pratner profiles

[Former Member]

can anybody tell me abt types of partner profiles

Regards,

pandu.

[Former Member]

Hi Pandu,

WE20 Partner Profile

Here we create partner profile for each and every partner from / to which

the messages will be exchanged.There are 6 types of PF generally only

profiles of type LS(Logical System) ,KU(Customer) ,LI(Vendor) is used.

We specify the partner number and partner type and the agent and

the agent type responsible for handling of errors .

For every message send to the partner we have a outbound record and for

evry message coming from the partner we have the inbound record .

We specify the message in the otbound/inbound records ,double

clicking will take us to the detailed screen where the IDOC Type ,Port

and whether the IDCO will be immediatelt processed or collected are

mentioned.

Reward if helpful.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Pandu,

The previous post (by Pattan Naveen) explains most of it.

If I understand your question, u wish to know why the different types and when/why to use which, so that's what i'll try to explain:

Partner profiles are part of EDI settings. Since in EDI the data is transfered without user involvement, the partner profiles are devided to types to indicate the type of partner who is sending/receiving the data. This division is mainly logical, to be able to manage it better, more organized.

U'll find the list of partner profiles in WE20. On the left u see the type (B, BP, ...., LS, US) with the descriptions (LS means Logical System, etc).

When transfering data from another system (XI or other ECC for example) usually it will be defined as a logical system partner (different system). When getting data from a vendor system u'll probably want to define an LI partner and so on.

Reward if helpful.

Igal

[Former Member]

Hi Pandurangarao,

Partner Profile - Defines the partner type with whom you communicate asynchronously via IDocs. This has to be maintained in the partner profiles configuration TCode – WE20.

To configure the partner profiles

Master data must be available in the system for partners.

A port is created to assign in the outbound partner profiles. This port must be configured already.

Now coming to TYPES of Partner profiles

1.Logical system - used for ALE.

2.User

3.Vendor

4.Customer

5.Bank

6.Business partner

Logical System is a name given to uniquely identify, the systems invloved in data exchange.

Logical Systems (LS) represent R/3 or external systems in the SAP R/3 environment for the distribution of data.

A client of an SAP instance is represented by a logical system in the ALE context. This logical system will act as sender or receiver of Idocs.

Partner Type - Partner type are used to classify the business system.

Ex: Logical System (LS) –for other SAP clients,

Customer (KU), Vendor (LI) etc..

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Reagrds,

Aarti.

[paruchuri_nagesh]

hi

partnerprofiles: we can specify the charecteristic of data that we exchange between logical systems

u can generate patrner profile either automatically or manually

by using tcode BD82&WE20

generally partner profiles has three views

general parameter vew:

here we have to specify who is the partner & partner functions & logical systems

outbound parameter view( these things stores in EDPP1 dbase table)

here we have to specify what is meesssage type idoc type procees code and other things thes are for to generate an idoc in outbound system ( thes are stores in EDP11 table)

inbound parameter view: here we have to specify how to read an idoc whenever idocs comes into recieving system(values stores in EDP21 tabl)

reward if u find use ful

regards

Nagesh.Paruchuri.