what is Partner determination and what is the link with account group?

[Former Member]

HI

what is Partner determination and what is the link with account group?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi,

an account group controls the number range and field characteristics like required, optional, suppressed.now for example if you are using account group 0001 by default as per the standard settings you would get a SP,SH,BP and PY-payer as the partner functions. In this case you cannot change the SP where as you can have more than one partnter for a given customer for Ship to,bill to and payers. SP is unique and not changeable. These settings are done in the partner determination functionality and linked to the account group.

regards

sadhu kishore

[Former Member]

hi

The account group determines:

-Which screens and fields are necessary for entering master data

-Whether you can or must make an entry in these fields

-How master record numbers are assigned (externally by you or internally by the system) and the number range from which they are assigned

-Which partner functions are valid

-Whether the business partner is a one-time customer or one-time vendor

The partner determination procedure specifies the partner functions that are allowed or mandatory for processing a particular business transaction, such as a sales order.

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 is valid.

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi,

For partner determination you can visit the following link:

Partner determination

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/9f/1bad68b44511d2b453006094b9ea37/frameset.htm

For account group:

For this, one can goto SPRO, Logistics General, Business partner, customers, control, define account groups and field selection for customers. (or) T.code OVT0

Here u can create ur own account groups and layouts for that

Regards,

Siddharth.