SAP vendors can be transferred to SAP FSM as crowd partners, if they’re assigned the class and characteristic entered (for a given group and company) in transaction /PACG/ECM_VENKG - Allowed Vendor account group:
See below an example of a vendor (transaction XK03) who’s assigned the relevant class and characteristic:
This characteristic’s value will be populated to field ‘CROWD_TYPE’ of the outbound business partner idoc, during transfer of this object with transaction /PACG/ECM_VENDMASTER - Vendor, address, contact person.
After transferring a vendor with crowd type CROWD_PARTNER to SAP FSM, it’ll appear in the crowd workforce tab, however without any admin technician.
The next steps to perform are:
1. create an employee record in PA30 for the partner admin user
2. assign the transferred vendor to the employee with infotype 0315:
3. assign a crowd type of ‘PARTNER_ADMIN’ to the user in transaction /PACG/ECM_MAINT_USER:
4. assign a password to the new user in SAP FSM admin module