Vendor

[Former Member]

Hi,

In XD01 when we go to company code data we will see the Vendor and Trading partner fields. what is the functionality of those fields and when weill maintain those fields in XD01.

Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

There are some situations where the customer also acts as a vendor to you. In that case you assign the vendor num or trading partner num in XD01.

For eg: You sell 2 wheelers to your dealers (customer). One of the dealer also provides you the raw materials / compinents to manufacture the 2 wheeler. In that case you will enter the vendor num in the customer master record.

Regards,

Sivanand

[Former Member]

hi siva,

A customer can also be a vendor and a vendor a customer.

Vendor tab in customer master data is used to make this

link, it is used for

1. intercompany flows

2. returns processing

3. Third party Scenario

In SAP the customer and vendor master are a simple single master file. Since they are shared master records between Financials and Logistics they have multiple sections which can be created separately depending on the functionality that you are using.

customer master data consist of

general data

company code data

sales area data

where as vendor master consist of -

general data

company code data

purchase organization data

thanks and regards

bhaskar

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can have the payment program and the dunning program clear customer and vendor open items. You can also select the vendor line items, when you display the customer line items for this account.

Before you can clear between a customer and vendor account, you must:

1. Create a customer master record for the vendor that is also a customer.

2. Enter the vendor account number in the Vendor field in the control section of the general data in the customer master record.

3. Enter the customer account number in the Customer field in the control section of the general data in the vendor master record.

4. Click in the box next to the Clrg with vend. field or Clrg with cust. field (this field will appear in the Automatic Components payment transactions section, only after Vendor field in the control section have been keyed) in the company code data in both the customer and vendor master records. In this way, each company code can decide separately whether it wants to clear the customer with the vendor.

Trading partner is normally used to control (payment/transaction) vendor/customer business with the group. Something like group/inter group business. You have to go to master record. for eg, in customer master, go to CONTROL DATA tab so see Acccount Control, in which you have provide trading partner number/reference.

Hope, this may help you, up to some extent.

Best Regards,

Amit.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Vendor in Customer master:

This field is require if the customer is also acted as a Vendor in the company business. Example, you have customer A, he wil purchase material from your company and also he will sell the material to ur company, in those situations you can create this partner is customer cum vendor.

Trading partner in Customer Master:

Trading Partner is used when business consolidation module is used. That is where inter-company transactions are required to be eliminated.

Trading partner normally is the the same as company code. Inter-company accounts will have the trading partener defined which will subsequently used for consolidation.

Rewards if it helps

Regards

Goutham

[Former Member]

hi siva

In xd01 the vendor field is used when the same customer is acting as third party.

When a company needs goods that are not manufactured in our company. The company goes to third party.. If one of the customer is selling the same goods then v can make him as vendor. so at that time we can use him as vendor.

[Lakshmipathi]

Dear siva

Suppossing if your customer is also acting as an vendor, then in that case, you have to create both as customer in XD01 and vendor in XK01 and assign the respective code in the said field.

By doing so, details of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable can be seen in one screen from FI side.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi