duplicates.

Handle transition periods smoothly with temporary relationship assignments and gradual implementation of business rules to help optimize your account growth.

Control who sees and edits your relationship data and personal data through detailed permission settings.

Create access profiles based on user or BP roles and limit them to specific hierarchy types, levels or branches.

Set broad permissions like "view all partners in North America" or narrow ones like "edit billing relationships for specific accounts."

Track every permission change and data access, while automatic checks stop unauthorized changes to your critical relationship data or business partner master data.