partner determination

[Former Member]

hi friend,

Do we have to partner determination for orderheader, item,delivery, billing

why is it needed,

thanks

[former_member204513]

Dear Rajan,

1.Regarding your first quiry we have to do partner determination procedure assignment for these levels,

a.Customer master (Customer account group)

b.Sales order header (Document type)

c.Sales order item (Itemcategory)

d.Delivery header (delivery type)

f.Delivery item (delivery item category)

g.Billing document header (Billing doc type)

h.Billing Item (Billing type)

i.Shippment (Shippment type)

j.Sales activities (Sales activity type)

2.Second one is why we need to have at all these levels

a.If you defined one partner determination procedure but you haven't assigned to all of the above you can complete total cycle of SD from Sales order to Invoice.

b.If you assigned that procedure to only customer account group you will be able to create customer master but you will not create sales order for that customer if you are not assign that prtnerdetermination proc to sales order too..

c.Why we need at header as well as item

-->If you take sales order sold to party may be one but each item(Material) may have different ship to party.

--> If you take delivery for one ship to party we can have different forwading agents based on the shipping point or storage location place.

--> If you take invoice you may have different payers for each item of the invoice.

This is verry little like this threr are lot more reasons or options

based on that the SAP given these much options

I hope it will help you

Regards,

Murali.

[Former Member]

In the partner determination procedure you can determine whether partner functions can or should occur in a partner object (Customer Master, Sales Document, Item Category etc.) For each object, in which partner function can be created, you can define partner procedures. This also means that

• For Customer Master

• For Sales Documents

• For Sales Documents and Billing Documents: for items

We can define our partner determination procedure for each of these levels as shown below. In Blue are given the ones wherein the Partner Procedures are assigned to the Partner Objects

• Customer Master Account Group

• Sales Document Header Sales Document Type

• Sales document Item Item Category in sales

• Delivery Delivery Type

• Billing Header Billing Type

• Billing Item Billing Type

• Sales Activity Sales Activity type

By assigning a procedure you determine for which account groups (for the customer master), which sales document types (for sales documents) and for which item categories this procedure would be valid.

In the partner determination procedure you can determine for each partner function

• whether the partner function is an obligatory partner function

• whether the partner function can be changed in the document

Partner determination procedure:

SPRO

Sales and Distribution

Basic Functions

Partner determination

Setup partner determination

Select setup partner determination for customer master

Step 1:

Defining the Partner Functions: - Here we must not define any partner function.

Go to partner functions.

While defining the partner functions if we check the field “Unique” that partner faction has to be unique in the customer master i.e. we cannot have multiple partners of that function in a customer master.

*Step 2: *

Assigning the partner functions to the Account group: -

Go to account group’s function assignment.

Go to new entries and assign the required partner functions to the required account group and save it.

*Step 3: *

Defining the partner determination procedure: -

Go to partner determination procedures

Go to new entries and define and save it

NOTE: - Procedure contains all the required partner functions.

Step 4:

Placing the required partner functions in the procedure: - select the defined procedure and go to partner functions in procedure.

Go to new entries and place the partner functions

If we check the field “Not Modifiable” for a partner function it cannot change in the customer master.

If we check the field “Mandatory Function” it becomes a mandatory in the customer master and save it.

*Step 5: *

Assigning the procedure to the Account Group: - Go to partner determination procedure assignment. Assign the procedure to the account group and save it.

Refer below link on sdn for further info

Regards.

[Former Member]

Dear Varada,

The Partner function assigned to Partner procedure which is assigned to the Customer Master Order delivery etc.

Sometimes the items are to be delivered to different ship to party for different different items.

So the hader partner det. should be different from the item pat. det.

For the delivery : There are various scenrio may be with scheduling agreements that the some quantity delivered might go to different Ship to party or the payer may change from time to time.

these possibly may be the reason why SAP has maintained the partner det. at various levels.

generally day to day processing we follow the partner det to carried over from the customer master to the invoice.

hope this helps..

Amlan