Maintain default vendor account group per company ID.
Classes and characteristics can be used to transfer SAP vendors as crowd partners (as opposed to the standard approach where crowd partners are created in SAP FSM). Learn more about this process: Create crowd partners from SAP ECC/S4
Create an SAP Business Partner first
If those fields are filled, an SAP Business Partner will be created first, and a related vendor afterwards. If business partner and vendor IDs are not equal, vendor ID will be sent as object identification.
Process flow - Crowd Partner creation
Navigate to Crowd Workforce and invite a new partner.
Create a crowd partner account and login.
Creation of a new crowd partner should result in inbound Business Partner and User idocs.
Navigate to transaction BP and find a new Business Partner created based on the crowd partner.
Notice that its type corresponds to the value maintained in transaction /PACG/ECM_VENKG.
A related BP role - Vendor can also be found.
Navigate to transaction XK03 and notice that the Vendor contains basic purchasing data.
The Business Partner of type Supplier can be found in SAP FSM Master Data.
Learn more about crowd: Crowd Service