on 12-02-2009 9:41 AM
Hi,
What is the importance of partner determination. All I can see is the whatever partner functions we want in sales order, we configure them for sales order. For instance if we want ship to party and forwarding agent in sales order, we configure accordingly and create master records for the same.
My question is as follows
a) if we do not determine the forwarding agent partner function in sales order. what will be its impact on further process and also why would one wants to determine a forwarding agent iin sales order.
b) if we do not determine the ship to party partner function in sales order. what will be its impact on further process
Is it related to smartform printouts/idocs. Meaning if we do not determine the above partner functions in sales order, we cannot print/send idocs to ship to party/forwarding agent in case we want to send them during sales order creation
regards
sachin
Hi,
If you donot determine the Ship-to-party at the Sales order level, then if you are trying to create the delivery with reference to the order,you cannot create it as there is no ship-to-party.
Ship-to-party is the one to which the goods will be moved to.
Transportation services are performed by the forwarding agent.For example Vendor is a forwarding agent for customer.
Coming to the output thing,for example in your output there is a necessity of getting the address.In this case,you are taking the address as the address of the ship-to-party.
If the ship-to-party is not maintained at the order level,thenin the output the address will be blank.The triggereing of output will depend on the triggering point.
Suppose,you have maintained the triggering point as if the ship-to-paty is maintained,then onlyu trigger this output else not.If your output is having a similar triggering thing then the output will not be triggered at all.
Check whether the ship-to-party is mandatory or not in your Sales order.For this follow the path:
SPRO>Sales and Distribution>Basic Functions>Partner Determination>Set Up Partner Determination-->Set Up Partner Determination for Sales Document Header.
In this goto Account Groups - Function Assignment.Select your orer type and idetify the partner determination procedure.
Click on "Partner Determination Procedures".
Select your procedure.
Click on "Partner Functions in Procedure".
Check whether the tick mark for the field "Mandatory" is ticked or not for ship-to-party and Forwarding agent.
If it is there means you have to maintain these two values.
Regards,
Krishna.
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Hi,
I don't know whether there is a requirement of forwarding agent in your sales cycle.
Forwarding agent transports the services/goods.
In your case,if you don't maintain any forwarding agent,then there will be no goods.It is similar to vendor to customer case.
You cannot do delivery and all subsequent functions.
Regards,
Krishna.
Hi Sachin
In any sales cycle, all persons involved from start to end as Partners. Like Sold to party (responsible to Place the order), Bill to party(Person who recives the bill), Payer (who pays the bill), and ship to (who recieves the Goods).
These 4 are mandatory in SAP, may or may not be the same person.
Apart from these you can add more partner functions like forwarding agent, credit controller etc.
In your case forwarding agent refers the person responsible to transport the goods from company plant to customer site. Some times company outsources transporting to other small companies, which behave as forwarding agent to sales order.
Hope this clarifies your doubt.
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