partner determination

[Former Member]

Dear Sap Gurus

Sold to party can act as ship to party, bill to party and payer.

Than abt other partner function such as Ship to party, bill to party, payer, what are their roles to play.

pls explain

Thanks

Sneha Reddy

[shashi_thakur]

Hi Aneha,

Apart from what everybody has said, there are few other things which are affected by these Partner Functions.

When you create a Sales Order, it is always with reference to a Sold-to-party, it is the header level data, whereas the line items in a sales order, which contain the material and quantity related details can be shipped individually to different Ship-to-Party, Ship-to-Parties are item level data

Now, when you move further from the Sales order, the delivery is carried out with reference to the Shipping point, which can be split based on the ship to parties, many other subsequent parameters then depend on these ship to parties, like the routes, the shipping conditions,etc..

Subsequently, when you carry out the billing, this again is split based on the bill to party and hence you can have different terms of payments, credit limits and other customisation...

So you see, the partner functions decide many of the subsequent activities in the entire sales order processing..

Hope this is helpful..

Shashi

[former_member621764]

HI

The difference is sold to party is the highest level of data and it is madatory. and then comes the remaining. ship to party, bill to party and payer. and in one account group. you can have only one sold to party. where as you have more no of sh, bp and payer.

sold to party is the person who gives the order or makes the sales.

ship to party is the person to whom the goods are shipped or delivered.

bill to party is the person to whom the bill is send for goods sold

payer is the person who will pay the bill for the materials received.

and for a account group the sold to party is unique but the , ship to party, bill party and payer may differ from each other.

hope this helps

regards

preetham

[Former Member]

sold to party is the partner function who can perform all the other partnerfunctions like SH BP PY

SOLD TO PARTY: who places the order

SHIP TO PARTY: who receives the goods

BILL TO PARTY:who gets the Bill

PAYER: who pays the bill

if the customer is the one time customer then only sold to paraty can performs all the partner functions

other wise individual partner functions should be defined who per forms only 1 partner function like sh bp py

[Former Member]

Hi,

In SAP there are basically 4 partner functions. SP-sold to party, SH-ship to party, BP-bill to party and PY-Payer.

SP-thecustomer which places the order.

SH-the customer to whom the material is sent.

BP-the customer to whom the bill is sent

PY-the customer who finally releases the payment

All the functions' role can be played by a single customer OR separate customers can be there for individual partner functions.

If all the functions are same then you can create an account group to whcih you will assign all the 4 partner functions.

If the 4 functions are different customers then create separate account groups for all as you have to do the field selections for all functions separately.

Suppose you have all 4 partner functions different then creat all customers using the appropriate account group in XD01.

Then go to XD02, select your sold to party customer, go to sales area data-partner functions. here you enter SH and the respective ship to party customer number press enter and save. similarly do it for BP and PY also.

Reward points if solution helps.

Regards,

Allabaqsh G. Patil

[Former Member]

hi

at first get the concept behind the four partner functions

SP Sold to Party, SH Ship to Party, BP Bill to Party , PY Payer

Sold to Party - this is the person who buys the material or product from the business. say in other words he is the customer to the business

Ship to Party - is for whom the material is shipped or delivered by the business

Bill to Party - is for whom the bill is deliverd.

Payer - is the one who actually pays the bill

now in most of the instances the sold to party will act as all the other three partner functions. ie the customer who buys the material recieves the material and also receives the bill and also pays the bill..

there are instances where sold to party ie ur customer actually places the order but does not wish the material to be deleivered to him or to his shipping locations so here the ship to party changes it can be his own business location called and located in differtent area or it can be outside party..

this is same in case of bill to party and payer... it can either be the customer by himself or can be anyone else..

these are the most important persons which are created in the business.. the business should have a clear picture of these partner functions

Reward if Useful

Thanx & Regards

Naren...

[Former Member]

Hi,

In case of all the partner functions like sp,sh,bp & py are performed by one customer,then u have to create only one customer master.But,if u have more than one ship to party,bill to party or payer,we need to create master records for them also & needs to assigne them to original/main customer master.You have to use acounts groups as follows

0001-Sold To Party

0002-Goods Receipient(Ship to Party)

0003-Payer

0004-Bill To Party

Regards

Ganesh Palatshaha

[former_member227476]

dear aneha,

sold to party is is main partner function,

ship to party and bill to party and payer are same as sold to or different one also but sold wount change.

siva

[Former Member]

In real-time for one sold party there can be multiple ship to party's, bill to party's and payers.

Ex.: 1 SP, 5 SH, 2BP, 2 PY.

So having different ship to party, bill to party and payer account group will help you create multiple entries and assign to the sold party in the customer master change mode for sold to party in T.Code:XD02.

Regards

AK