Business Partner Successor and Predecessor Relationships

[HeyHardy]

Overview

related feature Enhancement Concept and Standardization of BP Predecessor/Successor

This feature aims to introduce enhanced support for managing business partner relationships, including the lifecycle of business entities (predecessors and successors). The feature will allow businesses to track and maintain detailed relationship data between partner entities throughout their lifecycle changes, ensuring a comprehensive view of the evolving partnerships.

Explain the topic in 2 sentences

Enhance business partner management by adding features for tracking predecessor-successor relationships. The goal is to provide transparency in entity transitions and improve the efficiency of business partner management processes.

What's the benefit?

This feature will improve operational efficiency by providing clear insights into the business partner lifecycle and relationships. It reduces complexity and risk by enabling better alignment and communication across partners.

What are the Risks/Dependencies?

• This feature introduces potential breaking changes in how business partner data is stored and managed.
• It may require alignment with interface partners who depend on this data.
• The architecture team will need to review the current system for compatibility.

Detailed explanation

Current implementation

Currently, the system tracks business partners as isolated entities with no built-in functionality to manage transitions like mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring.

Proposed improvements

• Introduce fields and logic to track lifecycle changes, allowing the system to link predecessor and successor companies.
• Improve data querying and reporting capabilities to provide a clear overview of business partner relationships over time.

Feature Team

Contributor

• Contributor 1
• Contributor 2

Committer

• Committer 1
• Committer 2

User Stories

• Issue 1: Implement tracking of business partner lifecycle, linked to the repository for business partner data.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Criteria 1: Business partners can be linked to predecessor and successor entities.
• [ ] Criteria 2: Data queries return relationship information accurately.

Test Cases

Test Case 1

Steps

1. Add a new business partner.
2. Create a lifecycle event linking predecessor and successor.
3. Query for business partner relationship data.

Expected Result

1. Business partner is stored.
2. Lifecycle event correctly links predecessor and successor.
3. Relationship data is accurately returned in queries.

Architectural Relevance

The following items are ensured (answer: yes) after this issue is implemented:

• [ ] This feature aligns with our current architectural guidelines
  • Data Sovereignty: All data sharing activities across company boundaries follow the Catena-X Regulatory Framework, in particular the Data Exchange Governance, and the Dataspace Protocol via a compliant Connector (like the tractusx-edc or similar, see Connector KIT)
  • [ ] CX-0010 Business Partner Number
  • [ ] CX-0012 Business Partner Data Pool AP
  • [ ] CX-0074 Business Partner Gate AP
  • [ ] CX-0076 Golden Record EndtoEnd Requirements Standard

Justification: (Fill this out, if at least one of the checkboxes above cannot be ticked. Contact the Architecture Management Committee to get an approval for the justification)

Additional information

• [ ] I am aware that my request may not be developed if no developer can be found for it. I'll try to contribute a developer (bring your own developer)

[nicoprow]

@HeyHardy since I would like to keep these issues here as clear product features I would like to rename this issue to "Business Partner Successor and Predecessor Relationships"

Does that sound fitting for you?