Ship to party & Sold to Party partner functions anamoly

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I was just thinking why a Ship to party cannot be a Sold to party?

Say, if an enterprise.say, XYZ Pvt. Ltd. sales Steel almirahs.XYZ Pvt Ltd places the order of steel almirahs and then the same XYZ Pvt Ltd. itself receives the order for his business. Then here XYZ being a ship to party also places the order and hence is a sold to party!!

It is quite possible that same client can be ship to party as well as sold to party then?

Then why it is written in SAP manuals that a ship to party can't be a sold party as well?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

As you said ship to party can be sold to party. First you need to understand the functionality of these partner functions.

Sold to party-Who places an order to supply the materials treats him as sold to party. Order can be given by only one person.Can't be given by many persons.So always sold to party will be only one.

Ship to party- Who receives the materials. Goods can be supplied to many parties.

Jagan

[bcrao]

Hi,

Client receives orders from sold to party i.e. Sold to party is the actual partner function who triggers sales process.

The same sold to part may have one or multiple ship to party. So sold to party may act as SP, SH, BP,PY also or these partner functions BP, PY and Sh different.

vice versa- Ship to party can be assigned to multiple sold to parties too.

( this generally not happens)

Thanks

Chidambaram

[former_member183879]

Hi,

Sold to party and Ship to party can be same and in many cases depending on the business scenario, they will be the same.

The perspective in which the relationship between them is quoted is as follows.

We will have 2 different account groups for sold to party and ship to party.

If a customer is created with the account group of the sold to party, the same customer number can also be used as Ship to party. However if a customer is created with the acc.group of ship to party, this customer can be used only as ship to party and not as Sold to party. This is what is explained in all SD manuals.

Coming to our case, if you want a customer to be both sold to party and ship to party, you have to create this customer master using the account group of the sold to party (not using the account group of the ship to party). If this is done, the same customer can be used as both sold to party and ship to party.

Hope this clears ur doubt. If you have any qns, pls let us know.